January 2017
Cloud Solutions for IBM Analytics
IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud
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What does it mean to be “Cloud First”?
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Benefits of cloud deployment
• Reduce IT overhead without sacrificing business revenue
Lower Up-front cost • Increased utilization rates on less HW
• Rapid delivery of an environment using best practices
Time-to-value
Time-to-value • End to end deployment in hours rather than weeks
• The ability to shift costs from capital to operating expenses
Cost accounting • Eliminate up front capital expenditures
• Organizations can add or subtract users as needed without
Scalability worrying about procuring new hardware and other
infrastructure components, reducing capital expenditures
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Name 5 Reasons to go to cloud
What are other reasons you
• might
Reducechoose
IT overheadcloud?
without sacrificing business revenue
1. _Stay current on the software / faster
• Increased upgrades_
utilization rates on less HW
2. ______________________________
3. ______________________________
• Rapid delivery of an environment using best practices
Time-to-value
Time-to-value
4. ______________________________
• End to end deployment in hours rather than weeks
5. ______________________________
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IBM Cloud Solutions
• Cloud SaaS Offerings
• Cloud Hosted Offerings
• Custom Cloud Solutions and Services
• Jump Starts
• Accelerators
• Cloud Design Workshops
• Bridge to Cloud
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IBM Cloud Solutions
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Terms of Use (TOU) and Services Description (SD)
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IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud
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What is Cognos Analytics on Cloud
A fully managed business intelligence platform, delivered as-a-service on a per user/per month
subscription, that offers multiple options for price, and scale
Managed Hosted offering of Cognos Analytics Suitable for:
BI capabilities from self-service analysis to advanced Mid market, departmental or enterprise
report authoring
Organizations with scarce IT resources looking for
IBM experts manage infrastructure, patching and
flexible options
upgrades of capabilities
Existing Cognos clients wishing to rapidly expand BI
Tiered, subscription as-a-service basis
deployments using Cloud
Support per standard product Clients with a mixture of cloud born and on premises
data sources
Test drive and Jumpstart services
Acquisitions and divestitures
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Responsibilities – guess who does what
Task IBM Customer
OS Patching
Cognos software patching
Administration of Cognos application
Creation of content (reports, packages, etc)
Software backups / restore
Content database backups / restore
Deployment of content
Security management (LDAP, Cognos groups)
Data Source Connections
Application restarts
Log Gathering
Upgrades of Software to next version
Testing of content after upgrade
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IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud: Administration
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IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud: Differences to Note
Included Not Included
Portal Query Studio, Analysis Studio
Authoring Metrics Studio
Dashboarding PowerPlay Studio
Data Modules Dynamic Cubes (under review)
Cognos Administration Compatible Query Mode
Framework Manager Skinning/Branding
Dynamic Query Mode only SSO (under review)
PowerCube support Hosting of 3rd party code
Cognos Office Connection
Multi Tenancy Functionality
Burst to File System
SDK is not available for use on the cloud
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Cloud Topics to Consider
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General Cloud Inputs and Impacts
Let’s discuss:
• Cloud vs On-Prem
• Hosted vs SaaS
• Data Center Locations
• Dev/Test/Prod
• Business Continuity
• Mission Critical
• Disk and Server recoverability
• HA
• DR (RTO / RPO)
• Connectivity and workload movement (Users, Client apps, Systems, Data, Performance)
• Security and Encryption
• Compliance, Regulatory
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Supporting Slides
For illustration purposes while discussing the inputs and impacts
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Current Locations
Cognos Analytics on Cloud is available in the following SoftLayer data centers:
− Washington DC
− Montreal Note: More are added over time; be sure to
− Melbourne check with your account representative.
− London
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Disaster Recovery and Backup
Disaster Recovery
− Built into the cost
− Different geography
− Published SLA
Content Backup
− The IBM SaaS offering includes Content Store and configuration files only
− Backups are taken daily and replicated to another data centre
− IBM will retain the last 7 daily backups and an additional four weekly backups
− Backups are encrypted at rest on a disk-based backup system and during transmission
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Let’s be Secure!
SSL / TLS
VPN
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Our Request Flow
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Certifications
• HIPPA Ready
• ISO 27001K – Certified
• Privacy Shield certified
• FedRAMP Ready
Softlayer certifications
• SOC Reports
• ISO 27K
• Cloud Security Alliance – STAR Registrant
• PCI Compliance
• HIPAA
• EU Model Clauses
Roadmap
• FFIEC (targeted 2017)
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January 2017
Cloud Solutions for IBM Analytics
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