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Business Standard
14-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
From synthetic data to AI agents, new SAS Viya innovations boost speed, productivity and trust
VMPL Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 14: 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: 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. Keep up with the latest news from SAS by visiting or follow us on LinkedIn or X. About SAS SAS is a global leader in data and AI. With SAS software and industry-specific solutions, organizations transform data into trusted decisions. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright© 2024 SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.
Time of India
09-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
SAS debuts new, custom AI models to bust business bottlenecks
SAS INNOVATE , ORLANDO, In the latest wave of its $1 billion investment in industry solutions, data and AI leader SAS has debuted a new selection of AI models. Each model addresses a specific labor- and time intensive process that can drag business down. SAS' packaged models come either ready-to-go or intended to tailor and accelerate model training on customer data. All can quickly and easily integrate with the existing systems of organizations of all sizes. Inspired by guidelines from SAS' Data Ethics Practice, customers can rely on SAS' simple documentation to create models that deliver results that are easy to understand and explain. Users are equipped to take back their time and enjoy boosted productivity and return on investment, all while adhering to the highest standards of responsible innovation. The models, available now, include: • Cross-Industry: o AI-Driven Entity Resolution. o Document Analysis. • Health Care: o Medication Adherence Risk. • Manufacturing: o Strategic Supply Chain Optimization. • Public Sector: o Payment Integrity for Food Assistance. o Tax Compliance for Sales Tax. 'SAS Models are based on SAS' core assets, talent and intellectual property from its wealth of experience working with customers to solve industry problems,' said Kathy Lange, Research Director at IDC. 'Between their scalability and seamless integration with existing environments, SAS Models are a great option for those looking to accelerate time to production who might lack the expertise or time to build models from scratch.' A model portfolio on a roll and an agentic sneak preview As SAS continues to lead the future of AI for business , new models will be launched per evolving customer and market demand. Fresh offerings coming in 2025 will include: • Banking: o Fraud Decisioning for Payments and Card Models. • Health Care: o Payment Integrity for Health Care. • Manufacturing: o Worker Safety Monitoring. • Public Sector: o Tax Compliance for Individual Income Tax. As SAS redefines what's possible with pre-built AI innovation, the next chapter includes agentic counterparts to SAS' models, bringing even more autonomy to industry-specific offerings. It can take weeks or months for data scientists to create and fine-tune data lakes: essential repositories that can store, then crunch large amounts of raw customer data in its original format, then restructure and transform it to make it ready for models to use. SAS' answer to this issue: a pre-built AI agent that will automate complex data preparation tasks, helping models run in real time, with no manual data restructuring required. 'We believe the future of AI lies in agents that are not only intelligent but also responsible, ready-to-use and relevant,' said Udo Sglavo, VP of Applied AI and Modeling, R&D at SAS. 'Our new industry-specific models, built on decades of domain expertise and guided by our ethics-first approach, represent a bold step toward agentic AI: solutions that think with context, act with purpose and deliver real-world impact.' Today's 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.
Korea Herald
08-05-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
From synthetic data to AI agents, new SAS Viya innovations boost speed, productivity and trust
ORLANDO, Fla., May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SAS Innovate -- 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: 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. Today's announcement was made at SAS Innovate, the data and AI experience for business leaders, technical users and SAS Partners. Keep up with the latest news from SAS by visiting or follow us on LinkedIn or X. About SAS SAS is a global leader in data and AI. With SAS software and industry-specific solutions, organizations transform data into trusted decisions. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW ®. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright © 2025 SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
From synthetic data to AI agents, new SAS Viya innovations boost speed, productivity and trust
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. 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 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 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 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 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." ORLANDO, Fla., May 7, 2025 /CNW/ -- SAS Innovate -- 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. Story Continues Learn more about SAS data and AI products at: 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. Today's announcement was made at SAS Innovate, the data and AI experience for business leaders, technical users and SAS Partners. Keep up with the latest news from SAS by visiting or follow us on LinkedIn or X. About SAS SAS is a global leader in data and AI. With SAS software and industry-specific solutions, organizations transform data into trusted decisions. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright © 2025 SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. 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Techday NZ
07-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
SAS Viya expands AI tools with new offerings & cloud services
SAS has unveiled several new offerings on its SAS Viya platform aimed at supporting greater speed, productivity, and trust in AI deployment and analytics. The latest additions to SAS Viya include the forthcoming SAS Data Maker, a synthetic data generator intended to tackle data privacy and scarcity issues within organisations. According to SAS, this solution builds on technology acquired from Hazy's principal software assets and is expected to be generally available in the third quarter of 2025. Currently available is SAS Viya Intelligent Decisioning, which allows users to construct and deploy intelligent AI agents designed to provide an appropriate balance between machine autonomy and human oversight, taking into account task complexity, risk profiles, and business objectives. SAS has also launched SAS Managed Cloud Services: SAS Viya Essentials, a managed service package primarily aimed at small and mid-sized businesses. The company says that Viya Essentials delivers the SAS Viya experience in a compact, hosted and managed service arrangement to help reduce barriers to entry for organisations seeking to implement analytics capabilities. SAS Viya Copilot, an AI-powered conversational assistant, is currently in private preview with general availability expected in the third quarter of 2025. According to SAS, the Copilot will provide assistance to developers, data scientists, and business users, enabling AI-powered model development and code support. It is built on Azure AI Services and is described as a significant outcome of the SAS and Microsoft partnership. Another recent release is SAS Viya Workbench, which offers a cloud environment for coding aimed at enhancing the speed and efficiency of developers, data scientists, and modelers. Workbench facilitates data management, analysis, and model development using SAS or Python code and integrates with Visual Studio Code or Jupyter Notebook. For 2025, Workbench adds support for R coding, SAS Enterprise Guide as an IDE option, and is expanding its availability from AWS Marketplace to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Kathy Lange, Research Director for AI Software at IDC, commented on the company's direction: "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. SAS continues to develop offerings that streamline and automate the AI life cycle and enable organisations to make better business decisions faster." SAS highlighted a recent AI productivity study conducted by the Futurum Group in 2024, which reported that SAS Viya users were able to accelerate their AI life cycle by collecting data, building models, and deploying decisions 4.6 times faster than selected competitors. The study also found increased innovation, faster decision making, and revenue growth for users. Bryan Harris, Chief Technology Officer at SAS, addressed the pace of change in the AI sector by saying, "The current economic climate and rapid pace of AI innovation can feel intense and overwhelming. Our goal is to deliver cutting-edge AI capabilities that help organisations navigate the hype and disruption, make breakthroughs in problem solving, and gain a decision advantage." SAS also pointed to the role its technology is playing beyond commercial applications. Fathom Science, a start-up focused on creating digital twins of the ocean, used SAS Viya to address marine conservation concerns. By employing SAS Data Maker, Fathom Science generated synthetic shipping lane data to aid in the validation of its whale location prediction model, which is designed to reduce the risk of vessels striking critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. The process involved expanding available data points and utilising SAS Viya Workbench to develop machine learning models for estimating whale proximity to shore, leading to statistical and machine learning validation of their approach.
