NEW SAS ® VIYA ® FEATURES   The SAS® Viya® 2025.10 release is packed with updates! Explore below:   Video: Into The Viya Verse     Check out the latest SAS Viya updates: Microsoft 365 settings, rich text in Model Studio and new flow macro variables. Plus, pro tips for SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Analytics Pro and sharing notebooks on GitHub in this episode of Into the Viya Verse with David Weik.   Watch now     SAS for Microsoft 365 A new blue banner has been added to the SAS pane in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. Click the avatar to change your settings, open your connection to the SAS Viya platform or sign out.   SAS settings in Microsoft 365     SAS Model Studio The rich-text editor for adding project notes and pipeline details now offers faster performance, improved accessibility and a redesigned toolbar. Add notes in the Project Notes panel or Insights tab and enter pipeline information by selecting Expand header in the pipeline menu. For more pipeline actions, see Actions on the Pipeline in SAS documentation.   Pipeline actions     SAS Studio SAS Studio now generates the FLOW_PLACE and FLOW_LOCATION macro variables when you run a flow. FLOW_LOCATION is the full path to the saved location of the flow. FLOW_PLACE is the location where the flow is saved: SAS Content or SAS Server.   New macro variables     Use Case SAS Model Studio - Pipeline notes editor   Boost collaboration and ensure analytic reproducibility with the enhanced rich-text editor for project and pipeline notes. Enjoy faster performance, improved accessibility and a new toolbar that makes formatting text and organizing information simple. Add notes in the Project Notes panel or expand the pipeline header to capture methodology, assumptions and findings – so your team (and future self) can quickly understand the context behind your workflow. For more details on pipeline actions, see Actions on the Pipeline in SAS documentation.   Learn more     Tip of the Month Brought to you by David Weik Senior Software Development Engineer, SAS   When I work in projects, I often find myself with a couple of files open, then I log off for the day and have to reopen all of them manually. Not anymore – workspaces can reopen files for you.   My preferred way of using them is in team projects where project-specific files need to be run before starting the actual work, so you can just open them right away.   To learn how to use workspaces, check out the SAS documentation.   Workspace documentation ... View more

About the Webinar: What happens when legacy systems evolve? In this session, Aldermore Bank and SAS share how two disconnected SAS®9 environments were transformed into a unified SAS® Viya® cloud platform. Learn how they overcame data silos, empowered teams with self-service analytics, and sparked a culture of innovation.   Date & Time: 📅 December 2, 2025 🕙 10:00 a.m. ET | 4:00 p.m. CET   You’ll discover: ✅ Practical steps for migrating from SAS®9 to SAS Viya in the cloud ✅ Tips for simplifying modernization and accelerating adoption ✅ Tangible benefits like speed, automation, and expanded analytics use cases Why Attend? This isn’t just a banking story—it’s a blueprint for modernization across industries. If you’re planning or considering a move to Viya, this session will give you actionable insights.   Register Now ... View more

NEW SAS ® VIYA ® FEATURES   The SAS® Viya® 2025.09 release is packed with updates! Explore below:   Video: Into The Viya Verse     Catch up on the newest enhancements in SAS Viya, from accelerated compute performance to sharper impact analysis, in this energetic episode of Into the Viya Verse with David Weik.   Watch now     New to SAS Viya? Get tips from an expert! Join SAS Education Director Stacey Syphus for a complimentary Welcome to SAS Viya webinar that explores how Viya empowers you to manage data, build models and deploy insights using SAS or Python, all in one powerful platform.   Register now     SAS Information Catalog The new StepInputColumn and StepOutputColumn search facets enable you to search for SAS Studio data flows by the input and output columns in the flow steps.   Search facets     SAS Studio Impact analysis helps you identify the potential consequences of making a change to a table or column. You can run an impact analysis on a table and then select columns from the table to analyze as well.   Impact analysis   SAS Job Execution Compute Tasks is a method of executing a task that prioritizes speed over resilience. The method is used to create a session, submit the program, wait for the program to finish and retrieve the output in a single HTTP request.   Compute tasks   Use Case SAS Studio - Impact Analysis   Confidently manage and modify your data assets without the fear of unintended consequences using the new impact analysis feature. This powerful tool acts as your data lineage and dependency map, allowing you to instantly assess the ripple effect of any proposed change.   With forward impact analysis, you can proactively identify every downstream report, flow and data asset that depends on a specific table or column before you make a critical update. Conversely, reverse impact analysis provides a complete upstream lineage, tracing exactly where your data originates from, which is essential for debugging, validation and governance.   Learn more     Tip of the Month Brought to you by David Weik Senior Software Development Engineer, SAS   Quick tip: How to see what’s in a CAS library. Ever loaded data into a CAS library (CASLIB) and wanted a quick, clean summary of what’s currently in memory? Instead of hunting through logs or relying on the navigation pane, you can get an instant report with a simple procedure. This is also available for the files in a CASLIB. Simply run the following code in SAS Studio: * Connect to a CAS session; cas mySess; * Move the results also into tables; ods output FileInfo=work.file_info; ods output TableInfo=work.table_info; proc casUtil;   list files inCASLib = 'Public';   list tables inCASLib = 'Public'; run; * Terminate the CAS session; cas mySess terminate; This code will generate a neat summary table in your results window and also store the result as tables in your work library. ... View more

