Overview
"Are you experiencing these situations and challenges?"*
- My team is new to this product – we need help building our expertise.
- We need day-to-day advice on best practices.
- Our environment has been unstable or has slow performance – we need someone to help us fix it and avoid future problems.
- We are releasing frequent application updates.
- We need help mitigating the risk of these deployments.
- Our application is crucial to the success of our business and need to ensure performance, security and scalability potential.
- I want to do the upgrades with my own people, but we could use an expert to help us avoid pitfalls.
IBM Technology Expert Labs monthly subscription based Expertise Connect, allows for a designated Subject Matter Expert (SME) from IBM or a certified IBM Delivery Partner who will:
(i) Bring you their deep skills in the IBM Technology you are requesting Expertise Connect for (e.g., Cognos Analytics Cartridge non-SaaS)
(ii) Build a long-term relationship with you
(iii) Customize technical advice, guidance and best practices specific to your environment
(iv) Help your team stay proactive through planning, regular health reviews and optimization situations
(v) Mitigate risks and improve performance and stability
(vi) Help you grow proficiency (learning from our best practices) and accelerate business value
Expertise Connect Cognos Analytics Cartridge non-SaaS clients can expect our consultants to:
- Help accelerate your adoption
- Mitigate your risks of costly mistakes
- Assist in best practices for upgrades to the latest release and ensure you are exploiting the new functionality, security updates and defect fixes are available
- How to's on leveraging these cartridge components that extend the capabilities of IBM Cognos Analytics, primarily when deployed within IBM Cloud Pak for Data
- Leveraging cartridges functionalities like reporting, dashboarding, and data exploration, often infused with AI and machine learning
- Review any customized components and advise on any best practices
- Review any dependencies for migration or upgrade
- etc., etc., and much more based on your needs
Our global subject matter experts will assist you on how to optimize your implementation and framework on-premises and AWS for hybrid deployments if required.
Highlights
- Value Proposition: IDC's research highlights the value organizations achieve through IBM Expertise Connect engagements from having dedicated resources with a deep understanding of their IBM and IT environments. Key results reported by IDC: 341% ROI, 61% more time for proactive/strategic activities, and 77% fewer unplanned outages. Please see full IDC report for details.
- This private offer for our remote delivery professional services VIA AWS is ONLY available at this time in: Canada, USA and Brazil.
- Expertise Connect subscription offering is based on the selected and agreed scope of activities defined in the Service Description. Pricing is based on a monthly subscription basis for a minimum of a 6 month or 12 month term. Please see details in the Service Description for options beyond that of the normal 1/4 of a FTE time allocation.
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