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SAS® Credit Risk for Banking 3.4

Overview

Note: SAS Credit Risk for Banking 3.4 ships with SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting, which must be installed with SAS Credit Risk for Banking 3.4; it cannot be installed at a later time.

SAS Credit Risk for Banking, available for Non-distributed LASR, is a solution within SAS® Risk Management for Banking. SAS Credit Risk for Banking enables banks, financial institutions, and corporations to calculate credit portfolio analytics, counterparty exposure analytics, and optimization.

Server Tier Requirements

To keep pace with changes to third-party technologies, SAS has adopted a general policy of supporting one or more baseline major versions and subsequent minor updates for each officially supported operating system. For example, if the baseline for SAS x is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, SAS x will also support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 under this policy.

The full SAS Support policy that applies to third-party software can be found at https://support.sas.com/en/documentation/third-party-software-reference/baseline-and-higher.html. As part of this policy, SAS strongly encourages customers to install the latest operating-system service packs.

SAS Risk Management for Banking Server

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SAS Risk Management for Banking Server includes one standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice as available per platform, and another standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice for Oracle or PostgreSQL (required).

It also includes three SAS Metadata Bridges of choice, plus General Industry Standards, which is included automatically.

SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server (Non-distributed LASR)

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

SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server includes a standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice (for transactional data), as available per platform.

SAS Solution LASR Analytic Server (Non-distributed LASR)

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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

SAS Risk Management for Banking Mid-Tiers

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SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Mid-Tier (Non-distributed LASR)

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SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server includes a standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice (for transactional data purposes), as available per platform.

Web Application Server

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 Risk Management for Banking Clients

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SAS Visual Analytics Apps for iOS, Android, and Windows 10

The SAS Visual Analytics Apps are supported on iOS and Android devices, and on PCs and tablets running Microsoft Windows 10. You can download the apps for free from the Apple App Store, Google Play, or the Microsoft Store.

SAS AppDev Studio

Refer to the SAS AppDev Studio system requirements for the latest information about its requirements.

Web Browsers

The list of web browsers that SAS supports is updated as new software is tested and approved. For the latest information, see https://support.sas.com/en/documentation/third-party-software-reference/9-4/support-for-9-4-web-browsers.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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