help me in Cognos tools

[ingcariere]

HI
I'm using IBM datastage in my BI project, and now I want use Cognos to create my datamart and generate reports and dashboards,
the entreprise gives me a folder that contain the following :

Cognos 8 BI Metric Modeling 8.3
Cognos 8 BI Metric Server 8.3
Cognos 8 BI Mobile Analysis 8.3 Windows
Cognos 8 BI Modeling 8.3
Cognos 8 BI Server 8.3 SP2 Windows
Cognos 8 BI Server 8.3
Cognos 8 BI Transformer 8.3 Windows
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Quick Tours
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Samples 8.3
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Upgrade Manager 8.3
Cognos 8 Software Development Kit 8.3
Cognos 8 Supplementary Languages 8.3
Composite Information Server 4.5 Windows

I don't know what exactly tools I need to install and use ??

[Ganesh Kedari]

Hi ingcariere ,
We need to choose as per our requirments . At Minimal you will need to install Cognos 8 BI Server 8.3 , Cognos 8 BI Modeling 8.3 ,Cognos 8 BI Server 8.3 SP2 Windows , ot get started with creating basic Reports and Dashbaords. If you want to explore and learn more about the product you can install Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Quick Tours and Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Samples 8.3.

[blom0344]

Any reason why you use version 8.3? Support for version 8.4.1 is currently being dropped, so 8.3 is quite obsolete and even less supported anymore..