IBM Cognos cloud migration and managed services

Organizations interested in moving their enterprise Cognos Analytics to the cloud can choose between IBM SaaS and 3rd party cloud options. Many longtime or large-scale Cognos Analytics customers choose 3rd party cloud to take advantage of a variety of benefits including:

• Move to cloud without doing a CQM to DQM conversion
• Use all Cognos legacy features such as Workspace, PowerPlay Studio, Query Studio, etc.
• Integrate with all SSO and other on-prem or 3rd party cloud systems
• Integrate with 3rd party tools such as PMsquare Thrive or Motio CI
• Keep Namespace and authentication in place
• Deploy Cognos in the same data center as data warehouse and other data stores
• Reduce ingress and egress costs of data moving from cloud to cloud
• Retain control of performance tuning and architecture
• Deploy Cognos with approved cloud vendor

PMsquare, the market leader in Cognos cloud architecture and management, understands these challenges and has invested heavily to solve these problems and easily migrate your Cognos Analytics environment to AWS. Your new environment unlocks the benefits of cloud while giving you control and confidence in your Cognos environment. Features include:

• Automated provisioning and configuration of Cognos servers
• Auto-scaling based on load
• Easy upgrades
• Disaster recovery and automatic failover
• Cloud native management of infrastructure

Assessment and Implementation

Our skilled team of Cognos and AWS architects can quickly assess your current environment and provide a roadmap for rapid cloud migration. Your assessment includes:

• Architecture diagrams of new Cognos Analytics on AWS environment
• Modernization and refactoring of Cognos deployment
• Detailed plans for auto-scaling, auto-deployment
• Delivery timeline
• Cost estimate

Following implementation by our world class Cognos and AWS experts you can take over administration of the environment or transition to a managed services contract.

Managed Services

PMsquare managed services turns your AWS Cognos Analytics environment into a touch free SaaS-like experience. Our experts administer, monitor, update and patch the environment to ensure your focus remains on delivering valuable analytics content, not on software upkeep.

Migration Plus with Trifacta and Snowflake

Migration Plus is for customers looking to move data warehousing and data prep to the cloud alongside Cognos Analytics. PMsquare is proud to partner with Trifacta and Snowflake for this offering. Trifacta is the world leader in AI driven self-service data prep to modernize your data pipeline and solve data bottlenecks upstream of your analytics. And Snowflake - well, you know who Snowflake is! Migration Plus includes:

• Assessment of existing data bottlenecks
• Assessment of existing DW structure
• POC of Trifacta, Snowflake or both
• Integration of Trifacta and Snowflake with Cognos Analytics