1) The document discusses IBM Cognos Mobile Reporting on the iPad. It provides an overview of using Active Reports on the iPad, including the available controls, design considerations, and limitations. 2) Recommendations are given for developing reports for the iPad, such as designing for iPad resolution and ensuring touch regions are large enough. File size should be managed to optimize the user experience. 3) Security considerations for mobile reporting are also covered, such as enforcing device security policies and managing access to the BI server.

1. IBM Cognos Mobile Reporting on iPad
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3. Agenda
• Welcome and Introduction
• Active Reports on the iPad
– Overview
– Controls on the iPad
– iPad design considerations
– Limitations
– Recommendations
• Demo
• Additional Resources
• Q&A
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4. Presenters Today
Greg Herrera Jugal Shah
CEO and Founder Consultant
Senturus, Inc Senturus, Inc
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5. Who is Senturus ?
• Consulting firm specializing in Corporate Performance
Management
– Business Intelligence
– Tools of the Office of Finance
• Enterprise planning & budgeting
• Consolidate, close, report and file (CCRF)
– San Francisco Business Times Hall of Fame -- Four
consecutive years in Fast 100 list of fastest-growing
private companies in the Bay Area
• Experience
– 12-year focus on performance management
– More than 1,000 projects for 500+ clients
• People
– Business depth combined with technical expertise.
Former CFOs, CIOs, Controllers, Directors...
– DBAs with MBAs
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6. A few of our 500+ Clients
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7. This slide deck is part of a recorded webinar.
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presentation and download the slide deck, go to
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8. Active Reports on the iPad
• Download the IBM Cognos Mobile app available in the App
Store for free
• Seamlessly integrated with Active Reports
• Consume indirectly from an email or directly in the app.
• Developed using the Report Studio environment.
• Output in the form of an .mht file
• Active Reports can be consumed on the desktop and the
iPad and in Business Insight with the company’s other
analytic content.
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9. Active Reports on the iPad (Continued)
• Reports can be scheduled or burst to a broad user base.
• Server Installation : IBM Cognos Mobile is installed
separately into IBM Cognos BI.
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10. Offline Security
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11. Controls on the iPad
Controls will automatically be replaced with equivalents
optimized for touch and styled to fit in the iPad environment
Swipe gesture can be enabled on deck controls
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12. iPad Design Considerations
 Design reports for iPad resolution 1024 x 704
 2 fingers required to scroll.
 List box is replaced with drop-down list on the iPad
 Consider size of touch regions
• Clickable lists and objects should have a minimum
comfortable height to press (Apple recommends 44 px)
• Chart areas may be too small to touch
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13. Active Report Limitations
 Object property limitations – Button height, pie chart angle etc.
 Graphs
• No built in graphing engine
• Each graph needs to be rendered / stored in the MHTML file.
 Drill Down
• Not truly supported
 No ability to print Active reports from the iPad or the Laptop.
 Intended to be consumed as individual files. No data driven
security
 Cannot be consumed on iPhones, Android or other mobile
devices as of now.
 Size
• Not meant as a distribution channel for detailed reports
• Designed for high level data views
• Ideally 5 to 10 MB maximum file size
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14. Recommendations:
• Use the Native IBM Cognos Mobile iPad for consumption.
• Plan adequate development time due to cycling between the
laptop and iPad (can be time consuming)
• Evaluate your mobile email tool’s compatibility with .mht files.
• Leverage scheduling and bursting of content.
• Keep file sizes manageable at 5 to 10 MB. Ways to contain
file size:
 Break down report into multiple reports.
 Minimize number of charts.
 Reuse the Active Report Variables
 Push calculations and data consolidations in the
model/package where possible.
 Use Layout Component References where possible.
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15. Security Considerations / Recommendations
• Consider enforcing security policy on mobile devices (PIN).
• Set up an Access code for .mht files during development.
• How will the mobile devices get access to the BI server?
(Intranet Wi-Fi only, VPN over 3G etc.)
• Determine additional device management needs e.g. remote
wipe.
• Tune parameters on the server: local storage encryption; length
of time to allow offline access.
• IBM Cognos Mobile ‘lease key’ mechanism.
• Store Active Report content in secured folders.
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16. This slide deck is part of a recorded webinar.
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presentation and download the slide deck, go to
www.senturus.com/recorded-webinars.php
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Business Intelligence‖
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17. Contact Senturus
www.senturus.com
info@senturus.com
888-601-6010
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