topic Re: SAS VIYA - where to start? in SAS Viya

SAS VIYA - where to start?

lynnelloyd — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:45:52 GMT

I'm new to VIYA and AI and trying to understand how it might be useful to my organization. I work for a consulting firm that specializes in health data analytics, where we analyze and process regular monthly feeds of data.

When we have an issue with the contents of the monthly data, we often have to do a deep-dive to understand the patterns of the data quality issue, trends against prior data, etc.

Is this something VIYA could help with? If so, where should I start? We run batch-processes on a Unix system, inside a firewall since we have great amounts of PHI.

Re: SAS VIYA - where to start?

SASKiwi — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:57:54 GMT

I suggest you explore creating a Viya Visual Analytics dashboard to track metrics from your monthly data feeds. Seeing your data graphically often shows up issues that otherwise would not be obvious. You can start to get ideas for a dashboard from the Viya Visual Analytics Gallery. It doesn't have to be as fancy as many of these. Start simple and go from there.

Re: SAS VIYA - where to start?

sbxkoenk — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:16:45 GMT

I concur with @SASKiwi ... You can easily set up a SAS Visual Analytics Data Quality Dashboard that acts as a "command center" to provide a bird's-eye view of data health, featuring quality-metrics, trend analysis, and drill-down capabilities for troubleshooting.

SAS Information Catalog is another tool you can use to monitor your data (and other) assets ... it provides a Column Analysis tab that automatically displays data quality metrics, allowing users to quickly identify potential issues, such as missing values, outliers and/or unexpected data types.

In short, you can track down data quality issues in the monthly feeds of data with SAS Viya by using a combination of automated data profiling, visual exploration, and intelligent monitoring tools to identify, analyze, and resolve data issues before they affect downstream analytics.

You can even carry out a statistical analysis to check whether there are any structural breaks between the old data (already in the system) and the new data (in the new monthly feed). Such breaks aren’t necessarily an error, of course, but you’ll want to be aware of them.

Good luck,
Koen

Re: SAS VIYA - where to start?

gustaft — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:08:06 GMT

Maybe start here?

https://www.sas.com/en_us/industry/health-care/viya-for-health-care.html

To get some more technical info, please look at the Admin Guide, here is the link to the security section:

https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/sasadmincdc/v_074/viyaov/p0i3vcgjpciz45n1of1v4vkffwbn.htm