The SAS Model Manager Operational Environment

User communication to and from SAS Model Manager is carried out using the SAS Model Manager client. You use the SAS Model Manager client to create projects and versions, import models, connect with data sources, validate models, run modeling reports, run scoring tasks, set project status, declare the champion model, and run performance tests.

Users in the SAS Model Manager Administrator group use SAS Management Console to define the users, roles, data sources, and publishing channels for use with SAS Model Manager.

The SAS Model Manager Middle Tier Server is a collection of services and applications that orchestrates the communication and movement of data between all servers and components in the SAS Model Manager operational environment.

The SAS Web Infrastructure Platform (or WIP) is a collection of middle tier services and applications that provides basic integration services. It is delivered as part of the Integration Technologies package. As such, all Business Intelligence applications, Data Integration applications, and SAS Solutions have access to the Web Infrastructure Platform as part of their standard product bundling.

The SAS Model Manager model repository as well as the SAS Model Manager metadata are stored in the SAS Content Server. Communication between SAS Model Manager and the SAS Content Server uses the WebDAV communication protocol.

SAS Foundation includes Base SAS and a superset of SAS software that is required to support the deployment of SAS in your organization. Data modelers can develop SAS code models using Base SAS and other analytic SAS software such as SAS/STAT software. The SAS Model Manager Server directs all score code, macro programs, and reporting and monitoring programs to be processed by SAS Foundation.

SAS Model Manager stores and retrieves basic metadata about models from the SAS Metadata Server. The basic model metadata in a metadata repository includes input and output metadata as well as score code. All model-related files can be stored with the model in a metadata repository.

There are multiple servers that are used for different processes on the SAS Application Server. SAS Model Manager uses the JES Java Batch Server to schedule jobs for both performance tasks and scoring tasks. The execution of all other SAS Model Manager tasks such as SAS score code, scoring tasks, performance tasks, and mode retraining tasks is performed on the SAS Workspace Server.

SAS Model Manager Macros is a collection of macros that run under the SAS Application Server or a SAS session in the SAS Model Manager operational environment.

SAS data sets can serve as data sources in SAS Model Manager.

Tables in relational databases can serve as data sources in SAS Model Manager.