SAS named a leader for enterprise insight platforms by independent research firm

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Jan 11, 2019, 07:58 ET

CARY, N.C., Jan. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SAS has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Insight Platforms, Q1 2019. The report noted that "SAS Viya is a modern architecture with a single high-performance analytical engine. SAS' platform also features the tightest integration we saw between different analytics capabilities, data preparation and governance."

Today's successful organizations are driven by analytical insights, not intuition. SAS^® Viya^® on the SAS Platform provides companies with industry-leading analytics to fuel business decisions with both speed and scalability. Through a single, consolidated and cohesive environment, organizations can manipulate and explore their data on a large scale. SAS Viya also offers access to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), with an added layer of transparency and interpretability into AI-generated decisions, therefore opening the black box of AI for data scientists and business users alike.

"Today businesses rely on a comprehensive platform that orchestrates data management, analytics and development tools, to generate insights that power their decisions," said Sarah Gates, Product Marketing Manager for the SAS Platform. "Producing both fast and trustworthy results is critical. SAS Viya provides this support across the entire analytics life cycle – from data to discovery and deployment."

The report states: "SAS has a top-notch visual, predictive and streaming analytics tool set. … Support for notebooks, programming for multiple languages, and more cloud options round out SAS Viya and make it a good choice for firms with mission-critical analytics needs."

SAS ranked highest in the analytics tools criterion and received the highest possible score in the market presence category.

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