Deployment

Requirements
Deployability and scalability are two main considerations for implementation of any BI solution. Deployability ensures that the application is immediately deployed to internet/intranet, extranet and mobile devices for all types of users. While scalability means that the application supports significantly large data size, rapidly responds to scaling demands and works well with disparate systems.

Solution
Scalable
Base architecture of SAPIENCE™ offers scalability that lets the application to serve a large number of users across the enterprise and beyond it and that also in quick time. Caching of frequently run reports, SAPIENCE™ furthers the speed of report execution. Additionally, clustering at the application server enables SAPIENCE™ to support several users and queries at the same time.

Flexible deployment
SAPIENCE™ lets clients’ access intelligence through the medium most appropriate to them. Users can avail intelligence on the internet, intranet, or on a wireless device. Additionally, SAPIENCE™'s java based architecture supports multiple operating systems, application servers and web servers including Windows 2000/NT, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Websphere, Tomcat, Weblogic, Apache, Iplanet and IIS. Development on open standards like Java, XML and MDX also ensure that SAPIENCE™ is easily extensible for any BI solution.

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/2003/NT, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux.

Application & Web Servers: Websphere, Tomcat, Weblogic, Apache, Iplanet and IIS.

Data Warehouses: Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, Microsoft SQL Server 7/2000/ and MYSQL, DB2, Teradata, Sybase.

OLAP Servers: All OLAP servers supporting XMLA( www.xmla.org ) and JOLAP like Microsoft Analysis Services 2000/Yukon, Mondrian, Oracle 9i, 10g OLAP.

Security

Requirements
With all its inherent advantages, internet also presents challenges for security. The idea is to ensure that every part of the application and the delivery mechanism is secured.

Solution
SAPIENCE™ offers a multi-layered security mechanism covering the whole span from the front end to the data layer. Multi-layered security includes:

• Restricted access to data and application features with 'easy to administer and apply' rights management capabilities
• Secured transmission of data with data encryption and multiple firewalls
• Two step user authentication; first at the user group and then at the individual level