About the Predictor Resource
The Predictor resource is a Microsoft Windows 2000 service that is optionally installed with Commerce Server 2000 as part of a complete or a custom installation. The Predictor resource enables you to provide predictive capabilities for your Web site. You use the Predictor resource to build complex analysis models by specifying the table columns or attributes that you want to predict. For example, you can use the Predictor resource to determine the type of content, ads, and cross-sells that might interest your users. After the Predictor resource builds the analysis models, you can add the Predictor Client Object to your Active Server Pages (ASP) pages, which adds intelligent cross-sell, product recommendations, and property prediction to your site.
Multiple instances of the Predictor resource are supported per Commerce site, but only one instance is supported per computer. You can install the Predictor resource on each computer that contains your Commerce Server Data Warehouse, or you can install the Predictor resource on dedicated computers to preserve system memory. Running the Predictor resource on a separate computer uses more network bandwidth than running the Predictor resource and the Data Warehouse on the same computer. The Predictor resource requires that you use Microsoft SQL Server as your database.
Building analysis models is memory intensive. You can prevent a resource hit on the Web servers by building the model once and then copying it to each of your Web servers (using the IPredictorClient::LoadModelFromDB method with the Predictor Client Object). Each Web server can host multiple analysis models (for different predictive functionality).
After you build an analysis model, you can view it. You can view a Prediction model with the Prediction Model Viewer in Commerce Server Manager, and a Segment model in the Segment Viewer module in Commerce Server Business Desk.
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- There can be only one instance of the Predictor resource per computer.
The Predictor resource contains analysis models and analysis model configurations. The Predictor resource provides the Prediction Model Viewer to analyze and view your analysis models.
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