Isn't CRN a reporting (BI) tool rather than Scoredard or dashboard?

[Blue]

From what I've seen CRN has been used as a replacement for Impromptu.  I don't see how it can be called a scoredcarding or dashboard tool.

Has anyone out there seen it used for these purposes?

[chias]

Blue,

Youre a controversial one!

What really stood out for me when I first saw the CRN demo was the composite reporting functionality. So from that point of view, I will not just call it a BI tool.

Keep em coming!

[baselinej]

I think CRN is BI + scorecard/dashboard tool.....

but don't take my word for it, COGNOS.com has categorised it as the latter

[cognosguru]

Hi Blue,

CRN can be used to create dashboard and scorecard like reports now in the current version.  It will however, from what I heard, have much more Viz like capability built into the Report Studio and have a separate studio for Scorecarding in Cognos 8.

[apparo]

hi,

with crn 1.1mr2 we coul'd not use PowerCubes as data source so crn is still an reporting tool. The underlaying technice allow to use it for buliding dashboards and balanced scorecards. have a look here: http://applications.apparo-network.com/html/applications.html

Regards,

Jens

[Merri]

You can use it for both.
It can be used for dashboarding in that you can display information from different datasources in the same report (which you could not do in previous products such as Impromptu). You also have a great deal of flexibilty in layout and can provide the information in various graphical formats as well as data listings.

You cannot use OLAP data as a datasource in this version, and you can't structure metrics in the way you can in Metrics Manager (or at least, not without a lot of work), so it's probably not the only tool you would want to build an overall scorecarding solution, but it can certainly form part of one.