CONTROL® is
a performance-management tool
designed to fit right in with what you already have in
place. It
leverages in-house knowledge, skills, and infrastructure,
while also supporting sanctioned standards. Moreover, it ensures
interoperability, scalability and extensibility, maximizing
your investment.
As a single,
unified system for every aspect of performance management,
CONTROL stores
metadata and data on a relational database of choice—Oracle,
Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, DB2/400, or DB2 UDB—across
diverse hardware platforms and operating systems. It dynamically
integrates with and accesses operational systems and data
warehouses and provides an instantly familiar Excel based
front-end. There is no need to learn, implement, or support a
new or proprietary
architecture/platform.
Set-up and
maintenance as well as
the
integration of data from disparate operational sources
take
place from a single
point and on the spot.
CONTROL provides tremendous flexibility for deployment, whether to a small workgroup, a broad-cross functional user base or to a geographically dispersed user community. It can be deployed as a 2-tier or 3-tier application. Mixed environments are fully supported, allowing different users of the same application to use any of the available deployment options that best supports the organization.
In
addition to standard CONTROL
deployment options, CONTROL supports
the use of Citrix®, allowing WAN and Web users
access to CONTROL
remotely. In environments with Citrix already deployed,
CONTROL
integrates seamlessly with the existing Citrix installation to
allow remote users to access the full functionality of
CONTROL over
their networks or via the
Web.
For
small and medium-sized businesses, KCI can provide a
bundled solution that includes CONTROL and
Citrix, also allowing remote
users to access the full functionality of CONTROL over
their networks or via the
Web.
Browsers
supported with the Citrix solution are Microsoft Internet
Explorer, Firefox and
Safari.
Click
here for a schematic of the 2-Tier Citrix deployment (Click here for a schematic)
Click
here for a schematic of the 3-Tier Citrix deployment (Click here for a schematic)
Hardware requirements vary by deployment strategy and minimally require:
- A
database server to host the RDBMS database system. The requirements for
the database server are dependent on the size and complexity
of the CONTROL application, as
well as the database preferences and experience of the
customer.
- An
application server if a 3-tier deployment is
chosen.
The recommended
requirements for the 32 bit and 64 bit edition of CONTROL are detailed below:
Click here for a schematic
Click here for a schematic
* Memory requirements are
guidelines and are subject to change based on your
requirements and data volumes.
** Server sizing is approximated. Actual requirements will vary based on the required dimensionality, the cardinality of each dimension, the number of scenarios, time horizons, the number of concurrent users, data volumes, etc.
Click here for a schematic
Click here for a schematic
* Memory requirements are guidelines and are subject to change based on your requirements and data volumes.
** Server sizing is approximated. Actual requirements will vary based on the required dimensionality, the cardinality of each dimension, the number of scenarios, time horizons, the number of concurrent users, data volumes, etc. |
