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Process of Planning the Installation

Analytics License: All licenses.

Operating Systems: All.

This process is part of the Roadmap for Configuring Siebel Analytics Platform.

To plan the installation, perform the following tasks:

1. Determine your Siebel Analytics Licensing and Installation Options
   • Analytics Product Licensing
   • Analytics Installation Options
   • Optional Analytics Product Choices in the Installer
   • Siebel Analytics Server Licensing Required by Other Siebel Programs
2. Determining Analytics Installation Requirements
   • Configuring Internet Information Server for Analytics (Windows)
   • Installing the Microsoft Data Access Components for Windows
   • Siebel Analytics Components Supported Under UNIX
   • Installation Requirements for All UNIX Platforms
   • Installation requirements for specific UNIX platforms:
     • Installation Requirements for HP-UX
3. If you have an earlier version of Siebel Analytics platform installed, you may need to uninstall it before you install a more recent version. See the section on uninstalling previous versions of Siebel Analytics in the Siebel Analytics Platform Upgrade Guide.
4. Back up configuration files. See Backing Up Analytics Folders and Files.
5. UNIX administrators need to install some Siebel Analytics components under Windows systems. For example, the third-party installer is available for Windows only. Also, UNIX systems must have some Windows-based components installed, as shown in the following table.

   Component Function	Required Windows-Based Component
   Repository Manager	Siebel Analytics Administration Tool
   Siebel Data Warehouse ETL	Installer for Informatica
   Siebel Answers, Siebel Delivers, Siebel Scheduler	Scheduler Job Manager