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System Requirements
SAS® 360 Optimize

Overview

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. As part of this policy, SAS strongly encourages customers to install the latest operating-system service packs. Only the supported baseline major versions are listed in this document.

The full SAS Support policy governing third-party software can be found at SAS Third-Party Software Requirements - Baseline and Later Support.

Anti-Virus Software

Third-party anti-virus, anti-spyware, endpoint-protection, and system-monitoring software can interfere with SAS applications and can block files. For more information about the official guidance from SAS Technical Support, see the Anti-Virus section of the SAS Foundation System Requirements document that corresponds to the operating system where you are deploying SAS.


Server-Tier Requirements

SAS 360 Optimize Hosted Site

SAS Licensing Operations notifies the hosting group for SaaS onboarding and fulfillment. A SAS 360 Optimize Hosted Site can be added to any other SAS CI 360 site (except for SAS 360 Match) but it cannot be added to any other SAS 9.4 site or SAS Viya site.

  • SAS 360 Optimize
  • SAS 360 Cloud Data Storage (Required: First pack is provided at no charge each year. Additional years are available for a fee).
  • SAS 360 Event API (Required: First pack is provided at no charge each year. Additional years are available for a fee).
  • SAS 360 Additional Tenant (Optional and licensed separately).

SAS 360 Optimize Server

Select a platform:

SAS 360 Optimize Server includes a Standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice (for IBM Db2, Greenplum, Microsoft SQL Server, ODBC, OLE, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redshift, SAP HANA, or Teradata) for transactional data. It must match the engine that was selected for the SAS Optimize Server.

SAS Metadata Server

Select a platform:

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 360 Optimize Mid-Tiers

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Client-Tier Requirements

SAS 360 Optimize Clients

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Supported Browsers

SAS Customer Intelligence 360 Clients support the same web browsers as SAS Viya. For a full list of supported browsers, see the Client Requirements: Web Browsers section of the SAS Viya Platform Operations System Requirements.


SAS Customer Intelligence 360 Optimize Agent Requirements

SAS Customer Intelligence 360 Optimize Agent

The SAS Customer Intelligence 360 Optimize Agent typically runs in your enterprise network in order to process requests from SAS Customer Intelligence 360 running in the SAS Cloud. The agent uses SAS 9.4 Foundation to process requests against your data tables.

The SAS Customer Intelligence 360 Optimize Agent must be deployed on the SAS 360 Optimize Server.

For information about operating system support, refer to the Supported Environments for the SAS 360 Optimize Server.

The agent is available for SAS 9.4M5 - SAS 9.4M9. It must run on the same maintenance release of SAS 9.4 Foundation as the SAS 360 Optimize server.

Note: The SAS Customer Intelligence 360 Optimize Agent requires a version of the SAS 9.4 platform that is currently in Standard Support from SAS. Refer to the Support Levels page on the SAS Technical Support site to verify support for a maintenance release of SAS 9.4 Foundation.

The following components must be available on the machine that hosts the SAS Customer Intelligence 360 Optimize Agent:

  • Java 1.8 or later*
  • 8 GB of RAM or more
  • 1 GB of disk space or more

*Java requirements vary by SAS 9.4 maintenance release. For more information, see SAS 9.4 Support for Java.


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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