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SASĀ® Customer Due Diligence 6.3

Overview

SAS Customer Due Diligence 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.

Note: SAS Customer Due Diligence includes SAS Enterprise Case Management. Use of SAS Enterprise Case Management outside of a SAS Customer Due Diligence context requires licensure of the full SAS Enterprise Case Management product.

Server-Tier Requirements

SAS Customer Due Diligence Server

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SAS Customer Due Diligence includes the following software:

  • Quality Knowledge Base, English (US)
  • Quality Knowledge Base Locale of choice
  • 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
  • One of the following SAS/ACCESS engines of choice for SAS Enterprise Case Management:
    • 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 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 Standard Server includes a SAS Quality Knowledge Base Locale of choice.

SAS Data Management Standard Server also includes two standard SAS/ACCESS engines of choice, and three SAS Metadata Bridges of choice.

SAS Data Quality Standard Server

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SAS Data Quality Standard Server includes SAS Data Management Contextual Extraction Language Pack of choice. It also includes a SAS Quality Knowledge Base Locale of choice. You must select the same locale that you selected for the SAS Data Management Standard Server.

SAS Visual Process Orchestration Server

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Note: This server is required only when the SAS Data Quality Standard Server is running on Windows 32-bit.

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. If you select a different type of engine from the one you selected for the SAS Customer Due Diligence Server, it must be separately licensed.

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

SAS Solution LASR Analytic Server

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SAS Solution LASR Analytic Server must run on the same operating system as SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server. It includes one standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice for transactional data. You must select the same type of ACCESS engine as the one that is running on the SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server, or it must be separately licensed.

SAS LASR Analytic Server 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

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

Typically, the Mid-Tier components are installed on the same machine as the Alert Generation Server.

SAS Customer Due Diligence Mid-tiers

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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 Customer Due Diligence 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 note that these products support different databases. Refer to the SAS Enterprise Case Management system requirements for more information about Enterprise Case Management database support.
  2. To leverage advanced tuning features such as bitmap indexing and data partitioning, SAS recommends deploying SAS Customer Due Diligence on Oracle Enterprise Edition instead of 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, the Oracle Text option should be installed.
  4. When using Microsoft SQL Server as the solution database, select SAS/ACCESS to ODBC as the access engine. 
  5. When using Microsoft SQL Server as the solution database, all server tiers of the solution are expected to be installed on Windows.

Client-Tier Requirements

SAS Data Management Standard Studio

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SAS Customer Due Diligence includes the following software:

  • SAS Data Management Contextual Extraction Language Pack of choice
  • Quality Knowledge Base Locale of choice

The language that you select for the SAS Data Management Contextual Extraction Language Pack and for the Quality Knowledge Base Locale must be the same as the language selected for the SAS Data Quality Server, or it must be separately licensed.

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 Enterprise Case Management 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. For license information about third-party software distributed with SAS software, refer to http://support.sas.com/thirdpartylicenses.

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