RE: Data Warehouses and MAPICS

Roy,

You have noted some important points in considering a data warehouse.  I
would like to offer an alternative consideration to the normal concept of
data warehousing.  

Our latest product, Jacana inTuator is designed to overcome the complexity
of extracting data and managing a warehouse.  We utilize our expertise in
iSeries/400 data retrieval and make developing stores of information easy.
Simple wizards to choose the fields you need, no more no less, keeping the
size to a minimum.  The stores can reside on the iSeries or be located on
your network.  inTuator is integrated with Mapics in seven business areas,
such as sales, financial, inventory, purchasing, etc. 

Jacana inTuator then provides powerful presentation capabilities with the
use of dynamic interactive tables and wide variety of charts and graphs.
You can link and drill between different views, levels of detail and even
different applications.  Easily design your own views for accessing and
presenting your data.  

Through the integration of Microsoft Office products, Momentum can offer
this product at a fraction of the price of the high-end data warehouses
while including most of the same functionality.  


Momentum Utilities is the developer of Jacana inTuator, Info WorkPlace and
JacanaForms.

Regards,
-Greg

Gregory Novak
Manager North American Technical Services
Momentum Utilities Pty Ltd
(630) 985-1736
gnovak@xxxxxxxxxx
www.jacana.com
 
Making Information Work for your Business
www.intuator.com




-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Luce [mailto:lwl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 1:11 PM
To: 'MAPICS ERP System Discussion'
Subject: RE: Data Warehouses and MAPICS


To the Group:

When responding to MAPICS@xxxxxxxxxx's questions about data warehousing
consider responding to the following unasked questions:

4) What was the initial size of your data warehouse?
5) What is its size today?
6) What are you predicting its size will be in 12 months.
7) Where does the data warehouse currently reside - AS400 or some other
platform?
8) if some other platform, why?
9) What applications did you "integrate"
10) Did you use a data warehouse or an operational data store approach?
11) Are the users currently creating their own queries or is IT still
involved?

Based on experience, from an intimate involvement in data warehousing
projects in a past life, these will become critical questions in short
order.

Roy Luce

Main:   847-540-9635
Cell:   847-910-0884
Fax:    208-330-9032
Email:  lwl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: mapics-l-bounces+lwl=ix.netcom.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:mapics-l-bounces+lwl=ix.netcom.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
MAPICS@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 12:48 PM
To: mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Data Warehouses and MAPICS

Hello

Our management is pushing for a data warehouse/data mart solution to
integrate MAPICS data with data from other applications that run on SQL
Server and Oracle.

We're aware of the Cognos tool and the relationship with  MAPICS.

Just curious if anyone else has implemented a data warehouse and which
tools did you use for:
1) ETL mapping
2) Reporting
3) Which database did you choose? (DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.)

Thank You
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