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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

Admin

Consumer

Author

User Roles

Administrator / Modeler

BI Professional, Professional Author

…

Business Author/Analyst

Consumer

Enhanced Consumer

Recipient

Remote Distribution

→ Access to interactive reports

→ Access to static reports

→ Reports by email

→ Ad-Hoc reporting/Analysis

→ Professional Report Development

→ Access to ALL capabilities, incl. administration and modeling


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IBM Cognos 10: Role-based Licensing Structure Is Unchanged

Administer

Author

Consume

BI Administrator

BI Professional

Advanced Business Author

Business Author Business Analyst Business Manager

BI Enhanced Consumer

BI Consumer

BI Recipient

IBM Cognos 8 BI Customers gain access to new features.


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IBM Cognos 10 - Recommended User Roles

BI Administrator

BI Professional

BI Advanced Business Author

BI Enhanced Consumer Building Block For Higher Level Roles

Administer

Author

ConsumeEntry level Role for

Business Insight, Active Reports, Collaboration

Entry Level Role for Business Insight –

Advanced Mode

Entry Role to author reportsWith Statistics

Required role to useVirtual View Manager,

Lifecycle Manager


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Example of Trade-up Opportunities for Consumption and Authoring Level Roles

Administer

Author

Consume

BI Administrator

BI Professional


Business Author Business Analyst

BI Enhanced Consumer

BI Consumer

BI Recipient

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Functionality License Notes

Statistical Analysis 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

What License is needed for specific functionality…


Functionality License Notes

Collaboration 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

Interactive Report Output & Consumption

Enhanced Consumer

Next generation Query service

No specific licensing – part of core functionality

Real-Time Monitoring

New RTM Server License available by PVU metric

Consumption rights added to Enhanced Consumer and higher

What License is needed for specific functionality…


Aligning Persona with User Roles / License Options

Persona Core License Role New Capabilities License Options

Executives & Business Users

BI Enhanced Consumer •Active Reports•Business Insight•Collaboration

• Mobile add-on

Business Managers & Analysts


• Business Insight – Advanced mode

• Collaboration and Enhanced Event Management

• Mobile add-on• CAFE

Advanced Business & Financial Analysts

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


Aligning Persona with User Roles / License Options

Persona Core License Role

New Capabilities License Options

IT Managers, Administrators and BI Professionals

BI Administrator • Dynamic Query Mode• Performance and Scalability

improvements• Model Accelerator• Enhanced System

Management•Upgrades, Lifecycle

Manager, and Multi-version co-existence

• Cognos Analytic Server + TM1 Modeler

• Mobile Server• RTM Server • Statistics Server is

optional license in Core BI package


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