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Installation Guide
An installation of HCL Unica products is complete when you install, configure, and deploy the HCL Unica products . The Installation Guide provides detailed information about installing, configuring, and deploying the products.
Installing Platform
You must run the Unica installer to start the installation of Unica Platform. The Unica installer starts the Unica Platform installer during the installation process. Make sure that the Unica installer and the product installer are saved at the same location.
Platform components
The Unica Platform application contains the common navigation, reporting, user administration, security, scheduling, and configuration management features. For each Unica environment, you must install and deploy the Unica Platform once.

Installation Guides
- Installation Guide
  An installation of HCL Unica products is complete when you install, configure, and deploy the HCL Unica products . The Installation Guide provides detailed information about installing, configuring, and deploying the products.
  - Installation overview
    An installation of HCL Unica products is complete when you install, configure, and deploy the HCL Unica products . The Installation Guide provides detailed information about installing, configuring, and deploying the products.
  - Planning the Unica Platform installation
    When you plan your Unica Platform installation, you must ensure that you have set up your system correctly, and that you have configured your environment to deal with any failures.
  - Creating the Unica Platform data sources
    You must create Unica Platform data sources before you can install Unica Platform.
  - Installing Platform
    You must run the Unica installer to start the installation of Unica Platform. The Unica installer starts the Unica Platform installer during the installation process. Make sure that the Unica installer and the product installer are saved at the same location.
    - Installing Unica Platform by using the GUI mode
      For Windows™, use the GUI mode to install Unica Platform. For UNIX™, use the X Window System mode to install Unica Platform.
    - Installing Unica Platform using the console mode
      The console mode allows you to install Unica Platform using the command-line window. You can select various options in the command-line window to complete tasks such as selecting the products to install, or selecting the home directory for the installation.
    - Installing Unica Platform silently
      Use the unattended or silent mode to install Unica Platform multiple times.
    - Platform components
      The Unica Platform application contains the common navigation, reporting, user administration, security, scheduling, and configuration management features. For each Unica environment, you must install and deploy the Unica Platform once.
    - Optional: Creating and populating the Platform system tables manually
      When you install Unica Platform, you can select the option where the installer creates the Unica Platform system tables automatically. Alternatively, you can manually create the system tables.
  - Deploying Platform
    You must follow a set of guidelines when you deploy Unica Platform in your web application server. There is a different set of guidelines for deploying Unica Platform on WebLogic and on WebSphere®.
  - Configuring Platform after deployment
    For a basic installation of Unica Platform, you must configure Unica Platform after deployment if you use the Unica reporting feature, or if you want to use a password policy.
  - Installing Unica Platform in a cluster
  - Deploying Asset Picker
  - Unica Platform utilities
    This section provides an overview of the Unica Platform utilities, including some details that apply to all the utilities and which are not included in the individual utility descriptions.
  - About Platform SQL scripts
    This section describes the SQL scripts provided with Unica Platform to perform various tasks relating to the Unica Platform system tables.
  - Uninstalling Unica Platform
    Run the Unica Platform uninstaller to uninstall Unica Platform. When you run the uninstaller, the files that were created during the installation process are removed. For example, files such as configuration files, installer registry information, and user data are removed from the computer.

Unica Platform components

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

To use the Unica 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 Unica Platform to use the utilities, you do not have to deploy the Unica Platform again, and you do not have to create additional Unica Platform system tables.

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

Table 1. Platform components
This two-columned table uses the first column to provide the names of the Platform components that you can select when you install Unica Platform, and uses the second column to describe the components.
Component	Description
Unica Platform utilities	Command line tools that allow you to work with the Unica 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 Unica Platform utilities.
Unica Platform web application	The web application that supplies the common user interface, security, and configuration management for Unica. Install this on the machine where you plan to deploy the Unica Platform.
Reports for IBM® Cognos® 10 BI	Reports integration components for IBM® Cognos®. Install this component only on the Cognos® system.
Unica Insights Reports	Reports integration component for Unica Insights project. Post installation, the administrator must configure it. Unica Insights is integrated with the Unica suite and is able to provide the different reports for each module to the user. The reports are pulled up by using the BIRT technology. Post installation, the administrator must configure it. The configuration details are available in the Unica Insights Reports Installation and Configuration Guide.
Asset Picker	Installs Asset Picker that you can use to link your content artifacts to offers.

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