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🏛️ Architecture and Prerequisites

🏛️ Architecture and Prerequisites

Pulse is an application lifecycle management and monitoring solution designed for IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) environments. It helps organizations monitor, manage, and migrate TM1 applications efficiently while improving performance and reducing operational risks.

Key Capabilities

  • 24/7 Monitoring
    Track all TM1 servers in real time with dashboards showing CPU, memory, user sessions, and logs.
    Proactive alerts notify you of potential issues before they impact operations.

  • Change Tracking & Impact Analysis
    Automatically record all model changes and understand dependencies through interactive diagrams.
    Provides full audit trails for compliance and troubleshooting.

  • Migration & DevOps
    Migrate changes between environments without downtime.
    Rollback quickly if needed and validate models before deployment.

  • Performance & User Analytics
    Identify bottlenecks, optimize TM1 performance, and analyze user behavior to improve adoption and training.

  • License Optimization
    Generate reports to ensure efficient and compliant use of TM1 licenses.

Benefits

  • Reduce Support Calls by empowering users with visibility into chores and processes.

  • Improve Uptime & Productivity through proactive monitoring and alerts.

  • Centralized Management for multiple TM1 servers, whether on-premise or cloud.

  • Faster Development Cycles with automated documentation and migration tools.

In this section

Prerequisites
The supported IBM Planning Analytics versions and everything Pulse needs to run — server, thick client, and browser requirements, data storage and retention behaviour, Git-based source control, and the default port numbers, plus a pointer to the Linux install guide.

Architecture
How Pulse is put together — the centralized single-server model, its four services, the three data stores, the three clients, and where Pulse can be installed.

Comparison table (on-premise vs IBM Cloud)
A feature-by-feature comparison of what Pulse can do across PA self-hosted, IBM PA Cloud (v11), and IBM PAaaS (v12) — highlighting the features that need direct server access and so aren't available on the IBM PA Cloud.