1. Implementing Cognos Mobile
Chris Framel
Senior Consultant

2. What We’ll Cover Introduction Why Mobile? IBM Cognos Mobile
CUG
Why Mobile?
IBM Cognos Mobile
Installing Cognos Mobile
Cognos Mobile Demo
Active Report Demo
Questions

3. Who Am I? 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!)

4. 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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5. 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)

6. Enhancement History Beginning 10.1 - the Big Changes
iPad emphasis with iPad native app
Web browsing emphasis on various platforms
Active Reports on iPad native app
Improved prompting
Importing from
Improved security

7. Enhancement History 10.2.x 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

8. Installing Cognos Mobile
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)
Transforms Cognos Business Intelligence reports and analyses for mobile consumption.
Compresses Cognos BI report and analysis content for fast distribution over-the-air to the mobile devices and access from those devices.
Pushes report and analysis content to the mobile devices.
Facilitates incoming and outgoing report-related and analysis-related requests between the mobile device and the environment to search, browse, or run reports.
Synchronizes the mobile content store on the server with the mobile database on the mobile device Translates Cognos BI Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) messages into wireless-friendly messages.
Communicates with the mobile
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Remote Configuration

9. Single Computer Install

10. Installation Tidbits

11. Installation Tidbits 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
Page 24 Guide
Page 41
Lots of Apple stuff
Configuration settings – Dispatcher and Services, MobileService, Properties, Settings, Advanced Settings

12. IBM Cognos Mobile – Let’s Take a Look!
Demo
IBM Cognos Mobile – Let’s Take a Look!

13. iPad Safari Browser - Tablet
VPN access

14. iPad Mobile Client
VPN access

15. iPad Native App
VPN access but also offline

16. Let’s take a closer look!
iPad Native App
Let’s take a closer look!
VPN access but also offline

17. Understanding Capabilities
Highly interactive
Exceptional performance
Disconnected!
Sophisticated deployment options
Now with visualizations (RAVE)
Active Reports serve as the foundation
.MHT is a MS technology
No pressure on Application Server
Lots of information in a single report, executives appreciate them.
Interaction – appealing and asthetic user interface, filtering and prompting
Performance – data is not reliant on data source(s)
Disconnected

18. What’s an Active Report
Storyboarding and design
Naming conventions
Active controls
Drill-through capabilities
MHT file (careful of file size!)
RAVE, admin and development
Pixels, pixels, pixels
Although drill behavior is not supported, it can be emulated.
Prints like HTML
Bursting is an option to handle security, but remember, it’s a static output
Active reports are great for individuals who do not want to learn “Cognos” (logging in, navigating, etc.)
Report Studio reports can be converted to an Active Report, but you cannot go from Active Report to RS report

19. From Start to Finish - Demo
Create a simple Active Report
Log into IBM Cognos Mobile
Download the Report
View the Report
Examples

20. Questions?
Final slide

21. A little pre-lunch trivia for a $10 Starbucks Card!
Ending on a Good Note
A little pre-lunch trivia for a $10 Starbucks Card!

22. Question
In 1994, whose last name is the same as the 41st state, led the Kansas City Chiefs to a victory over John Elway’s Denver Broncos in what was voted the 5th most exciting football game in Monday Night Football history?

24. Screen Examples?
Final slide