Ideasoft O3's Hardware & Software requirements

The purpose of this document is to provide information to define the regarding hardware and software characteristics to install for Ideasoft O3. It is for personel with infraestructure and technical knowledge, This document is targeted to IT staff who should decide which is the best equipment to use for the producto product instalation.

Document organization

The fisrt section sets states the Hardware requirements fot the O3 instalation, explaining the necessary resources in detail.

The second section provides example sample metrics for specifical specific datamarts requirements. This These metrics include hard disc storage usedHard Disc requirements, and memory configuration. Note that it

Notice that the metrics in this docuemnt should be considered only as a reference. It should not be taken as a general definition of the resources used by each datamart.

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Ideasoft O3 is a very flexible producto product that can be used on several scenarios with a variety of usage contextcontexts. The product feets well to different scenarios suits various needs due to it's advanced technical characteristics such as its technological platform, powefull multidimensional algoritmsalgorithms, and the design of a set of mechanisms to provide high scalability.

It is necessary to consider the breadth of scenarios to identify the environment for which the instalation should be designed, in order to give hardware recomendations. It is also recomended recommended to consider which what the purpose of the instalation is, as the instalation may be directed to high demand scenarios or ar the other end, for individual use in a laptop, or simple usage cases evaluation, etc.

Another element to consider is the scalability of the infrastructure. The hardware infraestructure goes forward in the direction of offering equipments with a high scalability capacity, that must be considered when making a recommendation for a specific purposeAs hardware technology evolvs, high scalability equipment is offered, thus the selection of specific hardware should take advantage of this tendency. The best investment in software and hardware is not only the one that best suits best current needs and , but also anticipates future ones. The On the other hand, over-sizing of a server in early stages will affect the ROI without providing a specific outcome. The continuing low price of hardware makes it appropriate, in cases where we foresee growth, opt for architectures with the ability to scale.

For these reasons, we will not only recommend affordable equipments but also the scalability characteristics that should be taken into account in specific scenarios. O3 is prepared to extensively exploit the capability of scaling the architecture of modern hardware both with respect to multiple cores, memory, high-speed networks and clusters.

It should also be taken into account the number of O3 components that will be in production. For example, the use of O3 Enterprise Portal or Web Customers will place greater demands on resources on the server computerbox, but lower in the clients onesfewer requirements on the client side. In contrast, an installation that uses only the server and clients multidimensional Desktop will require significantly fewer resources at the server (for example, reduced memory consumption on the server).

Another factor that must be analyzed is the usage pattern of use by users, such as the use frequency of use, the distribution of use queries over periods of time and the sizing of the maximum load.

Finally, the amount of information actually stored in the Datamarts, the complexity of the multidimensional models and other factors directly dependent on the data from each installation will also influence the determination of the related to the data, have a direct impact on hardware requirements.

It is very difficult to do general recommendations to make a general recommendation that consider all of these variables, so we have summed up summarized them in three cases the requirements of O3 with regard to hardware and software.

O3 Server

The following information explain in details the server machine box requirements to run O3Server. Usually the datamers datamarts are build on this serverbox, therefore, so the O3Builder component should also be installed on this computerit. Its operation does not interfere with the server as it concentrates its use at its heavier load is scheduled during hours of very low or null inexistent O3 Server activity. If not so, it is possible to configure and license the use of O3Builder in other specific computer.

While there is no real requirement of having a dedicated server for this purpose, it is not recommended to share it with other programs for high consumption of memory with high memory or processor needs, such as a database engine.

O3Server

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requirements

The server must be configured according to the volume of information and the maximum number of simultaneous users working on it.

The values showned shown on the following table, represent a guide to set de identify the minimum requierements.

(1) see the Example of Datamart Requirements for complementary disk usage information.

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As a general criterion, O3 can be run in any OS that supports a JVM an up-to-date Java 1.5 to datevirtual machine.

Specifically, operating systems currently supported are:

• Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003

• Linux RedHat RHEL 5.x

• Linux Ubuntu 6.04,6.10,7.04,7.10,8.04,8.10

• Linux Open Suse Linux 10.3, 11.

• Linux Fedora 7

• Solaris Apple MacOS 10.RedHat RHEL 5.x5

• Sun Solaris 10

Web Client

The Web Client is the O3 access through an Internet browser. It requires a computer able to run any of the Internet browser soported by O3. It is not necessary to install any O3 component on these computers.

The hardware requirements are those required in order to run efficiently the Internet browser of the user's preference. Consideration should be given that such requirements depend on the number of simultaneous applications that the user
uses for his job.

The Web Browsers supported by O3 are:

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Requirements for the Standalone option:

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In this case you must contemplate the disk space required by the Datamarts.

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This section describes specific needed resources. Note that these values should be used as a reference only to .

Datamarts Size factors

The Datamarts store information from different data sources. During the loading process, O3 performs a set of optimizations and transformations, which have several consequences:

• The information is highly compressed because they are compact representations of information (compared with relational databases, files, etc..)
• As aggregations are performed, the information in the DataMart does not have the same detail as in the original sources, so for each record actually stored in the DataMart, O3 may have loaded several records of the sources. This factor also contributes to the compression of information.
• To improve the query, some Datamarts are designed to perform a set of Pre-Calculus of calculations (controlled redundancy), which increases the information stored in the DataMart.
• Only a portion of the information in the databases is actuallly used by Datamarts.

As a general rule, the Datamarts show rates of compression of the information they store, requiring less storage space than the databases that originate the information.

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