Upgrade Your IBM Cognos
Environment Without the
Steep Learning Curve and Risk
Reimagine
Transform
Accelerate
Successful upgrades expand your
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business intelligence and capabilities
for improved operations
Adopt and adapt with ease to serve your business better
Baseline Requirement
There are many different approaches to implementing
Cognos upgrades, but a good baseline requirement is to make sure
your current system is stable and the Content Store is as clean as
possible. By using our unique set of performance solution tools,
Upgrades to your IBM Cognos environment can range from relatively
minimal to significantly complex, and even relatively minor
Avnet is able to validate that your current environment is free from
issues such as orphaned objects and broken reports.
upgrades can introduce changes that can break or alter your reports.
Systematic Approach
Cognos upgrades are complicated. With every upgrade, there’s a lot
Once we confirm a stable platform, we follow a proven,
to learn and typically, it’s information that IT resources will retain
systematic approach to planning, upgrading, and testing. Whether
once and never find use for again. For this reason, businesses can
you’re upgrading in-place or moving to new hardware, we can help
benefit greatly from advisory services that handle upgrades and
you focus on execution with minimal impact to end users.
free up internal resources to continue their focus and efforts on
more value-added projects.
Post Upgrade Training
Post upgrade, we can assist with training or knowledge
You can eliminate the steep learning curve of Cognos upgrades by
transfer of the new version’s capabilities to both IT developers and
engaging experienced consultants from Avnet. Our extensive
end-users. Additionally, we can determine which capabilities of the
knowledge base of IBM Cognos removes the guess work that often
new version can have the greatest business impact based on your
stands in the way of an efficient and successful upgrade.
unique usage of Cognos, and create a specific plan to help you
leverage them to your advantage.
My Cognos environment is working, so why do I need
to upgrade?
As with most software, the vendor eventually discontinues support
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as more modern releases become available. Many Cognos users are
unaware that IBM no longer supports their dated licensed release.
If you are running Cognos 8.4.1 or earlier, your support has ended.
Although your Cognos environment may be operating like
clockwork now, unforeseen problems such as, gaps in performance
and breakdowns could impede critical business operations. With no
continued support for your licensed release, these problems can
become even bigger issues.
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