EV vs Cognos 8....which is best for TM1

[Faizal]

Hi All

Just looking at both products. Biggest concerns are whether EV will be supported in the near future and and how well does Cognos plug into TM1.

[David Usherwood]

Both are possible. EV has a future (at least) as a component in an upcoming new mid market offering which looks most promising but I'm not going to be the first to disclose here . C8.4 links pretty neatly into TM19.4 .

I would say that if you want a frontend just for TM1 then EV is better, faster, simpler and more powerful. If you want to link to relational sources as well then C8.4 is the choice, but it's a bigger beast.

Of course there's always TM1 Web, or even Excel. I recall a strange dialogue a colleague had with a non-TM1 partner at the jolly in Prague where they kept asking - 'but how do you _report_ with TM1?' Cognos types get so used to the situation of EP not having reporting that they expect that to be the way it is. It isn't.

[RLReyes]

I haven't used Cognos 8, but we have used EV for over a year. EV is like a cube view on steriods. It's a powerful tool. The only downside is that when you are creating an EV view, you can't create a view from multiple cubes (unlike perspectives). An EV view is limited to only 1 cube.

[David Usherwood]

Hmmm....
How would you create a multi cube view with Perspectives? You can do it with Excel, sure.

[RLReyes]

Hmmm....
How would you create a multi cube view with Perspectives? You can do it with Excel, sure.

Excel is what I meant when I said Perspectives...