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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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This webinar is perfect for those just getting started with the platform or for colleagues new to the team who need a quick tutorial in building reports. Demos include how to: Use templates and predefined data items to build various types of reports, Work with the layout framework in Report Studio to create freeform reports and Build user-friendly reports with interactive prompts and drill-through reports. Techniques shown are applicable to all versions of Cognos BI.
Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
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Senturus offers a full spectrum of services for business analytics. Our Knowledge Center has hundreds of free live and recorded webinars, blog posts, demos and unbiased product reviews available on our website at: https://senturus.com/resources/
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How to Better Manage Cognos Upgrades: Leveraging the New Release of MotioCI
1. Leveraging the New Release of MotioCI
HOW TO BETTER MANAGE COGNOS UPGRADES
2. • Today’s Presenters
• What’s New in IBM Cognos 10.2.2
• Challenges while Migrating IBM Cognos
• Leveraging the New Release of MotioCI
– Methodology for Smoothly Upgrading IBM Cognos
– The Approach: Five Steps that Make the Difference
– Demonstration
• Next Steps: Upgrade Assistance
• Senturus Introduction & Upcoming Events
• Q & A
Today’s Agenda
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3. Edwin Van Megesen
Vice President of
Business Development
Motio, Inc.
Introduction: Today’s Presenters
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Jeff Dean
Strategic Accounts
Manager
Motio, Inc.
Albert Valdez
Vice President of
Learning Solutions
Senturus
Jim Frazier
Vice President of
Client Solutions
Senturus
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demos, white papers, presentations and case studies is
available on our website:
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5. Resource Library
Senturus’ whole purpose is to make you
successful with Business Analytics. Thus,
we offer a series of technology-neutral
webinars, training on specific software,
demonstrations, and no-holds-barred
reviews of new software releases. We
host dozens of live webinars every year
and we offer a comprehensive library of
recorded webinars, demos, white papers,
presentations and case studies on our
website--a wealth of learning resources.
Most of our content is custom created
and constantly updated, so visit us often
to see what’s new in the industry.
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6. What version of Cognos BI is your
organization on?
AUDIENCE POLL #1
8. Hear the Recording
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9. • Official Release Date: Nov. 21, 2014
• What this release really means:
– It is a culmination of various fix and feature packs that
had been introduced between 2012 and 2014
– Instead of rolling all the incremental packs onto your
10.2.1 environment, fresh install of 10.2.2 will have a BIG
Impact
• Which areas were addressed – where do we anticipate
the biggest impact?
What’s New in IBM Cognos 10.2.2?
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10. • The Highlights:
– For the Professional Author, Report Studio gets significant
enhancements in the following areas:
– Active Report Preview Mode
– Tabbed HTML Report Output
– Better Control Over Extensible Visualizations, Expanded
Library of Visualizations, including Dynamic Maps
– Style References
– For the Business Analyst, Cognos Workspace becomes
more functional with:
– More intuitive Filter controls
– The ability to author reports from directly within a
Workspace
What’s New in IBM Cognos 10.2.2?
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11. • What else? We see significant attention is being paid
in these additional areas:
– Custom User-Interface Profiles allow Administrators to
roll out precise features and functionality to different
types of authors, eliminating barriers to adoption for self-
service authoring
– Personal Data Sets will allow users and administrators to
create packages from desktop-based files such as Excel or
CSV
– Framework Manager metadata enhancements
– Dynamic Cubes metadata improvements as well as a new
hardware sizing utility, and greater control over in-
memory aggregation
What’s New in IBM Cognos 10.2.2?
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12. • Determining the ROI associated with an upgrade
• How to organize and prioritize the content to expedite
testing
• The largest cost and time associated with an upgrade
is testing and validation of Cognos content (reports,
cubes, FM models)
• How to automate the testing and validation process
• Resolving errors with content that come up during the
testing
• Managing the BI migration: How to plan activities,
check progress and monitor the quality
Challenges while Migrating IBM Cognos
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14. LEVERAGING NEW RELEASE OF MOTIOCI
- Methodology for Smoothly Upgrading IBM
Cognos
- The Approach: Five steps that make the
difference
- Demonstration
16. Hear the Recording
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17. In regards to the upgrade of IBM Cognos, we hear our clients say:
• “We have no idea how much work is involved for this upgrade. What are the
costs? What is the lead time? How can we keep control?”
