SAS Clinical Acceleration
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.
What are the benefits of SAS Clinical Acceleration?
SAS Clinical Acceleration provides a secure, flexible and compliant platform for clinical research, helping organizations streamline regulatory submissions and improve collaboration. Key benefits include:
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Empower teams with SAS Viya functionality
Built on SAS Viya, the platform enables visualizations, collaborative workflows and scalable access in a controlled environment. Teams can prepare real-world data for analysis and submission more efficiently, enhancing productivity and innovation.
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Increase flexibility with multilanguage support
Users can perform analyses using SAS, R or Python in a governed environment. This single, open platform provides flexibility for diverse programming needs while maintaining validation and compliance.
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Avoid regulatory delays & reduce risk
SAS Clinical Acceleration ensures auditable actions, data traceability and repeatable analyses. This reduces the risk of noncompliance and helps organizations accelerate regulatory submissions.
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Maintain data integrity & compliance
SAS Clinical Acceleration provides a secure, production-ready clinical data repository that supports roles, permissions, electronic signatures, version control and audit trails. This ensures data integrity and helps organizations stay compliant with regulatory standards.
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Integrate large & diverse data sets
The platform allows seamless integration of data from electronic data capture (EDC) systems, clinical data management systems (CDMSs), labs and contract research organizations (CROs). By consolidating multiple sources in a single repository, teams can prepare, validate and analyze data faster.
Key features of SAS Clinical Acceleration for clinical research
Manage and analyze information in a collaborative platform, streamline processes and more efficiently deliver trial results to regulatory authorities.
Centralized global repository
Consolidates clinical information into a single, secure, centralized hub for improved data management and analytical data preparation. Provides full tracing back to source data. SAS Clinical Acceleration Repository is available as a standalone repository solution or with the statistical computing environment as part of SAS Clinical Acceleration.
Single, open, cloud-native SCE
Provides an end-to-end platform for clinical analysis and submission on SAS Viya with everything you need for validation.
Regulatory compliance & data security
Enables compliance with the FDA’s Title 21 CFR Part 11 requirements via audit trails, electronic signatures, versioning and role-based privileges. Complies with CDISC and its initiatives – dataset-JSON and CDISC CORE.
Maximum flexibility
Meet your organization’s unique needs with a flexible solution that includes accessibility for all user types, open source integration, open data formats and the ability to host anywhere.
Shared, scalable platform
SAS Viya enables collaboration through a shared platform where all user types can work together. Provides seamless integration across geos and with outsourced partners.
SAS Viya benefits in a controlled environment
Enables your organization to leverage the benefits of SAS Viya, such as industry-leading visualizations, access modules, and jobs and flows, in a controlled environment for clinical research.
Embedded AI
Supports modernization and ensures clinical trials get smarter and more efficient over time. Lets you leverage GenAI and AI agents, including LLMs, digital twins and synthetic data, in a transparent and explainable manner.
Seamless integrations
Supports integration with electronic data capture (EDC), validation tools and the metadata repository.
SAS Clinical Acceleration frequently asked questions
What is SAS Clinical Acceleration?
SAS Clinical Acceleration is a cloud-native platform that combines a secure clinical data repository with a statistical computing environment (SCE). It helps organizations integrate, manage, validate and analyze clinical research data for faster, compliant regulatory submissions.
What is the difference between SAS Clinical Acceleration and SAS Clinical Acceleration Repository?
SAS Clinical Acceleration includes SAS Clinical Acceleration Repository. It is a clinical data repository and a statistical computing environment. SAS Clinical Acceleration Repository is also available as a standalone clinical data repository solution for organizations that only need the repository.
How does SAS Clinical Acceleration support regulatory compliance?
The platform includes electronic signatures, audit trails, version control and role-based permissions to ensure compliance with FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and CDISC standards. This provides traceability, accountability and validation throughout the clinical data life cycle.
What types of data can SAS Clinical Acceleration handle?
SAS Clinical Acceleration integrates any data type (programs, documents, PDFs, etc.) from various sources, including EDC systems, CDMSs, lab systems and CROs. It consolidates diverse sources, including real-world data, into a single, secure repository for efficient analysis and submission.
Can I use SAS, R or Python with SAS Clinical Acceleration?
Yes. The SAS Viya platform supports multilanguage programming, allowing users to analyze data using SAS, R or Python in a governed and validated environment.
How does SAS Clinical Acceleration accelerate regulatory submissions?
By centralizing data, automatically tracking data lineage, ensuring reproducible results and enabling collaborative analysis, SAS Clinical Acceleration reduces manual effort and delays and helps ensure regulatory readiness. Teams can prepare submission-ready data packages faster and more accurately.
What are the benefits of SAS Clinical Acceleration on SAS Viya?
Leveraging SAS Viya provides scalable analytics, visualizations, collaborative workflows and embedded AI. This empowers organizations to analyze real-world data efficiently, improve trial productivity and drive innovation.
