SAS Campaign Management 6.3 (Distributed Mode) includes the distributed version of Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting (VAAR) (MPP environment). VAAR is required to enable the ‘Reporting Workspace’ in the CI Studio user interface. If VAAR is not installed, the Reporting Workspace will not be available in your system. Please reference deployment instructions for more details.
This version of VAAR is supported on Linux operating systems only and must be installed on a separate environment from SAS Campaign Management. Please see the Visual Analytics 6.4 system requirements for more details.
SAS Campaign Management Server includes three SAS Metadata Bridges of choice, one standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice for transactional data, and one of the following standard SAS/ACCESS engines of choice:
SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server includes SAS/ACCESS to Teradata (appliance obtained from vendor) or a Standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice if using Hadoop (commodity hardware).
Apache Hadoop software is distributed with SAS software as a convenience. For support information, see http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/ApacheHadoopSupport.html.
The relevant Java Software Developer Kits (JDK) and the latest information and special instructions can be found on the Third Party Support Web site: http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v94/jdks.html.
The middle tier of the SAS® 9.4 Intelligence Platform includes a SAS Web Application Server and a SAS Web Server for use as an HTTP server. For more information, refer to http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v94/appservers/index.html.
The SAS Web Application Server is a lightweight server that provides enterprise-class features for running SAS web applications. For more information, refer to http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v94/appservers/index.html.
SAS Customer Intelligence Studio is accessed via a supported web browser. The following browsers are supported and include Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer: http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v94/othersw.html.
Some SAS Web applications use Adobe Flash Player to provide interactive functionality. For support see http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v94/browsers.html#flash.
Support for presentation virtualization environments (for example, Citrix) for clients included with SAS Campaign Management is consistent with the SAS corporate support policy, which can be found at http://support.sas.com/techsup/pcn/virtualization.html.
The minimum recommended memory for the SAS Campaign Management mid-tier is 8 GB.
Memory requirements for optimal performance may vary, and should be determined based on consultation with SAS Enterprise Excellence Center.
This is the amount of disk space that the SAS Campaign Management Server setup directory requires. Additional space may also be required for new content such as campaigns and reports.
SAS Campaign Management 6.3 can connect to various databases using SAS/ACCESS. The following is the list of versions of databases for which SAS Campaign Management 6.3 is compatible.
Note: SAS Datasets are not supported with use of the CI Common Reporting Data Model and no more than 5 million customer equivalent records.
Note: Mixing of databases will not perform to an acceptable level and is not recommended.