Where to install Marketing Platform components

The Marketing Platform application contains the IBM® common navigation, reporting, user administration, security, scheduling, and configuration management features. Follow these guidelines.

For each IBM® EMM environment, you must install and deploy the Marketing Platform once.

If you want to use the Marketing Platform utilities on additional machines, you must install both the utilities and the web application. This is needed because the utilities use the jar files in the web application. However, when you install the Marketing Platform for this purpose, you do not have to deploy the Marketing Platform again, nor do you have to create additional Marketing Platform system tables.

The following table describes the components you can select when you install the Marketing Platform.

Component	Description
Marketing Platform utilities	Command line tools that allow you to work with the Marketing Platform system table database from the command line to import and export configurations, create partitions and data filters, and restore the platform_admin user. Install this on every machine where you want to be able to use Marketing Platform utilities.
Marketing Platform web application	The web application that supplies the common user interface, security, and configuration management for IBM® EMM. Install this on the machine where you plan to deploy the Marketing Platform. Also, if you are configuring additional machines where you want to be able use the Marketing Platform utilities, you must also install the web application because the utilities use the JAR files included in the web application. You should not deploy on these additional machines.
Reports for IBM® Cognos® BI	Reports integration components for IBM® Cognos®. Install this component only on the Cognos® system.