It’s that time again… the show goes on as SAS continues to innovate and bring even more value to you the customer. So, settle in, grab a drink, and prepare for the RUNDOWN in this month's SAS Viya Release Highlights video:       The April show covers updates in SAS Viya 2020.1.4, including how to catch outliers in your data, use new methods to deploy text analytics models, transfer chatbots across environments, and use a graph database for metadata repository.  We’ll also take an in-depth look at SAS Studio Analyst and its ability to import SAS Enterprise Guide (EG) projects, as well as use a point and click interface or an expression builder for filtering rows in a flow – in addition to hearing about what’s coming soon.   Here’s what you’ll learn about in the Rundown:     SAS Visual Analytics: What’s SAS Visual Analytics without strong data prep? This release includes the ability to catch outliers in your data with automated anomaly detection. Plus,  new languages are now available for natural language automated explanation: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Dutch.   What's New Training   SAS Information Governance: This new offering from SAS continues to wow customers… and this release won’t disappoint. You wanted them… you asked for them… and SAS delivered. With SAS Information Governance, these new features are now available. Search and discover data assets using ElasticSearch, Natural Language & Advanced Search, a graph database for metadata repository, data profiling, semantic type inference, metadata measures descriptive measures, data quality measures and column level graphs.  Learn More 7 Ways to Use the New SAS Information Catalog How to Collect Metadata with the SAS Information Catalog   SAS Visual Forecasting: Just when you thought it couldn’t get more amazing… enter the latest release of SAS Visual Forecasting. This release adds Mann-Kendall (MK) and seasonal MK tests for detecting monotonic trend in time series data. Also, enhancements to Interactive Modeling provide log information when there is a failure, and reference axes and labels make thumbnail plots more readable.  What's new? Training   SAS Visual Text Analytics: What… even more this month? That’s right!! You now have new ways to deploy text analytics models! Use REST APIs to embed categories and concepts models in web applications for real-time, on-demand analysis. You can use this to address customer feedback or provide customized marketing online offers in real-time. This release also includes two new programming actions for better pre-processing of your text data.   What's New? Training   SAS Conversation Designer: “Chatbots aren’t very interesting” … said nobody ever. With this update, it’s easier to transfer chatbots across environments. You now have more flexibility in exporting chatbots from development to production environments.   What’s New Training   And if the above wasn’t enough… in this month’s video, we have an in-depth Release Talk with Amy Peters, Principal Product Manager for SAS Studio. Amy will talk to our very own Anna Brown, provide a demo, and well... you will have to watch to find out!   These are just a few of our favorite new features in SAS Viya 2020.1.4. We’ve made enhancements to several other products, beyond what’s listed here. For more information on what’s new in SAS Viya, click here and check out other learning and support resources.      To get monthly updates, SUBSCRIBE to this SAS Viya Release Updates Community and the SAS Users YouTube channel.  ... View more

Check out the latest updates to SAS Viya 2020.1.3, including improved chatbot experiences, ability to deploy Python to Microsoft Azure ML, reinforcement learning, more languages for automated explanation and prediction and the NEW SAS Information Governance, an intuitive self- service data portal to analytics and AI.     Hear directly from SAS Product Managers in this month’s SAS Viya Release Highlights video:       Here’s what you’ll learn about in the Rundown:     SAS Conversation Designer   With the new enhancements to SAS Conversation Designer, you can now improve and automate conversational experiences through proactive prompts and user reminders to respond to an unanswered question. Sometimes we all need a little extra nudge when interacting with chat. Now, you can also help guide the dialogue flow with easy yes/no buttons.    For more details check out:   What’s New Documentation  Learn & Support    SAS Model Manager  This month we are introducing two new exciting capabilities in SAS Model Manager that make it more open-friendly and easier to use:  Use the GUI to easily deploy Python models over to Azure ML. You can now call and use the model in PowerApps, Dynamics 365 and other Microsoft tools.   Get help from the new homepage where you can now access What’s New content, how-to videos, blogs, and documentation directly from the Model Manager interface.   For more details check out:   What’s New Documentation  Learn & Support    SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning   Are you looking to maximize the overall long-term reward achieved by a complex sequence of decisions? Then check out Reinforcement Learning (RL) in this release of SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning.    RL has famously been used to learn to play games such as checkers, backgammon, Othello, and most recently land a lunar-lander in OpenAIGYM.  SAS can now use real time data to train a Deep-Q Network where previously only a historical (or batch) data set could be used. Not just for fun and games anymore, RL can be used in robotics, process control, health care, trading, finance and much more.    Python users rejoice... as you are now one step closer to operationalizing your analytics models for the real world! In SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning, Python models can now be packaged and registered in Model Studio to take full advantage of model management, thus streamlining model governance, monitoring, and deployment.      For more details check out:   What’s New Documentation  Learn & Support    SAS Visual Text Analytics   If you analyze text data in multiple languages, you’ll be excited to hear that this month, we’re introducing a new capability in SAS Visual Text Analytics that helps you identify and group languages within a set of documents containing multiple languages for faster, more accurate contextual analysis. For example, a business analyst focused on social listening for a brand can now identify and group social media tweets from around the world by language for further analysis.    For more details check out:   What’s New Documentation  Learn & Support    SAS Visual Analytics   Our customers love Automated Explanation and Automated Prediction capabilities in SAS Visual Analytics to help users better understand and automate the discovery process. Customers have asked for these augmented analytic capabilities in more languages, so we’ve added several new languages over the last couple releases: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Thai, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.    Also new this month, you can increase productivity and style consistency across your SAS Visual Analytics reports by creating custom page templates. Page templates can be saved with or without data.    For more details check out:   What’s New Documentation  Learn & Support    Release Talk with Senior Product Manager, Kumar Thangamuthu:    And, last but definitely not least, we debut SAS Information Governance in SAS Viya 2020.1.3, an intuitive self-service data portal to analytics and AI. Data and business users can search and discover cataloged data assets across the organization from multiple data sources. You can explore data assets for quality and fitness of the data before approving for downstream processing.     You can also further prepare data, create reports or build models by navigating from the cataloged data to other SAS Viya applications to continue your analytics journey.  Learn more about SAS Information Governance.   7 Ways to Use the New SAS Information Catalog How to Collect Metadata with the SAS Information Catalog   These are just a few of our favorite new features from the SAS Viya February release (2020.1.3). We’ve made enhancements to several other products, beyond what’s listed here. For more information on what’s new in SAS Viya, click here and check out other learning and support resources.      To get monthly updates, SUBSCRIBE to this SAS Viya Release Updates Community and the SAS Users YouTube channel.  ... View more

