PRWeb has reported on SAS® Viya™as the winner in the Business Analytics category in the 2016 Technology Innovation awards by Ventana Research.

The annual Ventana Research award program selects pioneering technology providers for significant technology contributions that demonstrate the potential to advance positive technology changes and increased value for organizations around the globe.

“Our research shows that usability is consistently the most important vendor and technology consideration when evaluating software purchases,” said David Menninger, Senior Vice President and Research Director at Ventana Research. “SAS Viya was selected as an award winner because it provides an innovative, easy-to-use interface across a variety of business analytic functions including visualization, interactive discovery and advanced analytics.”

Unveiled earlier this year, SAS Viya is an open, in-memory analytics platform that brings together both SAS and other analytics assets in one, consistent governance environment. Delivering everything needed for fast, accurate analytical results and elastic, scalable and fault-tolerant processing, SAS Viya addresses all analytical needs.

“Companies can now innovate in their language of choice such as Python, Java and REST APIs,” said Mike Frost, SAS director of cloud and platform marketing. “They can be assured that their efforts are easily deployed, scaled with one code base and no longer a stitched together mix of different languages. SAS Viya is uniquely compatible with SAS® 9 and brings together silos of analytic assets for organizational compliance and IT governance needs.”

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