SAS Real-Time Decision Manager combines decision logic with analytics to deliver deep insights from data, including customer lifetime value, propensity, attrition, and credit risk modeling. SAS Real-Time Decision Manager helps you make high-quality decisions in high-volume environments.
SAS Real-Time Decision Manager Run-Time Server integrates with various systems to operationalize the decisions. The Run-Time Server is used with the SAS Real-Time Decision Manager Design Server, which is used to create the decisions and deploy them to the Run-Time Servers. For more information, see the separate System Requirements document for the Design Server.
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.
The SAS Real-Time Decision Manager Run-Time Server includes two SAS/ACCESS engines of choice from the following list:
The SAS Real-Time Decision Manager Run-Time SAS Data Integration Server includes two Standard SAS/ACCESS engines of choice for your platform. It also includes three SAS Metadata Bridges of choice. The Metadata Bridge for General Industry Standards is included automatically.
The SAS Data Integration Server is optional.
SAS Federation Server includes a driver of choice for one of the following databases:
DB2 and PostgreSQL are Federation Server drivers that are automatically included in SAS Real-Time Decision Manager, along with the Oracle driver.
SAS Federation Server includes a SAS Quality Knowledge Base Locale of choice, the same as selected for SAS Federation Server. If not specified, by default, SAS Quality Knowledge Base Locale for English (USA) will be included.
SAS makes the following recommendations for SAS Metadata Server 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.
SAS Real-Time Decision Manager has two types of middle tiers, the Operational Mid-Tier (for executing campaigns) and the Design Mid-Tier (for designing campaigns). Both middle tiers are J2EE applications that run within a J2EE application server.
This document provides requirements for the SAS Real-Time Decision Manager Operational server components. See the separate System Requirements document for information about SAS Real-Time Decision Manager Design Server requirements.
SAS Decision Services Toolkit is provided via customer download for Windows 32-bit workstations and Windows for x64 workstations.
SAS Real-Time Decision Manager 6.6 can connect to various databases using SAS/ACCESS. The following list indicates database versions with which SAS Real-Time Decision Manager 6.6 is compatible:
Notes:
Microsoft software Server Failover Cluster is not supported.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL are supported by SAS Real-Time Decision Manager 6.6 Run-Time Server on Amazon Web Services.
If your installation includes Oracle Database 12c, note that Oracle Multi-tenant architecture is not supported.
If your installation includes Oracle Database 12.2, this version is only supported by SAS 9.4 TS1M4 (SAS 9.4M4) and later. Oracle 12.2 on Linux requires a hot fix. For more information, see the following SAS Note: http://support.sas.com/kb/60/895.html.
The same versions of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL supported in physical deployments are supported on RDS.
Connectivity to Oracle RAC is supported via connection strings containing one Oracle Single Client Access Name (SCAN) listener address. Support has the following limitations:
Teradata and Greenplum are massively parallel processing data storage technologies often deployed as enterprise data warehouses. All databases deployed in this manner may not have the performance necessary for certain high-throughput Real-Time Decision Manager usage scenarios. Consult with SAS Customer Intelligence Professional Services before positioning these databases with a customer. The SAS Real-time Decision Manager Administrator's Guide provides further guidance on this matter.
If staging capabilities are utilized, HBase version 0.94.11 or later is required.
SAS Real-Time Decision Manager Operational Mid-Tier: 32 GB minimum
Memory requirements for optimal performance may vary, and should be determined based on consultation with SAS Enterprise Excellence Center.
Requirements for the Operational Mid-Tier will vary based on the number of requests from other systems and the number of processes that are running concurrently.
This requirement is the amount of disk space that the SAS Real-Time Decision Manager Server setup directories may require. Additional space may also be required for new content and customization.
Additional disk space will be required for third-party software. These are examples of third-party software that may be required, based on your configuration:
Memory requirements for optimal performance may vary, and should be determined based on consultation with SAS.
Requirements for the Server Tier will vary based on the number of requests from other systems and the number of processes that are running concurrently.
The amount of disk space that the setup directories for the SAS Real-Time Decision Manager Server, SAS Federation Server, and DataFlux Authentication Server might require is listed below:
Additional space may also be required for new content and customization.
Additional disk space will be required for third-party software, such as a database client.
For memory and disk space requirements, refer to the SAS 9.4 system requirements located at http://support.sas.com/resources/sysreq/index.html under the relevant operating system.
For more information, visit SAS Install Center http://support.sas.com/installcenter/.
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.