SAS announced the availability of SAS Intelligent Decisioning on industry-leading data and AI platform SAS Viya – empowers organizations to design, deploy and scale AI agents with balanced human and AI autonomy, embedded governance and explainability of decisions.
AI agents get decisioning support with ethical calibration
True enterprise value from agentic AI comes from building collaborative, intelligence-amplifying systems that work with humans. SAS Viya’s agentic AI framework is underpinned by three pillars that define how AI agents are designed and delivered:
- Applying a hybrid approach that combines the rigor of powerful deterministic analytics with the flexibility and reasoning of large language models (LLMs) enables customers to build AI agents that deliver precise and reliable outcomes, with the necessary business guardrails and rules required in regulated industries.
- Human and AI balance. SAS enables organizations to determine the appropriate level of AI autonomyand human involvement for AI agents based on task complexity, risk, and business goals. AI agents can operate fully autonomously in routine, data-driven tasks while humans provide oversight, ethical judgment, and strategic direction.
- SAS’ built-in governance framework enables customers to build AI agents that not only deliver accurate outcomes but also adhere to ethical standards, maintain data privacy, align with business values and stand up to regulatory scrutiny.
The future of agentic AI, powered by SAS Viya
SAS Viya supports organizations through every stage of the agentic AI journey, from data ingestion and analysis to building, deploying and monitoring AI agents. It enables continuous performance tracking, governance and security, offering a comprehensive and streamlined approach to managing AI agents throughout their lifecycle. And SAS brings decades of trusted governance to the table, embedding auditability, bias detection and compliance into every agent.
SAS’ future agentic AI roadmap includes infusing co-pilot productivity assistants into SAS Viya to help users work faster, smarter and with fewer manual steps, while staying grounded in enterprise logic. Leaning into its deep industry expertise, SAS also plans to deliver pre-packaged, domain-specific intelligent agents that will integrate seamlessly into industry workflows (e.g., data engineering tasks, optimizing supply chains), helping organizations accelerate time-to-value without sacrificing control or confidence.
“SAS Viya builds agents that don’t just act – they decide with purpose, guided by analytics, business rules and adaptability and grounded by decades of SAS’ trusted governance,” said Marinela Profi, Global AI Market Strategy Lead at SAS. “SAS’ unified, governed, decision-first framework turns AI agents from a science experiment to a business differentiator.”
