SAS® Viya® Capabilities

“SAS’ guiding principle is everyone should be able to query data and perform complex analytical operations in every phase of the data and analytics life cycle.”

Wiktor Markiewicz, Senior Market Research Analyst at IDC

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Everything you need, all in one platform

SAS Viya is an end-to-end data and AI platform that enables trustworthy AI practices at every stage of the life cycle, from development to deployment. With intuitive visual interfaces, a centralized platform that enhances and encourages collaboration, AI-driven automation, and more, anyone can generate trusted outcomes from their data.

Our data management capabilities let you access and integrate data from virtually any source. A suggestion engine simplifies data prep. And data governance tracks data and model lineage, so if your data changes, you’ll know which models need retraining.

  • Screenshot Showing SAS Data Access and Integration

    Get seamless, transparent read, write and update access to data, regardless of source or platform.

  • SAS Data Preparation screenshot showing self-service data prep

    Build robust data pipelines to ingest, transform and serve the highest-quality data.

  • SAS Information Governance screenshot showing data quality metrics

    Build trust in data, understand lineage and gain transparency.

  • SAS Visual Analytics showing VA report with menu overlays

    Discover and explore relationships in data and share insights that go beyond basic BI.

    Our AI solutions include comprehensive, intuitive machine learning tools with automated feature engineering capabilities, providing you with intelligent recommendations for faster, smarter decisions.

    • SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning showing pipeline for automated feature engineering

      Support end-to-end data mining and machine learning processes with visual and programming interfaces for users of all skill levels.

    • SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning showing load default champion model

      Tune for peak performance through model tournaments to identify the most effective model.

    • SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning showing automated insights

      SAS Viya automatically generates insights to help you solve complex analytical problems with ease.

      Deploy complex analytics and AI projects into production and keep them there. SAS can help you automate tasks, govern decisions and deploy every type of model quickly.

      • SAS Model Manager Screenshot

        Simplify the creation and management of your model collection. Easily embed models into operational systems to monitor performance.

      • SAS Model Manager screenshot showing Python registry

        Ensure models will perform as expected in the real world.

      • SAS Model Manager screenshot showing performance report monitoring

        Embed models into operational systems and monitor them. Integrate business rules to ensure up-to-real-time results.

      • SAS Viya showing decision builder

        Combine business rules, real-time event detection, decision governance and powerful analytics capabilities to automate your operational decisions.

        Manage Data

        Our data management capabilities let you access and integrate data from virtually any source. A suggestion engine simplifies data prep. And data governance tracks data and model lineage, so if your data changes, you’ll know which models need retraining.

        • Screenshot Showing SAS Data Access and Integration

          Get seamless, transparent read, write and update access to data, regardless of source or platform.

        • SAS Data Preparation screenshot showing self-service data prep

          Build robust data pipelines to ingest, transform and serve the highest-quality data.

        • SAS Information Governance screenshot showing data quality metrics

          Build trust in data, understand lineage and gain transparency.

        • SAS Visual Analytics showing VA report with menu overlays

          Discover and explore relationships in data and share insights that go beyond basic BI.

          Develop Models

          Our AI solutions include comprehensive, intuitive machine learning tools with automated feature engineering capabilities, providing you with intelligent recommendations for faster, smarter decisions.

          • SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning showing pipeline for automated feature engineering

            Support end-to-end data mining and machine learning processes with visual and programming interfaces for users of all skill levels.

          • SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning showing load default champion model

            Tune for peak performance through model tournaments to identify the most effective model.

          • SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning showing automated insights

            SAS Viya automatically generates insights to help you solve complex analytical problems with ease.

            Deploy Insights

            Deploy complex analytics and AI projects into production and keep them there. SAS can help you automate tasks, govern decisions and deploy every type of model quickly.

            • SAS Model Manager Screenshot

              Simplify the creation and management of your model collection. Easily embed models into operational systems to monitor performance.

            • SAS Model Manager screenshot showing Python registry

              Ensure models will perform as expected in the real world.

            • SAS Model Manager screenshot showing performance report monitoring

              Embed models into operational systems and monitor them. Integrate business rules to ensure up-to-real-time results.

            • SAS Viya showing decision builder

              Combine business rules, real-time event detection, decision governance and powerful analytics capabilities to automate your operational decisions.

              Clear decisions at any scale

              Enterprises choose to use SAS Viya because it provides so many analytic techniques in one platform. But businesses of all sizes – and analytic needs – can find Viya capabilities that suit their needs.

              Matrix programming

              Easily translate mathematical formulas into innovative programs for matrix computations, numerical analysis, optimization, simulation, statistics and data analysis.

              Optimization

              Deliver the best results given resource constraints. With SAS, you can consider more alternative actions and scenarios, and determine the best allocation of resources and plans for accomplishing goals.

              Advanced workload management

              Extend the power of Kubernetes by optimizing and prioritizing SAS workloads within a Kubernetes cluster.

              Forecasting

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

              Econometrics

              SAS Econometrics lets you model, forecast and simulate complex economic and business scenarios using huge amounts of observational data.

              Real-time distributed database

              Gain open access to data and accelerate analytical processes with the SingleStore database embedded in our analytics platform.

              Text analytics

              Scale the human act of reading, organizing and extracting useful information from huge volumes of textual data.

              Event streaming analytics

              Analyze streaming data, uncover hidden insights with AI, make real-time, intelligent decisions in the environment of your choice.

              Decisioning

              Combine business rules, real-time event detection, decision governance and powerful analytics capabilities to automate your operational decisions and perform what-if scenario analysis.

              Get more done in any environment or language 

              SAS Viya seamlessly integrates and enhances open-source algorithms so that data scientists – whether coding in SAS, Python, R or other languages – can leverage its stability, performance, affordability and robust model governance.

              Why our team is passionate about SAS Viya

              Innovate faster

              “The lightning-quick automation really lets you pull an analytic thread at the speed of thought, which I think is super enticing.”


              Lou
              AI Senior Manager

              Work your way

              “Viya creates a space where you get the analytic answers you need on your terms – even at the click of a button.” 


              Dominique
              Technical Trainer

              Get trusted results

              “The fact that the software is in there looking to ensure that your organization acts responsibly and has traceable, transparent AI – it's game-changing.”


              Cat
              Director, Analytical Education 

              Elevate everyone

              “Data scientists, business analysts, IT users – they can all collaborate, share and build on each other’s work without going back and forth in different systems.”


              Hamza
              Senior Data Scientist

              Use SAS Viya however you want, wherever you want

              SAS offers a range of cloud deployment options so you can consume SAS the way that works best for your business: SAS managed or self-managed.

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