Make trustworthy decisions with integrated data and AI to advance public sector outcomes

Public sector analytics are advanced, AI-driven analytics tailored for government entities designed to equip leaders with insights to optimize resources, improve results and serve the public better, faster and easier.

Public sector analytics improves fraud prevention, social benefits, public health programs, tax administration, public safety and crisis response.

• Belgium Federal Public Service Finance used SAS digital twins to predict tax policy impacts while ensuring data privacy across taxpayer segments.
• Jakarta Smart City applied SAS AI and IoT streaming analytics to improve flood management for 11.2 million residents, with 40% living below sea level.
• Malta Tax and Customs Administration uses SAS data, analytics and AI to combat the 10% – 20% of annual revenue lost to noncompliance, avoidance and evasion.
• North Carolina Department of Insurance recovered $6.9 million in fraudulent claims within months and runs investigations more efficiently in the cloud with SAS Visual Investigator and SAS Law Enforcement Intelligence.
• Poste Italiane reduced fraud false positives by 40% and increased anomaly handling by 20% using SAS Fraud Management with real-time detection and machine learning.
• Rijkswaterstaat manages thousands of miles of Netherlands infrastructure with nearly 400 dashboards powered by SAS machine learning, streaming IoT and analytics.
• Wake County, NC Department of Revenue enhanced property assessment accuracy and productivity by using SAS AI to analyze 140+ variables across 400,000+ properties with 3,000 monthly sales.
• Southern Denmark Regional Administration reduced hospital-acquired infections affecting 10% of patients using SAS machine learning and text analytics to empower clinicians with reliable insights.
• Southern States Energy Board uses SAS AI in the cloud for natural language processing and sentiment analysis across 40,000+ public comments to inform energy policy across 16 states and two territories.
• The West Virginia Fusion Center helps law enforcement agencies statewide solve and prevent crimes more effectively across mountainous terrain with SAS Law Enforcement Intelligence.

Digital twins are virtual models that simulate real-world operations when direct data access is impractical or impossible. In the public sector, they protect sensitive citizen information, optimize processes, forecast outcomes, and improve public services while maintaining privacy and efficiency.

SAS^® Viya has achieved FedRAMP® and GovRAMP moderate authorization, a valuable recognition of our commitment to secure analytics, trustworthy AI and the need for public sector entities to be able to make confident decisions that meet the highest standards for transparency and oversight.

SAS serves public sector clients at the national, state/provincial and local/municipal level in over 134 countries. Our client list includes every US federal cabinet-level department and all branches of the US Department of Defense, as well as over 1,600 government ministries, agencies and departments worldwide.

SAS integrates all forms of AI – machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, generative AI and forecasting/optimization – to detect fraud, improve operations and enable predictive governance. 

SAS enables agencies to simulate tax policies with digital twins, detect fraud, assess program risks and gauge economic impacts. SAS Tax Compliance is a machine learning solution that enhances audit and investigation processes for quicker case resolution, improved revenue generation and strong taxpayer data protection.

SAS helps agencies ensure the right benefits reach the right people at the right time, mitigate improper payments, streamline operations and detect unemployment fraud with AI-driven analytics in SAS Payment Integrity for Social Benefits.

SAS Health Solutions help public health agencies simplify data management and accelerate insights. Leaders gain visibility into care quality and costs, make transparent decisions in regulated environments and improve patient outcomes while optimizing resources and clinician experience.

Law enforcement leaders use SAS data and AI to make confident decisions across operations, investigations, judicial processes and policy, improving outcomes in intelligence, investigations and operations.

SAS offers national security leaders the ability to draw a complete picture of national security risks from a single data, analytics and AI platform. SAS offers enhanced intelligence capabilities to identify, mitigate and address traditional and nontraditional threats across physical and virtual borders. SAS improves preparations and responses powered by data and AI that outperform the competition.

SAS uses real-time data and AI to help agencies predict, prepare for and respond to transportation and infrastructure challenges. Agencies gain insights into usage patterns through IoT devices, receive instant alerts about asset failures and make informed decisions on maintaining, replacing and expanding critical infrastructure.

SAS Viya enables government leaders to choose a single platform as their reliable go-to source of transparent insight to build and scale intelligent public services with embedded data and AI in the cloud. SAS Viya was designed to deliver all the key capabilities that government organizations need to prepare for the unexpected and respond faster to protect and improve citizens’ lives.

SAS was founded 50 years ago as a public sector project to boost agricultural yields and has evolved into the global leader in data, analytics and AI, used by 90 of the top 100 Fortune 500 companies. The SAS Viya platform simplifies innovation, governance and cloud analytics at scale. Today, over 1,600 government agencies in 130+ countries use SAS to serve the public better, faster and more efficiently.