INSTALL BI360 Info: System Requirements 4.7 – Solver Support

Summary:

This article details the BI360 system requirements which apply to client and terminal server installs. These specifications apply to the latest version of the software and may not be applicable for older versions. Many of the specifications listed below are the minimum requirements to run the application; however it is always best to be using a machine that exceeds these specifications.

Note: For Windows 10, only version 4.6+ of BI360 Data Warehouse is supported. For all versions of BI360 Suite, FIPS and/or ADFS systems are not supported.

More Information:

System Requirements:

Hard Disk

Based on data integrated into Warehouse and/or transactional input within Budget model (contact Partner)

BI360 Suite

Operating System^1,7

Windows 8/8.1
Windows 10

Windows Server 2008r2
Windows Server 2012/2012R2
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2019 ¹²

CPU^1,2

Intel or AMD

RAM

4GB (8GB recommended) ³

Hard Disk

200MB of free space.

Microsoft Office^{1,3,7,9,10,13}

Office 2013
Office 2016

Office 2019 (local install only)
Office 365 (local install only)

.NET Framework⁷

4.5.2+

Other⁷

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools For Office
Microsoft .NET Programmability Support

SQL Server

1-50 Concurrent Users

50+ Users

CPU^1,2

Intel or AMD²

Intel or AMD Quad Core Expandable

RAM

16GB or greater

32gb or greater

Operating System^1,7

Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2008/2008R2

Windows Server 2012/2012R2
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2019

Database Server^1,4,5,6,11

SQL Server 2008+
SQL Server 2008R2 SP2+
SQL Server 2012 SP1+

SQL Server 2014
SQL Server 2016
SQL 2017¹⁴
SQL 2019¹⁴

Disk Configuration

Non-Raid configurations are supported, but redundancy will not be available.
See notes for recommended RAID configurations⁵

64 bit recommended
2.0 GHz or faster.
Microsoft Excel Compatibility mode is not supported by the Planning application.
SQL Server Standard or greater version.
SQL Server 2008R2 Enterprise edition and newer is recommended.
SQL Compact and Express are not supported.
RAID1 or RAID10 is recommended.
Operating system and Office version must be completely up to date.
Visual C++ SP1 x86/x64 update must be performed.
Must be activated licensed version.
SQL Server 2014 In Memory Optimization is not supported.
Supported on BI360 v4.6.60803+
Click-to-run (C2R) installations of Office are not supported - MSI deployment of Office is required
SQL 2017/2019 have been confirmed compatible but not officially supported

If .net framework 4.5 is not installed, the setup will install this necessary component and may require a system reboot. It is important that if the application is being installed on a terminal server or Citrix environment that .net Framework is installed during non-business hours.

BI360 Portal

BI360 Web Budgeting
User Rights	The user who will perform the BI360 Portal installation must have Administrator privileges on the application (client) server and must be able to access Active Directory on the domain. The user must be member of the SYSADMIN role on SQL Server or have the SQL Server SA login password available during installation.
Operating System^1,2	Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Windows 10 Windows Server 2008/2008r2 Windows Server 2012/2012r2 Windows Server 2016³
CPU	Intel or AMD Dual core More cores recommended for large concurrent usage.
RAM	Minimum 16gb. Load Balancer is recommended if anticipated concurrent usage exceeds 30 users. If using a single IIS server with concurrent usage exceeding 30, it is recommended to use more ram.
Hard Disk	200MB of free space
Microsoft Office²	Optional (please see the BI360 Suite section above for a list of support Office versions if Office will be installed on the web server)
.NET Framework¹	4.5.2 and newer
Services	MSDTC (Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator)
Server	IIS 7 or newer (with ASP.NET support)
Other¹	ERP database must be set to SQL Compatability 2008+ Silverlight 5.0⁴

If installing Web Budgeting, the BI360 and/or ERP database must be set to SQL Compatibility mode 2008+. More information can be found here.
Compatible for both 32 and 64 bit versions of the operating systems
Requires enabling HTTP acitivation for .net Framework 4.6. This is not a default setting.
Deprecated October 12th, 2021

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Services	SQL Version	.Net Framework
Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDs)	SQL Server 2008	2.0 SP2
Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDs)	SQL Server 2008 R2	3.5 SP1
Visual Studio Data SQL Tools	SQL 2012 / 2014	4.5

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BI360 4.7 4.7

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