We know EG users take a 'seat' in our SAS license. What about the web only users? For the IDP and SAS Studio users who do not use EG or EMiner? Do they take up a license seat too?
As I understand it, there is no licence limit on the number of SAS web clients you can have. SAS server-based licensing is done by the number of cores on the SAS application server. There is no restriction running as many web client sessions using your application server.
Given that there is no client software installed with a web client then the idea of charging by seat doesn't really make any sense and so I don't believe they are included in the seat limitation.
Hello @Suzanne_McCoy,
yours seem to be a very good and interesting question. However, after reading your question a few times, I still cannot understand well your question. Could you please rephrase it, specially the part of having a seat? I guess It has something to do with tenancy, but not sure.
Also, besides dropping your question here, and since it seems related to license, perhaps it would be a good idea if you discuss this question with your SAS contacts manager, since they are the best contact for this flavour of questions.
I would suggest that you refer this question entirely to your SAS Account Executive (AE).
This forum might be able to provide some defaults answers, but licensing contracts are very circumstantial and are mostly negotiated on a customer by customer basis and this forum cannot comment on any licensing matters.
As I understand it, there is no licence limit on the number of SAS web clients you can have. SAS server-based licensing is done by the number of cores on the SAS application server. There is no restriction running as many web client sessions using your application server.
Given that there is no client software installed with a web client then the idea of charging by seat doesn't really make any sense and so I don't believe they are included in the seat limitation.
Hi @JuanS_OCS - of course you are correct. I should have clarified my post to say it is based on a "standard" BI Server - type licence on customer-provided hardware. Thanks for explaining the other types of licences.
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