Re[2]: Additional reports -- BPCS-L

     We are using COGNOS's Impromptu Web Reports which even allows delivery 
     of reports and queries via Intranet.  We also have COGNOS's data 
     dictionary for BPCS and have found it quite useful for translating 
     BPCS-ese into CYTEC-ese.  Users can query in their own language rather 
     than having to understand BPCS.  Also, the cubes of BPCS-sourced data 
     are maintained outside BPCS, taking the reporting load off our 
     transaction system.
     
     Kevin Catlin
     CYTEC Industries
     West Paterson, NJ


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Subject: Re: Additional reports
Author:  BPCS-L@midrange.com at Internet
Date:    1/29/99 8:35 AM


We are running 6.0.04 and have made extensive use of AS400 query, which for 
most of our requirements has been fine. A collegue at another site has found 
that Cognos have an interface to BPCS we file/field definition pre-defined, 
which so far has proved to be quite good, as it is a PC based program not the 
green screen of AS400 query.
     
Sharon Redknap
Outokumpu Rawmet (UK) Ltd
     
     
     
     
Dennis Munro <DMunro@badgerminingcorp.com> on 01/28/99 09:27:00 PM
     
Please respond to BPCS-L@midrange.com
     
To:   "'BPCS Users'" <BPCS-L@midrange.com> 
cc:    (bcc: Sharon Redknap/LONDON/Outokumpu) 
Subject:  Additional reports
     
     
     
     
We are running 6.0.02, C/S, plf., & March'98 cum tape and have been live 
since August 1, 1998.
     
What I am wondering is what other BPCS support staff is doing for the 
reports that their users have requested.  Do you have a 3rd party product 
that lets the users do their own thing.  Letting the users do their own 
thing sure helps an understaffed IS team but that will probably cause me 
more work and headaches and wasted system resources in the long run.
     
UserVision is slow and will not be further enhanced.  SSA will not give a 
date or statement of general direction on its replacement product. 
Queries work to a point but are a system resource hog and not really user 
friendly.
Tried to convert some of the User Vision reports to Access '97 but that 
definitely is not user friendly for most users.
We have some Visual Basic experience on staff and I have VB5 Professional 
on
my machine.
I have also "played" some with ASNA's Visual RPG product and have the 
latest
version installed.
I have also talked to the mrc (michaels,ross, & cole) people about their 
Productivity Series.  It just violates the requirement that I not spend any 
more money.
     
We have some alternatives but the problem is it all needed to be done 
months
ago and here we are trying to recommend a course of action.
     
Again, our IS team is trying to make a recommendation as to what direction 
we feel the company should take and of course, do not spend any more money. 
<VBG>
     
I am looking for some ideas of what other users are doing and what are the 
pluses and minuses of your approach.
     
Dilbert's Words Of Wisdom:
"I love deadlines.  I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they 
go flying by."
     
Dennis Munro
Badger Mining Corporation
dmunro@badgerminingcorp.com <mailto:dmunro@badgerminingcorp.com>
     
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