2015 IBM Corporation Cloud Concierge Program Platform for POC
& DEMOs Ivan Aguilera May 2015
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2015 IBM Corporation 2 Providing you with a technology platform
to showcase our solutions on the Cloud. What does this mean? We
have created a new launch pad that will streamline the process and
remove barriers to support our field teams as we scale our SaaS
offerings by offering standard platforms for provisioning our
solutions on SoftLayer. In less than 40 minutes you can have a demo
to share with your customers. Whats the benefit Internal &
Partner access Easily share cloud based live Demos with customers
Extended Demo Capability Ideal for Mobile demos Support structure
around the Cloud Concierge Program comprised of technical
assistance and advocates Vastly improved agility to provide latest
updates SoftLayer
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2015 IBM Corporation 3 Demo Environments being made available
to Business Partners either with automated installation tool and/or
via the Cloud. Core Demo Images Available Install of Enterprise SW
for Partner Sellers (Selected on premise SW) Provide an install
script to load software for Creating a Demo VM for Partners
(Solution Configurator) Offer a ready to use Cloud image, with all
the products and demos already installed Flexible deployment
options
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2015 IBM Corporation 4 Scenario 1 Partners Demonstrating
On-Premise BA Software * BA Enterprise Install contains an
installation of all of BI and TM1 capabilities and Select SPSS
Modules (Modeler and Stats) Laptop On- Premise Software Installed
Locally or on VM *BA Enterprise Local Install *BA Enterprise VM
Install Provisioning Application Demo Content Search
Install/Update
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2015 IBM Corporation 5 To have your own on- premise environment
download the IBM Welcome App for Local Platform Installs. This app,
will perform the installation of the SW (BI, TM1, SPSS) + Demo
applications unto a clean disk or VM. Please refer to the
documentation available for this topic found under the [Support]
link
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2015 IBM Corporation 6 The Provisioning Application, allows you
to install all the required SW needed to have a local install with
all our existent demo content too
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2015 IBM Corporation 7 Follow all the instructions and make
sure you have all the pre-requisites as described in the local
install document At the end of this process you should have a local
installation with the basic products and demos we have available.
PLEASE note this will provide an install of BI 10.2.1, TM1 and SPSS
versions as they were current for Oct 2014.
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2015 IBM Corporation 8 Scenario 2 Partner Demonstrating using
Cloud image Web Provisioning Application 1.DaaS (Short Term Demo
Scheduling) 2.PaaS (Long Term Demo Scheduling) Cloud Software
Hosted in Cloud Outside of Firewall SoftLayer Full Enterprise VM
Concert VM SPM VM Etc
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2015 IBM Corporation 9 Some of the available Environments in
Cloud Concierge BA Enterprise Platform V1.4 Full Stack of SPSS
Predictive, BI and PM Demonstration Content - D2G, Future Chip
Plan, SmartCo, Vision, HR Attrition, ESRI, FLBI, Insurance Risk
& Fraud, + Concert 4.02.1 SaaS Gold VM Fully Functioning
Concert, TM1, CDM and BI with SmartCo CFO, Expense and Revenue
Planning Demonstration BA Risk VM OpenPages 7.0OpenPages with
Cognos BI Integration. BigInsights BigInsights 3.0.0.2, SPSS
Modeler 17.0, Analytic Server 2.0. BigI, DB2, SPSS PCI 1.0.1 PCI,
including SPSS, DB2, and Cognos, as well as the Omni Channel
Marketing software, Campaign and Interact. Industry samples for
retail, insurance, telco, banking, and energy and utilities are
also installed. PMQ 2.5 PMQ 2.5 SPSS + BI OpenPages 7 OpenPages
with Cognos BI Integration FPM CDM 10.2.4. FPM Extended Edition of
the BA 1.2 Platform with the CDM FSS Demo, Controller 10.2.0, and
Office 32-bit.PMQ 2.0 SPSS + BI .. And many more, please check back
often
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https://www-304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/mem/ContentHandler/pw_com_sfw_ba-
cloud_concierge?cmrec=recommendations Partners have access to the
Cloud Concierge offering through PW on the website below:
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2015 IBM Corporation 11 Solution demonstration
demo.ibmcloud.com
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2015 IBM Corporation 12 Partner logs in with their PW
credentials (same user and password they use for PW) Or they can
register if they dont have an id
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2015 IBM Corporation 13 Registration process is simple if
needed
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2015 IBM Corporation 14 First time a BP registers they get a
message stating pending status They should have their IBM rep
contact the Concierge team as instructed above
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2015 IBM Corporation 15 Once logged in you are presented with
these 3 options
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2015 IBM Corporation 16 First of all, please review and
download all the word, ppts and videos found under this link It is
very likely your questions are already answered on these documents
and/or explained in a video
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2015 IBM Corporation 17 Or, to start provisioning On Cloud,
select the first option
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2015 IBM Corporation 18 This is the provisioning interface,
please note the highlighted areas You must select the image, the
list of available images is growing so you may want to filter by
Product, also, choose the SoftLayer Server that will be used to
provide the environment
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2015 IBM Corporation 19 When you select an image, its
highlighted in green and the description is expanded, please read
it thoroughly Each image has an explanation of its content, list of
Products and installed versions, some images allow Remote Desktop
(RDP) into them, some are Unix/Linux and have special
instructions.
