Today’s organisations are struggling to use information more effectively. While Cognos is being used effectively as a tool for reporting purposes, companies may not be making the most effective use of key new features such as dashboards, scorecards, and alerts. Companies need to determine what opportunities exist to optimise and/or enhance their existing Cognos installation.
Triangles' Application Health Check can quickly assess the effectiveness of your existing Cognos deployment and develop a roadmap for improvements. We will help you to make informed decisions on how to optimise your existing investment in Cognos and related business intelligence capabilities. This health check can help you achieve an integrated view of your data and create meaningful reports quickly and efficiently.
Areas Covered
- Review Infrastructure
- Document existing server infrastructure
- Review current hardware and recommend changes as appropriate
- Review current server performance
- Consider implementation of additional servers/instances to improve performance
- Check installed software versions and recommend updates as
- appropriate
- Check whether installed version is supported by IBM
- Recommend application of latest fix packs
- Recommend upgrades to latest versions if necessary
- Install IBM Audit software if not already installed
- Schedule reports to run and review output
- Check Licence compliance against know POE’s and recommend changes
- Check Backup and restore procedures
- Recommend backup strategy
- Review current licence portfolio against know current and future requirements
- Recommend suspension of support on unused licences
- Recommend upgrades to maximise new version functionality e.g. Consumer to enhanced consumer
- Analysis and recommendations on improvements to data quality
- Review Application Design/Architecture
The initial Health Check will take between half a day and a days consultancy with another day allocated to producing a document of the findings and recommendations.
Additional consultancy days may be necessary to perform more detailed assessments based on your agreement.