Impromptu I-Assistant for Impromptu:Anyone using it?

[BingBong]

I've discovered a tool that is supposed to help manage your catalogs, reports, et al. Here are a couple of questions:

Has anyone used this product?​

Is it practical?​

Is it "user friendly"?​

Would you recommend it?​

Would you recommend another product?​

I'd appreciate any and all input or comments regarding this product.

%-)Thank you for your support,

sbingman@empirecat.com

 

[griffindm]

I've pulled down an evaluation copy, but haven't tried it yet. I'll post my findings when I do.

Dave Griffin

 

[BingBong]

FYI to anyone interested...

Friday, May 31, 2002
To answer to your question, the price of I-Assistant is 6'000 EUR + yearly 18 % for support & maintenance (until 3 named users).

{6,000 Euro = 5,625.84 US Dollar
6,000 US Dollar (USD) = 6,399.04 Euro (EUR)to purchase and 1,012.65 US Dollar for s&m}​

 
Compared to the trial version, the full version offers the following functionalities:
    - Find a property or a database item in a report set
    - See what the use of the properties / database items by a report set (help you to "purge" big catalogs)
    - catalog comparison (Data Model / Catalog Structure / Security Model)

Is this product worth it?

 

[Guest_imported]

Can we download it from net ? Do you have link ?

Thanks,
Sanya

 

[Guest_imported]

Dear you,

Yan can request for a trial version of I-Assistant for Impromptu on our web site

http://www.i-sols.com

With my best regards,

Nicolas Oury
Integrated Solutions
nicolas.oury@i-sols.com

 

[Guest_imported]

I-Assistant is extremly practical and user friendly.
You can analyse in great detail a catalog or report.
Without this tool there is no way to know the database origin of items in the catalog.
It is also extremly important to ensure that all items of the catalog are correctly mapped to the database.
The integrity of your catalog and the reports depends on that.
As technical coordinator of various projects of a multinational company I take fully advantage of this great software and I can only recommend you to try it.

 

[Guest_imported]

I-Assistant is a very useful tool which is needed by all Cognos developers. I used it in a catalog migration project and i may say that this tool is essential to this kind of project. All its funtionalities make win you a lot of time and what can i say about the documentation generation : fabulous. In one word, the tool that missed to Cognos.

 

[mmo]

I-Assistant is a very good tool when you want to know the database items origin. With this tool, you don't have to maintain the catalog and the documentation. You can easily have the last version of the documentation just by clicking a button. You don't loose time to compare two catalogs or to verify the creation of your catalog with filters, users, database origin ...

So, try it. It's really a product that should have in standard with Cognos.

 

[griffindm]

It does look like a good (if expensive) product. I'm a little leery of the number of gushing reviews here from 1st time posters, however.

griffindm

 

[badhri]

Greetings,

I registered for the trial version of I-Assistant for Impromptu on the web site

http://www.i-sols.com

but did not get any feedback from them.

Is it a download available in the website or is it mailed to our mailing address.

Please help.

Thanks in Advance
Badhri ...

 

[mmo]

I know the product since the beginning and I have seen the evolution, problems and new functionnalities.
To have a idea on this product, you have to try it.

Maïté.