See What’s New in SAS ®  Viya ®  Workbench Hyperparameter autotuning  The same best-in-class autotuning support available on SAS Viya can now be used by Viya Workbench customers. Check out more implementation details here: Autotuning ML Models   Workbench Tip Brought to you by Joe Madden, Workbench Product Manager     Want to try SAS ® Enterprise Guide ® with Viya Workbench? Make sure to update your SAS Enterprise Guide desktop client (via support.sas.com) to get the functionality. Click here to download the latest version.   Update EG desktop client ... View more

Explore the features of SAS Data Maker, a tool for generating synthetic data.   Watch video   ... View more

NEW SAS ® VIYA ® FEATURES   The SAS® Viya® 2025.08 release is packed with updates! Explore below:   Video: Into The Viya Verse     Get the latest on SAS Viya – from smarter modeling to Django-powered dashboards – in this fast-paced episode of Into the Viya Verse with David Weik.   Watch now     SAS Visual Analytics Choose whether a report page is available to all users or to one or more individual users. When visibility is restricted, users who are not on the selected members list cannot see the page when they view the report. Limiting the visibility of a page is useful when there are multiple report pages and not all users have the same access to the report data used.   Limit page access     SAS Model Studio The following updates have been introduced for all projects in SAS Model Studio: - The ability to duplicate a project. - The folder field when creating or duplicating a project.   Manage projects     SAS Visual Text Analytics PROC TEXTPROFILE has been enhanced to provide additional control over sampling proportions and to add additional outputs for document comparison.   Text profiling     Use Case A new feature in SAS Model Studio allows users to duplicate a project and specify a destination folder for the duplicated project. This is a powerful productivity booster for data scientists and machine learning engineers, as it streamlines the process of creating new model versions. For example, if you’ve developed a successful model and want to experiment with new features or different algorithms, you can now simply duplicate the existing project rather than starting from scratch. This saves significant time and effort since all your initial data preparations, variable selections and pipeline configurations are preserved. The ability to place the new project in a specific folder also helps in organizing and managing many projects efficiently, ensuring your workspace remains clean and easy to navigate.   Learn more     Tip of the Month Brought to you by David Weik Senior Software Development Engineer, SAS   Quick tip: Did you know that there are more than 100 additional steps available to enhance your productivity in SAS Studio? Yes, you read that right. Through the SAS Studio Custom Steps repository – which you can find here – you can browse through community contributed steps that are open source and ready to use. These steps cover the broad range of functionality available with SAS Viya, from loading geo shapefiles to cloning Git repositories to over-creating computer vision models to generating synthetic data and optical character recognition (OCR). This repository is not only a wealth of functionality but also helps you look at how others are building custom steps. And, of course, contributions are always welcome!   GitHub repository ... View more

Interacting with Azure Blob Storage for SAS Data Maker.   Watch video   ... View more

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How to generate synthetic names and addresses with SAS Data Maker.   Watch video   ... View more

