Ibm cognos business intelligence enhanced consumer authorized user license

In this review we will help you understand what the heck you own. Contact Lodestar for more details. Good News! Contact us for more details Services lodestarsolutions. How do we find the users count from Cognos Servers, which all parameters need to be considered during that process? Do you have the audit db set up and auditing turned on in CA?

This is the best and really the only way to determine who has been in the system. If you do not have audit turned on, you should do so and wait a bit and run some of the audit reports that come with the samples. Blog can be found here on the audit set up in CA. Blog on audit in CA. We are updating our mailing lists! Our goal is to provide amazing content to help you and your business succeed.

If you want to receive relevant content to topics that you choose please click this button. Subscribe to our newsletter and get your copy of our free book! By subscribing you agree to our terms. What type of Licensing Do You have? Authorized User Licensing. Watch out for server upgrades if you have PVU licensing. There are a couple of points you must note. More on this later You need to know what servers to count to calculate the PVU.

I have a mixed environment consisting of authorized users and PVU. Another common issue is not having licensing for non-production environments:. What if I suspect I have a licensing issue? If you have already received the notice , my advice is to clean up end former employees in your system and keep open lines of communication with the auditors. Visit us at cognossource. The steps below indicate a possible plan to identify what you need: First, and this is the hardest part, identify how many users are going to do what.

If you are not familiar with the capabilities of the different tools in the IBM Cognos platform, this is almost impossible. I give some pointers underneath, but if you need to be sure, contact us for assistance. Translate these requirements into the most optimal set of user licenses. This should already be more straightforward. The last step is to define the most optimal mix, as you will read below, different options exist to end up with the same configuration.

Oh and just so you know, this is how I understand the licensing, nothing more. This is roughly what you have: Licenses that allow you to use one or more parts of the platform. This sounds worse than it is. As this is actually part of the Lotus platform and not of the Cognos platform, make your inquiries before deciding to use this. This can be useful to bridge gaps between standard user licenses. They also come in a standard and limited use version.

Still following? If you are current on support in Passport Advantage, the support renewal team will be magically morphing your existing licenses into the new structure. So, when you open your support renewal and are completely confused because the licensing names changed, you will know why. This is awesome for our clients.

Yes, you heard me correctly, your end users now have tons of functionality. I realize that you may not want them to have all that functionality, so you can restrict it. Click HERE to view. If you are a current IBM Cognos client and would like Lodestar to provide you with a free review of your licenses and functionality, email sales LodestarSolutions. We are updating our mailing lists!