Marketing Platform components

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

To use the Marketing Platform utilities on additional computers, you must install the utilities and the web application on the additional computers. This is needed because the utilities use the jar files in the web application. However, when you install the Marketing Platform to use the utilities, you do not have to deploy the Marketing Platform again, and you do not have to create additional Marketing Platform system tables.

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

Table 1. Marketing Platform components
This two-columned table uses the first column to provide the names of the Marketing Platform components that you can select when you install Marketing Platform, and uses the second column to describe the components.
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 HCL Marketing Software. Install this on the machine where you plan to deploy the Marketing Platform.
Reports for IBM Cognos® BI	Reports integration components for IBM Cognos. Install this component only on the Cognos system.