Defining the Deployment Model

A typical departmental deployment paradigm begins with the development of a general dashboard that can answer several classes of critical questions. A master project file is saved in ADV format in a location that can only be accessed by authorized users. For day-to-day queries and analysis, a wider audience of general users could open an ADVM version of the project from a shared network location on a file server, using a WebFOCUS Visual Discovery desktop application. The ADVM file would be generated by a scheduled task that runs regularly (usually nightly) on a centrally-administered machine, such as a file server.

For a larger or more casual audience, WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Server AE, an ASP.NET application that runs on Microsoft IIS, can deliver interactive access to the dashboard through most web browsers, using the Microsoft Silverlight technology. The project is initially made available to the WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Server AE by a publishing operation, done by a project author, using the WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Workbench AE. Subsequently, the WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Server AE dashboard can be updated as part of the same scheduled task that generates a new snapshot ADVM file.


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