SAS Enterprise Miner Deployment

There are two basic types of deployment for SAS Enterprise Miner: workstation and client/server.

Workstation deployments are available only for Microsoft Windows systems and are strictly single-user configurations. This deployment does not require the deployment plan or a configuration step of the SAS Deployment Wizard. The workstation mode configuration does not require the SAS Metadata Server or the SAS Application Server. This configuration is intended for SAS Enterprise Miner Desktop, SAS Enterprise Miner Classroom, and SAS Enterprise Miner Workstation licenses.

In client/server mode, SAS Foundation 9.3 and SAS Enterprise Miner 12.1 server can be installed on a local or remote system for multi-user access. The SAS Web Infrastructure Platform is installed for the SAS Enterprise Miner 12.1 middle tier. In previous releases, the middle tier used the SAS Analytics Platform. In this release, that support is provided by the SAS Web Infrastructure Platform and one of the supported third-party application servers. The SAS Enterprise Miner middle tier can be installed either on either a local or remote machine, but it requires a 64-bit system. The SAS Enterprise Miner 12.1 client can be installed on a Microsoft Windows system, or it can be started through Java Web Start by connecting through your Internet browser to the SAS Enterprise Miner 12.1 middle tier.

This deployment serves the needs of a multi-user server, and a single user requiring a full SAS Intelligence Platform environment.

The server deployment does not support the SAS Enterprise Minter 4.3 client, unless SAS is installed on a Windows platform.

This deployment serves the needs of an end user who needs to connect to a remote server, but chooses not to use Java Web Start.

The client-only deployment requires the following:

It does not require the following:

This deployment serves the needs of the following users:

The workstation configuration does not require installation or configuration for a Java Web application server, SAS Object Spawner, SAS Framework Data Server, or SAS Metadata Server. However, the workstation configuration does not support SAS grid processing or operating systems other than Windows.