Yes, I see the viewer installed on my computer.

I do not have much access overall. Just read access to one database and I cannot see what is...

Thanks for the good info. If data profile tasks is all I need, then I ask the DBA to have it run on regular schedule. If they run...

I am not a DBA. Not a developer either. More of an end user of the data typically analyzing it.

I'm mostly interested in the data profile task in...

if the packages are to be run against a single database/server, then it would be best to install ssis on that same machine, correct?

then bids/ssis needs to be installed locally...

the end users in this scenario are people wanting to run the data profiling features. my original question was what needs to be installed and where does it need...

run some of the functions. Data profile viewer, for example.

What is the "machine in question"? The one the actual database is stored on?

If so, then SSIS needs to be installed on the database server and also on each...