I looked at BMC Analytics about a year ago and I really wanted to get that, however, all the points that Guillaume made are true. So while Analytics is based on the BO engine, you don't have the freedom to do reporting outside its scope. I think both vendors miss out by creating that limitation. So while its a powerful reporting tool I would love to put in the hands of my end users, at the end of the day, I need to be able to create reports without some of the limitations imposed by the Analytic product. Ben Cantatore Remedy Manager (914) 457-6209 Emerging Health IT 3 Odell Plaza Yonkers, New York 10701
>>> guilla...@dcshq.com 06/04/09 12:58 PM >>> ** I will not even attempt to answer that...Hopefully someone at BMC can answer that... Before I got the information below, I went to several support techs as you can imagine, since most people at BMC don't have a clear understanding of all this. It could depend on the BMC Analytics version. The info below is from Analytics 2.5 -Guillaume -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Tony Worthington Sent: Thu 06/04/09 11:40 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Useful information about BMC Analytics I remember hearing in Vancouver that you could purchase the universe and not the B/O components. Maybe that was incorrect or has changed? Tony Worthington Sr. Technical Analyst Kohl's Department Stores N56 W17000 Ridgewood Drive Menomonee Falls, WI 53051 262.703.7763 (phone) tony.worthing...@kohls.com www.kohls.com From: "Pierson, Shawn" <shawn.pier...@sug.com> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Date: 06/04/2009 10:14 AM Subject: Re: Useful information about BMC Analytics Sent by: "Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)" <arslist@ARSLIST.ORG> ** We have the opposite issue. We have been Business Objects users for years, and we?ve owned BMC Analytics for a year and a half, but the ?extra? BO server license is really useless for us since we put it on our production BOXI server. BMC didn?t want to give us a discount even though we wouldn?t be using their BOXI licenses. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [ _Platinum Sponsor: rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ ------_=_NextPart_001_01C9E536.2028C0BD _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"