Install, integrate and manage InfoSphere solution that serves as a high-powered, enterprise-level intermediary that sits between the data and analytics resources to help monitor, cleanse, transform and deliver information for strategic business initiatives
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Watts Water is the premier channel partner in the plumbing industry, providing plumbing, heating, and water quality solutions for residential, industrial, municipal and commercial purposes. Global in scale, with subsidiaries in all major world markets.
BUSINESS NEED
As Watts’ IT team worked with an end-of-life IBM Cognos BI 8.x implementation, they knew they needed a partner to help them install and migrate to a Cognos BI version better suited to a more robust environment. They contacted Ironside, and both companies quickly saw the opportunity to form a larger partnership to streamline the data management systems behind the reporting tools.
SOLUTION
Ironside Managed Services partnered with Watts to help them maximize their data and analytics potential, while minimizing the time spent maintaining and troubleshooting the back-end components required to get there. In addition to the Cognos BI upgrade, the following projects were undertaken:
Install IBM InfoSphere Information Server
Upgrade InfoSphere as Environment Evolves
Enhance New Cognos BI System
Improve Reporting and Dashboards
(per Ironside Solutions Center)
KEYS TO SUCCESS
Among the many benefits of using Ironside Managed Services, Watts is now able to:
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