Answer / bob edis

Cognos PowerHouse (4GL, Web, Axiant) is an Application
Development tool. It was Cognos' main bread&butter product
prior to BI tools beconing so popular. It's hayday was in
the 1990's as it was for most 4GLs. 4GLs went out of focus
for most IT depts when Java became king of the programming
languages.

This is not to say 4GLs are irrelavent. They posess
attributes which still make them the faster method of
delivering robust, data driven business applications in a
much shorter time than OOP/3GLs.

PowerHouse uses a data dictionary (similar to the meta data
repository used by Cognos 8 BI) so programmers don't have
deal with file/table handling and discovering data
definitions. It comes in three flavours - terminal based,
client-server (Axiant) and web. There is a report writing
tool (Quiz, Cognos' original product when it started as
Quasar in 1969), form generator (Quick), and a transaction
processor (QTP).

PowerHouse Web is a very good solution for data warehouse
implmentations that need to maintain reference data not
found elsewhere and therefore cannot be sourced using an
ETL process. It is multi-platform (UNIX, Windows, OpenVMS,
MVS, etc) and very scalable.

Cognos Transformer originally used PowerHouse technology
and some of it has found its way into other Cognos tools.

I believe Cognos should merge the data dictionary
components of PowerHouse and Cognos 8 BI so that the tools
can be integrated better.

Answer / praveen mishra

Today, organizations need to build and maintain mission
critical applications faster and with fewer resources. The
Cognos PowerHouse family of tools provides the ideal
application development environment for platform-
independent server-based, client/server, or Web deployment.

What is minimum version of internet explorer to run the Cognos report.

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how to add a new query item by using 2 query subject? For Ex: i want to create a revenue query item in products query subject(revenue=Quantity*Unitprice). Quantity is in products query subject & unit price in orders query subject it will be possible in report studio(perment/temporerally) otherwise u have create in Freamework Manager... pls any body knows explain /answer me ?

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what are all the versions of cognos and cognos8 as well as mention all the advantages nd disadvantages in cognos8 versions. any one plz answer this question.

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can any one explain about blue prints&performance tuning in cognos? 

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how many reports do u create in ur project?i don't have real time exp..tell me based on ur exp..for interview pt of view,don't say it depends on ur project and u? thanks in advance..

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Hi Guro's How to give give one space for every 5 rows in a crosstab report in cognos

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what is surrogate key give example?

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How the Bursting happens in same report and how to Print the bursting Report?

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Can you explain the advantage of using shortcuts?

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What you mean by drill across and what is the difference between drill through, drill across?

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if a page have 3different layouts(list,crosstab,chart)can you show the 3 leyouts in 3 different formates (pdf,excel,csv)?

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Why is auto-regression used in forecasting used on cognos platform?

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