Please refer to Arrow Quick Start Guide for step-by-step instructions for running various plan types.
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Yes. In Analysis Mode, under Project ribbon, click the down arrow and select “Create New Project”. When prompted, select “Arrow” or your current project template as Parent. Alternatively, navigate to Project Management under Settings and select “Create new”.
Once created, you can navigate to User Settings to confirm the new project is now set as your default.
Project Management panel can also be used to edit permissions of your projects.
To learn more, please watch our Project Tempates tutorial.
Expert Mode allows users to perform complex target Service Area and individual Locations selection based on their attributes stored in the Arrow database. For example, you can cherry-pick a handful of wirecenters into an optimization from a layer that contains hundreds.
Expert Mode entries are always in the form of SQL queries. Please contact Arrow Customer Success Team if you think you may want to use this feature in your work.
INTRA pruning strategy applies optimization constraints (Budget, Coverage, Plan IRR targets) individually to every service area selected, i.e. every service area aims to achieve same budget or coverage targets.
INTER pruning strategy applies optimization constraints to the whole plan. For example, 80% coverage target input aims to achieve 80% coverage across all areas and locations selected into optimization, with coverage achieved in individual service areas varying based on where best investment returns are possible.
Segment IRR-based optimizations evaluate attractiveness of individual network nodes and are thereby not bound by service area-level constraints (i.e. the setting is irrelevant).
For plans involving just a single service area this setting is irrelevant, and both options imply same logic to be applied to the optimization.
Once the plan has been started and optimization is running, it is not necessary to keep the browser window open. All the computing is done in the cloud, and the user can proceed to immediately set up another plan and execute it. It is advisable however, to limit the number of simultaneous plans being run, as the compute resource is shared across all active plans, and exhausting it will result in significantly slower plan runtimes across the board.
Please also note that prior to closing browser window the plan needs be saved. Only saved plans are accessible via “Open an Existing Plan” functionality later on, and all unsaved work will be lost.
It is mostly up to user’s preference how to track his/her plans and iterations. Typically, users employ a combination of descriptive plan names, with dates, and “Plan Settings” report that itemizes data and resource selections used in each plan.