Explore and Model - Quick Look
SAS Viya demystifies AI and simplifies model development for developers, data scientists and business analysts alike with tools and techniques that suit every user’s needs and abilities. Code, low-code or no code. Let SAS Viya provide intelligent recommendations for optimizing and identifying the most effective and trustworthy AI models every time.

Build
Build models with multiple AI techniques to solve real-world problems.
Optimize
Embed models into operational systems and monitor them.
Validate
Ensure model’s input and output variables align with business’s expectations.
SAS Viya’s built-in visualization tools reduced time spent on data exploration by 69x, freeing up data scientists to focus on core data modeling tasks and quickly achieving new insights.” The Futurum Group
Discover and Visualize
Effortlessly explore your data, uncover hidden patterns and trends, and create stunning reports with SAS Visual Analytics. Use machine learning and natural language explanations to find, visualize and narrate explainable insights that go beyond basic business intelligence.

Discover
Quickly spot important relationships in your data using suggestions and clearly identified related measures. Use machine learning and natural language explanations to find, visualize and narrate stories and insights that are easy to understand and explain.

Explore
Automatically build interactive analytical stories with your data – in seconds. Automated Explanation determines which variables contribute to an outcome and provides a simple, natural language explanation.

Visualize
Create interactive reports and dashboards. Summarize key metrics and share via web and mobile. Executives and staff can collaborate on insights, slice and dice to find their own answers, and better understand business performance.

Collaborate
Rapidly share reports and dashboards directly with colleagues or teams. Set permissions to control who can view or edit. SAS Visual Analytics integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office tools, allowing users to embed reports into PowerPoint presentations or Excel files.
Integrate
Add interactive visualizations with third-party JavaScript libraries like D3 and C3 within SAS Visual Analytics. Leverage the SAS Viya SDK and REST APIs to access SAS analytics, data and services from any client language.
Build Models
In Model Studio, the process of building, comparing and iterating models is faster and more efficient than ever. Whether you prefer using SAS or your favorite programming language, our platform offers click-through tasks to accelerate code development and low-code or no-code pipeline development for data preparation and feature engineering.
With transparent AutoML and powerful AI tools, you can explore and customize pipelines effectively, ensuring your models are trained and interpreted with ease. Quickly compare models, identify the champion and deploy with confidence.

Low/no code
Quickly build out data science workflows with a few clicks, enabling rapid iteration and experimentation with advanced techniques, including deep learning, time series forecasting and reinforcement learning.

AutoML
Accelerate model development and optimize for performance with powerful AutoML capabilities spanning the analytics life cycle.
Leverage automated data processing, feature engineering, model tuning and champion model selection.

SAS + open source
Facilitate collaboration and empower users to call open source algorithms within a model pipeline. Experiment with SAS, Python, R and Lua models to find the best-performing option.

Model trust
Get automated insights and summaries from embedded natural language generation and assess models for performance and bias. Get instant access to interpretability reports in all modeling nodes, including LIME, ICE, Kernel SHAP and PD heatmaps.
Viya Copilot
(Coming soon) Empower any level of user to leverage trusted and secure AI assistants for data and AI tasks using generative AI with SAS Viya Copilot.
Composite AI
Unlock the full potential of your data with SAS Viya’s Composite AI—where multiple analytic techniques converge to deliver faster, more explainable insights. Streamline the development of robust, scalable models by combining automation, transparency, and seamless integration with open-source tools.

Machine learning
Solve complex analytical problems with machine learning and deep learning. SAS Visual Machine Learning facilitates the entire data mining and machine learning process, allowing users of all skill levels to manage analytics tasks efficiently and automatically.

Text analytics
Efficiently analyze and categorize large volumes of textual data. SAS Visual Text Analytics leverages natural language processing, machine learning and linguistic rules to transform unstructured data into meaningful insights.

Forecasting
Quickly and reliably predict outcomes and plan better for the future. SAS Visual Forecasting supports all stages of forecasting and automates large-scale time series analyses and hierarchical forecasts.

Optimization
Deliver the best results given resource constraints. With SAS Optimization, you can consider more alternative actions and scenarios, and determine the best allocation of resources and plans for accomplishing goals.
Statistics
SAS Visual Statistics provides you with interactive data exploration and predictive modeling capabilities. Intuitive visual interfaces allow users to uncover insights, identify trends and build predictive models.
Econometrics
Explore and explain economic relationships between variables with SAS Econometrics. Test economic theories, make informed policy decisions and forecast future economic trends by bridging the gap between theoretical economics and practical applications.
Generative AI
Achieve real value with generative AI using SAS Viya to integrate LLMs into your business and industry processes and govern their life cycles.
SAS Viya Workbench
SAS Viya Workbench complements the SAS Viya platform by providing a flexible, efficient coding environment for developers. It provides a lightweight, cloud-based space for rapid development and model building, with the convenience of being a standalone tool.

On demand
Quickly provision and terminate workbench sessions, minimizing cloud computing costs and ensuring you only use the resources needed for your project.

Multiple IDEs
SAS Viya Workbench supports popular IDEs like Visual Studio Code, JupyterLab/Jupyter Notebook and SAS® Enterprise Guide® (available soon), allowing you to work in your preferred coding environment.

SAS, Python or R
Code in the language of your choice. SAS Viya Workbench supports SAS, Python and R code.

Scalable
Customize your compute power by adjusting CPU, memory and GPU resources to match the needs of your projects.
GitHub integration
Connect your environment with GitHub for efficient collaboration, version control and code management among distributed team.