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Implementing Cognos Mobile

Chris Framel

Senior Consultant

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What We’ll Cover

Why Mobile?

IBM Cognos Mobile

Introduction

Installing Cognos Mobile

Questions

Cognos Mobile Demo

Active Report Demo

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Senior Consultant with Infolink

15 Years experience with Cognos

Managed deployment of 200 iPads and iPhones while CIO of ABQ Water

Enjoy fly fishing and holidays

Wife says I dance like Bill Nye the Science Guy (watch his DWTS YouTube performance!)

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Who Am I?

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Why Mobile?

Proliferation of mobile devices

Need to access data anywhere

VPN capability

Online or offline needs

Spread of wireless and #G connections

Management must haves

Ease of Use

Other

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What is IBM Cognos Mobile?

Tool for viewing Cognos content online or offline on mobile device

Apps

Tablet Browser? - maybe

IBM Cognos Mobile Client

IBM Cognos Mobile Native App (iPad)

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Beginning 10.1 - the Big Changes

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Enhancement History

iPad emphasis with iPad native app

Web browsing emphasis on various platforms

Active Reports on iPad native app

Improved prompting Importing from email Improved security

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10.2.x

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Enhancement History

Audit logging Apple push notifications

(Badges and Texts) Pinch and zoom, more “touch

friendly” Improved mobile security and

configuration Bursting reports to mobile

recipients RAVE visualizations Performance, performance,

performance

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Components

IBM Cognos Mobile Service (Application tier)

IBM Cognos Mobile Gateway

IBM Cognos Mobile Client

• Mobile client for Blackberry

• iPad native app (available via iTunes)

• Web version (iPad, Android, iPhone)

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Installing Cognos Mobile

CUG

Remote Configuration

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Single Computer Install

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Installation Tidbits

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Many ways to deploy mobile clients

Apple configurations (a few of them!) Push notifications

Maximum login attempts

Session timeouts and security codes

Lease key

Caching credentials duration

Pass-through authentication

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Installation Tidbits

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Demo

IBM Cognos Mobile – Let’s Take a Look!

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iPad Safari Browser - Tablet

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iPad Mobile Client

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iPad Native App

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iPad Native App

Let’s take a closer look!

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Highly interactive

Exceptional performance

Disconnected!

Sophisticated deployment options

Now with visualizations (RAVE)

Active Reports serve as the foundation

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Understanding Capabilities

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Storyboarding and design

Naming conventions

Active controls

Drill-through capabilities

MHT file (careful of file size!)

RAVE, admin and development

Pixels, pixels, pixels

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What’s an Active Report

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Create a simple Active Report

Log into IBM Cognos Mobile

Download the Report

View the Report

Examples

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From Start to Finish - Demo

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Questions?

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A little pre-lunch trivia for a $10 Starbucks Card!

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Ending on a Good Note

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In 1994, whose last name is the

same as the 41st state, led the

Kansas City Chiefs to a 38-34

victory over John Elway’s Denver

Broncos in what was voted the 5th

most exciting football game in

Monday Night Football history?

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Question

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Screen Examples?

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