SAS Marketing Optimization 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 Marketing Optimization. Please see the Visual Analytics 6.4 system requirements for more details.
Note: if the non-distributed version of VAAR is required, select the SAS Marketing Optimization (Non-distributed Version) software package. This is not to be confused with High Performance Marketing Optimization which is separate product.
SAS Marketing Optimization Server includes Advanced Computing Library and three SAS Metadata Bridges of choice.
SAS Marketing Optimization Server also includes a standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice (for customer's transaction data) and the following SAS/ACCESS engines of choice:
Platform Suite for SAS is available as an orderable, line item add-on. While it is not required, it is recommended if job scheduling is needed.
SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server (Distributed Mode) includes SAS/ACCESS to Teradata (appliance obtained from vendor) or a Standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice if using Hadoop (commodity hardware).
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 (which contains SAS Marketing Optimization) 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 Marketing Optimization 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 Optimization middle 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 Optimization Server setup directory requires. Additional space may also be required for new content such as campaigns and reports.
SAS Marketing Optimization 6.3 can connect to various databases using SAS/ACCESS. The following is the list of versions of databases for which SAS Marketing Optimization 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.