Client

Web browser

Displays the pages of a study and receives user input.

Web

Web server and gateway software (MS-IIS)

Services requests to and from the web browser.

Cognos Analytics Gateway

Manages the transfer of information from the Web server to another server. Provides secure access to the Cognos Analytics Server.

Application

InForm application server

Logical server that acts as a transaction manager for InForm studies under the InForm Service. The InForm Server handles caching and Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) packages. Each study is associated with an InForm study application server.

If the Reporting and Analysis is installed, the InForm Model Updater Service runs on the InForm Server to synchronize the clinical model.

Cognos Report Server (Application services)

Runs reporting-related requests for operating system services. There is one Cognos Analytics Service per physical server machine.

Cognos Content Manager (Content repository)

Manages the storage of customer application data, including security, configuration data, models, metrics, report specifications, and report output. Content Manager is needed to publish packages, retrieve or store report specifications, manage scheduling information, and manage the Cognos namespace.

Oracle Directory Server

Provides secure Admin access to InForm Reporting.

Data

Oracle database instances for:

• InForm study database—Stores the study components and the clinical data. Studies typically share an instance of the Oracle database with the InForm Admin schema.
• InForm Admin database—Used by the InForm Service to manage all the studies on a physical machine. There is one InForm Admin database per InForm Service.
• InForm Reporting database—Stores views for Cognos Reporting through the Reporting and Analysis module. The InForm Reporting database shares an instance of the Oracle database with the InForm Admin and study databases.
• Cognos Analytics Content Store—Stores user-created reporting objects such as folders, saved reports, and saved views. The Content Store can share an instance of the Oracle database with the InForm Admin and study databases or can reside in a separate Oracle database instance.