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Introduction to the FICO® Xpress Insight Administrator Guide

Xpress Insight is a platform for deploying rich interactive optimization apps. FICO® Xpress Insight and later extends the platform capabilities with a job execution service implemented by the Compute Interface app and API.

This section provides a high-level overview of the concepts and components of the Xpress Insight 5 platform.

The platform comprises three main building blocks:
  • Users interact with the platform via a browser-based web interface on their local machine, accessing the Xpress Insight Server over http or https.
  • The core of the system is the Xpress Insight Server which may be installed on the same local machine as the web client or on a remote server, depending on the system configuration.
  • Finally, computational effort is offloaded to one or more execution workers. An execution worker may be co-located with the server. However, for production deployments, it is recommended that execution workers be installed on separate servers.

Xpress Insight stores the operational data that it generates using either the native file system associated with your installed operating system, or a customer installation of MySQL v8.x with vendor support or above. File system storage is sufficient for use during development, but production deployments should use a database.

Xpress Insight operates in either Development mode or Production mode. Development mode permits local accounts while Production mode utilizes SAML 2.0 identity verification and disables local accounts, so should be used for operational installations.

Users of this software will need knowledge of the following software.
  • FICO Xpress v9.4.2 — For more, see the FICO Xpress Installation Guide.
  • Java™ 17.0.9 or later (Oracle Java or OpenJDK 17.0.9 64-bit)
  • The latest version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.
  • MySQL v8.x with vendor support or above — MySQL storage must be installed by the customer as it is not provided by FICO.
In addition, the administrator should also have the following permissions.
  • If you are deploying Xpress Insight in Production mode, or you want to run in Development mode using Single Sign On (SSO), you must have access to the administration pages of your SSO Identity Provider (IdP).
This software can be installed on various operating systems, for more see the Xpress Insight 5 Installation Guide section on Supported Platforms.

Community Edition

The Community Edition is the free version of Xpress Insight 5. There are several limitations when using the Community Edition:
  • The Community Edition cannot be installed on a machine with a full edition. You must remove the full edition before installing the Community Edition.
  • The installation is valid for one year from the date of the build. Once it is expired, you cannot log in.
  • You cannot create or delete users using the user interface or REST API.
  • You cannot create, edit, or delete workers.
  • Only local users can use Xpress Insight Community Edition. There is no SAML integration.
Covered Topics
  • System Architecture
    This figure depicts the key administrator-level elements of the Xpress Insight architecture.
Parent Topic Insight 5 Administrator Guide

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