Better business intelligence on top of your IBM data warehouse investment can deliver better information, faster and more easily. A limited-edition reporting platform based on IBM Cognos 8 BI is included with IBM InfoSphere Warehouse V9.5.1 Base and Enterprise Editions.
The IBM Cognos 8 BI Starter Edition gives you a foundation for business queries and reporting. From this foundation, you can expand to the full platform as enterprise requirements and user demands grow.
IBM Cognos 8 BI Starter Edition includes the following components:
- Query for ad hoc questions.
- Reporting to format and deliver data in reports and dashboards.
- IBM Cognos Connection for business user navigation.
- Framework Manager for data access, modeling and publishing information for users.
- IBM InfoSphere DB2 Express-C V9.5 (to hold the IBM metadata repository).
- IBM WebSphere® Application Server Express Edition V6.1.0.3.
- Integrated installer to install and configure all the above components.
- IBM Cognos 8 BI Starter Edition is supported only through online self-help.
Conditions
As a "try-it-first" offer, the following limitations apply to the IBM Cognos 8 BI Starter Edition:
- Up to five named users.
- Single machine install only, up to two CPUs (for the IBM Cognos server).
- Windows® only (for the IBM Cognos server).
- IBM InfoSphere Warehouse data sources only.
You can build on this initial foundation by upgrading to the full IBM Cognos 8 BI platform, available from IBM and IBM Cognos software representatives.
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