Expanded SAS Viya uses generative AI to accelerate customer productivity

Learn more about Viya LLM orchestration and other GenAI capabilities in this solution brief: Accelerate productivity with generative AI and SAS Viya.

"SAS' guiding principle is everyone should be able to query data and perform complex analytical operations in every phase of the data and analytics life cycle, and generative AI is crucial in this democratization journey," said Wiktor Markiewicz, Senior Market Research Analyst at IDC. "But most leaders don't understand AI technology and how they can apply it meaningfully. Having an already trusted data and AI platform available removes the guesswork and kickstarts the generative AI journey."  

Georgia-Pacific and wienerberger rely on Viya for AI and GenAI capabilities
Manufacturer Georgia-Pacific is a SAS customer using Viya. "When challenges emerge with our manufacturing equipment or process, we leverage sensor data, business rules, recommender systems and generative AI to suggest the appropriate next best action and resolve the problem," said Roshan Shah, Vice President, Collaboration & Support Center, Georgia-Pacific. "Streaming analytics and intelligent decision management support from SAS Viya helps us capture immediate value by making the right decisions as events occur."

About Georgia-Pacific, SAS Executive Vice President and CTO Bryan Harris said, "One of SAS' core strengths is our deep bench of industry knowledge. We understand manufacturing, and we understand Georgia-Pacific's unique challenges. We help them appropriately scale LLM orchestration and manufacturing-specific GenAI assistant strategies so their employees can use those cutting-edge applications to troubleshoot real-time operational issues."

Global brick manufacturer wienerberger also uses SAS for AI support. The company reduces energy consumption, cuts greenhouse gas emissions and improves product quality using SAS on Microsoft Azure. "We use AI and IoT analytics from SAS to connect all our data streams and analyze the entire production process," said Florian Zittmayr, Team Lead for Data Science at wienerberger. "SAS Analytics brings intelligence to the kiln by helping our engineers and employees to gain valuable information about each step and identify specific target values to make the drying and firing of bricks more economical."

And a global consumer goods manufacturer uses Viya and its GenAI capabilities to optimize warehouse space, allocate inbound shipments and compare "what-if" scenarios based on product demand. SAS helped develop an LLM-based digital assistant by dynamically updating SAS Visual Analytics dashboards so the company's supply chain teams can easily save time and improve warehouse space usage with in-depth analytics. This conversational assistant allows both technical and business users to generate fast and accurate results and improve decision making using SAS' trustworthy, explainable analytics.

Organizations are enthusiastic about adopting and deploying GenAI, but there's often a gap between preparedness and execution. Learn more by reading the US Executive Summary from a new study: Generative AI Challenges and Potential Unveiled: How to Achieve a Competitive Advantage.

Viya stands out in the GenAI crowd because of pragmatic, industry-driven applications
As organizations explore GenAI, SAS prioritizes identifying industry-driven and ethically applied use cases. SAS enables secure adoption and fosters accelerated productivity and trusted results across diverse industries and regulatory landscapes. SAS' GenAI functionality lives in leading products like Viya and SAS Customer Intelligence 360:

The GenAI functionality of Viya makes a meaningful difference to customers planning to:

Today's announcement was made at SAS Innovate, the data and AI experience for business leaders, technical users and SAS Partners. Keep up with the latest news from SAS by following @SASsoftwareNews on X/Twitter.

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