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Systems Requirements

Quadstone System analysis servers

The Quadstone System is a client-server application, with the following platforms supported as the analysis server compute engine:

The Quadstone System runs as a multi-threaded, 64-bit application on 64-bit operating systems on the above platforms.

Server memory and disk space use depends on the number of users and the size of datasets being analyzed. Disk space use will also depend on the number of concurrent projects being run. The Quadstone System is designed to make best use of the computing resources provided: increased performance will be noticed with more powerful system configurations. Detailed sizing can be obtained from Quadstone System Support.

Quadstone System clients

The client end of the Quadstone System supports user interaction with the application from the users desktop. The following are the client machine requirements:

Quadstone System desktop version

This is a standalone version of the the Quadstone System which supports user interaction and all analytical processing from the users desktop. The following are the desktop machine requirements:

Quadstone System database interfaces

For data extract and write-back, the Quadstone System supports efficient ODBC interfaces between the analysis server and an 's RDBMS, data mart or data warehouse. The following databases are supported, typically hosted on a separate database server machine:

Quadstone System client-server network

The client/server communication requires a standard TCP/IP network connection. The Quadstone System client/server communication is not currently supported through a firewall or a network address translation device.

The analysis server/database connection is required to support a batch refresh of data from the database server to the analysis server. For significant dataset sizes (~10s Gbytes), high-bandwidth networks are recommended (100 Mbits/s and above).

Self-Service Analytics web browser clients

The client end of Self-Service Analytics supports user interaction with the application from the users desktop through a standard web browser. The following browser is supported:

All base level Self-Service Analytics functionality is available with no further installation.

Viewing interactive 3D Quadstone Result Viewer Plugins requires Sun's Java Runtime Environment 1.4.2 and Java 3D 1.3 (OpenGL Version) for Windows (auto-install available).

Publishing directly to Self-Service Analytics from Windows or from the Quadstone System Explorer requires Self-Service Analytics publishing client add-ons.

Self-Service Analytics web server application servers

The Web Server Application server supports all the management of Self-Service Analytics and is supported on the following platforms:

A private copy of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL Database server and PHP will be installed on the server as part of the Self-Service Analytics installation.

Self-Service Analytics makes use of web services connections to a Quadstone System analysis server to provide analytical results. These analysis services are supported from the standard set of Quadstone System server platforms.

Interaction Optimizer clients

The client end of Interaction Optimizer supports administration of campaigns and reporting on results through a standard web browser. The following browser is supported:

All base level Interaction Optimizer functionality is available with no further installation. Users with Microsoft Excel 2007 will have access to extended features within Interaction Optimizer Monitor.

Interaction Optimizer servers

The Interaction Optimizer server supports all runtime requests for interaction recommendations from external operational CRM systems, as well as all of the administration of the campaigns and interactions. It is supported on the following platform:

Interaction Optimizer requires the following software to be installed: Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft .Net Framework v1.1 SP1, Microsoft IIS v6, MSXML v4 SP2 and MDAC v2.8 SP1.

Interaction Optimizer Monitor servers

The Interaction Optimizer Monitor server supports all the reporting of results from Interaction Optimizer. It is supported on the following platform:

Interaction Optimizer Monitor requires the following software to be installed: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft .Net Framework v1.1 SP1, Microsoft .Net Framework v2, Microsoft .Net Framework v3, Microsoft IIS v6, MSXML v4 SP2, MSXML v6 SP2 and MDAC v2.8 SP1.

Please contact Quadstone for further details of your specific platform requirements.