The following diagram provides a brief overview of where to install Marketing Operations. It illustrates the most basic functional installation. You may require a more complex, disparate installation to meet your security and performance requirements.

Marketing Operations: For best performance, install Marketing Operations on its own machine, where no other IBM® EMM products are installed, or on a machine that it shares with only the Marketing Platform.

The Marketing Operations system tables should be on a separate machine.

Marketing Operations reports package: The reports package for Marketing Operations contains the IBM® Cognos® package only. (Other applications also have reporting schemas to configure, but Marketing Operations does not.) Install the reports package on the IBM® Cognos® system.

Marketing Platform: The Marketing Platform application contains the IBM® common navigation, reporting, user administration, security, scheduling, and configuration management features. For each IBM® EMM environment, you must install and deploy the Marketing Platform once.