Lightweight, custom AI models facilitate rapid implementation with low overhead
Recently, SAS – one of the pioneers in data and AI solutions – revealed a revolutionary approach for organizations to address their business challenges. Featuring lightweight, industry-specific AI models with individual licenses, SAS equips organizations with easy-to-implement AI technology to deliver real-world use cases with unmatched efficiency.
While not the first models offered to market, SAS is uniquely positioned to bring decades of experience to bear in applying scalable and reliable AI models to renowned global brands in the financial, healthcare and manufacturing sectors, as well as government entities.
“SAS is evolving its portfolio to meet evolving user needs and capture market share with innovative new offerings,” says Chandana Gopal, Research Director, Future of Intelligence, IDC. “A mature area for SAS is the production of models built on SAS’s core assets, talent and intellectual property thanks to its extensive experience working with clients to solve industry problems.”
With the new offering, organizations have the ability to readily deploy the models – which are different from large fundamental language models – across the environment to address industry-specific challenges in fraud detection and prevention, supply chain optimization , entity management, document conversion, healthcare payment integrity and much more.
Unlike traditional AI implementations, which can be laborious and time-consuming, the industry-specific models offered by SAS are fast to integrate, enabling organizations to deploy trusted AI technology and accelerate the realization of tangible benefits and safe results.
Expanding market presence
With the pressure to compete more efficiently, organizations are looking to AI to gain an edge. At the same time, building a team of data scientists has never been more challenging with a lack of AI experts. Consequently, businesses demand agility in using artificial intelligence to solve problems and need flexible AI solutions to boost business results in the shortest possible time. SAS's easy-to-use and powerful models, optimized for the enterprise environment, enable organizations to benefit from SAS's half-century of leadership across multiple industries.
The delivery of sector models as a package of offerings is one of the fruits of SAS's commitment to investment of US$ 1 billion in AI-based industrial solutions. As highlighted in the announcement made in May 2023, the investment in AI is based on the decades dedicated by SAS to developing packaged solutions to face the challenges of sectors such as banking, government, healthcare and others.
“The templates are the perfect complement to our existing solutions and SAS Viya platform offerings, and meet diverse business needs across multiple audiences, ensuring innovation reaches every corner of our ecosystem,” says Udo Sglavo, Vice President of AI and Analytics at SAS. “By customizing our approach to understand the specific needs of each sector, we enable companies to thrive in different environments.”
Making AI available to the general public
SAS democratizes artificial intelligence by offering lightweight, out-of-the-box models – making AI available regardless of skill set – starting with one AI assistant for storage space optimization. Leveraging technologies like great language models, these assistants serve non-technical users by translating interactions into optimized workflows and facilitating faster planning decisions.
“SAS models deliver affordable, timely and flexible artificial intelligence to businesses, aligning with industry challenges,” says Sglavo. “Whether you are just starting your AI journey or looking to accelerate expansion across your organization, SAS offers unmatched depth and breadth to address the specific needs of each business.”
The first SAS models should be made available to the general public later this year. Learn more about SAS Applied AI and Modeling here: https://blogs.sas.com/content/
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