SAS architecture
The relationship between Process Orchestrator, building blocks, Cloud Management, and external systems.
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Runtime plane
A SAS runtime instance contains the product capabilities that execute work: the Composers, data and automation capabilities, collaboration, dashboards, and ultimately Process Orchestrator.
Management plane
The SAS Cloud Management Platform is a separate management and service-delivery plane above runtime instances. It is intended to manage organizations, tenants, environments, access, releases, lifecycle, usage, billing, AI credits, and partner or MSP scenarios.
External landscape
SAS connects to the systems and data the customer already has. Those systems remain responsible for their own core function; SAS adds the structured integration, process, control, and governance context around them.
Foundational capabilities
Policy and governance, AI control, audit and compliance, and security and access are platform-wide concerns. They are not isolated add-ons to one Composer.
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