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== History ==

PowerHouse was introduced in [[1982]] by Quasar Corporation and bundled together Quiz and Quick, both of which had been previously available separately, with a new batch processor QTP, now sold as a single product. In [[1983]], Quasar changed its name to ''Cognos Corporation'' and began porting their application development tools to other platforms, notably [[IBM]]'s series 400 (later rebranded as the [[AS/400]]), and [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]'s [[VAX]] range. Cognos also began extending their product line with add-ons to PowerHouse (for example, ''Architect'') and end-user applications written in PowerHouse (for example, ''MultiView''). {{Fact|date=February 2007}}

The PowerHouse language represented a considerable achievement. Compared with languages like ''[[Cobol]]'', [[Pascal programming language|''Pascal'']] and ''[[PL/1]]'', ''PowerHouse'' substantially cut the amount of labour required to produce useful applications on its chosen platforms. It achieved this through the use of a central data-dictionary, a compiled file that extended the attributes of data fields natively available in the DBMS with frequently used programming idioms such as: