Business Analytics
Welcome to IBM Cognos 10 – What’s New in Licensing
January 28, 2011
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Overview of IBM Cognos capabilities
• Dashboarding
• Ad-Hoc Reporting
• Analysis
• Disconnected/offline Reporting
• Professional Report Development
• Statistics
• Scorecarding
• Collaboration
• BI Extensions - mobile, search, MS Office integration, CAFÉ, RTM
• Metadata Modeling
• OLAP Modeling
• Administration, LifeCycle upgrade/migrate
• Optional - ETL (data[mart/warehouse] builder), SDK, Predictive Analytics
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Overview of IBM Cognos 8 Roles
User Roles
Administrator /
Modeler
Admin
BI Professional,
Professional Author
…
Author
Business
Author/Analyst
Consumer
→ Access to ALL capabilities, incl.
administration and modeling
→ Professional Report
Development
→ Ad-Hoc reporting/Analysis
→ Access to interactive reports
Enhanced Consumer
Recipient
Consumer
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→ Access to static reports
Remote Distribution → Reports by email
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IBM Cognos 10: Role-based Licensing Structure Is Unchanged
Administer
BI Administrator
BI Professional
Author
Advanced Business Author
Business Author
Business Analyst
Business Manager
BI Enhanced Consumer
Consume
BI Consumer
BI Recipient
IBM Cognos 8 BI Customers gain access to new features.
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IBM Cognos 10 - Recommended User Roles
Administer
BI Administrator
Required role to use
Virtual View Manager,
Lifecycle Manager
BI Professional
Entry Role to author reports
With Statistics
BI Advanced Business Author
Entry Level Role for
Business Insight –
Advanced Mode
Author
Consume
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BI Enhanced Consumer
Building Block For Higher Level Roles
Entry level Role for
Business Insight, Active
Reports, Collaboration
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Example of Trade-up Opportunities for Consumption and
Authoring Level Roles
Administer
BI Administrator
BI Professional
Author
BI Advanced Business Author
Business Analyst
Business Author
BI Enhanced Consumer
Consume
BI Consumer
BI Recipient
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What License is needed for specific functionality…
Functionality
Statistical Analysis
License
Notes
New Statistics Server
License
 Separate installable component,
appears as service on BI bus.
 Statistical report authoring functionality
available to BI Professional or
Professional Author
 Reports including statistics can be
consumed by any licensed BI users
Business Insight
Standard Mode
BI Enhanced Consumer
 Replaces Go! Dashboard
Business Insight
Advanced Mode
Advanced Business Authors
 Replaces Report Studio Express
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What License is needed for specific functionality…
Functionality
Collaboration
Interactive Report
Output &
Consumption
Next generation
Query service
Real-Time
Monitoring
License
Notes
Enhanced Consumer and
higher gain rights if licensed by
Authorized User Price Metric
New Cognos Collaboration
license to provide rights to
customers purchasing Cognos
BI by PVU
Enhanced Consumer
No specific licensing – part of
core functionality
New RTM Server License
available by PVU metric
 Consumption rights added to
Enhanced Consumer and higher
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Aligning Persona with User Roles / License Options
Persona
Core License Role
Executives &
Business
Users
BI Enhanced Consumer
Business
Managers &
Analysts
Advanced
Business &
Financial
Analysts
New Capabilities
License
Options
•Active Reports
•Business Insight
•Collaboration
• Mobile add-on
BI Advanced Business
Author
• Business Insight –
Advanced mode
• Collaboration and
Enhanced Event
Management
• Mobile add-on
• CAFE
BI Professional
• Business Insight –
Advanced mode
• External Data Support
• IBM Cognos Statistics
exposed in Report Studio if
Statistics is licensed
• TM1 Contributor
for WIA
• CAFÉ
• Mobile add-on
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Aligning Persona with User Roles / License Options
Persona
IT Managers,
Administrators
and BI
Professionals
Core License
Role
New Capabilities
License Options
BI Administrator
• Dynamic Query Mode
• Performance and Scalability
improvements
• Model Accelerator
• Enhanced System
Management
•Upgrades, Lifecycle
Manager, and Multiversion co-existence
• Cognos Analytic Server
+ TM1 Modeler
• Mobile Server
• RTM Server
• Statistics Server is
optional license in Core
BI package
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IBM Cognos 10 – What’s New in Licensing
Summary
Q&A
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