How can SAS® Viya® for insurance improve your business?
SAS Viya empowers insurers to make trusted, transparent decisions at speed and scale – modernizing operations, enhancing compliance and driving measurable value across the insurance life cycle with advanced analytics and AI.
How can you deliver better decisions from data?
Move seamlessly from questions to decisions while increasing productivity and accelerating time to value. SAS Viya empowers you to make effective decisions that help reduce costs, manage actuarial and financial risks, personalize customer experiences, combat fraud, proactively maintain regulatory compliance and more.
Am I maximizing resources and spending?
Viya helps you unlock time and cost savings with automation, integration and better collaboration.
Am I in compliance with the most current regulations?
Viya allows you to stay ahead of requirements with automation for consistent data, transparent processes and traceable decisions.
What services do my customers need?
Viya provides a holistic customer view that spans products, functions and channels to address their unspoken needs at the right time.
Am I treating customers fairly?
Viya allows you to harness AI capabilities with full transparency and traceability that you and your customers can trust.
How can I improve my organization’s actuarial process?
Viya provides AI and machine learning capabilities for competitive tariffs, optimized portfolios, real-time pricing, INBR calculations and automated reserving processes.
Is my organization protected?
Viya allows you to radically reduce the impact of fraud by detecting and preventing opportunistic and organized fraud.
Improve business performance with SAS Viya
Our move to SAS Viya represents a real leap forward in data visualization.” Florence Vuillet Data Director UTWIN
UTWIN, a growing fintech startup in France specializing in borrower insurance, is modernizing its analytics approach with SAS Viya to enhance efficiency and democratize analytics for management, business teams and partners.
The data team uses SAS Viya to deliver insurance-specific key performance indicators (KPIs), such as the state of claims and the correlation with premiums, to help its leadership make strategic plans. The data team is also exploring how to use analytics to combat risk and fraud.
The facts speak for themselves
After identifying the performance benefits and cloud savings of SAS Viya, independent research firm The Futurum Group performed a second study on productivity. This is what we call a win-win for your data and AI teams:
Productivity Study
4.6x
MORE PRODUCTIVE
Data and AI teams saw increased productivity and decreased complexity in achieving the complete data and AI life cycle in SAS Viya. Read the summary.
Performance Study
30x
FASTER
That’s how much SAS Viya, on average, outpaced other platforms in the computation time of data and AI tasks. This translated into an 86% cloud cost savings.
Read the summary.
What are the benefits of SAS Viya?
With our data and AI platform, you can understand what’s happening with your data now, predict how to pivot seamlessly and make progress faster.
Enable better collaboration
Viya provides a single platform for all user types – from data scientists to business analysts to IT. Use the language you choose or take advantage of the no-code, drag-and-drop interface.
Innovate faster
Our end-to-end platform enables seamless movements across the entire analytics life cycle. Use AI-driven automation across data wrangling and exploration and accelerate model deployment with AutoML.
Get results you can trust
Viya provides embedded model interpretability and fairness and bias monitoring. With robust governance and transparent insights, make decisions you can trust and verify at any scale.
Gain analytics tailored to you
Whether you manage a small insurance business or a large enterprise, Viya integrates seamlessly across cloud-native or cloud-agnostic environments with complete portability.
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SAS Viya and generative AI
Accelerate productivity across your insurance business with secure GenAI orchestration.
SAS Viya enables you to govern the use of large language models (LLMs) and confidently integrate their output as part of your business process. Transform LLMs into trusted decisions while protecting your customers’ data and maintaining regulatory compliance.
Viya makes it easy by providing a conversational experience with data and AI, featuring industry-specialized intelligent assistants and a low-code/no-code approach to generating synthetic data.
SAS Viya and AI agents
SAS Viya provides a unified, decision-driven platform for designing and deploying AI agents at scale.
SAS Viya empowers AI agents to sense, decide and act with confidence. Its powerful analytics engine and cloud-native architecture enable organizations to build intelligent agents that respond to real-time data, adapt to changing conditions and execute complex tasks autonomously.
Beyond simple automation, Viya creates smart, reliable systems that enhance human productivity. The platform combines advanced analytics with language models to guide agent behavior while maintaining human oversight and control. Built-in transparency features ensure compliance and accountability, even in highly regulated industries. With Viya, using AI agents becomes not only possible but trustworthy, flexible and adaptable.
How can SAS Viya transform your insurance business?
SAS Viya empowers insurers to make trusted, transparent decisions across the insurance life cycle using advanced analytics and AI.
Drive trusted decisions across the insurance life cycle
Confidently automate and optimize underwriting, claims, fraud, risk and actuarial workflows with unified analytics and AI that deliver consistent, explainable decisions at scale.
Build governance, compliance and transparency into every decision
Operationalize advanced analytics and AI with embedded governance, fairness monitoring, explainability and continuous monitoring to meet regulatory expectations across pricing, reserving, fraud detection and financial reporting.
Accelerate productivity and measurable insurance outcomes
Automate analytics workflows across data preparation, modeling and deployment to reduce manual effort, shorten decision cycles and deliver faster ROI across underwriting, claims, customer experience and risk operations.
Enable cloud-native agility with open, scalable analytics
Deploy and scale models anywhere (on-premises, hybrid or multicloud), while integrating open source and advanced analytics in a single, cloud-native platform designed for insurance scale.
SAS Viya for insurance: Frequently asked questions
What is SAS Viya for insurance?
SAS Viya for Insurance is an end-to-end data and AI platform that empowers insurance companies to deliver data-driven decisions faster and more efficiently, helping reduce costs, manage risks, personalize customer experiences and combat fraud.
How does SAS Viya help insurance companies with regulatory compliance?
Viya automates compliance processes for insurance companies with consistent data, transparent processes and traceable decision-making. It provides alerts on model performance and degradation, enabling continuous evaluation of production models with fully traceable processes.
Can SAS Viya detect insurance fraud?
Yes. Viya uses multilayered detection methods to find fraud at the individual claim, new business transaction, entity or network level. It combines advanced analytics with automation to identify sophisticated fraud schemes across all lines of business.
How does SAS Viya support GenAI for insurers?
Viya provides secure GenAI orchestration that governs the use of large language models (LLMs) and integrates their output into business processes. It maintains regulatory compliance while offering conversational AI experiences and low-code/no-code synthetic data generation.
Can SAS Viya integrate with existing insurance core systems?
Yes. Viya is built to work within your existing insurance technology ecosystem. Viya integrates seamlessly across cloud-native or cloud-agnostic environments with complete portability. It's an enterprise-grade platform that handles current and future analytics requirements for small insurance businesses and large enterprises.
How does SAS Viya improve insurance customer experience?
Viya provides a holistic customer view spanning products, functions and channels to address unspoken needs at the right time. It enables insurers to personalize customer experiences and create meaningful interactions based on comprehensive data analysis.
Does SAS Viya support the complete insurance pricing process?
Yes. Viya offers a modular end-to-end framework that efficiently supports the complete pricing process. It provides powerful AI and machine learning capabilities for competitive tariffs, optimized portfolios, real-time pricing and IBNR calculation.
How does SAS Viya help insurers meet explainability requirements for AI-driven decisions?
Viya provides embedded model interpretability, fairness monitoring and bias detection. With robust governance and transparent insights, insurers can make decisions they trust and verify at any scale while maintaining regulatory compliance.
Can SAS Viya help with actuarial and financial risk?
Yes. Viya enables effective decisions that help manage actuarial and financial risks through powerful AI and machine learning capabilities. It supports real-time pricing, risk modeling and portfolio optimization to reduce costs and increase profitability.