MetaManager As We Use It. Who is Crop Production Services? Global Agricultural company focused on retail sales of Fertilizer, Chemicals and Seed Child.

MetaManager As We Use It

Who is Crop Production Services?

• Global Agricultural company focused on retail sales of Fertilizer, Chemicals and Seed

• Child Company to Agrium based in Calgary Canada.

Map….

We Are Here

About Our Users?

• Approximately 1000 cognos report users• 800 reports• 1000 requests daily

About Our Environment?

• Oracle and Netezza DW• Converting 800 reports from Oracle to Netezza• Why in the world would you do that?!?!

• Netezza is a much faster• Some of the data structure changed

• Development environment• Production environment• Series 7’s Access Manager for authentication• Oh and we are running IBM Cognos 10.1

• Cognos Administration• Framework Manager• Transformer• Report Studio• Analysis Studio• Business Insight Advanced

Enough About Us…. What the heck is Metamanager?

• BSP Software’s tool - http://www.bspsoftware.com/• MetaManager offers administrators and developers the ability to gain full control

over all aspects of their deployment through one intuitive, powerful user interface.  Through the various product modules, users are able to save tremendous time automating manual processes while adding a wealth of capabilities to extend the value of the out-of-the-box IBM Cognos software.

• What it is to us• Deployment between Development and Production• Report Conversions from Oracle to Netezza• User Auditing tool for defining ….. Anything

Module Demos

• Find and Replace

• Backup/Restore/Deploy

• Security Auditor

• Content Store Documenter

But First…a few thingsModules

Authentication

Find / Replace

Backup/Restore/Deploy

We restore from Prod to Dev and visa versa

Content Store Documenter

Security Auditor

• Example of CAMID’s for burst queries.

Bonus Material

• Modules are Well Documented on You tube

• BrightStar Partners , Inc product

• Questions?