TM1 Tip 3: Café vs Perspectives

[CharlieTriangle]

For my last tip in the TM1 series I thought I would take a look at the pros and cons of Cognos Café vs TM1 Perspectives.

Like a lot of aspects of Cognos, Café and Perspectives are both in a state of flux at the moment but for different reasons.  Perspectives is heading towards the end of its life cycle but as such is far more mature than Café in terms of its TM1 capability.

Café on the other hand is primarily a BI tool with some leanings towards TM1 but it isn't a TM1 editor in the way Perspectives is.

But here is the interesting thing.  The TM1 Developers I have worked with don't use Perspectives for development as they all prefer Architect.  In contrast, they all use Perspectives to create web pages for data input and workflow.

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