How can SAS® Viya® for life sciences improve your organization?
SAS Viya empowers life sciences organizations with AI they can trust to deliver explainable insights and measurable impact.
How can you deliver better decisions from data?
In an era of rapid innovation and stringent regulations, life sciences organizations need analytics they can trust. SAS combines deep industry knowledge with foundational AI-enabled expertise to deliver explainable insights and measurable impact. SAS transforms data into decisions our customers trust to advance patient-centricity, improve operations and collaboration, and gain a competitive edge in the market.
How do I design better clinical trials?
SAS Viya helps you integrate multimodal data, establish a single source of truth and democratize access to data and insights.
How do I reduce the risk of noncompliance?
SAS Viya and industry solutions are regulatory-ready, so you can trust the results.
How do I accelerate time to insight?
SAS Viya offers cutting-edge analytics and AI with rapid deployment so that you can get the insights you need faster to solve critical business challenges.
How do I get more value from real-world data?
SAS Viya makes analytics accessible for everyone in a complex health ecosystem.
How can I predict demand?
SAS Viya allows users to easily combine approaches, including powerful predictive analytics.
How do I improve commercialization strategies?
SAS Viya helps you transform business decisions with large language models (LLMs).
SAS Viya helps Chiesi Group enhance operations and efficiency
Data is the key element for innovation because it is the spark that triggers discovery or a decision." Annamaria Muraro Head of Statistics and Data Management Chiesi Group
Chiesi Group operated on a PC architecture and made the move to advanced analytics in the cloud with SAS Viya, transforming how the team analyzes data and the way people work.
After moving to SAS Viya, Chiesi gained an integrated view of data, optimized system maintenance and significantly improved performance. It also created a more efficient data exchange with suppliers, standardization of processes and data flow documentation for full compliance with regulatory requirements. Now, Chiesi Group can analyze information in a collaborative platform, streamline processes and efficiently deliver trial results to regulatory authorities.
The facts speak for themselves
After identifying the performance benefits and cloud savings of SAS Viya, independent research firm The Futurum Group performed a second study on productivity. This is what we call a win-win for your data and AI teams:
Productivity Study
4.6x
MORE PRODUCTIVE
Data and AI teams saw increased productivity and decreased complexity in achieving the complete data and AI life cycle in SAS Viya. Read the summary.
Performance Study
30x
FASTER
That’s how much SAS Viya, on average, outpaced other platforms in the computation time of data and AI tasks. This translated into an 86% cloud cost savings.
Read the summary.
What are the benefits of SAS Viya?
With our data and AI platform, you can understand what’s happening with your data now, predict how to pivot seamlessly and make progress faster.
Elevate everyone
Viya provides a single platform for all user types – from data scientists to business analysts to IT. Use the language you choose or take advantage of the no-code, drag-and-drop interface.
Innovate faster
Our end-to-end platform enables seamless movements across the entire analytics life cycle. Use AI-driven automation across data wrangling and exploration and accelerate model deployment with AutoML.
Get results you can trust
Viya provides embedded model interpretability and fairness and bias monitoring. With robust governance and transparent insights, make decisions you can trust and verify at any scale.
Gain analytics tailored to you
Whether you manage a small business or a large enterprise, Viya integrates seamlessly across cloud-native or cloud-agnostic environments with complete portability.
"Very good interface, new AI features saved time and made it easier to work and better work quality." Research and Development Health Care and Biotech
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SAS Viya and generative AI
Drive value, accelerate productivity and ensure governance across life sciences with secure GenAI orchestration.
SAS Viya enables you to govern the use of large language models (LLMs) and confidently integrate their output as part of your business process. Transform LLMs into trusted decisions while protecting your customers’ data and maintaining regulatory compliance.
Viya makes it easy by providing a conversational experience with data and AI, featuring industry-specialized intelligent assistants and a low-code/no-code approach to generating synthetic data.
