SAS launched a bevy of updates or its Viya platform including synthetic data, tools for building and deploying AI agents, and managed cloud services. The company also launched new AI models and digital twins for manufacturing.
The news, announced at SAS Innovate, aim to position SAS more in the AI technology stack.
Here's a look at what was announced:
- SAS Viya said its SAS Data Maker, a synthetic data generator, will be generally available in the third quarter. SAS Data Maker was announced in private preview last year.
- SAS Viya Intelligent Decisioning, which will incorporate the ability to build and deploy AI agents. SAS' approach revolved around balancing LLMs with humans to determine the right levels of autonomy and governance based on tasks.
- SAS Viya Essentials, a managed cloud services offering aimed at smaller enterprises, includes a hosted version of select SAS Viya products.
- SAS Viya Copilot, a conversational assistant that's embedded throughout SAS Viya, is available in private preview with availability in the third quarter. The SAS Viya Copilot was built on Microsoft Azure AI Services.
- SAS Viya Workbench, a cloud-based coding environment, will get support for R coding to complement Python through Visual Studio Code or Jupyter Notebook. Viya Workbench will now be available on AWS Marketplace as well as Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
- The company launched new models for AI-driven entity resolution and documentations, medication adherence risk in healthcare, supply chain optimization in manufacturing and payment integrity for food assistance and tax compliance for sales tax in the public sector.
- SAS Digital Twins for manufacturing. SAS has developed enhance digital twins for manufacturers in a partnership with Epic Games. Georgia-Pacific was cited as a customer.
