Tasks that Require Other SAS Software

The SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office includes tasks that require the use of other SAS software. The SAS Forecast Studio tasks require the installation of the SAS Forecast Server software. The Rapid Predictive Modeler task requires the installation of the SAS Enterprise Miner software.
To run the tasks that use SAS Forecast Server or SAS Enterprise Miner, your role requires certain capabilities. The capabilities are defined inDefault Roles and Capabilities for the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office. Refer to the Time Series and Data Mining categories. Note that the Rapid Predictive Modeler task runs only on SAS 9.3 servers. The SAS Forecast Studio tasks run on SAS 9.2 or 9.3 servers.