Web Tier

The web tier provides an environment in which the data management web applications, such as SAS Business Data Network, SAS Visual Process Orchestration, and SAS Lineage, can execute. These products run in a web application server and communicate with the user by sending data to and receiving data from the user's web browser. The applications rely on servers on the SAS server tier to perform SAS processing.
The SAS Web Server and SAS Web Application Server provide a highly scalable, easy-to-manage environment that is dedicated to running SAS web applications. The SAS Web Server provides static HTTP content to users. It forwards requests for dynamic content to the SAS Web Application Server, which provides an execution environment for applications and services.
The SAS Web Infrastructure Platform is a collection of services and applications that provide common infrastructure and integration features to be used by SAS web applications.
These services and applications provide the following benefits:
  • consistency in installation, configuration, and administration tasks for web applications
  • greater consistency in users' interactions with web applications
  • integration among web applications as a result of the ability to share common resources
DataFlux Web Studio is a DataFlux application that works in conjunction with the DataFlux Web Studio Server and DataFlux Data Management Studio.