Installing and Setting Up Foresight Analytics Platform

Foresight Analytics Platform contains the main interconnected components:

The use of software based on Foresight Analytics Platform includes a number of requirements and conditions that must be considered on software procurement planning and on application systems development.

Planning Installation

Before installing Foresight Analytics Platform follow the installation planning stages:

1. See the system configuration.

2. Check correspondence to system requirements.

3. See user authentication types and prepare necessary environment.

4. See Foresight Analytics Platform activation procedure and available features. The license server is a mandatory component of any system, it is used to activate software based on Foresight Analytics Platform, as well as to control access to the tools in use.

5. Prepare DBMS back end.

After the environment is prepared, proceed to installation of Foresight Analytics Platform. Installation is implemented using the distribution files included in the software package of Foresight Analytics Platform.

Foresight Analytics Platform in Windows OS uses additional software that must be installed in the operating system. The availability of necessary software is checked during the installation of Foresight Analytics Platform. If any program is missing, it will be automatically installed from the prerequisites package.

Installing Web Application

TIP. To quickly install the web application on Linux OS (PostgreSQL DBMS), see the Installing Web Application on Linux OS (PostgreSQL DBMS) section. To execute advanced installation of the web application with minimum requirements, see the Advanced Installation of Web Application in Linux OS (PostgreSQL DBMS) section.

To install the web application:

1. Install BI server.

2. Install web application back end.

3. Create a metadata repository.

4. Set up repository connection.

5. Create a service user of security subsystem.

6. Set up web application configuration.

7. Activate Foresight Analytics Platform.

After executing the operations the web application is installed. When BI server is being installed, the applications included in the distribution are available.

To get started with the web application, see the Getting Started with Web Application section.

Installing Business Application

To install the business application:

1. Make sure that the BI server is installed.

2. Install the Designer of Business Applications extension in the repository.

3. Create a business application in the object navigator.

4. Install business application back end.

5. Set up business application configuration.

After executing the operations the business application is installed.

To get started with the business application, see the Getting Started with the Designer of Business Applications Extension section.

Installing Task Scheduler

The task scheduler is installed identically to BI server using the distribution file included in the software package of Foresight Analytics Platform:

• In Linux OS:

• foresight-fp10.x-biserver*.deb for Debian-based distribution files.

• foresight-fp10.x-biserver*.rpm for RedHat-based distribution files and ALT Linux.

• In Windows OS:

• FP10BIServerIIS_x64.exe.

IMPORTANT. The task scheduler must be located separately from the BI server.

To set up the task scheduler, use the Scheduler.xml configuration file.

To get started with the task scheduler, see the Getting Started with the Task Scheduler Tool section.

Installing InMemory MOLAP Server

For details see the Installing InMemory MOLAP Server section.

Additional Components

To extend functions of developed applications, Foresight Analytics Platform provides for additional components (extensions) installed separately: Calculation Algorithms, Business Process Management, Interactive Data Entry Forms, Designer of Business Applications, Cube Cache.