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January 2017

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What does it mean to be “Cloud First”?


• Reduce IT overhead without sacrificing business revenue

• Increased utilization rates on less HWLower Up-front cost

Time-to-value

Cost accounting

Scalability

Benefits of cloud deployment

• Rapid delivery of an environment using best practices

• End to end deployment in hours rather than weeksTime-to-value

Cost accounting• The ability to shift costs from capital to operating expenses

• Eliminate up front capital expenditures

• Organizations can add or subtract users as needed without worrying about procuring new hardware and other infrastructure components, reducing capital expenditures


• Reduce IT overhead without sacrificing business revenue

• Increased utilization rates on less HW

Time-to-value

Name 5 Reasons to go to cloud

• Rapid delivery of an environment using best practices

• End to end deployment in hours rather than weeksTime-to-value

What are other reasons you might choose cloud?1. _Stay current on the software / faster upgrades_

2. ______________________________

3. ______________________________

4. ______________________________

5. ______________________________


• Cloud SaaS Offerings

• Cloud Hosted Offerings

• Custom Cloud Solutions and Services

• Jump Starts

• Accelerators

• Cloud Design Workshops

• Bridge to Cloud

IBM Cloud Solutions


IBM Cloud Solutions


Terms of Use (TOU) and Services Description (SD)

http://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/sla/touhttp://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/sla/sd


IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud


A fully managed business intelligence platform, delivered as-a-service on a per user/per month subscription, that offers multiple options for price, and scale

What is Cognos Analytics on Cloud

Managed Hosted offering of Cognos Analytics

BI capabilities from self-service analysis to advanced report authoring

IBM experts manage infrastructure, patching and upgrades of capabilities

Tiered, subscription as-a-service basis

Support per standard product

Test drive and Jumpstart services

Suitable for:

Mid market, departmental or enterprise

Organizations with scarce IT resources looking for flexible options

Existing Cognos clients wishing to rapidly expand BI deployments using Cloud

Clients with a mixture of cloud born and on premises data sources

Acquisitions and divestitures


Responsibilities – guess who does whatTask IBM Customer

OS Patching

Cognos software patching

Administration of Cognos application

Creation of content (reports, packages, etc)

Software backups / restore

Content database backups / restore

Deployment of content

Security management (LDAP, Cognos groups)

Data Source Connections

Application restarts

Log Gathering

Upgrades of Software to next version

Testing of content after upgrade


IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud: Administration


Included

� Portal

� Authoring

� Dashboarding

� Data Modules

� Cognos Administration

� Framework Manager

� Dynamic Query Mode only

� PowerCube support

Not Included

� Query Studio, Analysis Studio

� Metrics Studio

� PowerPlay Studio

� Dynamic Cubes (under review)

� Compatible Query Mode

� Skinning/Branding

� SSO (under review)

� Hosting of 3rd party code

� Cognos Office Connection

� Multi Tenancy Functionality

� Burst to File System

� SDK is not available for use on the cloud

IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud: Differences to Note


Cloud Topics to Consider


General Cloud Inputs and Impacts

Let’s discuss:

• Cloud vs On-Prem

• Hosted vs SaaS

• Data Center Locations

• Dev/Test/Prod

• Business Continuity

• Mission Critical

• Disk and Server recoverability

• HA

• DR (RTO / RPO)

• Connectivity and workload movement (Users, Client apps, Systems, Data, Performance)

• Security and Encryption

• Compliance, Regulatory

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Supporting SlidesFor illustration purposes while discussing the inputs and impacts


Current Locations

� Cognos Analytics on Cloud is available in the following SoftLayer data centers:

− Washington DC

− Montreal

− Melbourne

− London

Note: More are added over time; be sure to check with your account representative.


Disaster Recovery and Backup

� Disaster Recovery

− Built into the cost

− Different geography

− Published SLA

� Content Backup

− The IBM SaaS offering includes Content Store and configuration files only

− Backups are taken daily and replicated to another data centre

− IBM will retain the last 7 daily backups and an additional four weekly backups

− Backups are encrypted at rest on a disk-based backup system and during transmission


SSL / TLSV

PN

Let’s be Secure!


Our Request Flow


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Certifications

• HIPPA Ready

• ISO 27001K – Certified

• Privacy Shield certified

• FedRAMP Ready

Softlayer certifications

• SOC Reports

• ISO 27K

• Cloud Security Alliance – STAR Registrant

• PCI Compliance

• HIPAA

• EU Model Clauses

Roadmap

• FFIEC (targeted 2017)

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January 2017

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