Fast-Track Your Analytics Journey to SAS Viya
Get more done with a faster, more productive AI and analytics platform.
Why move from SAS®9 to SAS Viya?
As a cloud-native AI, analytics and data management platform, SAS Viya enables you to scale cost-effectively, increase productivity and innovate faster, backed by trust and transparency.
Adapt as Needed
Cloud-native architecture
Tap into the power of a cloud-native and cloud-agnostic architecture that can deliver the full promise of AI and analytics.
Elastic & scalable
Provision resources, workloads and users on a cost-effective cloud infrastructure that can handle peak loads. And ensure you pay for only the resources you need.
Simplified data access
Overcome barriers to analytics at scale by simplifying data access and eliminating data movement with powerful data migration tools and support for multiple programming languages.
Boost Productivity
Analytics for all
Extend analytics to all types of users with easy-to-use, yet powerful tools that empower them to innovate without obstacles.
Open source compatibility
Integrate with open source technologies, and take advantage of varied skillsets and talents, letting users choose their preferred programming language.
Automation
Use AI-driven automation across the entire analytics life cycle – including data wrangling, exploration and ModelOps – and confidently move models into production.
Accelerate Outcomes Responsibly
Trusted, transparent insights
Use proven AI that unlocks the best possibilities, and automatically generate repeatable explanations of data and models in simple language.
Responsible AI
Embed model interpretability, fairness and bias monitoring throughout the analytics life cycle.
Governance
Confidently govern your data, models, and decisions with automated data and model lineage and robust model management.
Who benefits from moving to SAS Viya?
Business Analysts & Executives
- Significant return on investment.
- Faster time to decisions, insights and innovative results.
- Seamless enterprise wide collaboration.
Data Scientists
- Rapid investigation and optimization with end-to-end analysis and extensive modeling using parallel processing.
- Faster model development and deployment with AutoML.
- Ability to use your language of choice and open data formats on one platform.
- Continuous collaboration.
IT
- Powerful IT administration, with scalable system administration and functionality.
- Works on all popular public and private cloud systems.
- Facilitates consolidation of multiple analytics platforms across the enterprise.
- Deploy anywhere, using APIs in a containerized or self-managed infrastructure.
Look Who's Working Smarter With SAS Viya
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Making buildings and business more secure with analytics and AI
SAS is helping industrial company Comelit Group modernize how decisions are made, combining the most successful analytics and AI platform with the flexibility and scalability of the cloud.
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Transforming bank operations with advanced analytics and AI in the cloud
SAS is helping the National Bank of Greece pursue digital transformation backed by advanced analytics in its quest to become more agile and modern while improving profitability.
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Optimizing the supply chain with analytics & IoT
SAS is helping Georgia-Pacific improve equipment efficiency, reduce downtime, optimize processes and shipping logistics, and predict customer churn.
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Strengthening the fight against antimicrobial resistance via data visualization
Global in vitro diagnostics leader bioMérieux, Inc., is using SAS to revolutionize antimicrobial stewardship and empower informed clinical decision making, enabling labs, hospitals and pharmacies to attain real-time insights for improved care.
The analytics you need – delivered on your terms.
Whether you want to use your own cloud, the SAS Cloud for hosted services or one of the providers listed below, SAS is here for you.
Your Path to SAS Viya
The world is moving faster. We can help you get ahead – and stay there. Check out some of the most common scenarios for moving to SAS Viya.
Moving From SAS Enterprise Guide® to SAS Studio
SAS Enterprise Guide is a mainstay for many SAS users – and their loyalty to it can run as deep as loyalty to a favorite sports team. Sound familiar? When you're ready to move to the cloud, SAS Studio – a browser-based, interactive tool – can jumpstart the delivery of data pipelines for your AI/analytics projects.
Moving From SAS Enterprise Miner™ to SAS Viya
Meet changing business needs by combining the power of the cloud with AI. SAS Viya is the perfect environment for training, testing and deploying both open source and SAS models. Plus, you can easily bring your SAS Enterprise Miner models into SAS Viya pipelines to quickly compare them with new models and score new data.
Explore more resources on moving to SAS Viya.
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White Paper
Moving Your SAS®9 Estate to the Cloud: Five Questions to Guide Your Journey
This paper explores the five questions you need to answer on your cloud journey and provides a Cloud Analytics Value Maturity Model to help you assess your organization’s requirements.
E-Book
Get more value from your analytics fast: Optimized AI and analytics in the cloud
This paper demonstrates that SAS Viya is a more cost-performant and cost-conscious analytics platform available to enterprise cloud users, which translates directly into a productive workforce and powerful analytics.
White Paper
Exploring the true economic value of SAS Cloud
What is the true economic value (TEV) of different cloud options, and how does it affect your business case for undertaking a cloud migration journey? This paper explores the elements of TEV and illustrates a proven model at work.
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Ask the Expert Webinar
Why is a SAS®9 content assessment key in migrating to SAS Viya?
In this webinar, you'll learn how to plan your migration to SAS Viya using a data-driven approach based on the results of a SAS®9 Content Assessment.
White Paper
The Total Economic Impact of SAS Viya on Azure
This Forrester white paper examines the cost savings and business benefits of using SAS Viya on Microsoft Azure, and how it addresses the needs of various organizations migrating to the cloud for operational efficiency.
SAS Community
Moving to SAS Viya Community
In the process of moving from SAS®9 to SAS Viya or considering making the move soon? Join the community to find helpful migration resources.
Trusted Partnerships That Accelerate Innovation
Our partners build trust, share your focus, align with your vision, and can help solve your most pressing challenges.
With Accenture, we can help you harness data to connect the dots across your business – from targeted analytics projects to enterprise-level initiatives.
We work with Deloitte to help you gain data-driven insights that can improve your business performance.
EY is embedding analytics capabilities across all our services and investing in industry-specific offerings to make your analytics journey a profitable one.
We collaborate extensively to ensure our analytics solutions take full advantage of the latest Intel hardware to give you faster access to valuable insights.
KPMG brings the knowledge, tools and experience to create a sustainable path to CECL and IFRS 9 implementation, and help you seize strategic opportunities.
Want to learn more about moving to SAS Viya?
We can help. Tell us a little about yourself, and a SAS Viya expert will get in touch to learn about your specific needs around moving from SAS 9 to SAS Viya. We'll gather key insights, guide you in examining your current SAS environment and usage, and advise you on your optimal path to SAS Viya.