XMPie's variable data and cross-media software enables enterprises and their marketing service providers to efficiently develop and execute highly customized, information driven, one to one marketing campaigns.

System requirements for uDirect®

Notes: uDirect Classic or Studio can run on either Windows or Mac. uDirect Premier requires one Windows station for uPlan, and either a Windows or Macintosh system for the uDirect Professional plug-in to InDesign.

Windows 

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or better
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 OR Windows Vista Business (or above) with Service Pack 1

Macintosh

• PowerPC® G4 800 MHz or better, or MacIntel.
• Operating System MAC OS X 10.4.8 OR Mac OS X 10.5.x

General Requirements

• 1 GB RAM (recommended 2 GB)
• 80 GB Hard Disk (recommended 320 GB)
  When using uDirect Studio with uImage, make sure your system's hard disk has the minimum free space of 80GB for Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator scratch files
• CD/DVD-ROM Drive
• 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Adapter
• Adobe® InDesign® CS2 or CS3
• Adobe® Photoshop® and Illustrator CS2 or CS3 if uImage is used

System requirements for PersonalEffect components

uProduce Server
Minimum Hardware requirements for uProduce with SI (single instance) Indesign Server:

CPU

• A one (1) Physical CPU
• Intel® Xeon® processor
• 2 GB RAM

Hard Drive Storage

• 2 Disk Partitions 
    - Operating System Storage Partition, 40 GB
    - XMPie Application and Storage Partition, 280 GB (if storage of is on local machine)
• General Requirements
    - 10/100/ Mbps Ethernet Adapter
    - CD/DVD-ROM Drive

uProduce Director

CPU

• One (1) physical CPU
• Intel Xeon processor Dual-Core CPU family 
• 2 GB RAM 

Hard Drive Storage

• 3 x 10K RPM SATA disks in RAID-5 configuration with capacity of at least 320 GB each. The disks should be divided into 2 Partitions:

               -C: Operating System Storage Partition, 40 GB 
               -D: XMPie Application and Storage Partition, 280 GB 

General Requirements

• 1Gbps Ethernet Adapter
• CD/DVD-ROM Drive

Software requirements:

• Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 32-bit Standard Edition with Service Pack 2
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
• Internet Browser for uProduce Dashboard
    - Internet Explorer 6 or higher 
    - Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or higher

uProduce Extension Server
 

CPU

• One (1) physical CPU for SI/MI1, Two (2) Physical CPU for MI2, Four (4) Physical CPU for MI4
• Intel Xeon processor Dual-Core CPU family 
• 2 GB RAM per CPU

Hard Drive Storage

• 2 10K RPM SATA disks in RAID-1 (Mirroring) configuration, with capacity of at least 160GB each.
• The disks should be divided into 2 Partitions:
    - C: Operating System Storage Partition, 40 GB
    - D: XMPie Application Partition 120 GB 

General Requirements

• 1Gbps Ethernet Adapter
• CD/DVD-ROM Drive

Software requirements:

• Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 32-bit Standard Edition with Service Pack 2
• Adobe® InDesign® Server CS2 or CS3 (installation pre-requisite)
• Adobe Photoshop® and Illustrator® CS2 or CS3 if uImage® is used
  System requirements for uProduce Add-On Products:

uChart®: No additional requirements

uImage: Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS2 or CS3 (Windows)

uStore®: uStore can be installed on the base uProduce Server or on separate Windows 2005 Server with the same requirements as uProduce Director Server.

uImage Processing Unit

CPU 

• A one (1) Physical CPU
• Intel Core™ Duo (or compatible) processor
• 2 GB RAM

Hard Drive Storage

• 2 Disk Partitions:

               - C: System disk storage: 80 GB

               - D: Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator scratch files storage: 80 GB

General Requirements

• 10/100/ Mbps Ethernet Adapter
• CD/DVD-ROM Drive

Software requirements

• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2
• Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS2 or CS3

uProduce™ Marketing Console

CPU

• A one (1) Physical CPU, Intel Xeon processor CPU family
• 2 GB RAM for the Marketing Console component
• 2 GB RAM for the Tracking Database component

Hard Drive Storage

• 2 10K RPM SATA disks in RAID-1 (Mirroring) configuration, with capacity of at least 160GB each. 

               - Operating System Storage Partition: 80 GB

               - XMPie Application and Storage Partition: 80 GB or more

                 (if storage of is on local machine)

General Requirements 

• 100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Adapter
• CD/DVD-ROM Drive

Software requirements

• For Marketing Console component:

               - Windows Server 2003 32 bit Web Edition with Service Pack 2

• For Database component of the Express Edition:

               - Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 32-bit with Service Pack 2

               - Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services

• For Database component of the Premier Edition:

                - Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 32-bit Standard Edition with

                   Service Pack 2 

                - Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition

System requirements for PersonalEffect desktop tools:

uPlan™ 

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or better
• 1 GB RAM 
• 80 GB Hard Disk
• CD/DVD-ROM drive
• 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Adapter 
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 OR Windows Vista Business (or above) with Service Pack 1

uCreate™

Windows 

• Intel Pentium 4 or better
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 OR Windows Vista Business (or above) with Service Pack 1

Macintosh

• PowerPC® G4 800 MHz or better or MacIntel
• Operating System MAC OS X 10.4.8 OR Mac OS X 10.5.x

General Requirements

• 1 GB RAM (recommended 2 GB)
• 80 GB Hard Disk (recommended 320 GB) 
• CD/DVD-ROM Drive
• 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Adapter (recommended 1 Gbps) 
• uCreate Print requires Adobe InDesign CS2 or CS3 
• uCreate XM requires Adobe Dreamweaver® 8 or CS3

uChart:

• Same as uCreate Print

uImage
Note: uImage for PersonalEffect includes one uImage component for the desktop and one for uProduce. 

• For Template Design only 

               - Adobe Photoshop CS2 or CS3: Mac or Windows

               - Adobe Illustrator CS2 or CS3: Mac or Windows

• For Generating Personalized Images on the Desktop

               - uPlan (Windows) or uCreate (Windows or Mac)

               - Adobe Photoshop CS2 or CS3

               - Adobe Illustrator CS2 or CS3