LDN - Luminis Developer Network

Hello All,
We at USD are going live with Banner in a phased approach with the Admissions team being the first one to go live in Sept/Oct 2007 and Registration in Mar 2008. We also bought ODS and EDW as our Data Store and Data Warehouse solution and to leverage these two products now we are looking into an effective reporting tool. We had demos of Hyperion, Argos and Cognos on campus.

My personal opinion on these products:

1) Hyperion - I didn't attend the presentation/demo. So i have no idea about the product. I was also told that in the demo, they had an example which didn't pertain to higher education.

2) Argos - Its a good product almost comparable with Cognos. Its a e-visions product (or atleast associated with e-visions) which again is a prefered sungard partner.
a) It is almost as expensive as Cognos
b) It doesn't communicate with App works - but i believe job scheduling can still be done.
c) It is easy to use (by the end users) and also very easy to develop reports from the server.
c) Its still a developing product - Its not yet a totally integrated product with Banner - The next release would probably be more compatible with Banner. They were talking about building new API's for better integration with the luminis portal and appworks.
d) It is browser dependent. Currently it only supports IE (Firefox and Mac users - i dont konw what do say). It asks to install an active-x component.

3) Cognos - Its a well known ETL tool - a billion dollar company - and now a prefered Sungard Partner.
a) Its expensive but so are the other products.
b) It integrates well with Sungard products and Sungard prefered partner products.
c) For the end users it looks like it gives more options than the other products and
d) takes care of the security and fine-grained access also.
e) It is easy to use and its a powerful reportign tool.
f) Its browser independent.

[NOTE: All the opinions mentioned above are my personal opinions which came out of a 30 min presentation - Please feel free to correct me if i am wrong]

Do you guys agree with these statements? If you could write down your observations and/or comparisions - that would be great.

Thank you,