SAS Bridge for Esri System Requirements
SAS Bridge for Esri 3.6 requires the second maintenance release of SAS 9.3 or later and ArcGIS 10 or later. The SAS Bridge for Esri must be installed on the same machine as ArcGIS.
You can use the SAS Bridge for Esri to connect to a SAS session running either on the same machine (a local session) or on another machine (a remote session). To connect to a remote SAS session, SAS Integration Technologies must be installed on the same machine as SAS Bridge for Esri.
SAS Bridge for Esri must be licensed for use on the copy of SAS to which you connect.