Idevnews SAS Enters Era of 'Open Analytics' with Viya Platform's Focus on Cloud, Open Programming and Machine Learning

"SAS has morphed from a pure tools-based analytics company to solutions-based company. That is driving SAS to get more involved with other technologies and ecosystems." SAS is the latest long-time analytics firm to enter the era of'open' and'cloud-based' analytics. SAS Viya, revealed last spring and rolling out now, aims to take businesses into the new-gen of analytics offering full list of lifecycle support features and capabilities, SAS' chief customer officer Fritz Lehman told IDN. "With SAS Viya, we have a complete rewrite [of the popular SAS analytics platform] for today's new business challenges. New ways to access and build analytics apps are key for so many workers inside businesses today," Lehman said.