COGNOS Beginner user - Help me, Please!!!

[WBG]

Hi my friends,
Good evening,
sorry about my poor English.
I need some help, please!!!
Actually I'm a TM1 developer, but now I'm starting with cognos.
I bought a book called "IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10 - The Official Guide".
I did download of Cognos 10.2.1 trial version in the IBM Website, actually I was looking for version 10 but it is not available. 
* I'm following the book and the book did not help with any installation or setup, anyway I installed the last trial version of Cognos (10.2.1) available in the IBM Website but I'm realizing that some modules I can't find in this trial version, I'm thinking that  this trial version doesn't include some modules. For example "Cognos Insight" is a topic of my book but I couldn't find it in the application.
Also I couldn't find information about how to connect cognos to the excel, I don't know if it is possible in this cognos package that I Installed.
Please, Can someone give me some direction and Information?
Thank you so much.

[MFGF]

Hi my friends,
Good evening,
sorry about my poor English.
I need some help, please!!!
Actually I'm a TM1 developer, but now I'm starting with cognos.
I bought a book called "IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10 - The Official Guide".
I did download of Cognos 10.2.1 trial version in the IBM Website, actually I was looking for version 10 but it is not available. 
* I'm following the book and the book did not help with any installation or setup, anyway I installed the last trial version of Cognos (10.2.1) available in the IBM Website but I'm realizing that some modules I can't find in this trial version, I'm thinking that  this trial version doesn't include some modules. For example "Cognos Insight" is a topic of my book but I couldn't find it in the application.
Also I couldn't find information about how to connect cognos to the excel, I don't know if it is possible in this cognos package that I Installed.
Please, Can someone give me some direction and Information?
Thank you so much.

The trial version you can download is a cut-down version of the full BI install and it expires after 30 days. It doesn't include Cognos Insight and it doesn't include Cognos for MS Office.

When you refer to connecting Cognos to Excel can you clarify what you mean? Are you referring to using Excel spreadsheets as data sources or to using Excel as a rendering type or report consumption environment?

Cheers!

MF.


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