The SAS Intelligence
Platform architecture is a comprehensive, end-to-end infrastructure
for creating, managing, and distributing enterprise intelligence.
This architecture consists of the following tiers:
client tier
provides users with
desktop access to data and functionality through easy-to-use interfaces.
With SAS Business Rules Manager, users author rule sets and rule
flows through the SAS Business Rules Manager Flex client.
middle tier
provides web-based
interfaces for creating reports and distributing information, while
passing analysis and processing requests to the SAS servers. The middle
tier provides SAS Business Rules Manager services.
server tier
provides SAS servers
that process data and handle client requests. For SAS Business Rules Manager,
the server tier provides the SAS Business Rules Engine.
data tier
stores your data. The
business rules database contains all of the data that the user enters
through the SAS Business Rules Manager Flex client application.
SAS Business Rules Manager
the Flex client application
for SAS Business Rules Manager. Through this client application,
users author vocabularies, rule sets, and rule flows.
SAS Decision Manager
manages requests to SAS Business Rules Manager
and provides general SAS Decision Manager functions such as data
source and workflow management.
SAS Web Infrastructure Platform
provides common SAS
infrastructure services that SAS Business Rules Manager uses
to authenticate users and to access services within the SAS platform.
SAS Business Rules Manager on the middle tier
manages communication
with the business rules database and initiates the process of saving
rule flows to the content repository.
SAS Web Infrastructure Platform Data Server
serves as transactional
storage for SAS middle-tier software and some SAS solutions software.
SAS Servers
SAS application servers
that execute SAS code that is submitted from the middle-tier applications.
SAS Decision Manager Common Data Server
contains all of the
data that users enter through the SAS Business Rules Manager
client.
Metadata server
contains the BusinessRuleFlow
public metadata objects that are created when a rule flow is published.
These objects are used by the integrated SAS applications to execute
rule flows.