Description
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud
IBM Analytics Business Analytics and the Cloud
Highlights
• Take advantage of world-class
reporting, analysis, dashboards and
visualization capabilities offered as
Software-as-a-Service for more ?exibility
and scalability
• Deploy and deliver insights faster without
compromising compliance or security
• Rapidly expand your business intelligence
software without a major upfront capital
investment
• Provide greater freedom of data access
and experimentation with certainty—with
the option to use data on your premises or
in the cloud
IBM Cognos Business
Intelligence on Cloud
Operate and succeed at a new business speed
Overview
IBM
®
Cognos
®
Business Intelligence turns data into views of your
organization’s operations and performance so your decision makers can
capitalize on opportunities and minimize risks. You can use these views
to understand the immediate and downstream efects of decisions that
span potentially complex interrelated factors. Consistent snapshots of
business performance are provided in enterprise-class reports and
independently assembled dashboards based on information you can trust.
As a result, non-technical and technical business intelligence (BI) users
and IT alike can respond quickly to rapidly changing business needs.
Cognos Business Intelligence, like almost all robust and powerful
software, requires signi?cant investments of time and resources for
deployment and adoption. But sometimes, you don’t have the time or
resources to spare — not to mention the capital. Cloud then becomes an
ideal alternative to installation on premises. A cloud deployment takes
signi?cantly less time than a traditional one so you can start enjoying
the bene?ts of simpler, self-service access for the business, while
maintaining strict IT requirements for compliance and security.
Cloud also separates the user experience from the complexities of IT
infrastructure so more people can share insights with less IT
intervention. Scaling user capacity up or down to respond to demand
is no longer a major challenge. Instead, you have the ?exibility to use
the right capabilities with the right capacity at the right time, all while
innovating, experimenting and adapting to constantly changing
market dynamics.
IBM Analytics Business Analytics and the Cloud
2
With that in mind, IBM now ofers Cognos Business
Intelligence on Cloud. With this Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) solution, you can take full advantage of the bene?ts
Cognos Business Intelligence has to ofer in a way that
minimizes IT intervention while enabling you to succeed at
a new business speed.
IBM has led more than 10,000 successful
cloud client engagements.
Introducing IBM Cognos Business
Intelligence on Cloud
Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud transforms data — in
the cloud or on your premises — into meaningful and useful
insights with fewer constraints and resources. Interactive
reports and dashboards provide historical and current views
of your business that help you:
• Create data-driven outcomes. Make con?dent decisions and
improve operational efciencies.
• Get the most out of your data. Analyze information in
volume, combination and complexity.
• Outperform expectations. Transform your business from a
reactive operation to a proactive organization.
• Encourage collaboration. Quickly deliver on user demand
for collaboration and report distribution while avoiding
costly data silos.
• Accelerate delivery. Improve application delivery cycles
when using a dedicated testing and development platform.
Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud is a combination
of Cognos Business Intelligence and IBM SoftLayer
®
cloud infrastructure delivered as three distinct oferings:
Workgroup, Standard and Enterprise (Figure 1). These
diferent options are designed to address the needs of all kinds
of organizations and users, from a department in a company
to a midsize business to a major enterprise.
Workgroup
Per user per month, available on
semi-annual basis
Includes:
• Ad hoc reporting
• Extensible visualization
• Dashboards
• User and role management
• Mail delivery service
• Mobile applications
• Access to cloud data sources
• User storage up to 100GB
• Disaster recovery up to 100GB
• 95% uptime
• Single-tenant environment
• Support is as per
offerings on premises
Minimum 50 users
Standard
Per user per month, available on
annual basis
Includes Workgroup plus:
• Access to on-premise
data sources
• Pre-production environment
• 98.99% uptime
• User storage up to 250GB
• Disaster recovery up to 250GB
• Optional performance: Cloud
throughput capacity add-on
• Optional storage: Cloud 250GB
add-on
Minimum 100 users
Enterprise
Per user per month, available on
annual basis
Includes Standard plus:
• High performance environment
• 99.75% uptime
• User storage up to 500GB
• Disaster recovery up to 500GB
Minimum 150 users
Figure 1: The three incremental levels of Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud
IBM Analytics Business Analytics and the Cloud
3
IBM ofers more than 100 SaaS applications.
The SoftLayer infrastructure enables greater performance and
choice for either virtual or dedicated servers. You get the same
great insights and capabilities ofered by traditional Cognos
Business Intelligence deployments, while IBM monitors and
maintains system performance, and delivers new options for
availability and scalability. As a result, Cognos Business
Intelligence on Cloud ofers:
• Choice. Get world-class BI capabilities with more ?exibility
and scalability.
