SAS^® Integration Technologies

Features

Integration of synchronous and asynchronous business processes

• APIs to use the market-leading message-queuing products: Microsoft's MSMQ, IBM's WebSphere MQ, the Java Message Service (JMS) and Tibco's Rendezvous.
• Integrate asynchronous processes with the SAS platform via the SAS CALL routines.
• Publish information to message queues using the SAS Publishing Framework.

Interoperability with enterprise directory servers

• Support for industry-standard Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)-compliant directories such as Microsoft Active Directory, Sun ONE, IBM SecureWay and Netscape Directory Server.
• SAS CALL routines read and write metadata in/from an enterprise directory server.
• The information service, a Java API, allows easy access to metadata stored in the LDAP repositories from a Java program.

SAS Publishing Framework for targeted information delivery

• Supports publishing information of any form, including data sets, OLAP data, HTML reports, any MIME-type (PDF, XLS, Word documents, etc.).
• SAS CALL routine for publishing that information.
• The publish service, a Java API, supports publishing of information from Java programs.
• Publishing to different targets (e.g., email, storage, message queues, SharePoint and WebDAV repositories). Published information is delivered automatically to those who have subscribed to the information channels.

Service-oriented architecture via Web services, REST, JMS and messaging queues

• SAS Stored Processes can be called via Web services or a SAS program.
• Any client can make use of SAS capabilities via SAS BI Web services, a middleware broker component available for J2EE and .NET frameworks.
• Java Message Service (JMS) message queues can be monitored, and SAS programs can be started to fulfill queues' requests:
  • Support for object transport via plain XML, JSON and SOAP.
  • Dynamically invoke generated Web services.

A comprehensive set of infrastructure-oriented Foundation Services

• Connection service is a Java API that accesses SAS servers.
• Information service is a Java API that accesses the SAS Metadata Server and performs read/write tasks on metadata, such as modifying the role of a user.
• Publish service is a Java API that publishes information to email, channels and the Web via WebDAV, etc.
• Stored process service is a Java API that runs SAS code and returns results.
• The event broker server allows dynamic, event-driven runstreams and alerting.
• Security services to help manage users, security, sessions and logging.
• Developers can use the services' APIs to easily extend and add additional services.
• A zero-configuration workspace server can be launched without specifying any connection information or configuring server metadata.

SAS Stored Process Server for executing SAS Stored Processes

• Centrally manage stored processes in the SAS Metadata Repository using SAS Management Console.
• Define input and output parameters:
  • Name/value pairs.
  • Data streams (XML streams, data sets, HTML, PDF, etc.).
  • Result packages containing multiple entries, including text, images, data sets, etc.
• Exploit stored resources from any client (Web clients, Java applications or Windows applications) via the stored process service API.
• Surfaced via any of the SAS BI tools, such as SAS Information Map Studio or SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office.
• Search stored processes or stored process reports by name, description or keyword.
• Cache stored process output for review without rerunning the process.

Powerful scalability options

• Load balancing: allows distributing workload across multiple processes, processors and machines.
• Pooling: allows clients to share "pooled" connections instead of restarting SAS servers with every single request.
• Fault tolerance: during server downtimes the workload can be redirected to another one on the chain.

SAS Web Infrastructure Kit for building SAS Java Web applications

• A framework to build SAS Java Web applications that support single sign-on and role-based business views.
• Uses the SAS security model and metadata.
• Ability to execute and display content such as stored processes, reports, links and Web applications.

Choice of programming languages for developers to leverage SAS Analytics remotely

• Deliver SAS capabilities to virtually any client across an enterprise.
• Utilizes open communication protocols for both Windows clients and Java clients to give developers the ability to use SAS analytical power whether they're programming in Java, C++, C#, VisualBasic.Net, Delphi or other languages.
• SAS jobs and runstreams can easily be called and executed remotely without requiring developers' knowledge of the SAS programming language.