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An installation of HCL Unica products is complete when you install, configure, and deploy the HCL Unica products . The Installation Guide provides detailed information about installing, configuring, and deploying the products.
Installing reports
Unica Plan supports integration with both IBM Cognos and Unica Insights.

Installation Guides
- Installation Guide
  An installation of HCL Unica products is complete when you install, configure, and deploy the HCL Unica products . The Installation Guide provides detailed information about installing, configuring, and deploying the products.
  - Installation overview
    An installation of HCL Unica products is complete when you install, configure, and deploy the HCL Unica products . The Installation Guide provides detailed information about installing, configuring, and deploying the products.
  - Planning the Unica Plan installation
    When you plan your Unica Plan installation, ensure that you have set up your system correctly, and that you have configured your environment to deal with any failures.
  - Preparing the data sources for Plan
    You can use the Unica Plan worksheet to enter the information that is required when you install Unica Plan.
  - Installing Unica Plan
    You must run the Unica installer to start the installation of Plan. The Unica installer starts the product installer during the installation process. Make sure that the Unica installer and the product installer are saved at the same location.
  - Configuring Plan before deployment
    Complete the configuration tasks before you deploy the web application.
  - Deploying Plan
    There are general guidelines for deploying Unica Plan on WebSphere® and WebLogic.
  - Configuring Plan after deployment
    After you deploy and start the Unica Plan application, log in and verify the installation. There are some basic configuration steps such as configuring the system user and a test user, setting up email and markup.
  - Installing reports
    Unica Plan supports integration with both IBM Cognos and Unica Insights.
    - Next steps for reporting
      After you successfully install the Report feature, use the following guidelines for working further with reports:
  - Installing Plan in a cluster
    You can install Plan in a cluster by completing additional tasks while installing Plan.
  - Uninstalling Unica Plan
    Run the Unica Plan uninstaller to uninstall Unica Plan. When you run the uninstaller, the files that were created during the installation process are removed. For example, files such as configuration files, installer registry information, and user data are removed from the computer.
  - The configTool utility
    The properties and values on the Configuration page are stored in the Unica Platform system tables. You can use the configTool utility to import and export configuration settings to and from the system tables.
  - Unica Plan configuration properties
    The Unica Plan configuration properties on available on the Settings > Configuration page. For more details on the configuration properties, see the Plan Administrator Guide.

Installing reports

Unica Plan supports integration with both IBM Cognos and Unica Insights.

IBM Cognos reports

Reporting relies on the following components:

An IBM® Cognos® installation that meets the requirements that are specified in Recommended Software Environments and Minimum System Requirements.
A set of Unica components that integrate the system with the IBM® Cognos® installation.
The example reports for the Unica Plan application, which are built with IBM® Cognos® Report Studio.

Unica Platform provides the side of the reporting integration. To finish installing reporting, you run all of the following report package installers on the IBM® Cognos® system:

HCL
Unica Platform
Unica Plan

For information about how to install and set reporting for Unica Plan, and information about the individual components and how they interact with each other, see the IBM Cognos Reports Installation and Configuration Guide.

Unica Insights reports

Unica Plan integrates with Unica Insights, which is shipped with Unica Platform. Reporting relies on the following components:

A set of reports for the Unica Plan application, which are installed with the Unica Plan installer.
The Unica Insights web application which is shipped with Unica Platform.

For more details on how to install and configure Unica Insights reporting for Unica Plan, see the Unica Platform Installation Guide and Unica Insights Installation and Configuration guide.

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