• Con?dence. Deploy and deliver insights faster without
compromising security.
• Control. Enjoy greater freedom of data access and
experimentation with certainty.
IBM SaaS is available in more than 50
countries today.
Choice: World-class BI capabilities with
more flexibility and scalability
Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud enables you to choose
BI capabilities that match your “best ?t” for user pro?les and
service levels so you get exactly what you need. Whether it’s
an easy “on ramp” for a start-up or a strategic big data
expansion of an enterprise, Cognos Business Intelligence on
Cloud dispenses with the notion of the one-size-?ts-all BI
solution. Instead, it provides you with the option of deciding
where to begin and where to expand. As a result, entities of all
sizes can have a right-sized solution. In addition, Cognos
Business Intelligence on Cloud provides the ?exibility to:
• Use capital funds, operational budget or both based on your
requirements for speed, ownership and application.
• Operate within a single-tenant or “bare metal” environment.
IBM can build environments to address the security or
compliance demands of your business or industry.
• Develop with IBM Bluemix
™
, a platform-as-a-service that
combines the strength of IBM software, third-party APIs
and open technologies.
Choice: A summary
•
Three distinct offerings, along with varied user
entry-points and growth options, to satisfy departments
or business budgets
•
Mix-and-match user roles to strike your best balance
between current and future needs
•
Varied service levels designed to meet mission-critical
department or business demands
•
Ability to customize your BI environment to
accelerate performance
•
Varied environments based on development
or security needs
Confidence: Faster insights without
compromising compliance or security
Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud uses IBM expertise
and best practices to deploy a full-feature solution without the
cost and efort of traditional deployment, testing and upgrades
and without the complexity of managing licenses and separate
cloud vendors. While other BI vendors sub-contract their
cloud capacity, IBM owns your SaaS experience, so you know
your insights are in the hands of an organization you trust.
Along with providing expertise and global SoftLayer data
centers in or near your region, Cognos Business Intelligence
on Cloud can optimize decision making by helping you:
• Deliver centralized and reliable insights without spreading
data across desktops and devices.
• Improve levels of collaboration and data quality while
ensuring self-service.
• Break down the data silos that prevent communication and
collaboration in business.
• Connect people to larger collaborative networks between
workgroups in and outside the enterprise.
IBM Analytics Business Analytics and the Cloud
4
IBM holds 1,560 cloud patents focused on
driving innovation.
Moreover, with the numerous management, operational and
technical controls of the SoftLayer infrastructure, you can
take advantage of the cloud to embrace compliance
requirements as a new IT competency. The inability to
achieve an acceptable level of compliance is one of the major
reasons businesses decide not to use cloud computing services.
With Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud, compliance is
not sacri?ced. IBM specialists also take care of administration,
monitoring, ongoing maintenance and upgrades so you can
set your sights on accelerating innovation.
Con?dence: A summary
•
BI deployment at the speed of business with a recognized
leader in BI and cloud
•
Improved governance through ISO 27001 and Cloud
Security Alliance
•
Rich, full-featured BI without license complexity or limits to
support or capability
•
Self-service on cloud that addresses “data drift” to
unsecured desktops and devices
•
Access to global data centers near or in your region
Control: Greater freedom of data access
and experimentation with certainty
Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud can help you be right
more often. You have the freedom to access data from almost
any trusted source. You can securely connect to where data is
stored, whether at your site or somewhere else, while avoiding
propriety formats.
Because IBM is your one-stop source, you get domain
expertise — from Cognos Business Intelligence to IBM
Cloud — and a practically seamless ?ow of implementation
and technical support. Because IBM provides everything you
need, from capabilities to management to support, you can:
• Rest assured that IT can deliver a secure and
extensible solution.
• Innovate with agile development, which enables you to
build, test and deliver in the cloud with continuous
engineering approaches and zero downtime.
• Lead with IT managed self-service and spend less time
administering platforms, monitoring capacity and
applications.
• Maintain existing investments in data on your premises
and the cloud.
Control: A summary
•
Freedom of access and data from a single source without
data duplication
•
More value from more types of data without constraints on
performance
•
Domain expertise from one vendor: Cognos Business
Intelligence and cloud
IBM Analytics Business Analytics and the Cloud
5
Conclusion
If your business would like to start bene?tting from analysis,
reporting, dashboard and visualization capabilities as quickly
as possible, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud is a
smart choice. This SaaS solution provides the choice,
con?dence and control you need to gain more accurate
insights faster. Rapid deployment and easier management of
BI capabilities combine with multiple options that meet
diferent needs to help you reduce costs, improve productivity,
extend BI to more users and get the data you need to
outperform your peers. Your deployments can be up and
running in less time than traditional deployments, and you
can get to work on innovating your business while IBM takes
care of the rest.
