Install and test IBM® Cognos® BI
Your license agreement with must grant you an Cognos® BI license so you can download the Cognos BI installation files. IBM Cognos BI is a collection of applications, servers, and services that is organized in a multi-tiered architecture.
IBM Cognos BI applications
When you use IBM Cognos BI with the Unica suite, you use the following subset of Cognos BI applications:
- IBM Cognos BI Server provides storage for reports, folders, queries, metadata models, and the Content Manager.
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Cognos Connection is a web application that you use to
import, configure, and schedule reports. The application also provides access to the following components:
- Cognos Viewer displays the reports in your Unica applications.
- Report Studio allows you to customize and create reports.
- Cognos Administration allows you to configure data sources.
- IBM Cognos Framework Manager is the metadata modeling tool that you use to configure and customize the Cognos data model that supports the IBM Cognos BI reports for your Unica application.
- IBM Cognos Configuration is the configuration tool that you use to configure individual Cognos BI components.
Supported databases
This table includes the supported databases for Cognos reports for the products.
| Products | Databases |
|---|---|
| Unica Campaign | Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, |
| Unica Deliver | Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, |
| Unica Interact | Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, |
| Unica Plan | Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, |
| Unica Collaborate | Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, |