NEW SAS ® VIYA ® FEATURES   The SAS® Viya® 2025.07 release is packed with updates! Explore below:   Video: Into The Viya Verse     Check out “Into the Viya Verse” with David Weik – a fast-paced look at new features, functions and standout projects, powered by the newest SAS Viya release.   Watch now     SAS Information Catalog   For table assets, the new Preview Data tab replaces the Sample Data tab. The new Preview Data tab provides improved performance for large tables, can display up to 5,000 rows of sample data, and enables you to select and copy values from the preview table.   Preview Data Tab     SAS/ACCESS   Connect to DuckDB on AWS, GCP or Azure with the new SAS/ACCESS interface, streamlining access to Parquet, Delta and Iceberg.   DuckDB LIBNAME statement     SAS Studio   Save time in SAS Studio with a new URL parameter that auto-selects your default server. It’s a small tweak with big productivity gains.   URL Parameter     Use Case   The newly added SAS/ACCESS interface to DuckDB brings the power of the high-performance, in-process analytical database directly into SAS Viya. By leveraging the familiar LIBNAME statement, data professionals can now seamlessly connect to DuckDB instances residing on popular cloud storage platforms like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Storage or Microsoft Azure. This feature unlocks easy access to Parquet, Delta, Iceberg and other file formats.   Learn more     Tip of the Month Brought to you by David Weik Senior Software Development Engineer, SAS   Quick tip: In the SAS Studio code editor, F1 is your keyboard shortcut to productivity.   Pressing F1 opens the command palette, a searchable interface that lets you quickly access a wide range of SAS Studio capabilities. If a feature has its own keyboard shortcut, it’ll be displayed alongside the action, helping you learn and use shortcuts more efficiently.   Whether you're navigating tools or triggering actions, the command palette is a true time-saver designed to boost your workflow. ... View more

THE RUNDOWN In this month’s edition of our SAS ® Viya ® email series, you’ll find a new landing page in the SAS Viya platform, five new steps in SAS Studio and column annotations in SAS Information Catalog. Plus, in David’s Tip of the Month, learn how to use the SAS extension for Visual Studio Code to connect to SAS Viya.   This one’s not a new feature but is a new productivity study you’ll want to check out. The Futurum Group revealed that SAS Viya helped data and AI teams execute the life cycle of collecting data, building models and deploying decisions 4.6x faster than a leading commercial platform and non-commercial open source environment. If you thought you were more productive with SAS Viya, you were right!   NEW VIYA FEATURES Check out these new features and what they mean for you. Product: SAS Viya New feature: New landing page Description: A new landing page for SAS Viya enables you to get a quick intro to all the applications, customize the look and feel of the platform, and dive right into the most relevant tools for you. Learn more.   Product: SAS Studio New feature: Five new steps Description: Five new steps have been added: Recode Values Step(Transforming Data), Hierarchical Clustering Step and K-Means Clustering Step (Statistics), Aggregate Loss Models Step (Econometrics) and Standardize Data Step (Preparing Data). Learn more.    Product: SAS Information Catalog New feature: Column annotations Description: You can now add notes to individual columns inside the Column Analysis tab of a table. Learn more.    SPOTLIGHT USE CASE Column annotations Data owners usually have a lot of implicit knowledge about specific columns in a data set. The new annotations feature inside SAS Information Catalog enables you to add notes to a specific column that provides more in-depth information about the column. For example, you could give processing information, provide historical context around values or even dive into treatments for specific scenarios like outlier handling. Learn more.   TIP OF THE MONTH Brought to you by David Weik Senior Pre-Sales Solutions Architect, SAS The SAS extension for Visual Studio Code is a great way to connect to SAS Viya if you’re a heavy coder. You can find and install it by searching for SAS in the Extension Marketplace or by using this link.   Once installed, you will be asked to create a connection profile by selecting SAS Viya and entering the URL of your SAS Viya server. For everything else, you can just hit Enter to accept the defaults. You will be prompted to sign in, which opens your SAS Viya environment, and you need to copy the displayed code back into VS Code.   Now you are all set up to start using SAS content, the SAS library explorer and of course write SAS code with full syntax highlighting, autocompletion and annotations. ... View more

