IBM Cognos Deployment

Asha Shankar Lakshumanan

DWH/Cognos Project Lead at Syntel Inc @ Mercedes Benz USA

Yes, since we were implementing VB Script batch file process on the Transformer server. We had to do some testing to ensure success. Later worked like a charm.

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Pavan Kumar Maddali

Senior Cognos Developer at ADP

deployment and migrations can be easily handled using clipboard or import/export method

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it_user503625

Business Intelligence Manager at Mspark

The only issues we have ever encountered are in small details like making sure IIS is set up exactly as needed and making sure all of the images/files our company has added or customized are in the correct folder location on the server.

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Carlos Mardinotto Junior

BI Expert at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

No, because the Cognos platform has a number of features that are designed to ease administration and deployment, enhance performance, enable scalability and reduce the complexity of your BI environment.

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it_user80244

Head of Data Analytics at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

Yes, there may be compatibility issues but as long as you read the requirements and do not apply the latest Fix Pack blindly as soon as they are released, it's pretty stable. View full review »

Bob Edis

Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I've done three installs to date (two alone and one where I supported):

Stand-alone on a Windows machine - easiest install ever!
Concurrent install with C10.2.2 on a Windows machine - smooth with little confusion except around SSO and WebDAV. Used port 9305 as 9300 is for 10.2.2 install.
Upgrade on a Linux machine - quick and painless.

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it_user98526

Consultant IT at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Well, developing packages makes deployment a bit long in case of emergency.
Also, for performance issues, avoid to connect the package's data on OLTP databases. Always use de-normalised databases, (ODS) or OLAP databases.

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it_user165297

Cognos Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Some users are afraid using adhoc tools. Migration projects which fail to take into account the different strengths of Cognos, demanding 100% pixel perfect migrations, will often fail.

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it_user174690

BI Senior Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Yes, Report Studio's charts are not flexible size so you have to give constant size to chart.

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it_user171960

Assistant Manager - Technology at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

I was unable to use oracle 64 bit client to connect with oracle 64 bit databases. However, because of Linux I had to use 32 bit anyway.

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it_user250983

Bi Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I can't remember any issues I have faced that I have not been able to resolve through their website.

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it_user221220

Analyst in XBRL Projects at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has poor integration with other IBM products. In v7 (not in the IBM family), I overrode their upfront UI to integrate it into a websphere portal. In earlier versions, I still find these kinds of problems.

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it_user174678

Corporate BI Developer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would say IIS configuration is more complex than expected

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Bob Edis

Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user185781

Solution Architect with 51-200 employees

Because the configuration options are wide, there are typically minor issues with an installation.