IBM Business Intelligence Pattern

Description

IBM Business Intelligence Pattern V1.0 is a virtual application pattern that can reduce the time and effort required to deploy and manage Cognos Business Intelligence environments. Using your existing Cognos Business Intelligence licenses and IBM PureApplication™ System, you can be up and running in minutes in a fault-tolerant environment with elastic scaling so that you are using your resources at optimum levels at all times. 

Cognos Business Intelligence is an agile business intelligence solution designed to help users assess facts, reinvent strategy and adjust plans. It offers a full range of BI capabilities, including reports, analysis, dashboards and more, to help business users, executives and analysts in your organization understand the business and make smarter decisions. 

To help speed up the time it takes to get to valuable insights, this Business Intelligence Pattern provides:
• A tuned, virtualized business intelligence environment that enables increased application and user resource sharing,which can lead to lower IT overhead when managing
multiple single instances and resources
• Elastic scaling that enables you to maintain minimal resource allocation during low utilization times and to increase capacity as usage demands increase
• Automated provisioning and configuration of components to help eliminate the direct and indirect cost of installation, configuration, testing and tuning of hardware and software
components
• A single interface for configuration, software updates, access to logs and monitoring system resources to help management and administration of business intelligence
environments
• Automated recovery of failed environments to provide high availability

The IBM Business Intelligence Pattern is licensed on a per install metric.  Customers need IBM Cognos Business Intelligence licenses to support the deployments done via the pattern and can be purchased as role based PVU or AU.