What is SAS Viya?
SAS Viya (formerly SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning) is a cloud-native, end-to-end data and AI platform that makes development easier and boosts productivity with tools that are friendly for everyone on your team. Solve the most complex analytical problems with a single, integrated, collaborative solution – now with its own automated modeling API.
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89 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+96 Net Emotional Footprint
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Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Inspires Innovation
- Trustworthy
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SAS Viya Reviews
John V.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2025
Best Data Matching SAS Data Quality
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SAS Viya from other similar products?
SAS Data Quality helps to maintain good Datasets because it has the robust feature in Data matching. That is one of the unique & differentiator for SAS Data Quality from other products.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Data matching is my favorite aspect in SAS Data Quality.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It is very hard to learn SAS Data Quality. For large datasets, system might become lag / slow. SAS DQ should rework on that aspect.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you or your company is looking for a good Data Cleansing, Data Matching & Data governance, then SAS Data Quality is the best product for you & your business.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Swati P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2026
Use SAS Viya Where It Truly Matters
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SAS Viya from other similar products?
After lots of analytics platform are either very research focused and great for data scientists but harder to operationalize . SAS Viya is how it bridges the gap between advanced analytics and real world production systems.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite thing about SAS Viya I have seen a lot of tools where building models is easy but actually getting them into production is messy and what most stands out me is a governance and reliability.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I don't have any reason to dislike it's work faster and properly but I one things that while it's incredibly powerful but it not always the most lightweight or flexible option.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommends everyone to use because it's id powerful platform and SAS Viya is designed to handle everything data access, model building and deployment in one place. You get most value out of it if you approach it with the right expectations and setup
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
Peter R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Energy
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2025
Data Cleansing & Standardization Platform.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SAS Viya from other similar products?
De-duplicates and links records across datasets using advanced matching algorithms. Helps analysts work with a unified customer view.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Works with large enterprise datasets, not just spreadsheets.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Complex interface and rules engine compared to lighter tools
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
SAS Data Quality has a learning curve; budget for training or hire an experienced SAS consultant.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
- Inspires Innovation
