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Hi All,

Hopefully a simple question

Is there any difference in releasing the TM1 Admin Package to users over the Client Package other than the addition of the Architect app?
Is Admin licenced differently or anything?

The reason I ask is that our IT team have gone off and created a package for distributing the TM1 Admin to users (which took them 1Mth+ to do!! ) before they even looked at the Client Package.
We want to hurry up and release the new package so we can upgrade our ancient TM1 servers & finally move onto 9.5.2 and don't want to wait for the IT team to procrastinate for another month with the Client package...

Sounds like you need to be more on top of your packaging team and be giving direction what they should be doing!

As far as licensing goes whether a user connects via Architect or Perspectives is the same. Architect is just Perspectives minus Excel integration. I wouldn't see any harm in distributing it other than it may confuse users if they open it by mistake as it looks the same except there is no slice to Excel options and if users open Excel application files they will open in an Excel instance that is not connected to TM1 and numbers would not refresh.

You should check the package that it includes Perspectives and Architect and is not Architect only.

As an additional point there's no reason to make upgrading the server contingent on rolling out new client software as there is backward compatibility on the server side to older clients. There is no reason why you can't upgrade the server version in advance of rolling out new client software so that you can take advantage for example of improved locking and performance and web interface but upgrade perspectives later. All you need to do is set the appropriate ClientVersionMinimum parameter in tm1s.cfg and change it later.

Ah... the joys of working in a Global company, the IT team in AU have to coordinate with the actual programers / packagers in China

The Admin package contains both the Perspectives + Architect so should not be a problem, was just curious if anyone knew if there were any licencing issues in releasing that compared to the Client package. Our users tend to connect to TM1 via the Add-in in Excel anyway so not likely to have issues of mistaken Architect sessions.

BTW - Regarding the backwards compatibility of the versions, we did roll out 9.5.2 onto our server but we found that the existing templates that the business was using which had TM1 formulas would no longer connect to the Server. We even got IBM support to try and resolve it but they had never seen this issue before. Ended up being a complete waste of a weekend swapping Servers over & then back again.

We had similar question on the licensing front and IBM came back suggesting that the norm is to distribute perspectives to the end users. The licenses are usually distributed by IBM based on the "user roles" - Admin/Modeller, Contributor (users inputting budgets), Explorer (Read-only folks). You should be able to find this in your licensing agreement or Contract. So, from licensing POV, User Security setup is more important than the type of software (Architect/perspectives).

As an FYI TM1 uses a PVU licensing for the server. This essentially means you pay for each processor core that a TM1 server might be running on. I realize its not likely you have also installed the TM1 server along with the admin install but if you have then you would have a serious problem during a license audit. They would want to get you for each core of every computer you installed the TM1 server on!

Just had a look at what we purchased:
IBM Cognos Enterprise Planning TM1 Modeler Authorized User
IBM Cognos 8 Enterprise Planning TM1 Contributor Authorized User

So my assumption is that the Modeler package is our "Admin" Package & Contributor is the "Client" package.
In that case I think we are in for a long wait

Prolly should have google searched for images earlier, seems the TM1 Modeller is a new (for us anyway) set of tools for us to play with:

True..waiting and distributing the perspectives installation is the correct approach..

RJ! wrote:Just had a look at what we purchased:
IBM Cognos Enterprise Planning TM1 Modeler Authorized User
IBM Cognos 8 Enterprise Planning TM1 Contributor Authorized User

So my assumption is that the Modeler package is our "Admin" Package & Contributor is the "Client" package.
In that case I think we are in for a long wait

Don't get confused between the software component names vs the licensing component names - there is no connection! "Performance Modler" is a new component that is for admins only but it is (not quite) thin client. If your "admin" package contains Perspectives + Architect there is no reason why your Contributor users can't use this.

RJ! wrote:We want to hurry up and release the new package so we can upgrade our ancient TM1 servers & finally move onto 9.5.2

RJ! wrote:seems the TM1 Modeller is a new

If you are updating your servers to 9.5.2, then you won't get Performance Muddler as that only came in with 10.1.