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2015 IBM Corporation 20 Please note the Requirement Type
options, as each one will drive the provisioned time (1 3 days) as
well as the information you need to provide
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2015 IBM Corporation 22 Once you have filled checked all fields
click on [Provision] At provision time, you can also choose to add
VPN access, this can prevent hackers from messing up your
provisioned VM
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2015 IBM Corporation 23 A second browser window will pop up
letting you know you have provisioned a new instance the actual
process may take between 20 mins to 1 hour depending on actual
server load. Click [OK] to be taken back to My Cloud page
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2015 IBM Corporation 24 After you submit, your selected image
shows up either highlighted in yellow, with status [Provisioning],
or highlighted in blue (if VPN was chosen) with Status [Private],
as shown below: This page is refreshed automatically, you can exit
and check back later, in any case, once the selected image is
provisioned, you will receive an email with instructions on how to
access it. The selected image will then show highlighted in green
or blue (for VPN), and an IP address and password will have been
assigned.
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2015 IBM Corporation 25 Once your image is provisioned you will
also receive an email with detailed instructions, please make sure
you read and follow them
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2015 IBM Corporation 26 You will also receive an email
notification when a provisioned image is about to expire please
take note of the possible actions you could take as described on
the next slide
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2015 IBM Corporation 27 Possible actions on a provisioned image
: - Delete (if you no longer need it, and dont want to wait for
regular expiration) - Archive (to save your image for up to 60 days
retaining all settings and changes - Transfer (to change the owner
to a co-worker for example) - Rename (to provide a more meaningful
name for the instance - Opportunity Info (to update what the image
is being used for) - Hardware Reboot (in case the image is frozen
or otherwise unresponsive)
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2015 IBM Corporation 28 Once provisioned (with or without VPN)
on the cloud, you have 2 options to access: a- directly clicking on
the name (hyperlink to the demo environment) Clicking directly on
this link will open a separate browser session. The user and
password for the Demo environment is : administrator /
IBMDem0s
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2015 IBM Corporation 29 b- accessing through RDP (if available
for the image) please make sure you click [YES] if you get this
warning message when you fill the login window
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2015 IBM Corporation 30 When you RDP into the Hosted demo, you
are placed inside the actual Windows OS of the Virtual machine From
here you can start or turn off any windows component or service,
copy files from your own Computer into this Image or extract a demo
package you may have created inside this machine to use it on other
Computer or save it as backup, remember all content will be lost
when the provisioned demo expires.
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2015 IBM Corporation 31 By default, your hosted demonstration
will be de-provisioned when its date and time have expired as
stated under Provision Until. If you choose to [Archive] one image,
you will be presented with this message indicating you have done
so. Also, the image will be added to the list of images you can
provision, please note ONLY 1 image can be archived at any given
period. Also, make sure you re- provision from the SAME server as
the original one and before 60 days have passed.
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2015 IBM Corporation 32 If VPN protection was chosen at
provisioning time, then you must install and RUN THIS FIRST before
you click on the generated active link or RDP into it
https://vpn.sng01.softlayer.com/prx/000/http/localhost/login User =
ibmdemovpn Password = IBMDem0s! Accept the prompts to install and
then press [Connect], there will be a red capital A showing in your
taskbar when the VPN is connected correctly
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2015 IBM Corporation 33 Feel free to share your thoughts so
that we can improve this offering you may also post questions that
may even be answered by current users who have similar
experiences
