Ready to try Flow?

After receiving your email, click on the download link and follow these steps to get up and running:

• Run the downloaded Flow installer. It takes less than a minute to install Flow.
• Make sure you have a running instance of Microsoft SQL Server that you can connect to. If not, use the free SQL Express Edition.
• Configure the Flow Bootstrap Service. This is an important step as it involves security. See this article for details.
• Launch the Flow Config Tool and create a new Flow System. See this article for details.

How about starting with a pre-built template? Download one of these template Flow Systems, import it into a new Flow Model, deploy, and explore:

• "Flow Juice Factory" - our famous Juice Factory demo, templates and all
• "Flow Best Day" - track daily production against a previously recorded "best day", and project your end-of-day total
• "Flow Tag Calculations" - use Flow tags to filter bad quality, remove data outside of a band, or combine data from multiple sources
• More coming soon ...

Alternatively, start by using a pre-built virtual machine with Flow already installed and running Flow VM (12.1 GB)