24 of the top 25 Fortune 500 trust
the IBM Cloud.
With IBM Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud, more user
communities can access the information and intelligence they
need for better business insights. Your organization can reap
the bene?ts of faster time to value, IBM domain expertise,
compliance management and predictable costs.
If you would like to learn more about IBM cloud solutions
for business intelligence and business analytics, visit:
ibm.com/software/analytics/cloud/ or visit IBM Cloud
Marketplace at ibm.com/marketplace/cloud/us
About IBM Business Analytics
IBM Business Analytics software delivers data-driven insights
that help organizations work smarter and outperform their
peers. This comprehensive portfolio includes solutions
for business intelligence, predictive analytics and decision
management, performance management, and risk management.
Business Analytics solutions enable companies to identify
and visualize trends and patterns in areas, such as customer
analytics, that can have a profound efect on business
performance. They can compare scenarios, anticipate
potential threats and opportunities, better plan, budget and
forecast resources, balance risks against expected returns and
work to meet regulatory requirements. By making analytics
widely available, organizations can align tactical and strategic
decision-making to achieve business goals. For further
information, visit ibm.com/business-analytics.
Request a call
To request a call or to ask a question, go to
ibm.com/business-analytics/contactus. An IBM representative
will respond to your inquiry within two business days.
© Copyright IBM Corporation 2015
IBM Corporation
New Orchard Road
Armonk, NY 10504
Produced in the United States of America
March 2015
IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com, Bluemix, Cognos, SoftLayer, and SPSS
are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp., registered in
many jurisdictions worldwide. Other product and service names might be
trademarks of IBM or other companies. A current list of IBM trademarks
is available on the Web at “Copyright and trademark information” at
www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml.
This document is current as of the initial date of publication and may
be changed by IBM at any time. Not all oferings are available in every
country in which IBM operates.
THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED
“AS IS” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT-
ABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ANY
WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF NON-INFRINGEMENT. IBM
products are warranted according to the terms and conditions of the
agreements under which they are provided.
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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud
IBM Analytics Business Analytics and the Cloud
Highlights
• Take advantage of world-class
reporting, analysis, dashboards and
visualization capabilities offered as
Software-as-a-Service for more ?exibility
and scalability
• Deploy and deliver insights faster without
compromising compliance or security
• Rapidly expand your business intelligence
software without a major upfront capital
investment
• Provide greater freedom of data access
and experimentation with certainty—with
the option to use data on your premises or
in the cloud
IBM Cognos Business
Intelligence on Cloud
Operate and succeed at a new business speed
Overview
IBM
®
Cognos
®
Business Intelligence turns data into views of your
organization’s operations and performance so your decision makers can
capitalize on opportunities and minimize risks. You can use these views
to understand the immediate and downstream efects of decisions that
span potentially complex interrelated factors. Consistent snapshots of
business performance are provided in enterprise-class reports and
independently assembled dashboards based on information you can trust.
As a result, non-technical and technical business intelligence (BI) users
and IT alike can respond quickly to rapidly changing business needs.
Cognos Business Intelligence, like almost all robust and powerful
software, requires signi?cant investments of time and resources for
deployment and adoption. But sometimes, you don’t have the time or
resources to spare — not to mention the capital. Cloud then becomes an
ideal alternative to installation on premises. A cloud deployment takes
signi?cantly less time than a traditional one so you can start enjoying
the bene?ts of simpler, self-service access for the business, while
maintaining strict IT requirements for compliance and security.
Cloud also separates the user experience from the complexities of IT
infrastructure so more people can share insights with less IT
intervention. Scaling user capacity up or down to respond to demand
is no longer a major challenge. Instead, you have the ?exibility to use
the right capabilities with the right capacity at the right time, all while
innovating, experimenting and adapting to constantly changing
market dynamics.
IBM Analytics Business Analytics and the Cloud
2
With that in mind, IBM now ofers Cognos Business
Intelligence on Cloud. With this Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) solution, you can take full advantage of the bene?ts
Cognos Business Intelligence has to ofer in a way that
minimizes IT intervention while enabling you to succeed at
a new business speed.
IBM has led more than 10,000 successful
cloud client engagements.
