SAS Capital Planning and Management includes two standard SAS/ACCESS engines of choice, with SAS Financial Management as available per platform.

In addition, three SAS Metadata Bridges of choice are required with SAS Financial Management.

SAS recommends deploying SAS Metadata Server on a 64-bit host system. The SAS Metadata Server is multi-threaded and multi-core server hardware (typically quad core or higher) is recommended. A dedicated machine for the SAS Metadata Server is recommended to simplify tuning, management, and diagnostics, but is not required. 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.

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.

Note: SAS Financial Management Add-in for Microsoft Excel is a 32-bit Windows application. When run on top of an emulation of a Windows 32-bit operating system, it is supported on Microsoft Windows for x64.

SAS Financial Management Add-in for Microsoft Excel 5.4 requires the following software:

• Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, or Microsoft Office 2013
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4
• Security Update for Microsoft Excel 2010 (KB2553070), 32-Bit Edition http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27312

Note: If you use SAS Financial Management Add-in for Microsoft Excel with Office 2007 and want to publish as a PDF, add-in software from Microsoft is required. For more information, visit this site: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=9943

SAS Capital Planning and Management supports the following web browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 (on Windows 7 only)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 10

SAS Capital Planning and Management uses Adobe Flash Player 11.1. For additional information, see "SAS 9.4 Support for Web Browsers and Plug-Ins" (http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v94/browsers.html#flash).

Minimum:

• Intel/AMD x86 and x64
• Dual-core processor
• 2 GB of available physical memory above what is normally utilized by all other applications such as operating system, email, Microsoft Office, and web browsers
• Page file set to 1.5x physical memory as recommended by Microsoft and SAS

Recommended for consistent performance across all clients:

• Intel/AMD x86 and x64
• Quad-core or higher processor
• At least 4 GB of available physical memory above what is normally utilized by all other applications such as operating system, email, Microsoft Office, and web browsers
• Page file set to 1.5x physical memory as recommended by Microsoft and SAS