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Explore expert insights from the Selerity team — including articles on platform optimisation, cloud deployment, licensing updates, and analytics best practices. Whether you’re managing a SAS environment or evaluating modernisation options, our blog is here to help you stay informed and make confident decisions.
Solving the Agentic AI Governance Gap: Moving From Exploration to Execution
The enterprise landscape is shifting rapidly. Currently, 79% of organisations have implemented autonomous agents, yet fewer than 25% have operationalised the necessary controls to manage them. This discrepancy creates a massive operational vulnerability known as the “Agentic AI Governance Gap”. As businesses move beyond experimental phases, deploying AI without robust, enterprise-grade governance introduces severe commercial, […]
23/03/2026
The Golden Standard: Automating SAS Viya Formats with CI/CD
Welcome to the final chapter of our deep dive into SAS Viya formats. In Part 1, we exposed the “architectural dichotomy” that causes formats to vanish between the Compute Server and CAS. In Part 2, we gave you the tactical tools (PROC CPORT, FMTC2ITM, and the CLI) to migrate your legacy catalogs. Now, we face […]
20/01/2026
The Migration Toolkit: 3 Ways to Move SAS Formats to Viya
In Part 1, we diagnosed the “Split-Brain” condition affecting many SAS Viya environments: the architectural disconnect between the legacy Compute Server (which relies on disk-based catalogs) and the modern CAS engine (which demands in-memory libraries). Diagnosing the problem is one thing; fixing it is another. If you try to simply copy-paste your old .sas7bcat files […]
19/01/2026
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Common challenges for big data analysis tools when using IoT
As organisations generate more and more data, it becomes important to be more aware of the shortcomings of using big data analysis tools for IoT data. We are seeing a trend in the industry where organisations are dealing with larger bodies of data, but need to generate insights at a faster rate than before. Yet, […]
Dec 25, 2020
The uses of data analytics in biotechnology
Biotechnology is a broad field of biology that leverages various biological systems to develop products that can fundamentally transform the way we do things. That said, biotech is not a modern concept. It has existed for thousands of years with ancient civilisations using early forms to produce crops and brew alcoholic beverages. Today, the biotech […]
Nov 22, 2021
Collaborative Analytics for Australian Data Teams
Bridge the Divide: Unlock Collaborative Analytics for Your Australian Data Teams with SAS Viya Workbench Are your Australian data teams working in silos, struggling to share and manage analytical projects across different coding languages? In today’s dynamic data landscape, collaborative analytics is no longer optional — it’s essential. SAS Viya Workbench offers a powerful solution, […]
Jun 03, 2025
How SAS training courses can supercharge your data analytics capabilities
According to Jobsite indeed.com, in the first quarter of 2020, job postings requiring SAS analytics skills increased by 31%. Another recruitment site reported that SAS Analytics skills are predicted to grow by 4.1% over the next decade. These statistics show an increasing demand trend for SAS Analytics skills in the job market, which is a […]
Sep 01, 2021
Breaking down barriers with SAS cloud solutions
The future of data and analytics is in the cloud, according to Gartner Research. It predicts that by 2022, public cloud services will be essential for 90 per cent of data and analytics innovation. This acceleration to the cloud is evident with analytics solutions: Thirty-four per cent of organisations use cloud-based solutions, but 71% of […]
Nov 22, 2020
Techniques of Feature Scaling with SAS Custom Macro
What is Feature Scaling? Feature scaling is a process that is used to normalize data, it is one of the most preponderant steps in data pre-processing. Feature scaling is done before feeding data into machine learning, deep learning and statistical algorithms/models. In most cases, it has been noticed that the performance of the models increases […]
Dec 18, 2020