IBM Cognos Cloud

Cognos Software and Analytics is now available as a service over the Cloud. IBM Cloud and Amazon Cloud are becoming very popular, as companies like the flexibility of borrowing resources as required rather than investing in processors, memory, storage, and software beforehand only to realize that they are either too less or too much for the requirement.

With Cloud-based BI, companies can now get access to Cognos BI software easily, quickly, and at lower entry costs. This comes with an option of scaling up as and when required. While Cognos software and services will be on the Cloud and you can bring down when required, the data sources and database will typically sit within your organization with a secured connection for the Cloud. You might choose the host content store on the Cloud and keep the actual query databases within your company behind the firewall.

More information about these can found on the IBM website if you intend to go Cloud!