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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Butterfly Data wins SAS Hackathon with tool to fight misinformation
Powered by SAS Viya, it helps decision makers identify trustworthy data CARY, N.C., May 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The flood of misinformation and disinformation is becoming a major problem, often negatively influencing decisions and causing harm. The overall winner of the 2024 SAS Hackathon is working to address this problem. Team Butterflies from Butterfly Data, a SAS Partner, has developed an AI-powered tool to help analysts and decision makers assess data sources for their reliability and credibility. Based in the UK, Butterfly Data is a diverse team of experienced technology consultants specializing in data science and data management solutions that help organizations turn data into strategic assets. SAS is a leader in data and AI. The SAS Hackathon-winning solution uses advanced natural language processing (NLP) and classification models to check the trustworthiness of open source data. With Butterfly's tool, organizations can verify data sources, spot unreliable information and ensure the use of ethical information to make decisions. "In a world where data can shape decisions with real-world consequences, it is essential to ensure its reliability. Combating misinformation with trusted data leads to better and more transparent decisions," said Luke Coldridge, Senior Consultant at Butterfly Data and Team Leader for Team Butterflies. "We believe this tool can be a force for good, helping combat disinformation and promote a more informed world." Powered by Viya To create the solution, Team Butterflies used SAS' data and AI platform, SAS® Viya®, as well as SAS Viya Workbench and SAS Viya Copilot. They also leveraged open source tools like Git, Python and Visual Studio (VS) Code. Released in 2024, SAS Viya Workbench is a cloud-based coding environment purpose-built for developers, data scientists and modelers. It significantly improves speed and efficiency and makes it easier to conduct data management, analysis and model development using SAS or Python code, through VS Code or Jupyter Notebook. Built on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, SAS Viya Copilot is an AI-driven conversational assistant embedded directly into the SAS Viya platform. It gives developers, data scientists and business users a powerful personal assistant that accelerates analytical, business and industry tasks. SAS Viya Copilot is currently available via an invitation-only private preview, with general availability coming later this year. Detecting disinformation Created using Agile software development principles, Team Butterflies' solution uses SAS Viya for advanced analytics and machine learning, with Viya Workbench and Viya Copilot accelerating model development and integrating large language model (LLM) technology. Open source tools supported flexible coding and seamless collaboration, while the Cloud Analytics Services (CAS) data-processing engine within Viya enabled centralized data management and real-time dashboards. SAS Information Catalog APIs further enhanced transparency by tracing data lineage and quality, boosting user confidence in the insights delivered. SAS Hackathon The 2024 SAS Hackathon boasted 1,731 registrants from more than 70 countries. This led to an all-time high of 145 approved teams that participated in the month-long hack, supported by 110 SAS mentors. SAS produces the annual SAS Hackathon, which was sponsored by long-time SAS Partners Microsoft and Intel. During the SAS Hackathon, teams of data scientists, business analysts, technology enthusiasts and students come together – often virtually across continents – to network, learn from each other and from a SAS mentor, and experiment with new technologies that spark innovation and improve lives. "Team Butterflies and all SAS Hackathon teams clearly demonstrate the potent combination of curiosity, innovation and AI technology to address big problems in business and society," said Einar Halvorsen, Global Hackathon Producer at SAS. "As a caterpillar transforms into something more, Team Butterflies' AI-powered tool transforms data into better insights and trustworthy decisions." The announcement of Team Butterflies as overall SAS Hackathon winner was made this month at SAS Innovate, the SAS data and AI technology conference. In November, Team Butterflies was named a 2024 SAS Hackathon winner in four categories, including EMEA region, Models technology, and Channel Readiness and Trustworthy AI special awards. More than 100 judges participated in the evaluation of SAS Hackathon projects. 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. Editorial Contact: Mike Nemecek SAS 919-531-5140 View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE SAS Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Channel Post MEA
15-05-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
SAS Unveils AI Agents with Customizable Human-AI Interaction
SAS announced the availability of SAS Intelligent Decisioning on industry-leading data and AI platform SAS Viya – empowers organizations to design, deploy and scale AI agents with balanced human and AI autonomy, embedded governance and explainability of decisions. AI agents get decisioning support with ethical calibration True enterprise value from agentic AI comes from building collaborative, intelligence-amplifying systems that work with humans. SAS Viya's agentic AI framework is underpinned by three pillars that define how AI agents are designed and delivered: Applying a hybrid approach that combines the rigor of powerful deterministic analytics with the flexibility and reasoning of large language models (LLMs) enables customers to build AI agents that deliver precise and reliable outcomes, with the necessary business guardrails and rules required in regulated industries. Human and AI balance. SAS enables organizations to determine the appropriate level of AI autonomyand human involvement for AI agents based on task