SAS

SAS is an analytics and artificial intelligence software company serving organisations across a range of industries, including banking, insurance, public administration, and life sciences. The company develops and markets the SAS Viya platform alongside a portfolio of industry-specific solutions covering areas such as fraud detection, risk management, marketing analytics, and IoT. SAS operates globally, with a presence across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia-Pacific, and maintains dedicated regional websites and support infrastructure for customers in those markets.

The company positions its offerings around trusted data and AI, emphasising transparency, speed, and productivity in analytics workflows. SAS also runs training, certification, and academic programmes to support skill development among individual users, enterprise teams, and university students.

Core Platform

• SAS Viya: The primary analytics and AI platform, designed to process large volumes of data and deliver insights at scale. SAS describes it as fulfilling the promise of trusted AI while offering speed and productivity for data and analytics workflows.
• SAS Viya is available for trial and purchase, and is supported by dedicated documentation covering administration, programming, installation, and configuration.
• SAS was recognised as a leader in the IDC MarketScape 2025 for worldwide data integration platforms.

Industry Solutions

• Fraud: Solutions targeting fraud detection and prevention for financial and other regulated industries.
• Risk Management: Tools for managing financial and operational risk, with particular relevance to banking and insurance sectors.
• Marketing: Analytics capabilities supporting marketing performance and customer intelligence.
• IoT: Solutions for processing and analysing data from connected devices and industrial systems.
• Life Sciences: Industry-specific analytics applications for life sciences organisations.
• SAS describes its industry solutions as purpose-built, IP-backed packages intended to accelerate time to value and deliver measurable business outcomes including revenue growth, operational improvement, and risk reduction.

Industries Served

• Banking
• Insurance
• Public administration and government
• Life sciences
• Additional sectors covered under the broader product and solutions portfolio

Training, Certification, and Community

• SAS offers a course catalogue covering SAS programming, statistical methods, SAS Viya administration, and related topics, with options for enterprise teams and individual learners.
• Free training resources are available, including introductory courses and academic software for universities.
• A formal certification programme covers multiple SAS competency areas, with preparation materials and discounts available.
• Academic programmes are offered for higher education institutions, with dedicated resources for instructors and students.
• Community forums are organised by topic, including SAS Viya, SAS programming, statistical methods, and administrator-focused groups.
• Additional learning resources include tutorial videos, a YouTube channel, webinars, blogs, and an AI-focused podcast.

Support and Partner Ecosystem

• SAS provides product-specific support, a knowledge base, starter kits, and software downloads through its support portal.
• Documentation is available for all major products, covering installation, configuration, administration, and programming.
• A partner programme is in place, with a partner directory and a dedicated PartnerNet portal for registered partners.
• Consulting services are offered alongside the software portfolio.

SAS maintains a Trust Center and publishes annual reports, news, and event information through its corporate channels. The company holds regular user events, including the SAS Innovate conference, and supports an active global user group network.