EXPERIENCE

When results matter, turn to the analytics experts.

The stakes are high. You need a partner with a proven track record.

At SAS, we've been the analytics experts for decades, building proficiency until we can address any business problem. We’ve seen it, solved it, learned from it and integrated what we’ve learned. You reap the benefits.

  • The Analytics Life Cycle

    DataOps • Artificial Intelligence • ModelOps

    The Analytics Life Cycle Graphic

    Organizations have been pouring money into analytics initiatives for years, but too few are seeing a payoff because models aren't making it into production. To enable data-driven decisions at scale, the analytics life cycle must be highly operational and seamless. By connecting all aspects of the analytics life cycle – DataOps, artificial intelligence and ModelOps – SAS helps you turn your critical questions into trusted decisions and gain real value from your analytics investments.

  • The Analytics Life Cycle

    DataOps

    Borrowing from agile software development practices, DataOps provides an agile approach to data access, quality, preparation and governance. It enables greater reliability, adaptability, speed and collaboration in your efforts to operationalize data and analytic workflows.​

    Access

    Access data, regardless of size or complexity.

    Prepare

    Transform raw data, including AI-powered suggestions.

    Visualize

    View important relationships in data and share insights.

    Govern

    Build trust in data, understand lineage and gain transparency.

  • The Analytics Life Cycle

    Artificial Intelligence

    Data scientists use a combination of techniques to understand the data and build predictive models. They use statistics, machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, forecasting, optimization and other techniques to answer real-world questions.

    Model

    Build models with multiple AI techniques to solve real-world problems​.

    Automate

    Automate manual tasks for feature engineering and model tuning​.

    Collaborate

    Enable users with different skill sets to collaborate on solving analytic problems.​

    Integrate

    Work smarter using SAS Viya and open source analytics.

  • The Analytics Life Cycle

    ModelOps

    ModelOps focuses on getting AI models through validation, testing and deployment phases as quickly as possible while ensuring quality results. It also focuses on ongoing model monitoring, retraining and governance to ensure peak performance and transparent decisions.​

    Validate

    Ensure models will perform as expected in the real world​.

    Deploy

    Embed models into operational systems and monitor them​.

    Govern

    Ensure decisions are safe and transparent over the life of the model.

    Embed

    Integrate business rules to ensure up-to-real-time results.

    Years of compounded improvement.

    SAS reinvests more than 20% of our revenue into research and development. The difference shows in our solutions.


    • The ability to combine different approaches, technologies and functions in a single source is unique to SAS. For us there is no real alternative to SAS on the market.

      Walter Braun, Head of Analytical Information Systems, Axel Springer AG


    • We have millions of transactions on a daily basis and already use SAS to efficiently analyze that kind of volume.

      Aaron Bernadin, Director of Revenue Assurance, DirectTV


    • The great thing about SAS is that it's so powerful and has such a broad offering. Once you build your data sets, you can slice it in so many different ways without having to switch from one software package to another.

      Jonathan Prantner, Manager of Statistics, Organic


    • One thing I like about SAS is that it's integrated. It performs data management and analytics well, which streamlines the process and reduces errors.

      Eric Wong, Seniro Statistician, Palo Alto Medical Foundation

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