RE: BI/Report Writer

All of these are very feature rich products and their price reflects it. If you're in the market for something more light weight take a look at http://www.masoncci.com/products.html I would not call it a BI product but it is a replacement for query/400

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:58 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: BI/Report Writer

I've been using SEQUEL since 1991. The developers keep making it better and
better. I have a customer in Chicago that has a routine that runs every
Friday night, and it mails reports to salesmen all over the country.

Give me a call if you would like to chat. BTW, I'm not a sales rep for them.
Just a satisfied user.

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of JDHorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:36 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: BI/Report Writer

We are a 350 person company looking for a BI/Report writing solution. We
have a about 10 people creating queries using query/400 and downloading
to
excel. Need a replacement for all the old reports we continue to run but
few people look at.

We have 30 some salesmen and would like to email sets of information that
could be used offline. Information on sales mostly.

The concept of building reports with runtime selection input seems like a
good idea. Also creating schedules that would run the queries and email
them (with input selection) would be helpful. Drill down and charts seem
important. Dashboards leave me cold.

The following seem to exist (in no special order): Ibm WebQry, Cognos BI,
BCD Clover, SPSS Showcase, Sequel, WebFocus, Infomanager.

Anybody really positive on any of the above products?
Jim Horn

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