Category: Data Strategy & Modernisation

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

It’s a scenario we see often: Your team has just completed a migration to SAS Viya. You’ve successfully lifted and shifted your trusted ETL jobs. You run your code in SAS Studio, check the log, and everything looks perfect. The data is clean, and your custom formats—those crucial definitions that turn cryptic codes like 1 […]

The “Castle and Moat” era is over. Here is how modern analytics defends itself. 1. The Orchestrator of Modern Analytics “Kubernetes” (K8s) is often thrown around as IT jargon, but for the modern enterprise, it is the engine room of agility. Think of Kubernetes as an invisible, automated operations team. Rather than managing software on […]

The Firefighter Fallacy A common misconception in IT and platform administration is that the most effective support teams are the “firefighters”—the heroes celebrated for fixing critical, middle-of-the-night outages. While we certainly have the skills to put out fires, at Selerity, the actual goal should be to prevent the spark from ever catching. We prefer to […]