SAS Visual Investigator Features List

Search & discovery

  • Free-text search.
  • Form search and query builder.
  • Filters and facets.
  • Geospatial search, exploration and visualization.
  • Advanced search and query builder.
  • Synonym and phonetic search.
  • Saved search.
  • AI-assisted natural language search.
  • Relationship and path search.

Alert management & triage

  • Governance, audit and compliance.
  • Prioritized queuing model.
  • Enrichment.
  • Scenario-fired event model, including scenario context.
  • Disposition options and management overview.
  • Case creation from alerts.

AI-assisted investigation workflows

SAS® Viya® Copilot in SAS Visual Investigator delivers:

  • AI-assisted, natural-language search across objects, entities and relationships.
  • AI-generated image description, reviewed by humans and saved as searchable, shareable text.
  • AI-generated summaries of alerts, investigations, cases and other data. 
  • Conversational chat interactions with data, search, networks and product documentation.

Entity analytics & network exploration

  • Network analytics and visualization.
  • Network link expansion.
  • Network node decorator and enrichment.

Transaction analysis

  • Transaction network visualization.
  • Interactive investigator workspaces.

Case investigation management

  • Workflows.
  • Ability to add attachments.
  • Role-based home pages with cascading grid layout.
  • Data visualization (grids, maps, timelines, networks, text analytics, detailed views).
  • Generate structured documents (PDF or ZIP output).
  • Targeted investigations.
  • Insights to record findings.
  • Print insights.

Scenario administration

  • Author scenarios using rule builder, decision table or SAS code.
  • Restrict defined scenarios for parameter adjustment by role.
  • Scenario testing.
  • Creation of score based on scenario(s).
  • Batch or on-demand execution.

Administration & configuration

  • Open data model.
  • Easy addition of new data sources.
  • Page/home page design with a drag-and-drop interface.
  • Defining of links/relationships.
  • Data import or query by reference from internal or external sources.
  • Search configuration.
  • Define entity-level security model.
  • Events model for maps and timelines.
  • Link traversals.
  • User permissions.
  • Back-end processes, workflow and task monitoring.
  • Detailed auditing of user actions and activity.

SAS Mobile Investigator

  • Remote access from mobile devices.
  • Device location services/mapping.
  • Search data.
  • Receive and act on workflow tasks.
  • Create new content.
  • Administer mobile properties, page templates, contexts and design mode.
  • Offline data entry.
  • Upload photos, videos and other content as attachments.
  • Available on Apple App Store and Google Play Store.