OA Reports can be memory hungry and processor intensive. If there is a business requirement for these reports to be available during office hours, dependent on COINS usage and the size of installation, the performance of the main server could be impaired. To cost effectively support and really unleash the power of high-end COINS OA Designer Reporting solutions, COINS can now deliver a ‘Split Platform’ architecture: a main COINS server alongside one or more separate report servers.

Report servers are relatively low cost, so if one server is outgrown, another one can simply be added. Using clusters of servers to deliver an enterprise solution is becoming a popular answer to the problem of how to have an affordable, scalable system. The power provided by several smaller servers is much greater than can be delivered by a similarly priced, single server.