SAS Viya

What is SAS Viya?

SAS Viya is a unified data and AI platform from SAS that integrates data management, analytics and governance. Teams use it to build, validate and deploy AI models with fairness and compliance controls.

Key capabilities of SAS Viya

• Data management: Connect to data sources with governance, lineage and auditability.
• Explore and model: Machine learning, statistical modeling and automated AI.
• Visual and code interfaces: Work in drag-and-drop tools or code.
• Deploy insights: Embed models in workflows with business rules and decision governance.
• SAS Viya Copilot: AI assistant for data tasks, coding and analytics.
• Flexible deployment: AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid or on premises.

How SAS Viya works

Teams connect data sources, prepare and explore data, build models with visual or code tools and then deploy them with decision governance. Copilot assists with coding and analytics tasks. Models include fairness and transparency controls for compliance review.

Who uses SAS Viya?

SAS Viya is used by large enterprises, banks, insurers and public agencies. The vendor says 90% of the Fortune 100 trust SAS and reports eight consecutive years as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science.

SAS Viya pricing

SAS does not publish Viya prices and offers flexible licensing through a quote. A 14-day free trial is available.

SAS Viya alternatives

Alternatives include Databricks, which offers a lakehouse and ML platform, Dataiku, which provides collaborative data science and AI, and Alteryx, which focuses on analytics automation.