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.
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
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
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
Since its announcement last April at the 2017 SAS Global Forum, SAS Viya has been heralded as the analytics platform’s stepping-stone into the future. As a cloud-enabled platform, with a powerful in-memory analytics engine that enables quick, accurate, and consistent results at all times, Viya is scalable and has the processing power required to address […]
Feb 09, 2018
SAS is considered a global leader in analytics and analytics platform provisioning – making it an entity that businesses from countless organisations and a wide array of industries turn to gain the valuable insights needed to catapult them to greater success. With a network spanning hundreds of countries, SAS has the technology and network capable […]
Mar 26, 2018
SAS provides a wide array of analytics platforms, applications, and services that can significantly transform the insights organisations gain access to and how they operate. Across the world, SAS software is being leveraged by countless organisations and many of these services are being facilitated by SAS’ vast network of SAS software partners. Among the key […]
Mar 27, 2018
As businesses and organisations become increasingly dependent on data and analytics, harnessing the power of all this information is equally important. The problem with this is that many businesses, especially small businesses and organisations, often lack the resources to fully capitalise on their analytics. Recognising the value of a powerful analytics platform is only the […]
May 11, 2018
Businesses are increasingly looking at cloud-based solutions to support the multitude of operations they perform on any given day. A recent study by Forrester identified that more than 50% of global enterprises will rely on at least one public cloud platform to facilitate their digital transformation and customer experience/interaction enhancements. While the topic of moving […]
Apr 27, 2018
5G and data analytics are going to disrupt the way we live. Building on the foundations of 4G technology, 5G networks are expected to deliver faster network speeds, which means downloading and uploading data will be faster than ever before. The rapid transmission of data brings several technological developments experts are calling ‘Industry 4.0’. With […]
Dec 21, 2018