The document discusses different options for moving to cloud-based business intelligence (BI), including infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). With IaaS, IBM provides servers hosted in their infrastructure that the client maintains. With SaaS, IBM handles installation, maintenance, and administration, removing the need for on-site resources. The presentation compares the administration and costs of each option to on-premise BI, and provides details on migrating between models and the SaaS setup process. It aims to help organizations understand the journey to the cloud.

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Moving to Cloud – The Journey
Presented by Norm Goddard

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• Introduction
• On Premise Installation
• Infrastructure as a Service – SoftLayer (IaaS)
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Q & A
Agenda

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Senior BI Architect, CCG
19 years Consulting Experience
Previously worked for IBM and Cognos
for 13 years
IBM Certified Cognos Analytics Developer
Meet Your Speaker
Norm Goddard
ngoddard@ccgbi.com
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4. Background
• One of the first to IBM Cognos Analytics v11 Installations
• IBM Cognos Analytics on IBM SoftLayer (IaaS)
• Migrated to SaaS
Challenges
• Large enterprise for a national company
• Four environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Production)
• Load balancers
Benefits of Cognos Analytics
• Ease of use for business
• Reduction of manual data processing
• Reduced on-site infrastructure costs

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Architecture
• 2 Gateways
• 4 Application Servers
• 1 Content Manager
• 1 Standby Content
Manager
• 2 Load Balancers

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Typical On-premise Installation
• Infrastructure maintenance and costs
• Load balancers
• Backups (servers and content stores)
• Server patching, maintenance
• Administration and performance tuning for
the Cognos install
• Troubleshooting server issues and Cognos
install
• Requires Cognos administrator with
knowledge of complete install, configure,
administering of the application
• Maintenance and administration of the
servers, VM’s, infrastructure

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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• IBM provides the servers based on client provided
specifications for architecture and host in their
infrastructure (Softlayer)
• VPN tunnel setup to communicate between client and IBM
• Options to have Virtual Machines (VM’s) and/or Bare
Metal servers (physical servers)
• IBM Netscaler load balancers in Softlayer (if needed)
• Client is responsible for installation and configuration
• Administration and performance tuning
• Backups (servers and content stores)
• Server patching, maintenance
• No capital costs of server purchases, VM host
• Still requires Cognos administrator with knowledge of
complete install, configure, administering of the
application
• Maintenance and administration of the servers

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Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Installation and configuration of Cognos done by IBM
• Any necessary performance tuning performed by IBM
• No system administrator role, IBM function
• Directory, report, library, mobile, server administration
• Public cloud by default, can be changed to internal
only
• SSL encrypted
• One instance includes Prod & Pre-Prod
• Shared deployment folder between Prod & PreProd
• Tickets for deployments if more than one instance
• Troubleshooting by IBM
• Upgrade to new release with request to IBM
• POC environment

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Software as a Service (SaaS) cont’d
• Framework Manager instructions and download
provided (SSL encrypted)
• IBM provides the instructions and certificates
• DQM only, 64 bit
• Currently no SSO but is high priority this year
• Offloading infrastructure deployment and
maintenance to cloud provider frees up staff to work
on other things
• Requires limited Cognos administration, no install,
configuration necessary

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SaaS Setup
• Welcome letter from IBM containing information about the onboarding process
and the links for your environments
• Sections in the letter need to be filled out and returned to IBM
• IBM and network team work together to setup VPN tunnel along with necessary
settings for communicating with any on-premise application (Active Directory)
• IBM performs Cognos configuration based on information provided (security,
email, type(s) of datasource(s))
• Configured with a temp LDAP, use this to Setup administrator access
• IBM removes temporary LDAP
• Migrate Cognos content

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Migration
On-premise to IaaS
• Move backup of content store
• Deployments
• Image files
• Any other custom files
On-premise or IaaS to SaaS
• Open ticket with IBM for migration
• Deployments only
• Image files

12. Questions?

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