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Helping Companies Learn From the Past, Manage the Present and Shape the Future
IBM Cognos Mobile Reporting on iPad
www.senturus.com
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Agenda
• Welcome and Introduction
• Active Reports on the iPad
– Overview
– Controls on the iPad
– iPad design considerations
– Limitations
– Recommendations
• Demo
• Additional Resources
• Q & A
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Presenters Today
Greg Herrera
CEO and Founder
Senturus, Inc
Jugal Shah
Consultant
Senturus, Inc
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Who is Senturus ?
• Consulting firm specializing in Corporate Performance Management
– Business Intelligence
– Tools of the Office of Finance
• Enterprise planning & budgeting
• Consolidate, close, report and file (CCRF)
– San Francisco Business Times Hall of Fame -- Four consecutive years in Fast 100 list of fastest-growing private companies in the Bay Area
• Experience
– 12-year focus on performance management
– More than 1,000 projects for 500+ clients
• People
– Business depth combined with technical expertise. Former CFOs, CIOs, Controllers, Directors...
– DBAs with MBAs
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A few of our 500+ Clients
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Active Reports on the iPad
• Download the IBM Cognos Mobile app available in the App
Store for free
• Seamlessly integrated with Active Reports
• Consume indirectly from an email or directly in the app.
• Developed using the Report Studio environment.
• Output in the form of an .mht file
• Active Reports can be consumed on the desktop and the iPad and
in Business Insight with the company’s other analytic content.
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Active Reports on the iPad (Continued) • Reports can be scheduled or burst to a broad user base.
• Server Installation : IBM Cognos Mobile is installed separately
into IBM Cognos BI.
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Offline Security
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Controls on the iPad
Controls will automatically be replaced with equivalents optimized
for touch and styled to fit in the iPad environment
Swipe gesture can be enabled on deck controls
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iPad Design Considerations
Design reports for iPad resolution 1024 x 704
2 fingers required to scroll.
List box is replaced with drop-down list on the iPad
Consider size of touch regions
• Clickable lists and objects should have a minimum
comfortable height to press (Apple recommends 44 px)
• Chart areas may be too small to touch
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Active Report Limitations
Object property limitations – Button height, pie chart angle etc.
Graphs
• No built in graphing engine
• Each graph needs to be rendered / stored in the MHTML file.
Drill Down
• Not truly supported
No ability to print Active reports from the iPad or the Laptop.
Intended to be consumed as individual files. No data driven
security
Cannot be consumed on iPhones, Android or other mobile devices
as of now.
Size
• Not meant as a distribution channel for detailed reports
• Designed for high level data views
• Ideally 5 to 10 MB maximum file size
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Recommendations:
• Use the Native IBM Cognos Mobile iPad for consumption.
• Plan adequate development time due to cycling between the laptop
and iPad (can be time consuming)
• Evaluate your mobile email tool’s compatibility with .mht files.
• Leverage scheduling and bursting of content.
• Keep file sizes manageable at 5 to 10 MB. Ways to contain file
size:
Break down report into multiple reports.
Minimize number of charts.
Reuse the Active Report Variables
Push calculations and data consolidations in the
model/package where possible.
Use Layout Component References where possible.
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Security Considerations / Recommendations
• Consider enforcing security policy on mobile devices (PIN).
• Set up an Access code for .mht files during development.
• How will the mobile devices get access to the BI server? (Intranet
Wi-Fi only, VPN over 3G etc.)
• Determine additional device management needs e.g. remote wipe.
• Tune parameters on the server: local storage encryption; length of
time to allow offline access.
• IBM Cognos Mobile ‘lease key’ mechanism.
• Store Active Report content in secured folders.
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Helping Companies Learn From the Past, Manage the Present and Shape the Future
www.senturus.com
Demo
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Helping Companies Learn From the Past, Manage the Present and Shape the Future
www.senturus.com
Additional Resources
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Upcoming Webinars
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Recorded Resources and Webinars http://www.senturus.com/recorded-webinars.php
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Training Opportunities www.senturus.com/training_course_schedule.php
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Q & A
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