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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.
Cognos® BI installation options
You can install Cognos® BI applications either in a distributed environment or on one computer.

Reports
- Unica Insights Reports Installation and Configuration Guide
- Cognos Reports Installation and Configuration Guide
  - Installation overview
    An installation of the Unica reports is complete when you install IBM Cognos® BI or Unica Insights reports and configure it for Unica applications. This guide provides detailed information about configuring IBM Cognos BI, and integrating IBM Cognos BI with Unica.
  - Plan the Unica reports installation
    When you plan your Unica reports installation, you must ensure that you correctly set up your system and configure your environment.
  - Install reporting components
    To install Unica reporting for your products, you must install the reporting components.
  - 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.
    - Cognos® BI installation options
      You can install Cognos® BI applications either in a distributed environment or on one computer.
    - Cognos® BI web applications and the web server
      You can host the Cognos® Connection and the Cognos BI web applications by using either Microsoft™ Internet Information Services (IIS) or Apache HTTP web server.
    - Cognos® BI and locale
      You can install a localized version of the Unica application report package (other than English) by setting the product language to match the language of the application report package.
  - Integration roadmap for Unica and IBM Cognos®
    After you install IBM Cognos®, you must integrate the Unica suite with IBM Cognos.
  - How to configure reporting
    After you install or upgrade your reporting packages, you must configure your reporting installation.
  - User authorization for Cognos folders and reports
    A Custom Java Authentication Provider (CJAP) provides authorization for users who access Cognos report folders and reports. You can implement this feature after you implement the Unica Authentication Provider, which provides single sign-on authentication between Unica applications and Cognos.
  - How to configure the Cognos® Reports for multiple partitions
    If you use Unica Campaign, Unica Deliver, or Unica Interact with more than one partition, you must configure the Cognos® reports packages for each partition. You can set up reporting on multiple partitions after you configure the partitions in Unica Campaign and Unica Deliver.
  - How to upgrade reports
    You can upgrade your current version of Unica reports to bring it up-to-date with the latest features.
  - Upgrading the 8.x or 9.x model and installing new reports
    Upgrading the 8.x or 9.x model and installing the new reports are the first steps that you must complete to upgrade your reports.
  - Report configuration properties
    The report configuration properties for Unica are available at Settings > Configuration > Reports.
  - Formats for the Cognos® reports
    The Cognos® reporting integration components include a global report style sheet, GlobalReportStyles.css.
  - Formats for the Unica Campaign, Unica Deliver, and Unica Interact Cognos reports
    Additional styling is required for Unica Campaign, Unica Deliver, and Unica Interact Cognos reports. The global report styles are modified to add classes to override the styling of existing classes to improve the look and feel of Unica Campaign, Unica Deliver, and Unica Interact reports.
  - Unica Campaign reports and reporting schemas
    You can customize the reporting schemas in the Unica Campaign Report Package by adding contact or response metrics, attributes, or response types.
  - Unica Deliver Reports and Reporting Schemas
    Several reports, such as Message Overview report, Detailed Link report, Deliver Reports Processing Overview, and SMS Message Summary Report are available in the Unica Deliver Reports Package.
  - Unica Interact Reports and Reporting Schemas
    The Unica Interact Report Package reports are supported by reporting schemas. You can customize the schemas to specify time periods, configure audience levels, and create extra performance reporting schemas.

Cognos® BI installation options

You can install Cognos® BI applications either in a distributed environment or on one computer.

Before you install Cognos® BI, use the IBM® Cognos® BI Architecture and Deployment Guide to learn about recommended components, installation options, and configuration approaches.

The Cognos® documentation uses two categories to describe installations: distributed environment or single computer. For best results, do not install all components on one computer unless for a proof of concept or demonstration environment.

Installing the subset of Cognos® BI applications that reporting uses requires that you use two Cognos® installers. One installer provides the Cognos® BI server, Content Manager, Cognos® Configuration, and web-based user interfaces. You use a separate installer to install Framework Manager, the metadata modeling tool, because it must be installed on a Windows™ computer.

See the Cognos® documentation for complete installation details.

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