SAS is offering SAS Viya Essentials, a standard, secure deployment of select SAS Viya products on Microsoft Azure with SAS Managed Cloud Services.
Users can skip the learning curve and deploy SAS without complex workloads or customisations quickly and easily – a 99,5% uptime SLA guaranteed.
There are four predefined architectural profiles that include SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Visual Statistics and SAS Viya, SAS’ cloud-native data and AI platform.
A low fixed cost and dedicated support teams minimise costly disruptions and reduce burdensome IT workloads.
“At SAS, we believe in making AI accessible to everyone, no matter their industry or size. And we know that a common struggle for companies is how to quickly maximise their AI investments to meet their corporate aspirations,” says Jay Upchurch, CIO of SAS.
“That’s where SAS Viya Essentials comes in. It provides an easy-to-use way for customers to get the trusted answers they need in a fast, flexible and cost-effective way so they can stay ahead of their competition.”
Additional features of the SAS-Microsoft partnership include:
- SAS Viya Copilot, an AI-driven conversational assistant embedded directly into the SAS Viya platform through an integration with Microsoft Azure AI Foundry. It helps users improve productivity with intuitive code assistance and AI-powered model pipeline development. SAS Viya Copilot is currently available via an invitation-only, private preview.
- SAS Viya Workbench, a cloud-based coding environment purpose-built for data scientists and modelers to help them build models fast with SAS, R or Python through Visual Studio Code, Jupyter Notebook or SAS Enterprise Guide. Viya Workbench is available on Microsoft Marketplace.
- SAS Decision Builder, a new workload in Microsoft Fabric that brings SAS’ leading intelligent decisioning capabilities to Fabric users to help make better, faster decisions and bring their AI models into production with trustworthy insights. Natively integrated within the Fabric platform, SAS Decision Builder is now available in public preview.