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System requirements are provided for the following:

You can also review the compatibility and interoperability scenarios of MicroStrategy Office and MicroStrategy Web Services.

MicroStrategy Office client system requirements

MicroStrategy Office must be installed on the client system. The requirements for the client system are provided below.

MicroStrategy Office client hardware

The following information is intended to give you general guidance on hardware requirements to support the MicroStrategy product suite. Determining the necessary hardware requirements to support MicroStrategy is dependent on many factors including but not limited to the complexity of your MicroStrategy environment, the deployment strategy of MicroStrategy features, user community requirements, expected peak usage requirements, and response time expectations. Factors such as these must be considered to determine the hardware requirements for your MicroStrategy production environment.

Hardware Requirement
RAM 2 GB or higher
Processor x86 or x64 compatible
Disk Space 0.5 GB

For space requirements for the MicroStrategy Common Files, see Common Files size requirements on Windows environments.

MicroStrategy Office client software

Software Requirement
Operating system

Microsoft Windows

For a list of Windows operating systems that are certified and supported for MicroStrategy Office, see Client Operating Systems in the Certified and Supported Configurations page.

Microsoft .NET Framework

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or 4.5. This must be installed prior to installing MicroStrategy.

Microsoft Web Services Enhancements (WSE) Runtime Microsoft WSE Runtime 3.0, which is automatically installed with MicroStrategy Office if not found on the client machine.
Microsoft Office

Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint (optional), and Microsoft Word (optional).

For a list of Microsoft Office programs that are certified and supported for MicroStrategy Office, see Microsoft Office Applications in the Certified and Supported Configurations page.

Flash Player (for flash-enabled documents)

Adobe Flash Player

For a list of Adobe Flash Players that are certified and supported for MicroStrategy Office, see Adobe Flash Players in the Certified and Supported Configurations page.

MicroStrategy Web Services server system requirements

Before you attempt to run MicroStrategy Office you need to set up your MicroStrategy environment. This includes:

  • MicroStrategy Web Services configured and running.
  • MicroStrategy Intelligence Server with projects running in a server-connected environment.

Web server hardware

The following information is intended to give you general guidance on hardware requirements to support the MicroStrategy product suite. Determining the necessary hardware requirements to support MicroStrategy is dependent on many factors including but not limited to the complexity of your MicroStrategy environment, the deployment strategy of MicroStrategy features, user community requirements, expected peak usage requirements, and response time expectations. Factors such as these must be considered to determine the hardware requirements for your MicroStrategy production environment.

Hardware Requirement
RAM 2 GB or higher
Processor x86 or x64 compatible
Disk Space 0.5 GB

For space requirements for the MicroStrategy Common Files, see Common Files size requirements on Windows environments.

 

Product RAM Disk Space Processor
Web Services ASP.NET 2 GB 0.25 GB

For space requirements for the MicroStrategy Common Files, see Common Files size requirements on Windows environments.		 Windows: x86 or x64 compatible
Web Services J2EE 2 GB

0.25 GB

For space requirements for the MicroStrategy Common Files, see Common Files size requirements on Windows environments.

Windows: x86 or x64 compatible

4 GB on IBM AIX

3 GB on other UNIX operating systems

For space requirements for the MicroStrategy Common Files, see Common Files size requirements on UNIX environments.

 Oracle Solaris: SPARC platforms
IBM AIX: IBM POWER Architecture
HP-UX: Intel Itanium
Red Hat and SUSE Linux: x86-64 compatible

Web server software

Web Services ASP.NET

The machine that will host Web Services ASP.NET needs to be added to an NT domain. Client users should be members of that same domain or of other trusted domains.

Software Requirement
Operating system

Microsoft Windows

For a list of Windows operating systems that are certified or supported for MicroStrategy Web Services ASP.NET, see Operating Systems in the Certified and Supported Configurations page.

Web server

Microsoft Internet Information Services

For a list of web servers that are certified or supported for MicroStrategy Web Services ASP.NET, see Web Server Software in the Certified and Supported Configurations page.

Microsoft .NET Framework

Microsoft .NET Framework

For a list of .NET Runtime packages that are certified or supported for MicroStrategy Web Services ASP.NET, see .NET Runtime in the Certified and Supported Configurations page.

Microsoft Web Services Enhancements (WSE) Runtime Web Services Enhancements (WSE) Runtime 3.0 for Microsoft .NET.

Language

For a list of languages that are certified or supported for MicroStrategy Web Services ASP.NET, see Languages in the Certified and Supported Configurations page.

Web Services J2EE

Software Requirement
Operating system
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Red Hat and SUSE Linux
  • IBM AIX
  • Oracle Solaris
  • HP-UX

For a list of operating systems that are certified or supported for MicroStrategy Web Services J2EE, see Operating Systems in the Certified and Supported Configurations page.

Web application server
  • Oracle Web Application Server
  • Oracle WebLogic Server
  • Oracle GlassFish Server
  • IBM WebSphere
  • SAP NetWeaver Application Server
  • Apache Tomcat
  • Apache TomEE
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
  • JBoss Enterprise Web Platform

For a list of web application servers that are certified or supported for MicroStrategy Web Services J2EE, see Web Application Server in the Certified and Supported Configurations page.

JDK/JRE/JVM
  • Oracle J2SE (TM) Runtime
  • Oracle JDK
  • IBM JDK
  • Oracle JRockit JVM
  • SAP JDK

For a list of JDKs, JREs, and JVMs that are certified or supported for MicroStrategy Web Services J2EE, see JDK, JRE, and JVM in the Certified and Supported Configurations page.

Language

For a list of languages that are certified or supported for MicroStrategy Web Services J2EE, see Languages in the Certified and Supported Configurations page.

Compatibility and interoperability

  • MicroStrategy Office Analytics Enterprise is interoperable with MicroStrategy Web Services 9.0.2, 9.2.0, 9.2.1, 9.2.1m, 9.3.0, 9.3.1, and 9.4. For the complete MicroStrategy Platform Compatibility and Interoperability specification, see the Compatibility and Interoperability page of the MicroStrategy General Information Readme.
  • If you use MicroStrategy Web Service ASP.NET, all machines on which MicroStrategy Office will be installed should be on the same domain or at least on a trusted domain of the domain to which the Web Services machine is linked. If not, a Network Logon dialog will prompt you to enter credentials that can be authenticated in the domain on which the Web Services machine resides. This is not required for MicroStrategy Web Services J2EE.

 
 

 

 

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