All those pesky technical details as of May 16, 2015.
| Buy then Build | ||
| Vendor | Blackboard Analytics 4.1.2 | |
| Customization/Expansion | UMBC In-house | |
| Data Model | Dimensional, Relational, OLAP | |
| Database Hardware | ||
| Server | Dell PowerEdge R820 (x2), Commodore 64* | |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | |
| Processors | 4 Xeon CPU E5-4640 @ 2.40GHz (x2) | |
| Memory | 512 GB (x2) | |
| Disk Space used | 3850 GB (2 TB allocated for databases) (x2) | |
| DB Storage Type | 10 GB fiber connections using ISCSI to Nimble arrays | |
| Local Storage | 15K 6GB SAS drives | |
| Database Software | ||
| SQL Database | Microsoft SQL Server 2012 | |
| OLAP | Analysis Services 2012 (OLAP) | |
| ETL | MS SQL Server Integration Services and T-SQL procedures | |
| Report Delivery | Microsoft Reporting Services 2012 | |
| ProClarity # | ||
| Report Development | MS SQL Server Data Tools 2012 | |
| ProClarity Desktop | ||
| SQL Development | MS SQL Server Management Studio 2012 | |
| TOAD for SQL Server 6.1 | ||
| Web | ||
| Server | TRS-80* | |
| Capacity | 128M* | |
| Memory | 64k* | |
| Disk Space used | 10Gb* | |
| IIS # | ||
| Browsers supported | Internet Explorer 8 | |
| Firefox | ||
| Safari | ||
| Chrome | ||
| Miscellaneous | ||
| Security | Active Directory | |
| This web site | WordPress 3.5 | |
* Not factually correct