complexity, risk, and business goals. AI agents can operate fully autonomously in routine, data-driven tasks while humans provide oversight, ethical judgment, and strategic direction. SAS' built-in governance framework enables customers to build AI agents that not only deliver accurate outcomes but also adhere to ethical standards, maintain data privacy, align with business values and stand up to regulatory scrutiny. The future of agentic AI, powered by SAS Viya SAS Viya supports organizations through every stage of the agentic AI journey, from data ingestion and analysis to building, deploying and monitoring AI agents. It enables continuous performance tracking, governance and security, offering a comprehensive and streamlined approach to managing AI agents throughout their lifecycle. And SAS brings decades of trusted governance to the table, embedding auditability, bias detection and compliance into every agent. SAS' future agentic AI roadmap includes infusing co-pilot productivity assistants into SAS Viya to help users work faster, smarter and with fewer manual steps, while staying grounded in enterprise logic. Leaning into its deep industry expertise, SAS also plans to deliver pre-packaged, domain-specific intelligent agents that will integrate seamlessly into industry workflows (e.g., data engineering tasks, optimizing supply chains), helping organizations accelerate time-to-value without sacrificing control or confidence. 'SAS Viya builds agents that don't just act – they decide with purpose, guided by analytics, business rules and adaptability and grounded by decades of SAS' trusted governance,' said Marinela Profi, Global AI Market Strategy Lead at SAS. 'SAS' unified, governed, decision-first framework turns AI agents from a science experiment to a business differentiator.' 0 0
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.
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.
Techday NZ
08-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
SAS announces digital twins, Viya upgrades & sector AI models
SAS has announced a brand new series of updates spanning digital twins, the SAS Viya platform, AI agents, quantum AI, custom models, and AI governance resources. The company has worked with Epic Games' Unreal Engine to bolster its digital twins technology, bringing 3D visualisations to industrial processes. This collaboration allows businesses to simulate strategies in digital environments and see the impact of changes before implementation. Manufacturing firm Georgia-Pacific is among the users employing this approach to better understand complex data and automate their systems. Alongside the digital twins initiative, SAS has introduced enhancements to its SAS Viya platform. These updates are designed to improve business productivity and empower decision-making. The new offerings on the SAS Viya platform support businesses in using AI capabilities to address operational challenges. With comprehensive data and analytics features, the platform aims to make analytics accessible for professionals with a wide range of skill levels. SAS has also unveiled developments in its agentic AI technology with SAS intelligent decisioning. The new AI agents feature is intended to create environments where AI systems can render decisions and take action with minimal or no human involvement. Organisations are able to design, deploy and scale these agents while ensuring outcomes meet both business and regulatory standards. SAS commented, "Imagine a future where AI systems render decisions and take action with little to no human intervention. SAS is building the agentic AI future with SAS intelligent decisioning, empowering organisations to design, deploy, and scale AI agents, ensuring accurate outcomes while adhering to business and regulatory standards." The company also published findings from a global study on quantum AI adoption. According to SAS, more than 60% of surveyed organisations are investing in quantum AI technologies. The survey indicates a significant interest in the potential of quantum computing, but also points to challenges and barriers that businesses are encountering. SAS stated, "Quantum computing and quantum AI are becoming significant focus points for businesses, with more than 60% of respondents from a global study indicating they're actively investing in quantum AI. Despite this, businesses are facing crucial barriers." "With its extensive data and AI knowledge, SAS supports businesses by providing guidance, conducting research, and working with leaders and companies in the quantum space." SAS is expanding its portfolio of AI models, having announced a new collection tailored to specific industries as part of its most recent USD $1 billion investment in sector-specific solutions. The new models are intended for sectors including banking, healthcare, manufacturing and the public sector. These are designed to help organisations of all sizes to improve productivity and return on investment while meeting standards for responsible innovation. SAS said, "In its latest wave of $1 billion investment in industry solutions, SAS has announced a new selection of AI models across key sectors, including banking, healthcare, manufacturing and the public sector. Organisations of all sizes and skillsets can create models to boost productivity and return on investment, while adhering to the highest standards of responsible innovation." With AI adoption advancing rapidly, SAS is also introducing governance resources aimed at helping organisations address AI-related risks and regulatory requirements. The launch of the SAS AI Governance Map enables organisations to assess their current AI governance maturity and plans forward. SAS said, "As AI accelerates the pace and proliferation of innovation, the need for AI governance has never been more urgent." "To support organisations in confidently navigating AI governance, SAS has launched the AI Governance Map, helping organisations assess their AI governance maturity and build a clear path forward, removing barriers to adoption, and successful implementation."
