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  • 1.  MAS8 and Cognos

    Posted 10/10/23 09:48 AM

    Hello Everyone,

    We are planning to upgrade from Maximo 7.6 to MAS8 and also are in discussion on what BI Tools we should be using in our organization.

    For this, I read that MAS8 now comes with Cognos and is no longer upgrading BIRT.

    Can someone confirm this and give some details on roadmap as to when BIRT will be removed from Maximo....

    Also... for Cognos, does Cognos now gets install automatically when Maximo is installed... or there needs to be a separate installation and setup for Cognos... as, if I correctly remember, was required for Actuate... whereas BIRT gets auto installed with Maximo installation

    Please give some details

    Thanks in Advance



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  • 2.  RE: MAS8 and Cognos

    Posted 10/11/23 02:19 AM

    BIRT is not being removed from MAS (at least to my knowledge). Cognos is added to MAS, but does not replace BIRT.

    As for installation: when deploying Manage using MAS DevOps Ansible Collection You can set the following vars to get CP4D (and Cognos afterwards) installed:

    export CPD_INSTALL_PLATFORM="true" 
    export CPD_INSTALL_COGNOS="true"
    export CPD_PRODUCT_VERSION="4.6.3"

    next, follow this instructions to get Cognos running within CP4D: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/masv-and-l/maximo-manage/continuous-delivery?topic=server-creating-cognos-analytics-instances 

    Be aware that there are licensing limitations - as listed here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/masv-and-l/maximo-manage/continuous-delivery?topic=analytics-cognos-entitlement-maximo-application-suite

    Lastly, CP4D with Cognos Analytics is quite resource hungry setup. 10vCPU and 64GB RAM is the minimum from my experience (sizing calculator show a bit less, but it is a bit too optimistic).



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  • 3.  RE: MAS8 and Cognos

    Posted 10/11/23 02:44 AM

    Hi.

    BIRT is still there and IBM have not stated a plan to remove it.

    Cognos is great for the big analysis work but it isn't as good as birt for the operational reports eg workorder print. 

    I think that there is an aspiration to remove it in the longer term. I talk to dev regularly and check on this. 

    Any plan to move away from birt would need to address client's existing investment in birt reports and how to migrate those to an alternative or risk a lot of complaints. 



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    Vetasi Limited
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  • 4.  RE: MAS8 and Cognos

    Posted 10/12/23 11:53 AM

    Hello,   actually we deploy Cognos on side of Maximo but closely linked with a single authentication.

    Cognos is a very powerful BI platform and it's quite easy to generate operational reporting  from a Data Model  exposing Maximo Data.  Each report can be generated on demand or automatically from the portal.

    Nicolas



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    Nicolas DESCAMPS
    Data Accelerator Founder & CEO
    Cognos & Data modelisation expert
    Paris - France
    ndescamps@data-accelerator.com
    www.data-accelerator.com
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