Name: SAS Viya
Rating: 4.4 (318 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is SAS Viya?

SAS Viya is a software platform designed for data management, analytics, and artificial intelligence tasks. It supports a range of analytical methods including data preparation, statistical analysis, machine learning, and deep learning. The software enables users to integrate data from multiple sources, perform complex data transformations, and build analytical models. SAS Viya supports collaborative workflows, allowing different users to access and work on data projects using a common platform. It offers programming interfaces in languages such as Python and R and provides deployment options that accommodate on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments. The software addresses the challenge of deriving insights from large and diverse datasets to enable data-driven decision making in organizations.

Overall experience with SAS Viya

IT Associate

1B - 3B USD, Transportation

FAVORABLE

“Migrating from an on-prem SAS 9.4 platform to a SAS Viya Hosted Managed Service as part of a Cloud Strategy”

4.0

Nov 24, 2025

We still believe that we made the right technical choice based on our situation, where the old platform did not meet the new business strategy where becoming a data driven organization was a key element. As part of the migration to the Cloud, moving from a SAS 9.4 platform on-prem to a SAS Viya Hosted Managed Platform was the most reasonable choice within the timeline we had available. For anyone in the same situation, and with a lot of legacy SAS code, I would recommend SAS Viya as a natural path forward. The overall experience with this platform has so far been very good, except for some challenges in being an early bird for SAS Viya with SingleStore and Airflow as a Hosted Managed Platform.

Finance Associate

250M - 500M USD, Banking

CRITICAL

“Slow Git Integration And Legacy Syntax Raise Concerns Despite Cloud-Based Benefits”

3.0

Nov 17, 2025

I appreciate that SAS Viya is cloud based and designed for scalability and high performance. I have experienced slow performance with Git integration. Sometimes the system freezes for minutes and I often face general performance and processing time issues.

About Company

Company Description

SAS is a global leader in AI and analytics software, including industry-specific solutions. SAS helps organizations transform data into trusted decisions faster by providing knowledge in the moments that matter. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

1976

Head office location

Cary, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Annual Revenue

3B-10B USD

Website

http://www.sas.com

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Apart from SAS Viya's capabilities as a platform with a lot of opportunities and solutions, what stands out the most is the vendors' effort in working together with us solving the issues that occurred during migration. Having access to SAS R&D as well as SingleStore and Apache Airflow resources when needed, has been a key element in making this possible within the timeline available.

I appreciate SAS Viya's integrated, multi-tool platform capabilities that allow me to manage the entire spectrum of modern data analytics tasks

I think SAS Viya stands out as the most comprehensive and robust data analysis software for having a good set of visualization and statistical tools to use, plus features for creating interactive dashboards.

The main issue we encountered was that part of the software was not 100% finished at the level we expected. To mitigate the most important parts, it was critical that we had skilled SAS consultants on the project, as well as a close relationship with SAS R&D. Hence, we got many of the fixes we requested delivered and applied without too many delays. We are also an early bird as a customer on SAS Viya with both SingleStore and Airflow as a hosted managed service, with the good and the bad following that scenario / choice. This is also the reason why I'm scoring some parts only as average, since we have yet to find the correct balance of what we as the customer should be allowed to administrate ourselves.

I understand the backward compatibility idea, but most things in SAS are overcomplicated compared to modern languages. The lack of modern conventions and the fact that the core syntax hasn't changed for decades is a challenge in efficiently implementing tasks. The inconsistency across procedures is a challenge in maintaining existing code.

The software bugs down sometimes and you have to re-log in. SAS Viya could also add more capabilities for editing different parts or sections of a visualization and also a capability to export a page showing the expanded version of the models. For example, when you export a decision tree, what is exported is only what is visible on screen. For a decision tree with a number of levels, it cannot fit on the screen. Maybe this is something they could work on. And although I don't necessarily dislike it, but it would be great to have an AI assistant embedded in the platform to help with analyzing and interpreting data models and visualization, as well as suggesting appropriate models for particular cases.

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1B-10B USD

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Migrating from an on-prem SAS 9.4 platform to a SAS Viya Hosted Managed Service as part of a Cloud Strategy

Data Analyst

Gov't/PS/Ed

Education

SAS Viya’s Robust Learning Resources Offset By Bugs And Export Limitations

I like SAS Viya for having an extensive set of tools you can use to analyze data. There's just so much you can do with SAS Viya and is really great for data analysis. It also helps that SAS Viya has a learning website where you can watch videos on how to navigate the different modules of the software. Add to that is their youtube channel which is great in providing easy to follow instructional videos. I just have a bit of reservation when it comes to stability as I encountered a couple of times when the software is hanging and I cannot edit some variables without having to log out of the software. There were also a couple of times when I cannot log in, but I must say the customer support is quick to assist.

DATA ANALYST

<50M USD

Healthcare and Biotech

SAS Viya Offers Comprehensive AI Suite But Faces Complexity and Cost Concerns

5.0

Dec 19, 2025

SAS Viya delivers a state-of-the-art, cloud-native AI and analytics platform that increases productivity, collaboration and speed. It allows users to easily shift from reporting to predictive insights, providing options for code, low code or no code that cater to everyone from data scientists to business users.

SAS Viya Workbench Offers Convenient Access But Experiences Occasional Connectivity Issues

Nov 25, 2025

I truly love using SAS Viya workbench; it makes SAS extremely accessible anywhere where you have wifi, and is quick to wrap your head around the formatting. One of the only drawbacks is sometimes my workbench will go offline, which be becomes annoying to reload the window every 30 minutes so I can get back to SAS.

50M-1B USD

Comprehensive Analytics With Easy Data Access And Sporadic Workflow Interruptions

Mar 13, 2026

I found SAS Viya to be an advanced analytical tool with great visualization options, workflows, custom graphs, and reports all come with a complete package for data visualization and interpreting it very easily, overall, it is a great user experience.