SAS Marketing Automation 6.3 (Distributed LASR) includes the distributed version of SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting. This component is required to enable the ‘Reporting Workspace’ in the CI Studio user interface. If SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting is not installed, the Reporting Workspace will not be available in your system. Reference deployment instructions for more information.
This version of SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting is supported on Linux operating systems only and must be installed on a separate machine from SAS Marketing Automation. See the Visual Analytics 6.4 system requirements for more information.
SAS Marketing Automation 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.
SAS makes the following recommendations for SAS Metadata Server 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.
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 page lists the browsers that are supported: http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v94/othersw.html.
Some SAS Web applications use Adobe Flash Player to provide interactive functionality. For more information, see http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v94/browsers.html#flash.
Support for presentation virtualization environments (for example, Citrix) for clients included with Marketing Automation 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 Marketing Automation 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 Marketing Automation Server setup directory requires. Additional space may also be required for new content such as campaigns and reports.
SAS Marketing Automation 6.3 can connect to various databases using SAS/ACCESS. The following is the list of database versions with which SAS Marketing Automation 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.
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.