SAS Viya Advanced is a comprehensive, cloud-native analytics platform designed to empower organizations with advanced data science capabilities. It enables users to access, explore, and prepare data, uncovering new trends and patterns through a unified, self-service interface. By integrating machine learning, text analytics, and econometrics, SAS Viya Advanced facilitates better forecasting and optimization. Additionally, it manages and registers both SAS and open-source models, ensuring consistent and optimal model performance across various projects. Key Features and Functionality: - Visual Analytics: Create and share interactive reports and dashboards, utilizing self-service analytics to assess probable outcomes for informed decision-making. - Visual Statistics: Explore data and build or adjust predictive analytical models collaboratively, refining models for specific segments to derive accurate insights. - Machine Learning: Solve complex analytical problems with a comprehensive visual interface that encompasses data wrangling, exploration, feature engineering, and modern statistical, data mining, and machine learning techniques within a scalable in-memory processing environment. - Studio Analyst: Access data files, libraries, and existing programs, or write new ones, through a web-based application accessible via a browser. - Information Governance: Capture and enrich metadata for various information assets, facilitating the discovery and documentation of data relationships and providing a common vocabulary around data. - Integration with Microsoft 365: Utilize SAS analytics directly within Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook, enabling analyses, report generation, and content sharing across platforms. - Econometrics and Optimization: Conduct advanced econometric modeling and time series analysis, as well as optimization, simulation, and project scheduling techniques, leveraging the speed and scalability of the SAS in-memory environment. - Visual Forecasting and Text Analytics: Produce reliable forecasts with an open forecasting ecosystem and gain insights from data through natural language processing, machine learning, and linguistic rules. - Model Management: Register, modify, track, score, publish, and report on analytical models within a web-based application, facilitating the development and validation of candidate models and monitoring of champion models. Primary Value and User Solutions: SAS Viya Advanced addresses the complexities of data and AI development by providing a cloud-native, end-to-end platform that enhances productivity and collaboration. It offers user-friendly tools that simplify development, allowing teams to focus on innovation. By integrating data management, analytics, and operational decisioning, the platform ensures that data pipelines are ready to fuel advanced analytics and machine learning. This comprehensive environment empowers organizations to transform operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive innovation, ultimately leading to more informed and data-driven decisions.