Re: Creating Reports?

Ken,

I followed-up on your Cognos lead.  Their current market focus is Business
Intelligence.  The Gartner report on Cognos described how they've integrated
a number of otherwise loosely coupled products and technologies into an
Enterprise Business Intelligence framework.

Since I'm a vendor in the Web tools market, their "Web Portal" interested
me.  It apparently provides a browser based interface to their business
intelligence server(s) - which either generate or provide access to HTML
formatted reports.  That's a minimum $50,000 solution.

I also noticed that IBM has just started marketing a Web interface to their
Content Manager On-Demand product.  It was also priced at $50,000.  For
those who aren't familiar with On-Demand, it's an IBM product that indexes
and archives spool files.  The Web interface cost is in addition to the base
product which on the iSeries sells for $30,000 - I think.

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com




----- Original Message -----
From: "ken shields" <kjs@idirect.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: Creating Reports?


> Investigate Cognos software.
> However; it may be a bit top-heavy for your needs.