Processing Your Data: Intelligence Server

Strategy is retiring legacy administration tools in phases as capabilities move to Workstation, now available in the browser. December 2026 is last supported release for server legacy tools including, Developer, Command Manager, and Object Manager. For more information on legacy tool end of support, see Legacy Tools & Platform: End of Support Reference. For feature level details, see the Workstation vs Legacy Tools Feature Parity dashboard.

Intelligence Server is the second tier in the Strategy system. Intelligence Server must be running for users to get information from the data warehouse using Strategy clients, such as Strategy Web or Developer.

Intelligence Server is the heart of the Strategy system. It executes reports stored in the metadata against the data warehouse and passes the results of the reports to users. For detailed information about Intelligence Server, including how to start and stop it, see Managing Intelligence Server.

A server definition is an instance of Intelligence Server and its configuration settings. Multiple server definitions can be stored in the metadata, but only one can be run at a time on a machine. If you want multiple machines to point to the same metadata, you should cluster them. For more information about clustering, including instructions on how to cluster Intelligence Servers, see Cluster Multiple Strategy Servers.

Pointing multiple Intelligence Servers to the same metadata without clustering may cause metadata inconsistencies. This configuration is not supported, and Strategy strongly recommends that users not configure their systems in this way.