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SAS® Customer Experience Analytics 6.4

Overview

Note: SAS Customer Experience Analytics ships with SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting, which must be installed with SAS customer Experience Analytics 6.4; it cannot be installed at a later time.

Server Tier Requirements

SAS Customer Experience Analytics Server on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • Base SAS 9.4
  • SAS Customer Experience Analytics 6.4
  • SAS Customer Experience Analytics Server 6.4
  • SAS Integration Technologies 9.4
  • SAS Studio Basic 3.4
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle 9.4
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to PostgreSQL 9.4

Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 2853 MB
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

SAS Customer Experience Analytics Server includes the following:

  • Three SAS Metadata Bridges of choice. SAS Metadata Bridges for General Industry Standards is automatically included.
  • SAS Data Integration Server

Platform Suite for SAS is required but not included. SAS LASR Analytic Server (Non-Distributed Mode) is optional.

SAS Customer Experience Targeting Server on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • Base SAS 9.4
  • SAS Customer Experience Targeting Server 6.4
  • SAS Studio Basic 3.4
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle 9.4

Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 805 MB
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

SAS Customer Experience Analytics Server includes the following:

  • Three SAS Metadata Bridges of choice. SAS Metadata Bridges for General Industry Standards is automatically included.
  • SAS Data Integration Server

Platform Suite for SAS is required but not included. SAS LASR Analytic Server (Non-Distributed Mode) is optional.

SAS Visual Analytics, Distributed or Non-Distributed LASR Mode on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • Base SAS 9.4
  • SAS LASR Analytic Server Distributed Mode Component 2.3
  • SAS LASR Analytic Server Non-Distributed Components 2.3
  • SAS Visual Analytics 7.3

Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 294 MB
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

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

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • SAS High-Performance Computing Management Console 2.7
  • SAS High-Performance Deployment for Hadoop 3.0
  • SAS High-Performance Node Installation 3.2
  • SAS Threaded Kernel Extensions for High-Performance Analytics 2.2

Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 6 MB
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

SAS LASR Analytic Server (Distributed Mode) requires Greenplum or Teradata (appliance obtained from vendor) or 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.

SAS Metadata Server

Select a platform:

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

SAS Customer Experience Analytics on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • SAS Studio Mid-Tier 3.4
  • SAS Visual Analytics Administrator 7.3
  • SAS Visual Analytics Designer 7.3
  • SAS Visual Analytics Explorer 7.3
  • SAS Visual Analytics Graph Builder 7.3
  • SAS Visual Analytics Hub 7.3
  • SAS Visual Analytics Printing Support 7.3
  • SAS Visual Analytics Report Viewer 7.3
  • SAS Visual Analytics Services 7.3
  • SAS Visual Data Builder 7.3
  • SAS Web Application Server 9.42
  • SAS Web Infrastructure Platform 9.4
  • SAS Web Server 9.42
  • Search Interface to SAS Content 3.6

Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 3968 MB
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

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.


Client Tier Requirements

SAS Customer Experience Analytics Clients

Select a platform:

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

The list of Web browsers that SAS supports is updated as new products are tested and approved. For the latest information, visit the SAS 9.4 Support for Web Browsers and Plug-Ins page at http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v94/browsers.html.

When you select a web browser on your client machines, be aware that SAS Visual Analytics deploys SAS Common Components 2.4 for HTML, which has a separate set of supported web browsers. Most recent versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox, Apple Safari, and Google Chrome are supported. For a list of supported browsers and platforms associated with HTML5, refer to the system requirements for SAS Common Components 2.4 for 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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