Clients in the SAS Intelligence Platform

Overview of Clients

SAS Intelligence Platform clients include desktop applications and Web-based applications. The following table lists the clients by type:

SAS Intelligence Platform Clients
Desktop Applications		Web Applications²
Java Applications¹	Windows Applications	Web Applications²
SAS Data Integration Studio	SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office	SAS Web Report Studio
SAS Information Map Studio	SAS Enterprise Guide	SAS Information Delivery Portal
SAS OLAP Cube Studio	JMP³	SAS BI Portlets
SAS Enterprise Miner		SAS BI Dashboard
SAS Management Console		SAS Help Viewer for the Web
1 Require a JRE on each client machine. 2 Require a Web browser on each client machine and a Web application server on the middle-tier machine where the application will run. 3 Also available on Macintosh and Linux.

The desktop applications are supported only on Microsoft Windows systems. The exception is SAS Management Console, which runs on all platforms except z/OS and OpenVMS. All of the Java desktop applications require the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), which includes a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that executes the application and a set of standard Java class libraries. If you have installed the SAS Foundation on a host, the JRE will already be present on that machine. Otherwise, you can install the JRE that is supplied by SAS before you install the first Java client.

The Web-based applications reside and execute on the middle tier, and require only a Web browser to be installed on each client machine. These products run on a Web application server on the middle tier. They communicate with the user by sending data to and receiving data from the user's Web browser. For example, an application of this type displays its user interface by sending an HTML document to the user's browser. The user can submit input to the application by sending it an HTTP response--usually by clicking a link or submitting an HTML form.

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