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NowDocs BPMS: Requirements

Industry-leading Business Process Management (BPM) software and services that help you understand how you work today and how to make it better. Business process management(BPM) is a management discipline that combines a process-centric and cross-functional approach to improving how organizations achieve their business goals.


Requirements

BPM Suite 4.5 SP3 Server Requirements

Verify that the server(s) you have designated for NowDocs BPM Suite 4.5 SP3 meets the following hardware and software requirements. Unless specifically noted in the table below, BPM Suite installations support all service packs for 32-bit editions of the mentioned software. BPM Suite installations also support SQL Server 2005 64-bit edition if the BPM Engine is not installed on the 64-bit operating system.

Hardware

  • Intel or AMD CPU > 2 GHz (Dual or Quad Core recommended, depending upon number of users)
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 10 GB usable disk space (Hardware RAID 1 SCSI configuration recommended) (O/S and Application)
  • 100BaseTX Ethernet Network Adapter (Gigabit Ethernet recommended)
  • Additional storage for database required.
  • Separate Hardware RAID 10 volumes are recommended for Database Data, Index, and Log files (when used in production environment)

  • Software

  • Windows Server 2000 or Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition or Windows 2003 Standard Edition
  • Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 or later

    BPM Server
  • .NET Framework 2.0*
  • .NET Framework 3.0*
  • Microsoft SQLXML 3.0 SP3*
  • Microsoft Web Service Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 SP2 (Runtime Files Only)*
  • SMTP/POP3-compliant email system, accessible in the Enterprise
  • Microsoft® Message Queuing (MSMQ) 2.0 or later †
  • Microsoft® Excel 2003ˆ
  • Microsoft® Word 2003ˆ
  • Optional: PDF (ActivePDF)°

    BPM Database
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2000 Desktop Edition*, SQL Server 2005, or SQL Server 2005 Express*

    BPM Web
  • SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (required for reporting functionality)

    BPM Reporting
    Services
  • SQL Server 2005 Reporting
  • * These files can be downloaded for free from Microsoft’s web site (www.microsoft.com).
    † Microsoft MSMQ is a standard component of Windows Server 2000 and 2003.
    ˆ Only required if using NowDocs BPM’s Office 2003 activities, which includes the Excel Reader, Excel Writer, and Word activities.
    ° Only required if using NowDocs BPM’s PDF Converter activity. Not required to use the PDF Writer and PDF Reader activities. You can download a trial or purchase a license at www.activepdf.com.