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Introduction to the FICO® Xpress Insight Administrator Guide

FICO® Xpress Insight is a platform for deploying rich interactive optimization apps. Insight 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 Xpress Insight.

The platform comprises three main building blocks:
  • Users interact with the platform using a browser-based web interface, accessing the Xpress Insight server over HTTP or HTTPS.
  • The core of the system is the Xpress Insight server, which can be installed on the same local machine as the web client or on a remote server, depending on the system configuration.
  • Computational effort is offloaded to one or more execution workers. A worker can be co-located with the server; however, for production deployments, it is recommended that execution workers be installed on separate hosts.

Xpress Insight stores operational data using either the local file system or a customer-provided MySQL database. 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 only; production mode uses SAML 2.0 identity verification and disables local accounts. Production mode should be used for all operational installations.

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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