• “We have several proposals for the upgrade, but the costs are simply too
high. Is there any way to lower these costs?”
• “We MUST upgrade soon. The last upgrade was a nightmare. How can we
avoid repeating that?”
• “I will be managing the BI upgrade to 10.2.2. How will I be able to plan
activities, check progress and monitor the quality?”
• “We have over 3000 reports, do we have to upgrade them all? There are
duplicates, non-used reports and even broken ones. How can we easily
identify which ones to upgrade?”
Challenges while Upgrading IBM Cognos
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18. We Help Customers Upgrade Smarter
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We improve the upgrade process by
lowering lead time, reducing cost and the
risks involved
19. Benefits of Upgrading Smarter
1. More control in the upgrade process
Focus and scope
Insight into work load
Control over progress
Monitoring and instant problem notification
Create a reliable safety net
2. Cost reduction
Achieving efficiency by automation
Reduce manual errors
Improve communication
3. Shorten the lead time
Shorten project time needed
Lower production down time on the “go live” day
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20. The Ingredients of this Cake
1. We use an IBM Cognos sandbox environment
Well performing – multiple reports will run in parallel
Monitored – the sandbox environment needs to be reliable
We need a reliable environment so we focus on the project and not worry about
supporting technology
2. We will use the Motio product set
Motio ReportCard runs in the cloud
MotioPI Pro does not use additional infrastructure
MotioCI requires an IT infrastructure
1. We use a structured approach
Assess first to understand the project
Scope to focus on relevant aspects
Manage to assure you always stay in control
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22. Hear the Recording
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MotioCI” recorded webinar. To view the FREE recording
of the entire presentation and download the slide deck,
go to:
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demos, white papers, presentations and case studies is
available on our website:
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23. Upgrade in Five Steps
1. Prepare and assess the environment
2. Narrow the scope
3. Analyze impact
4. Repair what is broken
5. Upgrade production and go live
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Let’s assume we upgrade
from 10.1 to 10.2.2
for 5000 reports
24. The Five steps are Part of a Bigger Picture
• Upgrading is often part of a bigger picture of leveraging
capabilities, education and delivering business value
• This approach will fit a broader approach, using waterfall
of agile BI methodology
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Prepare and
assess Narrow scope
Analyze
Repair
Test
Upgrade ProdAgile
25. Step 1: Prepare and Assess (I)
1. Prepare the upgrade
Prepare the infrastructure needed for the IBM Cognos sandbox
Prepare the infrastructure for MotioCI
Install MotioCI
2. Assess the current production environment
How many reports do we have?
How many reports are valid and will run?
How many reports have not been recently used?
How many reports are just copies of each other?
Cognos 10.1
Prod
5000 reports
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Based on the assessment, decide on
scoping and “cleaning”
26. Step 1: Prepare and Assess (II)
1. How can you assess?
ReportCard will analyze the XML specs and return a list of
duplicate reports, inactive reports and other inefficiencies
MotioPI Pro will help you to validate all reports and find
out the number of reports that do not validate
Cognos 10.1
Prod
5000 reports
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The outcome is the basis for discussing the scope of the project
• Out of scope could lead to deletion of objects or they can be ignored
during the upgrade
27. Step 2: Narrow the Scope (I)
Copy
Cognos 10.1
Prod
5000 reports
Cognos 10.1
Sandbox
5000 reports
MotioCI
1. Connect MotioCI to Prod
2. Freeze production
Monitor Prod on changes
3. Copy Prod to the Sandbox
4. Turn off all schedules using PI Pro
5. Connect MotioCI to Sandbox
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28. Step 2: Narrow the Scope – Setting Up MotioCI
1. To manage the upgrade, group all reports
Group by business, Cognos folder, package, or any other logical grouping
mechanism
2. Set up a project in MotioCI per group with 100-300 reports
If the initial group contained more reports we just split it up
3. Set up test cases:
Value stability
Formatting stability
Performance stability
4. For every object out of scope, set the label “out of scope” and disable the
test case
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29. Step 3: Analyze the Impact
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1. Run base line in MotioCI
2. Upgrade sandbox to 10.2.2
3a. Check value stability
3b. Check formatting stability
3c. Check performance stability
4. Evaluate the outcome and
estimate work load
Cognos 10.1
Sandbox
3000 reports
In scope
Cognos 10.2.2
Sandbox
3000 reports
In scope
Cognos 10.2.2
Sandbox
200 reports
need review
