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Differences between PA Client, Desktop and server

former_member185603
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I was planning to dowload PA 2.2 from SMP. I see so many flavors of PA downloads available. I am little confused on Client and Desktop versions. I thought both are same.

Is there any document in SCN which explains all the features of these many different flavors of PA.

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achab
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Hi Jawahar,

I wrote a draft document about this topic and others. I hope to soon release this.

Here is an extract of the document, about SMP, and the different downloads:

(when you go to SMP) you will see the different products:

  • Your first interest probably goes to SAP Predictive Analytics. SAP Predictive Analytics comes in two deployment modes, a client/server one and a desktop one. The client/server mode has two download packages codenamed PRED ANALYTICS CLIENT 2 and PRED ANALYTICS SERVER 2. The desktop mode is the download package code named: PRED ANALYTICS DESKTOP 2.
  • An important thing to note is that our Expert Analytics user interface is only part of the desktop deployment. It is not part of the client installer. 
  • Once your first models will be applied for business production purposes, you will need a Model Manager, to monitor the evolution of models over time and schedule model refreshes. Model Manager has the code name PRED ANALYTICS MODEL MGR 2. Model Manager was previously known as InfiniteInsight Factory.
  • Another key component is the SAP Automated Predictive Library (APL), which is a SAP HANA native library. See http://scn.sap.com/community/predictive-analytics/blog/2015/03/02/what-is-the-sap-automated-predicti... for more details. The code name of the APL here is: PRED ANALYTICS APL 2.

If you want more details on these different products, please refer to our PDF guide: https://websmp110.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/012002523100009341912015E/pa22_architecture_spec_en.pdf

See also Predictive Analytics documentation: http://help.sap.com/pa

Hope this helps,

Best regards,

Antoine

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I see separate downloads for Client and server. Can i install desktop version in citrix or terminal server, instead of installing desktop on each invidual laptop.

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Hi Jawahar,

It's possible to install the desktop version in Citrix or in the laptop.

But you have to pay attention that Expert Analytics mode is not officially supported in Citrix.

Only one user at a time can work with Expert Analytics installed in Citrix.

There is no restriction for Automated Analytics in Citrix.

Please refer to the Product Availability Matrix: https://websmp109.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/012002523100002487022015E

The PAM for Predictive Analytics 2.2 will be published in the coming days.

Regards,

Didier

achab
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Hi Jawahar,

Are you primarily interested by Automated Analytics, Expert Analytics or by both components for your users?

Thanks & regards

Antoine

achab
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Also, can you please be so kind to flag the question as Answered if you feel it's OK. 

Antoine

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