Mumbai, India, 14 May 2025: Data and AI leader SAS today announced its
latest offerings on the SAS^® Viya^® platform,
spanning the latest leaps in AI advancement to scale and galvanize human
productivity and decision-making.

“SAS is
evolving its strategy and portfolio to embrace a broader ecosystem of user
personas, preferences, and technologies within an enterprise’s AI technology
stack,” said Kathy Lange, research director for AI Software at IDC. “SAS
continues to develop offerings that streamline and automate the AI life cycle
and enable organizations to make better business decisions faster.”

The latest
and upcoming SAS Viya debuts include:

• SAS Data
  Maker – Introduced through private preview last year, SAS’
  secure synthetic data generator helps organizations tackle
  data privacy and scarcity challenges, while simplifying processes and
  conserving resources. Accelerated through SAS’ recent acquisition of
  synthetic data pioneer Hazy’s principal software assets, SAS Data
  Maker is expected for general availability in the third quarter of
  2025.

• SAS Viya
  Intelligent Decisioning – Available now, SAS Viya Intelligent
  Decisioning facilitates building and deploying intelligent AI agents with just the right
  AI-autonomy-to-human-involvement ratio to strike the optimal oversight
  balance for task complexity, risk and business goals.

• SAS Managed Cloud
  Services: SAS Viya Essentials – A packaged Managed Cloud
  Services offering of select SAS Viya products, SAS Managed Cloud Services:
  SAS Viya Essentials was launched in early 2025. Currently targeted to
  small and mid-size businesses, SAS Managed Cloud Services: Viya Essentials
  reduces the barrier to entry, delivering SAS Viya in a small, out-of-the
  box hosted managed service.

• SAS Viya Copilot – Built on
  Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, SAS Viya Copilot is an AI-driven
  conversational assistant embedded directly into the SAS Viya platform that
  gives developers, data scientists and business users alike a powerful
  personal assistant that accelerates analytical, business and industry
  tasks. SAS Viya Copilot is currently available via an invitation-only,
  private preview, with the general availability release coming in the third
  quarter of 2025. Key features of the initial Copilot offering include
  AI-powered model development and code assistance for SAS users.

• SAS Viya Workbench – Released in
  2024, SAS Viya Workbench is a cloud-based coding environment purpose-built
  for developers, data scientists, and modelers to significantly improve
  speed and efficiency and easily conduct data management, analysis, and
  model development using SAS or Python code, through Visual Studio Code or
  Jupyter Notebook. New in 2025 is the support of R coding, SAS Enterprise
  Guide as an optional integrated development environment (IDE) option, and
  the expansion from the initial availability on AWS Marketplace to now
  include availability on Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

Learn
more about SAS data and AI products at: sas.com/viya.

Unparalleled
productivity, trusted results

SAS is
breaking through the AI and GenAI hype to deliver real capabilities that drive
real results with SAS Viya – a comprehensive data and AI platform that empowers
people of all skill levels to participate in the analytics process.

The SAS Viya platform delivers users a choice to be a builder of AI with
end-to-end platform tools, or buyers of AI solutions and model packages – each
delivering scale and productivity to enable better decisions and faster time to
value. Developers, data scientists, IT professionals and business analysts can
collaborate seamlessly within the SAS Viya ecosystem and throughout the data
and AI life cycle to make intelligent decisions. SAS Viya
accelerates productivity across diverse industries and regulatory landscapes,
offering a clear advantage to organizations, particularly CIOs and IT leaders.

In fact, a 2024 Futurum Group AI productivity study revealed
that SAS Viya helps users accelerate the AI life cycle, enabling them to
collect data, build models, and deploy decisions 4.6 times faster than selected
competitors – all while helping them increase innovation, expedite decision
making and drive revenue growth.

“The current economic climate and rapid pace of AI innovation can feel
intense and overwhelming,” said Bryan Harris, Chief Technology Officer at SAS.
“Our goal is to deliver cutting-edge AI capabilities that help organizations
navigate the hype and disruption, make breakthroughs in problem solving, and
gain a decision advantage.”  

Supporting
global conservation with data and AI

The power
of SAS Viya extends beyond improving business outcomes to boosting global
conservation efforts. Fathom Science, a technology start-up building
digital twins of the ocean, tapped SAS Viya to tackle an impractical problem
that brought together the unlikely combination of ocean data, AI and a species
in need of a lifeline.  

To
validate their state-of-the-science whale location prediction model that helps
prevent vessels from striking critically endangered North Atlantic right
whales, Fathom Science used SAS Data Maker to create synthetic data with
the characteristics of the actual shipping lane data to expand to 500,000 data
points. With the data in hand, SAS Viya Workbench was used to develop models to
calculate the probability of whales’ distance from shore. The result? Fathom
Science gained statistical and machine learning validation of its whale
location prediction model.

The
announcement was made at SAS Innovate, the data and AI experience for
business leaders, technical users and SAS Partners. This year’s event is
supported by our partner sponsors, including Microsoft, Intel and AWS.

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