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9781583473634

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9781583473634

  • ISBN10:

    1583473637

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-11-01
  • Publisher: MC Press

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. 1
The Organization of This Bookp. 1
Conventions Used in This Bookp. 2
Corrections and Erratap. 3
Cloud Computing and Analyticsp. 5
On-Demand Infrastructurep. 5
On-Demand Higher Servicesp. 6
Flexible Deployment Modelsp. 8
The Workload Model for Cloudp. 8
Cognos Software and Analytics as a Servicep. 11
Getting Startedp. 13
Data Considerationsp. 13
Security Provider Considerationsp. 16
Designing and Testing Your Topologyp. 17
Embracing Linux“p. 18
Installation and Configurationp. 19
Set Up the Windows Clientp. 19
Set Up and Configure the Cloud Instancep. 20
Configure the Windows Clientp. 25
Assemble Your Softwarep. 28
Set Up the Database and Web Serverp. 33
Set Up Cognos 8 or Cognos 10 BI Serverp. 41
Configure Security and Accessp. 71
Create a Cognos BI Cloud Imagep. 77
Installation Variationsp. 95
Security Best Practicesp. 97
Cloud Security Best Practicesp. 98
Handling Cloud Topologiesp. 101
Using the Hosts File to Manage Multiple Imagesp. 101
Example: An Elastic Cognos Cluster with a Single Imagep. 102
Creating Snapshots Using Private Imagesp. 106
Files in the Cloudp. 107
Performance and Scalability Best Practicesp. 109
User Community and Geographic Distributionp. 110
Application Complexityp. 111
Web-Server-Tier Performance and Scalabilityp. 111
Application-Tier Performance and Scalabilityp. 112
Content Manager Performance and Scalabilityp. 112
Post-Deployment Considerationp. 113
High Availability Best Practicesp. 115
Cognos Gateways and Application Serversp. 11$$$
The Cognos Application Server as a Gatewayp. 11$$$
Active and Standby Cognos Content Managerp. 11$$$
IBM DB2 High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR)p. 11$$$
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