About Environments

A SAS environment is a complete, self-contained, fully functioning deployment of SAS applications. Environments in the SAS Cloud are deployed by using virtualization technology. This technology makes environments easy to create and manage.
A typical environment includes the following:
  • data storage that can be populated with your organization’s data
  • virtualized software, servers, and services that perform various types of processing
  • virtualized client applications through which users can access SAS functionality
  • the following administrative interfaces:
    • SAS Management Console (for tasks such as assigning application roles, granting permissions, and organizing content)
    • SAS vApp Ledger, which provides a virtual machine-level view of applications that are packaged as vApps (for example, SAS Visual Analytics)
    • SAS vApp Data Manager, which enables you to upload data to a secured location for applications that are packaged as vApps (for example, SAS Visual Analytics)
SAS provides a ready-to-use environment for each SAS product that you have licensed. To manage the environment, you need to specify which of your organization’s users are authorized to access the environment. You can also edit the environment’s name and add a description.