chapter eleven

introducing the SAS Viya platform

In 2016, SAS introduced its new SAS Viya platform. SAS Viya is a completely re-imagined approach to delivering powerful SAS analytics using the latest technology in services deployment. The promise of cloud computing is being realized today, and SAS has designed SAS Viya to capitalize on the flexibility of elastic infrastructure.

SAS Visual Analytics 8.1 is based on the SAS Viya platform.

Overview of the SAS Viya platform

The Viya platform is made up of many different pieces, but they can be summarized in just a few categories:

•   CAS In-Memory Analytics Server: The CAS server is the next generation of in-memory analytics. Built on the lessons learned from previous in-memory analytics such as ...

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