The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) depends upon the capabilities of IBM Cognos extensively integrated with BigFix and multiple sources for enterprise security compliance reporting including key Assessment and Authorization artifacts along with other operational reporting. Cognos is a vital part of our Executive Reporting infrastructure that encompasses many hundreds of human hours of report development and investment of resources. In order to continue to maintain and operate this critical reporting platform the VA requires renewal subscription and support services.
VA requires a Five (5) Year Enterprise Support Agreement (ESA) that acknowledges and addresses the fact that VA:
- VA owns the equivalent of 280 PVU licensing of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence and needs to renew service and support on that licensing;…
