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Access to virtual or physical server
Before starting the Analytics for LS Central onboarding process, you need to make sure that your customer fulfills the requirements listed below.
LS Central
The customer must have an LS Central license and a license for Analytics for LS Central as a part of that.
- Please contact LS Retail license department through email or put in an Additional order request through the portal
- Analytics for LS Central is included in the NAV and LS Central pricelists that are valid from April 2023 but it is fine to send in requests before that time.
The customer must have LS Central version 8.4 or later on-premises or the latest version in SaaS.
- Analytics has been developed to support specific versions of LS Nav and LS Central.
- Analytics from version 2020.5 supports setup with LS Central SaaS.
The customer's LS Central setup must fulfill Microsoft Business Central requirements
- Analytics makes the same system requirements to the LS Central database as are made for Business Central from Microsoft. These can include hardware, SQL server, and operation system requirements.
Access to virtual or physical server
Before starting the setup process, you should have access to a server (virtual or on-premises). The usage of this server differs between the different setup environments so therefore we have named them differently and it is best to review the server setup for the Analytics setup you will be using.
Here are links to server setup page from the different onboarding processes:
Gateway server setup for LS Central on-prem and Analytics in Azure
Analytics server setup for LS Central on-prem and Analytics database on-prem
Scheduler server setup for LS Central SaaS and Analytics in Azure
External subscriptions
Customers must have or be willing to create a subscription for Power BI.
- Customers must have a Power BI Pro account subscription to be able to publish and share the Power BI reports with their organization.
Customer must have or be willing to create a subscription for Azure.
- Analytics is set up in Azure under the customers account. The cost of a typical Analytics system is around 100 USD a month, assuming that pipelines are run once every 24 hours to refresh the warehouse data.
- We have gathered some information about the Azure cost estimate and given an example for a standard Analytics schedule.
More details about the subscription setup can be found in the onboarding process.