Re: USERVision 2 Player Report + USERVision 2 Player Installation -- BPCS-L

I cannot help you with your problem, except to suggest that the sooner you
replace this product with something better, the better off your company
will be.

USERVision is popularly known as LOSERVision.  I urgently suggest you take
a hard look at why your company selected this product and what the
competition consists of.

Yes, you have to install something on the 400, and on EACH PC that wants to
use this, and watch out for PER SEAT pricing.  Ask if person in
department-A creates a UserVision report on THEIR PC, can other people in
same department run that SAME report from their OTHER PCs?

We still have a lot of twinax connections and those users cannot access
this product.
We like twinax - inexpensive, fast access to data, almost never break down,
incredibly easy to operate, good security.

Native SSA reports are invariably ugly, because traditional BPCS marketing
is through various SSA partners that make good money cleaning up native SSA
reports so that they are palatable for end customers.  If SSA had been in
the business of delivering BPCS directly to end customers rather than
through various consultants, then native BPCS would not be traditionally so
ugly.  It takes a lot of customers complaining about the same ugliness for
SSA to fix it.  Since very few BPCS installations have gone with
USERVision, SSA is not getting as much feedback about ugliness there.

There may be value in a thread on what a manufacturer wants out of a
product like this, and what various BPCS customers are using, and recommend
to others.

We are using Query/400 because it comes free with the 400 and is easy for
any user to learn (low budget) although we did provide a one day class on
BPCS Navigation via Query.  I also added Query over an *OUTFILE of *QRYDFN
to make it easier for users to navigate what Queries we have available.

When SSA first came out with UserVision, the state of art of data mining
into creative nice looking reports and graphs on PC etc. was quite dismal,
but in recent years we have seen a revolution in GUI competition with share
ware and significant 3rd party offerings getting e-output to web pages,
e-mail, color coded spread sheets, indexed PDF, you name it.  There is
still room for some enhancements there, like how come this cost got messed
up, but the Vision of our Data in User Friendly fashion can be delivered
through a wealth of alternative packages.

Al Mac

>Dear All,
>May I have assistance / help on these issues ?
>
>1. USERVisionPlayer 2 Report
>2. USERVision 2 Player Installation
>
>Thanks and Regards,
>Indah.
>
>Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
>at http://archive.midrange.com/bpcs-l.

You might also review the archives of other midrange.com lists such as
midrange-l because there is a wealth of posts there about the various
products to deliver alternatives to what you currently are stuck with.


-
Al Macintyre (macwheel99@sigecom.net via Eudora)