Introducing IBM Cognos Business
Intelligence on Cloud
Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud transforms data — in
the cloud or on your premises — into meaningful and useful
insights with fewer constraints and resources. Interactive
reports and dashboards provide historical and current views
of your business that help you:
• Create data-driven outcomes. Make con?dent decisions and
improve operational efciencies.
• Get the most out of your data. Analyze information in
volume, combination and complexity.
• Outperform expectations. Transform your business from a
reactive operation to a proactive organization.
• Encourage collaboration. Quickly deliver on user demand
for collaboration and report distribution while avoiding
costly data silos.
• Accelerate delivery. Improve application delivery cycles
when using a dedicated testing and development platform.
Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud is a combination
of Cognos Business Intelligence and IBM SoftLayer
®
cloud infrastructure delivered as three distinct oferings:
Workgroup, Standard and Enterprise (Figure 1). These
diferent options are designed to address the needs of all kinds
of organizations and users, from a department in a company
to a midsize business to a major enterprise.
Workgroup
Per user per month, available on
semi-annual basis
Includes:
• Ad hoc reporting
• Extensible visualization
• Dashboards
• User and role management
• Mail delivery service
• Mobile applications
• Access to cloud data sources
• User storage up to 100GB
• Disaster recovery up to 100GB
• 95% uptime
• Single-tenant environment
• Support is as per
offerings on premises
Minimum 50 users
Standard
Per user per month, available on
annual basis
Includes Workgroup plus:
• Access to on-premise
data sources
• Pre-production environment
• 98.99% uptime
• User storage up to 250GB
• Disaster recovery up to 250GB
• Optional performance: Cloud
throughput capacity add-on
• Optional storage: Cloud 250GB
add-on
Minimum 100 users
Enterprise
Per user per month, available on
annual basis
Includes Standard plus:
• High performance environment
• 99.75% uptime
• User storage up to 500GB
• Disaster recovery up to 500GB
Minimum 150 users
Figure 1: The three incremental levels of Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud
IBM Analytics Business Analytics and the Cloud
3
IBM ofers more than 100 SaaS applications.
The SoftLayer infrastructure enables greater performance and
choice for either virtual or dedicated servers. You get the same
great insights and capabilities ofered by traditional Cognos
Business Intelligence deployments, while IBM monitors and
maintains system performance, and delivers new options for
availability and scalability. As a result, Cognos Business
Intelligence on Cloud ofers:
• Choice. Get world-class BI capabilities with more ?exibility
and scalability.
• Con?dence. Deploy and deliver insights faster without
compromising security.
• Control. Enjoy greater freedom of data access and
experimentation with certainty.
IBM SaaS is available in more than 50
countries today.
Choice: World-class BI capabilities with
more flexibility and scalability
Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud enables you to choose
BI capabilities that match your “best ?t” for user pro?les and
service levels so you get exactly what you need. Whether it’s
an easy “on ramp” for a start-up or a strategic big data
expansion of an enterprise, Cognos Business Intelligence on
Cloud dispenses with the notion of the one-size-?ts-all BI
solution. Instead, it provides you with the option of deciding
where to begin and where to expand. As a result, entities of all
sizes can have a right-sized solution. In addition, Cognos
Business Intelligence on Cloud provides the ?exibility to:
• Use capital funds, operational budget or both based on your
requirements for speed, ownership and application.
• Operate within a single-tenant or “bare metal” environment.
IBM can build environments to address the security or
compliance demands of your business or industry.
• Develop with IBM Bluemix
™
, a platform-as-a-service that
combines the strength of IBM software, third-party APIs
and open technologies.
Choice: A summary
•
Three distinct offerings, along with varied user
entry-points and growth options, to satisfy departments
or business budgets
•
Mix-and-match user roles to strike your best balance
between current and future needs
•
Varied service levels designed to meet mission-critical
department or business demands
•
Ability to customize your BI environment to
accelerate performance
•
Varied environments based on development
or security needs
Confidence: Faster insights without
compromising compliance or security
Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud uses IBM expertise
and best practices to deploy a full-feature solution without the
cost and efort of traditional deployment, testing and upgrades
and without the complexity of managing licenses and separate
cloud vendors. While other BI vendors sub-contract their
cloud capacity, IBM owns your SaaS experience, so you know
your insights are in the hands of an organization you trust.
Along with providing expertise and global SoftLayer data
centers in or near your region, Cognos Business Intelligence
on Cloud can optimize decision making by helping you:
• Deliver centralized and reliable insights without spreading
data across desktops and devices.
• Improve levels of collaboration and data quality while
ensuring self-service.
• Break down the data silos that prevent communication and
collaboration in business.
• Connect people to larger collaborative networks between
workgroups in and outside the enterprise.
