Installation and Deployment

This section explains how to install and deploy the Bold BI solution.

Unlock the setup

This topic explains the steps required to install Bold BI Enterprise.

To see the system requirements for deploying Bold BI Enterprise in a business environment, see System Requirements.

Run the Bold BI Enterprise Installer.

You can check the license agreement of Bold BI Enterprise edition by clicking the License Terms and Conditions.

Hosting type

You have been provided Bold BI Enterprise Edition to be hosted in the IIS web-server type.

IIS

You need to provide the port number, location, and site name to host Bold BI Enterprise in the IIS.

PhantomJS

IMPORTANT: PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript. This is free software or open source, and it may contain MIT, BSD, LGPL, GPL, or other similar licenses that contain third-party code. This executable file is necessary to achieve an image and PDF export functionalities in the dashboard and widgets. Without this file, the image and PDF export options in the dashboard and widgets will no longer be available. If you choose to download PhantomJS, then you must accept all terms and conditions to use it with Syncfusion products.

Read and accept the license and third-party terms and conditions by checking the options LICENSE and Third-party for install PhantomJS and click INSTALL.

NOTE: If you have any problem with internet connection or do not have internet connection, unselect the PhantomJS download option and continue to install. To manually install the PhantomJS, refer to this.

Client libraries

IMPORTANT: Bold BI Enterprise Edition uses client libraries such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, and MongoDB to connect with their respective SQL database variants. Check license of each library to give consent for installation. The selected client libraries alone will be shipped into the product.

Read and accept the license to ship the selected client libraries and click Next.

After the installation process is completed, you can launch the application by clicking Launch Application.

If you did not install the client libraries during this installation, then after installed the Bold BI setup, you can install it using ClientLibrary.msi setup. The following steps to install the client libraries.

1. Go to the location C:\Program Files (x86)\Bold BI Enterprise Edition\Client Library. And double click the setup file named ClientLibrary.msi.

   

2. Now, the client libraries dialog will open. Then, you can choose and install the required client libraries.

   

See Also

• Application Setup