SAS® Viya®


SAS Viya offerings & capabilities
Choose the Viya offering that fits your business needs.
SAS Viya Foundational Offerings
Faster innovation. Complete integration. Trusted results. Flexibility to meet your needs.
The SAS Viya platform offers packaged solutions for every data and analytics need and for every use case. Choose the offering – SAS Viya, SAS Viya Advanced, SAS Viya Enterprise or SAS Viya Programming – that meets your requirements today, with the knowledge that you have a path to the future in a single, expandable environment.
Capabilities Comparison | SAS Viya | SAS Viya Advanced | SAS Viya Enterprise | SAS Viya Programming* | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Data access, data preparation, data quality & information cataloging | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Advanced flow steps & information governance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Visualization & reporting | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Conversational AI & chatbots | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Statistics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Matrix programming | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Machine learning & deep learning | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Model deployment & management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Forecasting | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Text analytics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Optimization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Econometrics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Digital decisioning | ✓ | |||||||
Event streaming analytics | ✓ |
*Programmatic interface only; no visual interface.
SAS Viya Foundational Offerings
Faster innovation. Complete integration. Trusted results. Flexibility to meet your needs.
The SAS Viya platform offers packaged solutions for every data and analytics need and every use case – SAS Viya, SAS Viya Advanced, SAS Viya Enterprise and SAS Viya Programming. Choose the offering that meets your requirements today, with the knowledge that you have a path to the future in a single, expandable environment.

