How Often Should I Perform an Analytics Health Check?
Recommended: Once a year.
Minimum: Once every 3 years.
What’s Included in a Health Check?
Comprehensive Version Assessment
Application and Architecture Review
Navigation Design
Ease of Use
Server Architecture Review
Server sizing
Configuration settings
Load balancing / Fault tolerance
Metadata Design
Best practices for multi-tiered model design
Naming standards
Cube design analysis
Package organization and promotion procedures
Performance tuning and optimization
Security Analysis
Security application and design best practices
Automation
Best practices for creating and managing schedules
Performance and error monitoring
Report Assessment
Design standards
Data Visualization optimization
Backup and Recovery
Automating backup procedures
Recovery procedures for single objects or full content store
Report Development & Migration Process
Migrating content store content
Migrating items that are outside of the content store
Defect tracking
Thrive
Check out the Cognos Health Check that is always on! Thrive is a powerful cloud application created to identify and surface critical and hard to diagnose performance, stability, and adoption issues in IBM Cognos Analytics.
PMsquare’s Advanced Methodology
PMsquare health checks are backed by industry-leading proprietary software which performs a complete inspection into the health and performance of your Cognos Analytics system, both technical and non-technical. We provide actionable recommendations to improve upon the current state to ensure you maximize the return on your investment. Walk away with a complete understanding of your environments’ vulnerabilities and improvement opportunities
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