This page provides information about necessary prerequisites for different areas within Business Reporting & Analysis.
| Software | Versions | Editions | Comments | Limitations |
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| Windows Client OS | According to the Windows Based Clients section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. | |||
| Microsoft Office Excel | According to the Microsoft Office Products section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. | Professional Plus | If a customized installation is performed, please make sure that the .NET Programmability Support feature is selected. | |
| Adobe Reader | According to the Non-Microsoft Server Products section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. | Not mandatory IFS Business Reporter reports can be set up to open as PDF. This applies for reports opened within IFS Enterprise Explorer, via Order Report dialog or via the report archive, either opened in the BR pre-viewer or in Excel. To make this work it will be necessary to install Adobe Acrobat Reader on the machine where IFS Business Reporter will run. |
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| .NET Framework | According to the Windows Based Clients section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. | .NET Framework 4.5.2 is bundled with the IFS Business Reporter installation media. It will be installed if missing. | ||
| Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Fourth Edition Runtime | VSTOR 2010 | Bundled with the IFS Business Reporter installation media. It will be installed if missing. | On Windows 7 and Windows 10 the automatic installation of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Fourth Edition Runtime, might fail when using the Setup.exe. If this happens it is recommended trying to run the the installation manually. See info about IFS Business Reporter installation for more information. | |
| Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 runtime | Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 runtime is a prerequisite for ClickOnce
installations of IFS Business Analytics. This prerequisite should be
downloaded from Microsoft and installed prior to installing IFS Business
Analytics Add-In. For 32 bit versions of Microsoft Excel - Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) For 64 bit versions of Microsoft Excel - Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64) |
| Software | Versions | Execution Mode(s) for which the pre-requisite is mandatory | Editions | Comments | Limitations |
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| Windows Server OS | According to the IFS Middleware Server section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. | OOXML (Office OpenXML SDK based) VSTO (Microsoft Excel based) |
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| Business Reporter | None | From IFS Applications 10 Update 7 onwards, IFS
Business Reporter is not a pre-requisite. Customers upgrading IFS BR Execution Server from previous versions (or updates) should install the IFS Business Reporter (UPD7 or later) install msi version of IFS Business Reporter and do an uninstallation for the preparation of the registry. This should be done only once. |
Only the msi version of IFS Business Reporter
(BR) can be used, i.e. it
is NOT possible to install the ClickOnce version of IFS Business
Reporter on the computer hosting BRES. This also means that if the
ordinary BR users are using the ClickOnce version, the machine hosting
the Execution Server must still be maintained by updating Business
Reporter using the msi version. It is not ok according to Microsoft to use an application as BRES, running on a separate server, to produce Excel reports to one or many IFS Application end users without these users having a valid Microsoft Excel license. This still applies for the case when BRES produces PDF reports. |
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| Microsoft Office Language Packs | VSTO (Microsoft Excel based) | The machine that hosts IFS Business Reporter Execution Server must have a MS Office version installed that matches the locale, CultureInfo, of the end user's regional settings. Else install the MS Office MUI (Multilingual User Interface) according to the end users' locale. | |||
| Microsoft Office Excel | According to the Microsoft Office Products section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. | VSTO (Microsoft Excel based) | Professional Plus | If a customized installation is performed, please make sure that the .NET Programmability Support feature is selected. |
Problems have been found related to Office 365
. It is not recommended to install and use the 365 Office version on a computer hosting
IFS Business Reporter Execution Server. Since IFS Business Reporter
Reporter Server is regarded as a server application, the recommendation
is to use an on-premises version of Office. Please note that for this
scenario there is small possibility that report designers might get
access to Excel functionality that is not yet available in the
on-premises version which can lead to that that the Execution Server
cannot render the reports correctly. It is not possible to install IFS Business Reporter for many users if Microsoft Office 365 is used since it is based on single prescriptions |
| Adobe Reader | According to the Non-Microsoft Server Products section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. | None | Not mandatory IFS Business Reporter reports can be set up to open as PDF. This applies for reports opened within IFS Enterprise Explorer, via Order Report dialog or via the report archive, either opened in the BR pre-viewer or in Excel. To make this work it will be necessary to install Adobe Acrobat Reader on the machine where IFS Business Reporter will run. |
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| .NET Framework | According to the Windows Based Clients section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. | OOXML (Office OpenXML SDK based) VSTO (Microsoft Excel based) |
.NET Framework 4.5.2 is bundled with the IFS Business Reporter installation media. It will be installed if missing. | ||
| Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Fourth Edition Runtime (VSTOR 2010) | VSTOR 2010 | VSTO (Microsoft Excel based) | Bundled with the IFS Business Reporter installation media. It will be installed if missing. | On Windows 7 and Windows 10 the automatic installation of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Fourth Edition Runtime, might fail when using the Setup.exe. If this happens it is recommended trying to run the the installation manually. See info about IFS Business Reporter installation for more information. |
| Software | Versions | Editions | Comments | Limitations |
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| Windows Server OS | According to the IFS Middleware Server section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. | |||
| SQL Server | According to the Microsoft Server Products section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. | The following SQL Server features are required: - Database Engine Services - SQL Server Analysis Services - SQL Server Integration Services - SQL Server Data Tools - Management Tools Basic and Complete - Client Tools Connectivity |
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| Oracle Data Access Components | According to the Non-Microsoft Server Products section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. | The following product components of the Oracle Data Access
Components (ODAC) are required: - Oracle Advanced Security - Oracle Provider for OLE DB - Oracle Data Provider for .NET |
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| .NET Framework | According to the Windows Based Clients section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. | Specifically needed for the IFS Analysis Models Installer and SSIS Config Utility. | ||
| SQL Server ADOMD Data Provider | SQL Server Feature Pack for the corresponding supported SQL Server version. | - KPI Services requires the SQL Server ADOMD
provider based on the system type of the client computer (32 or 64 bit
OS). - The SQL Server 2014 version of this SQL Server feature pack component is needed for the Analysis Models installer on SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server 2017. |
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| SQL Server AMO Data Provider | SQL Server Feature Pack for the corresponding supported SQL Server version. | - KPI Services requires the SQL Server AMO provider based on the
system type of the client computer (32 or 64 bit OS). - The SQL Server 2014 version of this SQL Server feature pack component is needed for the Analysis Models installer on SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server 2017. |
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| Microsoft System CLR Types for SQL Server 2014 | - The SQL Server 2014 version of this SQL Server feature pack component is needed for the Analysis Models installer on SQL Server 2016. Make sure to install it before the Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Management Object. | |||
| Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Management Object | - The SQL Server 2014 version of this SQL Server feature pack component is needed for the Analysis Models installer on SQL Server 2016. |
| Software | Versions | Editions | Comments | Limitations |
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| Windows Server OS | According to the IFS Middleware Server section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. | |||
| SQL Server | According to the Microsoft Server Products section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. | The following SQL Server features are required: - Database Engine Services - SQL Server Reporting Services - Management Tools Basic and Complete - Client Tools Connectivity - Report Builder |
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| Windows Client OS | According to the Windows Based Clients section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. | |||
| Microsoft Office Excel | According to the Microsoft Office Products section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. | |||
| HTML Clients | According to the HTML Clients section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. |
| Software | Versions | Editions | Comments | Limitations |
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| Microsoft IIS | Built-in versions of Microsoft IIS on Windows Server OS listed in the IFS Middleware Server section of the Supported Platforms for IFS Applications 10. |
| Software | Version | Edition | Comments | Limitations |
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| EOI | 8.1 and later |