Get to Know Our Packaged Viya Offerings
SAS Viya
Expand the breadth of your analytics with a high-performance, in-memory analytics engine, along with embedded machine learning and deep learning capabilities accessible across your organization from a single location.
SAS Viya includes these key capabilities:
- Data access Get seamless, transparent read, write and update access to data, regardless of source or platform.
- Self-service data preparation Access, profile, cleanse and transform data using an intuitive interface.
- Information governance Easily find data and analytic assets, while simultaneously protecting and evaluating their fitness for use.
- Client/server toolset Manage, access, and process data in a distributed and parallel SAS environment.
- Visualization & reporting Explorați vizual toate datele, descoperiți tipare noi și publicați rapoarte pe web și pe dispozitive mobile.
- Statistical analysis Easily build and adjust huge numbers of predictive models on the fly.
- Statistical process control Go beyond basic process control to improve products, optimize processes and boost customer satisfaction.
- Machine learning & deep learning Support end-to-end data mining and machine learning processes with comprehensive visual and programming interfaces for users of all skill levels.
- Self-service, interactive development environment Get easy, self-sufficient access to enterprise and cloud data sources, data quality functions and an extended flow designer.
- Job flow scheduling Design reusable advanced data management flows for provisioning, migration, synchronization or other activities.
- Model deployment & management Simplify the creation and management of your model collection with a web-based interface that easily automates the model management process.
SAS Viya Advanced
Take your data science capabilities to the next level with a high-performance, in-memory analytics engine plus more expansive modeling capabilities that add text analytics, forecasting, optimization and econometrics to your environment.
SAS Viya Advanced includes these key capabilities:
- Matrix programming Easily translate mathematical formulas into innovative programs for matrix computations, numerical analysis, optimization, simulation, statistics and data analysis.
- Forecasting Generate large numbers of trustworthy forecasts, quickly and automatically, using time series and machine learning techniques.
- Text analytics Scale the human act of reading, organizing and extracting useful information from huge volumes of textual data.
- Optimization Use a powerful array of optimization, simulation and project scheduling techniques for identifying actions that will get the best results, while operating within resource limitations and other relevant restrictions.
- Econometrics Model, forecast and simulate complex economic and business scenarios using huge amounts of observational data.
Plus all the capabilities found in SAS Viya:
- Data access Get seamless, transparent read, write and update access to data, regardless of source or platform.
- Self-service data preparation Access, profile, cleanse and transform data using an intuitive interface.
- Information governance Easily find data and analytic assets, while simultaneously protecting and evaluating their fitness for use.
- Client/server toolset Manage, access, and process data in a distributed and parallel SAS environment.
- Visualization & reporting Explorați vizual toate datele, descoperiți tipare noi și publicați rapoarte pe web și pe dispozitive mobile.
- Statistical analysis Easily build and adjust huge numbers of predictive models on the fly.
- Statistical process control Go beyond basic process control to improve products, optimize processes and boost customer satisfaction.
- Machine learning & deep learning Support end-to-end data mining and machine learning processes with comprehensive visual and programming interfaces for users of all skill levels.
- Self-service, interactive development environment Get easy, self-sufficient access to enterprise and cloud data sources, data quality functions and an extended flow designer.
- Job flow scheduling Design reusable advanced data management flows for provisioning, migration, synchronization or other activities.
- Model deployment & management Simplify the creation and management of your model collection with a web-based interface that easily automates the model management process.
SAS Viya Enterprise
Support decisioning by creating, embedding and governing analytically driven decision flows at scale in real time or batch. Deploy analytics and decisions in stream to gain insights and take action at the edge.
SAS Viya Enterprise includes these key capabilities:
Plus all the capabilities of SAS Viya Advanced:
- Data access Get seamless, transparent read, write and update access to data, regardless of source or platform.
- Self-service data preparation Access, profile, cleanse and transform data using an intuitive interface.
- Information governance Easily find data and analytic assets, while simultaneously protecting and evaluating their fitness for use.
- Client/server toolset Manage, access, and process data in a distributed and parallel SAS environment.
- Visualization & reporting Explorați vizual toate datele, descoperiți tipare noi și publicați rapoarte pe web și pe dispozitive mobile.
- Statistical analysis Easily build and adjust huge numbers of predictive models on the fly.
- Statistical process control Go beyond basic process control to improve products, optimize processes and boost customer satisfaction.
- Machine learning & deep learning Support end-to-end data mining and machine learning processes with comprehensive visual and programming interfaces for users of all skill levels.
- Self-service, interactive development environment Get easy, self-sufficient access to enterprise and cloud data sources, data quality functions and an extended flow designer.
- Model deployment & management Simplify the creation and management of your model collection with a web-based interface that easily automates the model management process.
- Job flow scheduling Design reusable advanced data management flows for provisioning, migration, synchronization or other activities.
- Matrix programming Easily translate mathematical formulas into innovative programs for matrix computations, numerical analysis, optimization, simulation, statistics and data analysis.
- Forecasting Generate large numbers of trustworthy forecasts, quickly and automatically, using time series and machine learning techniques.
- Text analytics Scale the human act of reading, organizing and extracting useful information from huge volumes of textual data.
- Optimization Use a powerful array of optimization, simulation and project scheduling techniques for identifying actions that will get the best results, while operating within resource limitations and other relevant restrictions.
- Econometrics Model, forecast and simulate complex economic and business scenarios using huge amounts of observational data.
SAS Viya Programming
Get the ultimate analytics experience with access to all SAS Viya analytic capabilities, plus the power to incorporate analytics into real-time interactions and event-based capabilities
SAS Viya Programming includes these key capabilities:
- Data access Get seamless, transparent read, write and update access to data, regardless of source or platform.
- Visualization & reporting Explorați vizual toate datele, descoperiți tipare noi și publicați rapoarte pe web și pe dispozitive mobile.
- Data quality Standardize and improve new and existing data so you can trust the information that serves as the basis for your corporate initiatives and systems.
- In-database technologies Shorten the time needed for key data quality and analytical processes by performing them within the database. Available for Hadoop Cloud Services, Cloudera Data Platform, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks and Teradata.
- Client/server toolset Manage, access, and process data in a distributed and parallel SAS environment.
- Statistical analysis Easily build and adjust huge numbers of predictive models on the fly.
- Statistical process control Go beyond basic process control to improve products, optimize processes and boost customer satisfaction.
- Matrix programming Easily translate mathematical formulas into innovative programs for matrix computations, numerical analysis, optimization, simulation, statistics and data analysis.
- Machine learning & deep learning Support end-to-end data mining and machine learning processes with comprehensive visual and programming interfaces for users of all skill levels.
- Forecasting Generate large numbers of trustworthy forecasts, quickly and automatically, using time series and machine learning techniques.
- Text analytics Scale the human act of reading, organizing and extracting useful information from huge volumes of textual data.
- Optimization Use a powerful array of optimization, simulation and project scheduling techniques for identifying actions that will get the best results, while operating within resource limitations and other relevant restrictions.
- Econometrics Model, forecast and simulate complex economic and business scenarios using huge amounts of observational data.

Add-On Capabilities
Once you have SAS Viya, you can expand your portfolio by adding more capabilities that suit your enterprise needs.

