Deployment Concepts

A typical departmental deployment paradigm begins with 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 be accessed only by those authorized to modify it. 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 an ADVIZOR desktop application such as Desktop Navigator or Analyst/X. 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 larger or more casual audiences, ADVIZOR Server AE, an ASP.NET application that runs on Microsoft IIS, can deliver interactive access to the dashboard via most web browsers, or via the ADVIZOR iPad app. The ADVIZOR project is initially made available to ADVIZOR Server AE by a "publishing" operation done by a project author using ADVIZOR Analyst or Analyst/X; subsequently, the ADVIZOR Server AE dashboard can be updated as part of the same scheduled task that generates a new snapshot ADVM file.