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SAS® Anti-Money Laundering 6.3

Overview

SAS Anti-Money Laundering is available for both distributed and non-distributed SAS LASR Analytic Server deployments. These system requirements apply to both LASR deployments. The headings below indicate whether components apply to a specific LASR deployment.

Server-Tier Requirements

SAS Anti-Money Laundering Alert Generation Server

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SAS Anti-Money Laundering includes the following software:

  • Quality Knowledge Base, English (US)
  • Quality Knowledge Base for Product Data of choice
  • Quality Knowledge Base Locale of choice

It also includes one of the following SAS/ACCESS engines of choice for SAS Anti-Money Laundering:

  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to IBM DB2
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC (for use with Microsoft SQL Server)
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to Teradata

SAS Anti-Money Laundering includes one of the following SAS/ACCESS engines of choice for SAS Enterprise Case Management:

  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC (for use with Microsoft SQL Server)
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to PostgreSQL

Because the Quality Knowledge Base for English is required, an additional Quality Knowledge Base in a language of your choice is also included in your license.

SAS Quality Knowledge Base Locale products are included with the software order. SAS Quality Knowledge Base for Product Data products must be downloaded from the SAS Downloads and Hotfixes site.

SAS Data Management Standard Server

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SAS Data Management Data Server includes either a SAS Quality Knowledge Base Locale of choice or a Quality Knowledge Base for Product Data of choice.

SAS Data Management Data Server also includes two standard SAS/ACCESS engines of choice, and three SAS Metadata Bridges of choice. In addition, General Industry Standards is included automatically.

Although SAS Data Management Server is supported on z/OS, it has some limitations related to connectivity or functionality.

SAS Data Quality Standard Server

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SAS Data Quality Standard Server includes a SAS Data Management Contextual Extraction Language Pack of choice.

It also includes either a SAS Quality Knowledge Base Locale of choice or a Quality Knowledge Base for Product Data of choice.

SAS Visual Process Orchestration Server

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SAS Visual Process Orchestration Server is only required when the SAS Data Quality Standard Server is running on 32-bit Windows. SAS Visual Process Orchestration must be installed on a separate machine, however, because it does not support 32-bit Windows.

SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server

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SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server includes the following two LASR components:

  • SAS Visual Analytics LASR Server Non-distributed (optional in a Distributed deployment)
  • SAS Visual Analytics LASR Server Distributed

It also includes a standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice.

We recommend installing SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting server on a separate machine.

SAS Solution LASR Analytic Server (Non-distributed LASR)

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SAS Solution LASR Analytic Server includes a standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice.

The operating system where you install SAS Solution LASR Analytic Server must be the same as the operating system for the SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server.

SAS LASR Analytic Server (Distributed LASR) on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • SAS High-Performance Deployment for Hadoop 3.0
  • SAS High-Performance Node Installation 3.2

Supported Environments:
  • Oracle Linux 6.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

Co-located storage for Teradata and Greenplum is no longer supported for new installations. To load data in parallel from these providers, use the SAS Embedded Process. To use the SAS Embedded Process, you must install the appropriate SAS/ACCESS engine on the server tier.

Note: Base SAS, SAS/ACCESS, and SAS Visual Analytics can either be installed on the head node of the commodity hardware (symmetric) or on separate hardware from the commodity hardware (asymmetric). This architecture enables you to install the SAS Visual Analytics, Distributed LASR server-tier Base SAS components on Windows for x64 while working with the Linux for x64 LASR grid.

Apache Hadoop software is distributed with SAS software as a convenience. For support information, see http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/ApacheHadoopSupport.html.

SAS Metadata Server

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SAS makes the following recommendations for SAS Metadata Server deployments:

  • a 64-bit host system
  • a dedicated machine to simplify tuning, management, and diagnostics
  • multi-core server hardware because SAS Metadata Server is multi-threaded
  • four or more cores for production deployments

The disk I/O performance of any server-class system should be sufficient. Memory requirements are highly dependent on the product mix and usage, but 8 GB of RAM are sufficient for most large deployments. For many deployments, 4 GB of RAM are sufficient and should be considered a minimum, unless the specific deployment is tested and verified to require less memory.


Middle-Tier Requirements

Note: SAS Anti-Money Laundering includes SAS Enterprise Case Management. Use of SAS Enterprise Case Management outside of a SAS Anti-Money Laundering context requires licensing for the full SAS Enterprise Case Management product.

SAS Anti-Money Laundering Mid-tiers

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In most deployments, this server is installed on the same machine as the SAS Alert Generation Server.

SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Mid-tier

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Web Application Servers

When you install your SAS solution software, SAS Deployment Manager installs and configures the required web application servers and web servers.

To install these servers, select one of the supported operating systems for the middle tier.

Note: These servers cannot be installed on the z/OS or 32-bit Windows platforms.

Supported Databases

SAS Anti-Money Laundering supports the following databases1:

  • IBM DB2 Universal Database, Version 10.1 or higher (64-bit libraries)
  • Oracle Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition, 11g and 12c2,3
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and 20124,5
  • Teradata v13.10

Notes:

  1. It is possible to use separate databases for SAS Anti-Money Laundering and SAS Enterprise Case Management, but this configuration is not recommended. Note that these products support different databases. Refer to the SAS Enterprise Case Management system requirements for more information about SAS Enterprise Case Management database support.
  2. To leverage advanced tuning features such as bitmap indexing and data partitioning, SAS recommends deploying SAS Anti-Money Laundering on Oracle Enterprise Edition rather than on Oracle Standard Edition. Oracle Enterprise Edition offers features required for tuning high-volume databases. Consult with your Oracle licensing representative for a complete list of available features.
  3. When using Oracle, install the Oracle Text option.
  4. When using Microsoft SQL Server as the solution database, SAS/ACCESS to ODBC is required. 
  5. When using Microsoft SQL Server as the solution database, install all server tiers of the solution on Windows.

Client-Tier Requirements

SAS Data Management Standard Studio

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SAS Data Management Standard Studio includes a Data Management Contextual Extraction Language Pack of choice. It also includes either a SAS Quality Knowledge Base Locale of choice or a Quality Knowledge Base for Product Data of choice.

SAS Enterprise Case Management Client

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SAS Visual Analytics Mobile Clients

SAS Visual Analytics Mobile Clients (SAS Mobile BI) are available for the Apple iPad and Android tablets via free downloads from app stores.

Web Browsers

If you are using Internet Explorer, SAS Anti-Money Laundering supports only Microsoft Internet Explorer version 11 or higher. For information about other supported web browsers and supported web browser plug-ins, see the following page: http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/index.html.


Third-Party Software

SAS software may be provided with certain third-party software, including but not limited to open-source software, which is licensed under its applicable third-party software license agreement. A listing of this third-party software can be found at http://support.sas.com/thirdpartylicenses.

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