IBM Analytics Business Analytics and the Cloud
4
IBM holds 1,560 cloud patents focused on
driving innovation.
Moreover, with the numerous management, operational and
technical controls of the SoftLayer infrastructure, you can
take advantage of the cloud to embrace compliance
requirements as a new IT competency. The inability to
achieve an acceptable level of compliance is one of the major
reasons businesses decide not to use cloud computing services.
With Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud, compliance is
not sacri?ced. IBM specialists also take care of administration,
monitoring, ongoing maintenance and upgrades so you can
set your sights on accelerating innovation.
Con?dence: A summary
•
BI deployment at the speed of business with a recognized
leader in BI and cloud
•
Improved governance through ISO 27001 and Cloud
Security Alliance
•
Rich, full-featured BI without license complexity or limits to
support or capability
•
Self-service on cloud that addresses “data drift” to
unsecured desktops and devices
•
Access to global data centers near or in your region
Control: Greater freedom of data access
and experimentation with certainty
Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud can help you be right
more often. You have the freedom to access data from almost
any trusted source. You can securely connect to where data is
stored, whether at your site or somewhere else, while avoiding
propriety formats.
Because IBM is your one-stop source, you get domain
expertise — from Cognos Business Intelligence to IBM
Cloud — and a practically seamless ?ow of implementation
and technical support. Because IBM provides everything you
need, from capabilities to management to support, you can:
• Rest assured that IT can deliver a secure and
extensible solution.
• Innovate with agile development, which enables you to
build, test and deliver in the cloud with continuous
engineering approaches and zero downtime.
• Lead with IT managed self-service and spend less time
administering platforms, monitoring capacity and
applications.
• Maintain existing investments in data on your premises
and the cloud.
Control: A summary
•
Freedom of access and data from a single source without
data duplication
•
More value from more types of data without constraints on
performance
•
Domain expertise from one vendor: Cognos Business
Intelligence and cloud
IBM Analytics Business Analytics and the Cloud
5
Conclusion
If your business would like to start bene?tting from analysis,
reporting, dashboard and visualization capabilities as quickly
as possible, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud is a
smart choice. This SaaS solution provides the choice,
con?dence and control you need to gain more accurate
insights faster. Rapid deployment and easier management of
BI capabilities combine with multiple options that meet
diferent needs to help you reduce costs, improve productivity,
extend BI to more users and get the data you need to
outperform your peers. Your deployments can be up and
running in less time than traditional deployments, and you
can get to work on innovating your business while IBM takes
care of the rest.
24 of the top 25 Fortune 500 trust
the IBM Cloud.
With IBM Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud, more user
communities can access the information and intelligence they
need for better business insights. Your organization can reap
the bene?ts of faster time to value, IBM domain expertise,
compliance management and predictable costs.
If you would like to learn more about IBM cloud solutions
for business intelligence and business analytics, visit:
ibm.com/software/analytics/cloud/ or visit IBM Cloud
Marketplace at ibm.com/marketplace/cloud/us
About IBM Business Analytics
IBM Business Analytics software delivers data-driven insights
that help organizations work smarter and outperform their
peers. This comprehensive portfolio includes solutions
for business intelligence, predictive analytics and decision
management, performance management, and risk management.
Business Analytics solutions enable companies to identify
and visualize trends and patterns in areas, such as customer
analytics, that can have a profound efect on business
performance. They can compare scenarios, anticipate
potential threats and opportunities, better plan, budget and
forecast resources, balance risks against expected returns and
work to meet regulatory requirements. By making analytics
widely available, organizations can align tactical and strategic
decision-making to achieve business goals. For further
information, visit ibm.com/business-analytics.
Request a call
To request a call or to ask a question, go to
ibm.com/business-analytics/contactus. An IBM representative
will respond to your inquiry within two business days.
© Copyright IBM Corporation 2015
IBM Corporation
New Orchard Road
Armonk, NY 10504
Produced in the United States of America
March 2015
IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com, Bluemix, Cognos, SoftLayer, and SPSS
are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp., registered in
many jurisdictions worldwide. Other product and service names might be
trademarks of IBM or other companies. A current list of IBM trademarks
is available on the Web at “Copyright and trademark information” at
www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml.
This document is current as of the initial date of publication and may
be changed by IBM at any time. Not all oferings are available in every
country in which IBM operates.
THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED
“AS IS” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT-
ABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ANY
WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF NON-INFRINGEMENT. IBM
products are warranted according to the terms and conditions of the
agreements under which they are provided.
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doc_682875134.pdf