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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.

Reports
- 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 Marketing Software 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.
    - IBM Cognos BI installation options
      You can install Cognos® BI applications either in a distributed environment or on one computer.
    - IBM 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.
    - IBM 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 Marketing Software 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.
  - 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.
- Unica Insights Reports Installation and Configuration Guide

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.
IBM 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,

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