THE RUNDOWN In this month’s edition of our SAS Viya email series: Option table control has been added to SAS Studio; side-by-side view for interactive windows is now available in SAS Visual Text Analytics; and eight new steps were added to SAS Studio. Plus, learn about accessibility and keyboard shortcuts in David’s Tip of the Month. Is this email helpful? Tell us what you think.    NEW VIYA FEATURES Check out these new features and what they mean for you. Product: SAS Studio New feature: Option table control Description: Use the option table control to create a repeatable group of controls that is displayed in the user interface as a table. These controls can be used in an option table numeric field, text field or static drop-down list. Learn more.   Product: SAS Visual Text Analytics New feature: Side-by-side view for interactive windows Description: A new side-by-side view is available in the interactive windows for the Concepts, Text Parsing, Topics and Categories nodes. Learn more.   Product: SAS Studio New feature: Eight new steps Description: Eight new steps have been added: Lookup Step (Integrating Data), Equivalence Tests Statistical Power Step and Multiple Regression Statistical Power Step (Generating Statistics), Assess Model Step (Managing Models), Transform Columns Step (Preparing Data), Forest Step and Robust Principal Component Analysis Step (Machine Learning), and Community Detection Step (Optimization & Network Analysis). Learn more.    SPOTLIGHT USE CASE Option table control The new option table control enables you to define full table structures within your custom step interface for the end users to interact with. You could build small data entry applications with this or provide complex configuration options for advanced usage scenarios, like custom API integrations or complex modeling algorithms. Learn more.   TIP OF THE MONTH Brought to you by David Weik Senior Pre-Sales Solutions Architect, SAS Looking at SAS documentation is always a good idea, but today, I want to tell you about a special section where you can find the documentation for the interfaces (think SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Model Studio, etc.). In the menu, you’ll find a section called Accessibility, where you’ll find guidance on how to improve your experience using the SAS interfaces. Even if you do not have any special accessibility needs, it is worth checking out this page as many interfaces have additional keyboard shortcuts that can be helpful. One of my favorites is using page up/down keys with table objects in SAS Visual Analytics.             ... View more

This SAS how to tutorial shows you how to set up an autoexec file to execute code each time a SAS Viya Workbench starts. Watch video   ... View more

This tutorial shows you how to connect SAS Viya Workbench with GitHub to collaborate on code development, track changes, and manage version control efficiently among distributed teams. Watch video   ... View more

THE RUNDOWN In this month’s edition of our SAS Viya email series: Edit CAS tables in SAS Visual Analytics; there are four new computer vision procs in SAS Machine Learning; and seven new steps were added to SAS Studio. Plus, learn how to quickly get help when you’re working in your SAS software from David’s Tip of the Month.   NEW VIYA FEATURES Check out these new features and what they mean for you. Product: SAS Visual Analytics New feature: Edit the source table Description: View and edit CAS tables within SAS Visual Analytics as a report builder. You can add new rows, delete existing ones, change the cell-level data and more! Learn more.    Product: SAS Machine Learning New feature: Four new computer vision procs Description: These new procs allow you to perform the following analyses on images: annotations, comparisons, quantitative analysis and comprehensive statistical overview. Learn more.   Product: SAS Studio New feature: Seven new steps Description: Seven new steps have been added – one in Examine Data, two in Machine Learning, three in Optimization & Network Analysis and one in Text Analytics. Learn more.    SPOTLIGHT USE CASE Edit the Source Table Imagine you find a critical data quality error in your data set that you need to fix, or you may want to change input variables for control tables. This new feature allows you to do that directly within SAS Visual Analytics when this capability is enabled for your user. You will need write access to the CAS library (caslib) to start editing tables, create new rows, delete outdated ones or update individual cells. Learn more.   TIP OF THE MONTH   Brought to you by David Weik Senior Pre-Sales Solutions Architect, SAS Have you ever been in SAS Studio and wanted to look up an example usage of a step? Or maybe you are working in SAS Model Studio and want to learn more about a specific modeling node. It’s easy! Just click on the question mark in the application banner and select the Help Center to be taken directly to the product-specific SAS documentation.    ... View more