Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Install and Configure Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - Part 1

This post shows the step-by-step from installation and configuration of Cognos 8.

Assumption : MS SQL Server 2005 and IIS already installed in your machine.

Install Cognos 8 BI on Windows 2000

Run the issetup.exe in the win32 folder from your download directory. The following screen will be shown.


Ensure that English is selected as the language and click Next.


Accept the license agreement by choosing the I accept radio button. Click Next.


Accept the default as the installation location. Click Next.


A dialog box will be pop-up to ask for confirmation whether you want to create the directory. Click Yes and next screen will be shown.


Ensure that all the components are selected as depicted in above screen and click Next.


Click Next again at this step.


You are now at Installation Summary screen which summarize list of components to be installed in your machine and in the particular drive. Click Next.


The installation process is now starting. Once completed, click Next and you can see the following screen.


Click on finish to close the screen. You just finish with the installation process of Cognos 8 BI.

You shouldn't have any problem with all the steps indicated here as the entire installation process is pretty straight forward. I will be posted the Part 2 end of this week. :)

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