Make trusted decisions faster with SAS® Viya® on Azure.
Integrate, build, deploy and manage models at scale to accelerate innovation across the enterprise.
Accelerate end-to-end analytics
Reduce time to insight across workloads with visual and automated tools that minimize friction throughout the analytics life cycle in a cloud-native architecture.
Build on your own terms
Tailor DataOps, AI and ModelOps processes to enterprise needs using your preferred programming language. SAS and Microsoft together bring you the power of choice.
Enhance trust
We're committed to your security, with more than 90 compliance certifications and unified data access and analytics, enabling you to work fearlessly across your SAS and Microsoft environments.
SAS® Viya® on Azure Architecture
SAS Viya integrates with Azure services at every level of the analytics stack – from data ingestion and preparation to building and deploying AI pipelines – all with oversight from Azure security and management tools.
Featured Integrations
Azure Security Services
Protect, govern and manage access to your sensitive SAS Viya workloads with Azure security services, such as:
- Azure Active Directory for seamless authentication and single sign-on.<
- Azure Key Vault for certificate management.
- Azure Monitor for monitoring and logging.
- Azure Policy for total governance and dynamic rules enforcement.
Azure Data Sources
SAS Viya uses high-performance connectors to source data from the Azure environment to provision data for downstream AI needs. Integrate with sources like:
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
- Azure Database for MySQL.
- Azure Cosmos DB.
- Azure SQL Database.
- Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
- Azure Synapse Analytics.
Azure Kubernetes Service
Fully manage your SAS Viya container experience using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Spin up, spin down, replace and orchestrate containers with ease to accelerate and optimize performance across the most demanding analytics and AI environments.
Azure Synapse Analytics
Enrich data across multiple sources with SAS Viya and Azure Synapse Analytics. Quickly prepare and explore data using SAS Information Catalog and SAS Visual Analytics to get automated insights from your Azure Synapse tables.
Azure Machine Learning
Harness the power of choice with SAS Viya integration in Azure Machine Learning to deploy from your preferred environment. With SAS Viya and Azure Machine Learning, you can:
- Import and register Azure Machine Learning Models into SAS Model Manager to validate, deploy and manage in your SAS environment.
- Register and publish SAS and Python models to Azure Machine Learning in your Azure container environment.
Power Apps and Power Automate
Using SAS Decisioning Power Connector, run SAS Viya-based decision modules and analytical models within Microsoft Power Apps and Microsoft Power Automate. Embed analytics-led insights and automate complex tasks within applications to boost productivity and improve decision making.
Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT Edge
SAS Event Stream Processing now delivers connectors for both Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT Edge to deliver streaming analytics to the edge and the cloud to glean real-time insights from streaming data.
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