What's New in SAS Decision Manager 2.2

The functionality of the SAS Model Manager Workflow Console is now available in SAS Decision Manager. You can manage your workflows and perform tasks in the same user interface that you use to manage business rules and modeling projects. For more information, see Overview of Using Workflows.

The model life cycle functionality has been deprecated and replaced with functionality that leverages SAS Workflow. You can view only migrated life cycles. For more information, see View Life Cycle Status.

Support has been added for publishing models to the Hadoop Distributed File System and to the SAP HANA database. You can also remove published model files from Hadoop, like the other publish destinations. However, you cannot remove published model files from an SAP HANA database. For more information, see Publishing Models to a Database.

Within a modeling project, you can add new versions, lock or unlock a version, and switch the displayed version. One or more versions can be active at one time, but only one can be the champion version. For more information, see Overview of Project Versions.

You can also manage versions of rule sets and rule flows. You can display detailed information about a rule set or rule flow version. For rule sets, you can lock a version and add new versions. For rule flows, a new version is created each time you publish a rule flow. See Managing Rule Set Versions and Managing Versions of a Rule Flow for more information.

When you save a rule flow as a stored process, the rule flow is made available as a stored process on the SAS Stored Process Server. Other applications can then execute the rule flow and receive and process the results. See Deploy a Rule Flow as a Stored Process for more information.

SAS Decision Manager now provides a New Discovery window that enables you to use analytical techniques to generate and import rule flows from a data table. You can use the Decision Tree, Scorecard, Market Basket, or Recency Frequency Monetary (RFM) technique to generate and import business rule data into the rules database. This wizard generates a vocabulary, as many rule sets as are needed, and a rule flow. See Create a Rule Flow by Using Discovery Techniques for more information.

SAS Decision Manager 2.2 executes rule flows inside the databases by using the SAS In-Database Code Accelerator for Teradata or the SAS In-Database Code Accelerator for Greenplum when possible. Some complex rule flows cannot be executed inside the database.

SAS Decision Manager now supports the LIKE operator in condition expressions. It also supports leading + (plus) and – (minus) operators in action expressions.

The Data Tables category enables you to create libraries and to register tables to the SAS Metadata Repository. You can use the tables can as data sources when you are working with business rules and with modeling projects.For more information, see Managing Data Tables.