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Make Cognos More Dependable with DevOps

Cognos development is challenging without a structured approach. That’s where DevOps practices come into play, helping to establish a repeatable release process for consistent deployments. Through automation, teams speed up release cycles and minimize manual labor, coupled with version control, to guarantee precise tracking and simple rollbacks. By incorporating quality assurance early on, you can maintain continuity and identify problems sooner.

Tame Your Cognos Environment

A sprawling Cognos environment can feel like navigating a maze—full of outdated reports, compliance risks, and inefficiencies. Analytics Asset Management® sets you on a cleaner path by providing insight into your Cognos artifacts. It enables teams to understand dashboard usage and which reports are broken, keeping your compliance worries at bay. Instead of dealing with chaos, businesses get a well-organized, competent Cognos system that allows them to focus on what matters: confidently making informed decisions.

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Bring Unity To Your Analytics Tools

Managing multiple analytics tools in addition to Cognos can be difficult. Users need assistance finding the correct reports and dashboards amidst a sea of insights. This leads to wasted time, frustration, and missed opportunities for data-driven decisions. With a centralized catalog consolidating all your content in one place, users can quickly and easily search for the information they need, avoid duplication of asset creation, and receive recommendations that help your team focus on making faster, more informed, and more strategic decisions.

Transition To Cloud Faster, Cut Costs

Organizations move analytics to the Cognos cloud to reduce complexity and increase scalability. By testing and validating upgrades, query transitions, and authentication updates in a secure sandbox, you gain certainty in your cloud environment. This approach minimizes risks, resolves potential issues early, and provides a fully operational solution ready to support your organization’s analytics needs. 

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Automate Your Cognos Upgrade, Stay Efficient

Upgrading Cognos can improve decision-making, but only automation can help keep the process smooth. Start by analyzing your current setup: inventory reports, assess complexity, and remove duplicate and unused assets to focus on what matters. Set up a test environment that mirrors production to validate the upgrade, checking data, formatting, and performance automatically. Then, run thorough testing cycles to confirm reports, security settings, and customizations work as expected before fully transitioning.

 

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As the BI space evolves, organizations must take into account the bottom line of amassing analytics assets.
The more assets you have, the greater the cost to your business. There are the hard costs of keeping redundant assets, i.e., cloud or server capacity. Accumulating multiple versions of the same visualization not only takes up space, but BI vendors are moving to capacity pricing. Companies now pay more if you have more dashboards, apps, and reports. Earlier, we spoke about dependencies. Keeping redundant assets increases the number of dependencies and therefore the complexity. This comes with a price tag.
The implications of asset failures differ, and the business’s repercussions can be minimal or drastic.
Different industries have distinct regulatory requirements to meet. The impact may be minimal if a report for an end-of-year close has a mislabeled column that the sales or marketing department uses, On the other hand, if a healthcare or financial report does not meet the needs of a HIPPA or SOX compliance report, the company and its C-level suite may face severe penalties and reputational damage. Another example is a report that is shared externally. During an update of the report specs, the low-level security was incorrectly applied, which caused people to have access to personal information.
The complexity of assets influences their likelihood of encountering issues.
The last thing a business wants is for a report or app to fail at a crucial moment. If you know the report is complex and has a lot of dependencies, then the probability of failure caused by IT changes is high. That means a change request should be taken into account. Dependency graphs become important. If it is a straightforward sales report that tells notes by salesperson by account, any changes made do not have the same impact on the report, even if it fails. BI operations should treat these reports differently during change.
Not all reports and dashboards fail the same; some reports may lag, definitions might change, or data accuracy and relevance could wane. Understanding these variations aids in better risk anticipation.

Marketing uses several reports for its campaigns – standard analytic assets often delivered through marketing tools. Finance has very complex reports converted from Excel to BI tools while incorporating different consolidation rules. The marketing reports have a different failure mode than the financial reports. They, therefore, need to be managed differently.

It’s time for the company’s monthly business review. The marketing department proceeds to report on leads acquired per salesperson. Unfortunately, half the team has left the organization, and the data fails to load accurately. While this is an inconvenience for the marketing group, it isn’t detrimental to the business. However, a failure in financial reporting for a human resource consulting firm with 1000s contractors that contains critical and complex calculations about sickness, fees, hours, etc, has major implications and needs to be managed differently.

Acknowledging that assets transition through distinct phases allows for effective management decisions at each stage. As new visualizations are released, the information leads to broad use and adoption.
Think back to the start of the pandemic. COVID dashboards were quickly put together and released to the business, showing pertinent information: how the virus spreads, demographics affected the business and risks, etc. At the time, it was relevant and served its purpose. As we moved past the pandemic, COVID-specific information became obsolete, and reporting is integrated into regular HR reporting.
Reports and dashboards are crafted to deliver valuable insights for stakeholders. Over time, though, the worth of assets changes.
When a company opens its first store in a certain area, there are many elements it needs to understand – other stores in the area, traffic patterns, pricing of products, what products to sell, etc. Once the store is operational for some time, specifics are not as important, and it can adopt the standard reporting. The tailor-made analytic assets become irrelevant and no longer add value to the store manager.