With the January 2021 release (SAS Viya 2020.1.2), we’re adding several exciting new features and enhancements including speech to text capabilities, collaboration features, performance monitoring reports and SAS integration with the Microsoft Power Platform.     Rather watch than read? Hear directly from SAS Product Managers in this month's SAS Viya Release Highlights video:       SAS Visual Text Analytics   Our customers tell us that voice is one of the fastest growing data they have, and voice analytics has so many potential applications. So we are introducing some cool capabilities which will let you do things like identify speakers and create transcripts of speech contained in audio files, making it easier to uncover patterns using SAS Visual Text Analytics.    For more details check out:   What’s New Documentation  Learn & Support    SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning   Analytics is a collaboration game! When domain experts collaborate with analytics experts, you get the best insights. We made several collaboration enhancements to SAS Studio that make sharing projects easier and more efficient. You can now simultaneously collaborate and update projects among your team. Users will benefit in SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning as well as SAS Visual Forecasting among other applications.    For more details check out:   What’s New Documentation  Learn & Support    SAS Model Manager  Operationalizing your AI is key when it comes to managing and deploying your models. To accelerate this process, we’ve added several new out of the box performance monitoring reports for prediction models in SAS Model Manager. For those looking for more flexibility, you can also now easily add custom plots and charts using the SAS Visual Analytics SDK. We’ve also added workflow and usability enhancements.    For more details check out:   What’s New Documentation  Learn & Support    SAS Intelligent Decisioning  We know developers love using SAS in their applications, so we’re making it easier to integrate SAS with Microsoft Power platform applications and workflows with SAS Intelligent Decisioning.    For more details check out:   What’s New Documentation  Learn & Support    These are just a few of our favorite new features from the SAS Viya January release (2020.1.2). We’ve made enhancements to several other products, beyond what’s listed here. For more information on what’s new in other SAS Viya offerings, click here.     To get monthly updates, SUBSCRIBE to this SAS Viya Release Updates Community and the SAS Users YouTube channel.    ... View more

SAS is an exhibiting sponsor of the 2020 Esri User Conference taking place virtually on July 13-16, 2020. The Esri User Conference is the world’s largest virtual Geographic Information System (GIS) event and will include three days of plenary and technical sessions about how GIS is making a difference in the world. Attendees can get GIS training from Esri experts, engage with sponsors and exhibitors and virtually network with thousands of peers. Plenary Session access is complimentary for everyone – register here.   SAS will have a virtual booth during each day of the conference, where attendees can chat with SAS experts about location analytics, including SAS' advanced capabilities available through integration with Esri. Conference attendees can virtually visit the SAS booth (Booth# V249) to grab some content, watch a video, chat with SAS data visualization and location analytics experts, see a demo, and learn more about how to gain deeper insights with SAS Visual Analytics.   With location analytics available in SAS Visual Analytics, users can visualize data on a map, enhance existing data by geocoding or enhancing with Esri demographics data, gain insights through dense data, perform travel-time and travel-distance analysis, include multi-layer web maps, and more.   For more information about the Esri User Conference, click here.  ... View more