Solving business challenges with machine learning and AI requires a data and AI life cycle that spans from managing and cleaning data, to building and optimizing models, to deploying and automating insights. The productivity of data and AI teams navigating this life cycle are often challenged by time, complexity, and resource requirements.
To evaluate the impact that data and AI platforms have on productivity throughout the data and AI life cycle, The Futurum Group conducted a hands-on evaluation of SAS Viya, a competitive commercial data and AI platform, and a non-commercial solution. The study involved in-depth testing of each environment to measure the time and complexity involved in completing key tasks throughout the data and AI life cycle.
“Testing showed that an end-to-end data and AI life cycle can be achieved with more than 4x greater productivity in SAS Viya than in competitive solutions. The productivity gains found in SAS Viya not only ease the burden placed on data and AI teams, but they can lead to significant cost savings.”
Research Analyst
The Futurum Group
The executive summary, the full lab insight report, and the datasets that were used for the tests are available for download.
The importance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for businesses is clear. Companies that leverage AI tools have distinct advantages over their peers, with AI Machine Learning (AI/ML) proving invaluable for finding and enabling insights buried within corporate data.
SAS asked The Futurum Group to independently analyze and review the performance results of SAS Viya and several leading commercial and open-source AI/ML alternative options. The Futurum Group Lab worked together with SAS engineering teams to compare SAS Viya against competitive offerings. We ran over 1500 tests across different Azure Cloud architectures using identical instance types to provide accurate comparisons.
“The Performance of SAS Viya was impressive, they didn’t just outperform competing AI/ML libraries, they crushed the competition.”
Head of Futurum Labs
The Futurum Group
The executive summary, the full lab insight report, and the datasets that were used for the tests are available for download.
