Development support for Cognos BI 10.2.x will reach End of Support (EOS) in April 2018. IBM will offer Continuing Support for Cognos BI 10.2.x, providing you with continued access to the same knowledgeable global Support team you are working with today. Learn more at Cognos Upgrade Central.

Plan your upgrade to IBM Cognos Analytics 11

The following diagram shows the four stages of the upgrade workflow:




Critical configuration actions to take first!
These configuration actions are critical to the success of your installation. Take these actions after you install the components.

Critical issues for IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.0 and later versions
The following links identify critical issues and important updates for IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.0 and later versions.

YouTube: How to upgrade IBM Cognos Analytics and associated Technote.

YouTube: How to migrate IBM Cognos Analytics content from one environment to another and associated Technote.

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Making the Move to IBM Cognos Dynamic Query
Dynamic Query adoption or migration can provide query performance improvements, meet your users growing needs, help to balance the scales

IBM Cognos Lifecycle Manager frequently asked questions (PDF) and YouTube: What’s new in Lifecycle Manager for IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.4?.
Lifecycle Manager is an application that validates Cognos BI report content during an upgrade by comparing reports that run in different versions of Cognos BI.

YouTube: IBM Cognos BI 10 Upgrade Series
This series of 8 videos shows users the strategies, workflow, best practices and tools needed to move to IBM Cognos BI 10. The process itself is applicable to IBM Cognos Analytics 11.

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Related posts:

• End of Service (EOS) for Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.X
• Library of How-To Videos for IBM Cognos Analytics

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Please visit our IBM Business Analytics Support channel on YouTube.

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