[MUSIC] Welcome to Cognos Analytics
introduction and how to sign up. After watching this video, you'll be able to describe what
IBM Cognos Analytics is and explain the signup process for
a trial version of IBM Cognos Analytics. Let's have a quick overview
of Cognos Analytics. Cognos Analytics is a multifaceted
business intelligence and analytics platform developed by IBM. It offers a wide range of tools and
features, such as data modeling capabilities, data exploration, advanced
analytics features, such as filters. And excludes the use of natural language
generated from your data with the help of an artificial
intelligence-based assistant, the ability to create
interactive dashboards and custom reports that are specific and
tailored to your individual users. The main focus of this course
will be to use these tools and features to create fantastic dashboards. Now to sign up for the trial, we're going to go to
the Cognos Analytics trial page. In a web browser, we'll navigate to
ibm.com/products/cognos-analytics, then we click Start free for 30 days. If we already had an account,
we could use this link to log in here and provide our existing credentials. As we don't already have an account,
we'll go ahead and fill out this form with the required
information, including our email address, which will become our IBM ID,
first name, last name and a password. Then we enter other information such
as our country and state or province. Then we enter a phone number, specify
whether we are a student or not, choose an industry sector, and then select a data
center that is close to us geographically. Finally, we click Next, which will initiate the sending
of a verification email. So, we now need to go to our email app and find the email message from IBM with
the seven digit verification code. We enter the seven digit code here and
then click Start today. We are then redirected to
the Products dashboard. And in the Products list
we will see a panel for the IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud Trial. This is where we can launch our trial
version of the IBM Cognos Analytics product. Now we are all set to use
IBM Cognos Analytics for data visualization and
to create impressive dashboards. In this video, you learned that
Cognos Analytics is a data visualization platform
with a range of tools and features to create visuals,
dashboards and reports on your data. And you can get a 30-day
free trial version of IBM Cognos Analytics on the Cloud. [MUSIC]