The cost is a fraction of Cognos and DataVu provides more development functionality. You also don't have the cost of adding an SQL Server database and work to copy from UniData to the SQL Server that you would normally do with a Cognos environment. There is a development license and web based licenses for users to access the reports.
I am not experienced with MITS, but from my knowledge MITS first role is to develop a data warehouse and then has reporting facility against the datawarehouse. It may not be the right tool if you are not building a data warehouse, however I may not be correct in that assessment. DataVu is a tool that allows users to develop visual dashboards and reports from working data rather than data warehouse database like Cognos depends on. However it would make life easier to probably set up a separate account that you put reporting data into. The product is not so much a matter of learning how to use, but about getting your head around how to use it which is no different to other products. DataVu provides flexibility to achieve functionality at a low cost. It resolves a problem that most sites have of giving users more access to querying data themselves. Regards David Jordan -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kebbon Irwin Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2011 3:25 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] DataVu Does anyone have solid experience with this product yet? I am particularly interested in the license costs for a Unidata environment and some sense of what development efforts are required and the quality of the results, especially when compared with Cognos or MITS or the others in the space.Cheers,Kebbon _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
