IBM Business Analytics and Cloud Computing Best Practices for Deploying Cognos Business Intelligence to the IBM Cloud

Business intelligence and analytics software enable businesses to analyze performance data in order to make better decisions through the use of cloud computing--an Internet-based model for convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. This book is a practitioner's guide for successful evaluation and design for implementation of Cognos Business Intelligence cloud solution, for either Cognos 8 BI or Cognos Business Intelligence Version 10. With pragmatic and practical information about the best practices and guidelines, as well as specific software and configuration steps, this guide for solutions and IT architects includes detailed screen shots, code samples, and input instructions.

Anant Jhingran is an IBM fellow and vice president and chief technical officer for IBM’s Information Management division. He lives in San Francisco. Stephan Jou is a technical architect, research staff member, and senior technical staff member in IBM’s Business Analytics division in the Technology and Innovation group. William Lee is a senior software consulting engineer at IBM through the Cognos acquisition. Thanh Pham is a solution architect in the IBM Information Management Advanced Technology group, focusing on helping customers build applications using the IBM Mashup Center product and IBM cloud computing. Biraj Saha is an advisory software developer at IBM Cognos, specializing in metadata and algorithm design and development for Cognos modeling tools. They all live in Ottawa, Ontario.