SAS, a global pioneer in data and AI, has been positioned as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Decision Intelligence Platforms for its SAS Viya platform.
Quick Intel
Decision intelligence platforms represent a shift to late-stage emerging market status, enabling organizations across industries to combine explicit decision modeling, AI augmentation, automation, and governance at scale.
SAS Viya stands out as purpose-built for decision-centric transformation, delivering robust support across the full decision lifecycle.
The platform emphasizes industry-proven trust and governance features essential for regulated sectors like banking, insurance, health care, and government, providing explainability, auditing, compliance, and model governance.
With decades of domain leadership, SAS delivers deep vertical expertise through industry-specific content, prebuilt models, and accelerators for critical use cases such as fraud detection, anti-money laundering, clinical forecasting, supply chain optimization, credit decisioning, and demand planning.
Cloud-native design ensures hybrid and multicloud scalability, allowing deployment wherever data resides while addressing regional compliance, data sovereignty, and enterprise-wide needs.
SAS Viya unifies end-to-end decision intelligence, from modeling and execution to monitoring and governance, supporting human-led, machine-led, or collaborative decisions.
"The intensity of today's enterprise AI market is at an all-time high," said Bryan Harris, Chief Technology Officer at SAS. "SAS is in a relentless pursuit to help organizations navigate the noise, implement trusted technology and gain a decision advantage."
This recognition positions SAS Viya as a key enabler for organizations pursuing trusted, scalable AI to drive measurable business outcomes in decision intelligence.
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