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Let us review, analyse and document

the operational and situational and software licensing status of your Cognos environment.

Whether your Performance Management systems have been just implemented or have been operational for some time, there is great value in undertaking an external review of your internal environment. Decision Resources offers a comprehensive review service which includes documentation that can be presented for corporate governance. A full or staged Health Check for your business can include:

•  Review, discuss and document your entire Cognos environment, general deployment directions – proposed new software, upgrades, future deployments

•  Review Systems Administration documentation, auditing and logging procedures, review named users, applications, product revision levels, availability of software revisions on site; review change controls

•  Discuss revision levels and upgrade strategy; known issues, bug reports

•  Analyse Cognos and third-party product revision levels and interdependencies, including web services, databases and operating systems

•  Review and analyse security deployment, use of Access Manager,  ActiveX, LDAP, definition of user classesyou may even be at risk of non-compliance

•  Discuss & review performance issues performance analysis or tuning, review hardware and software infrastructure configurations and dependencies

•  Define remedial actions for immediate attention; document recommendations for subsequent review or on-site action

•  Cube/portal/reports performance & design methodologies

•  Training and user requirements analysis

•  Document and report to contact person or nominated recipient

•  Pre-plan Cognos upgrade or other services as may be required

•  Flexible approach with 2 or 3 days on-site depending on client

Your business may even be at risk from non-compliance with your software licensing obligations - contact us now to address this business critical issue.