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[mutino]

People,

I´m using Architect to develop our Cognos Application.
As I can see, nobody uses Architect to build catalogs, transformer model or even cq model.

Why you don´t use?

Thanks?

 

[RVLF]

Because Architect is dead !!!

 

[flex13]

Architect is not dead ... yet. It's just not the best, or most efficient way to get things done. Quite a few people use Architect to build cubes and catalogs and once they have it working, it works pretty well.

flex

 

[5120]

Hi,
I'm also using Architect to develop our Reports.
It seems that in Israel we are the only ones using Architect.
People are not technically advanced enough to use the web.
Because we are the only ones, there are a lot of problems with the tool & the support we get is really bad - they don't know anything!
Most of the departments we work with prefer to work with ImprompU because it's a tool that Cognos is fully supporting and have great experience with.
Hope this helps.
Dana

 

[gset]

Hi all,

We are using Architect from the first version 6.0.

If you use it to design catalogs, just use: the import DB model, create Business Layer and define joins and build you package layer.

If you just use these functionalities, it is really a good tool (and I am not always very nice with Cognos tools).

We have developped very big catalogs with Architect (especially one on Oracle Financial) which would have been much more difficult to create using just Impromptu Administrator.


However, never use Arhictect to import an old catalog and restart from that. It just does not work.


If you want to use Architect (waht I strongly advise you), you have to start from scratch.

Graham.