DESCRIPTION
IBM Cognos 8 BI is a robust technology that has many corporations excited. Following its initial release, it is expected that the vast majority of Cognos ReportNet, Impromptu, Impromptu Web Reports, and Cognos Query customers will migrate their reporting application to this new foundation. BrightStar Partners has created a repeatable process for the migration of existing reporting solutions to IBM Cognos 8 BI. At the heart of this migration is the holistic belief that any development effort should take full advantage of the technology's feature-rich environment and not simply perform a one-for-one report migration.

DURATION
Duration will vary based on the size of your current reporting solution.

DELIVERABLES
The IBM Cognos 8 BI Migration program takes a holistic approach to the migration of your current reporting solution. Rather than taking a one-for-one migration approach, BrightStar Partners will thoroughly assess your current solution, create your new IBM Cognos 8 BI environment, and migrate only those reports that are active. The result is an exciting new reporting solution that is closely aligned with the users' needs.

Specific Deliverables include:

• Ongoing knowledge transfer from our staff to your staff throughout the program
• A clear roles and responsibilities document mapping out IT staff, Business Liaison, Power Users, and Stakeholders
• A project charter
• A robust client training plan
• An internal marketing message to “sell” the application to users
• An Architecture and Installation plan
• Product installation and configuration
• Development best-practice guidelines
• Catalog to model migration
• Report usage assessment and recommendations document
• Report migration
• Schedule migration
• Report deployment to Cognos Connection