Streamline your entire onboarding and originations journey with a single AI decisioning platform

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SAS Credit Origination

Simplify your credit onboarding with SAS Credit Origination – an AI-powered platform that automates decisioning, orchestrates data, integrates analytics in real time and enforces robust governance. Smarter credit decisions start here.



Key features

Improve the speed and accuracy of your credit decisions by linking people, processes and technology across your organization.

Accelerated analytical decisioning life cycle

A single cloud-native solution covers the entire credit risk life cycle – from data management to model development to decision/strategy management to model monitoring and reporting. 

Seamless data integration

Real-time API integration with open banking, credit bureaus and other third parties verifies identities, assesses affordability and creditworthiness, detects fraud, and manages financial crime compliance. It also utilizes the native drivers for more than 70 databases to retrieve internal information on demand.

Flexible, open & governed

Develop and deploy SAS or open source models for use in batch or real-time decision flows. Create A/B champion/challenger tests that execute models or business rules and monitor strategy performance in real time using integrated model management and reporting capabilities.

Drag-and-drop interface

No-code user interfaces make decision authoring efficient and easy, accelerating innovation cycles by more than 300%. Quickly and easily update and test your strategies based on economic or market conditions and ever-changing regulations to generate optimal returns while mitigating risks.

Automated route to live

Customizable workflow and tasking enable decision deployments that are automated and governed for regulated environments, without the need for IT involvement. Includes maker-checker, version comparison, print model/decision documentation.

Real-time or batch decision execution

Whether it is for credit originations, credit life cycle management, fraud, financial crime or marketing, SAS® Viya® is a unified enterprise decisioning platform that scales to manage more than 20,000 events per second, responds in milliseconds and is highly available.

Automated decision strategies using agentic AI

The integrated analytical feedback loop automates the machine learning process, optimizing models and decision strategies in real time.

Multiple deployment options

Let SAS manage your solution in the cloud via hosted or remote managed services. Or you can manage the solution in your own cloud or on-premises infrastructure.


Organizations of all sizes are working smarter with SAS

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    Providing better customer service and faster, more accurate loan processing

    SAS helps Finland's top retail bank apply AI to improve customer service and credit scoring with automated processes that enable faster, better decision making.


SAS Viya is cloud-native and cloud-agnostic

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Consume SAS how you want – SAS managed or self-managed. And where you want.

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What analysts are saying

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SAS IS A LEADER

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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Decision Intelligence 2024

SAS IS A LEADER

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Decision Intelligence, 2024

Chartis Model Risk Goverance and Model Validation Quadrant 2024

SAS IS A LEADER

Chartis names SAS a leader in both Model Risk Governance and Model Validation, 2024


Chartis RiskTech100® 2025 Awards

SAS ranks #2 overall – with six category wins

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SAS is ranked second overall in the world's foremost ranking of the Top 100 risk management and compliance technology providers. SAS also bested six technology award categories, including AI for Banking, Balance Sheet Risk Management, Behavioral Modeling, Enterprise Stress Testing, IFRS 9 and Model Risk Management.


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