0. Start with a fully prepared sandbox
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31. Step 3: Analyze the Impact – Estimation of work
MotioCI will flag when there is a problem and a test case has failed. In
order from no worries to a huge problem, we see the following issues:
1. Formatting stability failed because of change in HTML tag. However there is
no problem, the output looks fine
Update baseline – label as “Reset baseline”
2. Formatting stability failed, there is a change and we accept this change, it
could be even better
Update baseline – label as “Accepted change”
3. Formatting stability failed and layout changed. Fix report layout
Repair the report – label as “Repaired”
4. SQL, data changed or performance changed. Fix report and maybe fix model
/ package
Repair – label report and package as “Repaired”
Cognos 10.2.2
Sandbox
200 reports
need review
“I have 3 people on my team to repair, based on the test
results and quick assessment, average time spend is
calculated on one hour. I expect to be ready within 2 weeks”
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32. Step 4: Repair
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1. Freeze production
2. Repair report set
3. Continuously test
4. Manage progress
A burndown chart of work
is directly available
in a Cognos report
from the MotioCI database
Monitorfreeze
Cognos 10.1
Prod
5000 reports
Cognos 10.2.2
Sandbox
200 reports
Need review
33. Step 5: Upgrade the Production Environment
The Saturday “go live” moment
1. Before the actual go live date, baseline Production
2. Start upgrading production following the standard IBM
procedure
3. Promote all labeled changes to the new environment
4. Run all test cases in Prod against the baseline
Execute sanity check on the most important repaired items
Running test cases, this may take some time, so prioritize carefully
Evaluate and decide on “go live”
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34. Step 5: Upgrade production
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3. Label changes
and promote
Upgrade
1. Run base line
2. Upgrade
4a. Check value stability
4b. Check formatting stability
4c. Check performance stability
Cognos 10.1
Prod
5000 reports
Cognos 10.2.2
Sandbox
200 reports
Repaired
Cognos 10.2.2
Prod
5000 reports
35. The Key Benefits of this Approach
1. Quick analysis and setting the scope
2. Immediate insight on work load
3. Lower lead time and test efforts
4. Lower freeze time of production
5. A framework to manage the project with work burndown reports for
project management
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36. Extended Architecture
Customers differ and so do their IBM Cognos infrastructures.
Different set ups may require adjustments to this method.
1. UAT/QA/Sandbox/Staging/Development
2. Multiple production environments
3. Multiple development environments / parallel development
lanes
These cases expand to the approach presented and use the same
methodology on a larger scale
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37. Demo
Obviously, we can not demo the whole process
The demo starts during step 5. We will demo:
• Repairing, labeling and capturing changes
• Testing reports and monitoring results
• Keep track on progress
• Deploy all changes from Sandbox to Prod 10.2.2
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39. Hear the Recording
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go to:
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demos, white papers, presentations and case studies is
available on our website:
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40. Motio Deep Dive
• Meeting to discuss how Motio could help streamline your upgrade
process
Cognos 10.2.2 QuickStart
• Senturus will install and configure your development environment
and provide complete documentation
• Starting at $4,499
Full Upgrade Support
• Free estimate
• Senturus will provide you with a short upgrade questionairre
• Estimate provided upon completion of questionnaire
Contact info@senturus.com 888.601.6010 ext. 85
Upgrade Assistance
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42. Senturus: Business Analytics Consultants
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Business
Intelligence
Enterprise
Planning
Predictive
Analytics
Our Team:
Business depth combined with technical expertise.
Former CFOs, CIOs, Controllers, Directors
43. 800+ Clients, 1400+ Projects, 14 Years
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44. *Custom, tailored training also available*
Cognos Training Options
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45. Coupon Code: MotioMarch
• Any Senturus live, online training course
• First ten people to use it
• Expires at midnight Friday, March 13
Special, Limited Time Offer: $200 Off Training
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Cognos Upgrades: Leveraging the New Release of
MotioCI” recorded webinar. To view the FREE recording
of the entire presentation and download the slide deck,
go to:
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Senturus’ comprehensive library of recorded webinars,
demos, white papers, presentations and case studies is
available on our website:
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