SAS unveils Viya, destined to be the foundation of future products

The ability to analyze, manage and modify data from multiple types of sources makes SAS a unique and popular data analytic software suite in the world. The software suite already become friendly with the non-technical users with its GUI (Graphical User Interface) and opened doors for complex solutions with SAS programming. Here, in this blog, let us examine the recently released Viya Analytics Architecture from SAS.

Viya, claimed by the SAS as a revolutionary architecture for analytics and visualization unlocks exciting features like cloud and machine learning capabilities. The architecture comes along with support for IoT (Internet of Things) analytics which is a sweet news to the programming community. The primary goal of Viya software suite is to make the analytics, cloud-native applications and cloud data more accessible to the SAS users. Though the architecture would be available for usage by May 2016, the company had announced details on its advantages and benefits at the 2016 SAS Global Forum which is an annual conference meet for the analytics software company.

Scalability

The Viya comes with advanced capabilities and one such feature is its scalability. The architecture is empowered to unlock answers for a wide variety of questions persisting in the world of analytics. The CMO of SAS, Randy Guard quoted that "The open SAS Viya architecture makes analytics accessible to anyone, and we want to build upon that openness by creating a community for knowledge sharing. Our users will be able to contribute code, procedures, visuals and services, and collaborate on ideas."

Flexibility

SAS claims that the new analytics architecture is extremely flexible and allows the user to deploy on either the cloud or on premise in accordance to their convenience. As the entire world of Information Technology leans towards the cloud space, this new cloud feature would definitely pose a foundation for future cloud-based products from SAS.

Capabilities to save time

Time being a great resource in the analytics business, Viya revealed its ability to save a lot of time taken in the early stage processes in analytics and assures a significant raise in the business value.

Four Key Tools

The Viya comes with a user-friendly point-and-click interface with four key tools. They are,

• SAS Visual Analytics

• SAS Visual Statistics

• SAS Visual Investigator

• SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning

The SAS spokesperson said that "SAS Visual Investigator supports search, query, and visualization of data, regardless of format, size and location, as well as investigations using geospatial, network, and temporal visualizations. And, Viya would become the "foundation for all future SAS products."