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IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence delivers the complete range of business intelligence capabilities on a single service-oriented architecture (SOA). Use reports, analysis, dashboards and scorecards to monitor business performance, analyze trends and measure results. Cognos BI gives you the information you need to make better decisions.

OEM or Application Specific Licensing (ASL): Increase the value of your solutions by embedding IBM Cognos, which offers self-service reporting, ad-hoc analysis, and customizable reports and dashboards. Integrate it, bundle it, and sell it as part of a single solution to your customer. In the download box below, please choose the OEM/ASL Developer Edition.

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This trial has all features enabled. Note to OEM/ASL partners: Download the OEM/ASL Developer Edition. This edition is available as a trial download only, not as a sandbox or cloud offer.

Edition/Operating systemVersionSizeMethodDownload
Cognos Enterprise Developer Edition
Windows® XP SP3 or higher
V10.1867MBHTTP | Download Director Download now
OEM/ASL Developer Edition
Windows® XP SP3 or higher
V10.1867MBHTTP | Download Director Download now

The estimated download time over a 1.5 Mbps connection is approximately 1 hour and 36 minutes. We recommend that you use Download Director, which requires a Java-enabled browser, provides pause-and-resume capability for large downloads, high-speed transfer, and file access through firewalls.

When you access the online trial, you are entitled to submit technical problems and questions through our Cognos forum, monitored by Cognos Business Intelligence experts.

Browse the how-to resources including tutorials, articles, demos, production documentation, webcasts, forums, a searchable knowledge database, and more.

The Developer Edition trial download includes the following components:

  • IBM Cognos BI V10.1 - Report studio, Event studio, Business Insight, Business Insight Advanced, Cognos Connection
  • IBM Cognos BI Framework Manager
  • Samples - IBM Cognos BI samples in DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server
  • Data Sources - Derby as Content Store, Clients for LUW DB2, DB2 on System z, CS, IDS
  • Application Server - Tomcat

These restrictions apply to the trial download:

  • Not for production use
  • Limited to one administrator and five users
  • Can only be run on a single machine
  • Requires Internet Explorer 7 or higher; or Firefox 3.5 or higher
  • IBM product support is not available for this trial software.You are entitled to submit technical problems and questions through our Cognos forum, monitored by Cognos Business Intelligence experts.
  • The evaluation period for this trial is 30 days.
  • Available for Windows OS only

Languages supported: English only.

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