I have been working with SAS version 9.4 for about a year and half. I find the manuals to be rough going.   My office is very simple. We have one physical server; everything available under our license is installed on that one physical box. We accepted the installation defaults and now have the two Application servers that come as defaults: the Metadata server and SasApp.   Do sophisticated SAS installations use the concept of a SAS Application Server to group SAS features and offer them to subgroups within their organizations? As an example, could a university build specific SAS App Servers for the History Department, the Economics Department, the Biology Department, etc…                 If true, would the university add or assign additional hardware to the different App Servers? Does this concept give us the ability to allocate hardware for one group but not another? Is that the reason for servers, and logical servers?   And why name something a SAS App Server if it isn’t really a server? ... View more