SAS Viya and AI agents
SAS Viya provides a unified, decision-driven platform for designing and deploying AI agents at scale.
SAS Viya empowers AI agents to sense, decide and act with confidence. Its powerful analytics engine and cloud-native architecture enable organizations to build intelligent agents that respond to real-time data, adapt to changing conditions and execute complex tasks autonomously.
Beyond simple automation, Viya creates smart, reliable systems that enhance human productivity. The platform combines advanced analytics with language models to guide agent behavior while maintaining human oversight and control. Built-in transparency features ensure compliance and accountability, even in highly regulated industries. With Viya, using AI agents becomes not only possible but trustworthy, flexible and adaptable.
How can SAS Viya transform life sciences?
With our data and AI platform, you can understand what’s happening with your data now, predict how to pivot seamlessly and make progress faster.
Deliver explainable decisions and auditable actions to positively impact patients’ lives
- Auditable actions and track-and-trace capabilities make demonstrating compliance seamless.
- Proven standard operating procedures that deliver accuracy and streamline qualification and validation for customers.
Unify governance to support innovation at scale
- One interface to manage rules, compliance and lineage across the data and AI life cycle.
- Integrate multimodel data, establish a single source of truth and democratize access to data and insights.
Advance your mission while driving profitability across the value chain
- Streamline processes for greater productivity and resource optimization through automation and integration – saving time and reducing costs.
- Cutting-edge, trustworthy AI innovation to reduce friction, improve efficiency and ensure optimal resource allocation throughout the value chain.
Optimize processes and operations with tailored life sciences offerings
- Full range of industry applications, models and agents that deliver value across the organization. SAS solutions are customized to solve your most pressing challenges – helping you deliver safe, effective therapies to patients while optimizing resources and driving profitability.
- SAS has a deep bench of life sciences industry experts with experience spanning preclinical to commercialization, including using real-world evidence throughout the value chain.
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Frequently asked questions
What is SAS Viya for life sciences?
SAS Viya for life sciences is a cloud-native AI and data platform that empowers life sciences companies to deliver trustworthy, data-driven decisions faster and more efficiently.
How does SAS Viya integrate multimodal data in life sciences?
Life sciences organizations work across a wide range of data types – clinical trial data, genomics, proteomics, real-world evidence and patient records. SAS Viya integrates multimodal data to establish a single source of truth and democratize access to data and insights across the life sciences organization. This enables seamless data access for everyone in a complex health ecosystem.
Is SAS Viya compliant with regulatory requirements for clinical data?
Yes. SAS Viya and its industry solutions are regulatory-ready, providing the governance and transparency required in highly regulated environments. This ensures you can trust the results and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements.
How does SAS Viya support GenAI in life sciences?
Viya provides secure GenAI orchestration that governs the use of large language models and confidently integrates their output into business processes. It transforms LLMs into trusted decisions while protecting customer data and maintaining regulatory compliance.
How does SAS Viya ensure AI decisions are trustworthy in regulated life sciences environments?
In life sciences, AI decisions carry significant regulatory and patient safety stakes. Viya provides embedded model interpretability, fairness monitoring and bias detection. With robust governance and transparent insights, life sciences companies can make decisions they trust and verify at any scale in regulated environments.
Does SAS Viya support predictive analytics?
Yes. Viya makes analytics accessible for everyone and allows users to easily combine approaches, including powerful predictive analytics, to accelerate model deployment with AutoML and AI-driven automation.
How does SAS Viya accelerate drug development?
Viya offers cutting-edge analytics and AI with rapid deployment, enabling faster insights to solve critical business challenges. It streamlines processes and supports collaboration. SAS Clinical Acceleration is a cloud-native platform that combines a secure clinical data repository with a statistical computing environment on SAS Viya. It helps life sciences organizations manage, validate, analyze and submit clinical research data more efficiently, reducing regulatory risk and accelerating time to submission.