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SASĀ® Firmwide Risk for Banking 3.4

Overview

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

SAS Firmwide Risk for Banking, available for Non-distributed LASR, is a solution within SAS Risk Management for Banking. SAS Firmwide Risk for Banking provides users with advanced risk aggregation and performance metrics.

Server Tier Requirements

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 using Oracle or PostgreSQL (required). It also includes three SAS Metadata Bridges of choice, plus General Industry Standards, which is included automatically.

SAS In-Database Code Accelerator for Hadoop is only included when selecting Hadoop as a SAS/ACCESS Engine of choice.

SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server

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

It is recommended that SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server be installed on a separate machine.

SAS Solution LASR Analytic Server

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SAS Solution LASR Analytic Server includes a standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice (for transactional data), as available per platform.

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

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It is recommended that SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Mid-Tier Server be installed on a separate machine.

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 Risk Management for Banking Clients

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SAS AppDev Studio

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

SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Mobile Clients

SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Mobile Clients include SAS Mobile BI, which is only available via free download from app stores for the Apple iPad and Android tablet.

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.


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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