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About SAS Visual Analytics

What Is SAS Visual Analytics?

SAS Visual Analytics leverages SAS high-performance analytic technologies and empowers organizations to explore huge volumes of data quickly to identify patterns, trends, and opportunities for further analysis. The highly visual, drag-and-drop data interface of SAS Visual Analytics, combined with the speed of SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS), accelerates analytic computations and enables organizations to derive value from massive amounts of data. This creates an unprecedented ability to solve difficult problems, improve business performance, predict future performance, and mitigate risk rapidly and confidently. Users can quickly design reports or dashboards, which can be viewed on a mobile device or on the web.

SAS Visual Analytics enables you to explore, discover, and predict by using your data. If SAS Visual Statistics is licensed at your site, then you can create, test, and compare models based on the patterns that you discovered when you explored your data. You can export a model before or after you perform a model comparison in order to use it with other SAS products and to put it into production. If both SAS Visual Statistics and SAS Viya (which provides machine learning objects) are licensed at your site, then additional models are available. (SAS Viya models cannot be licensed without SAS Visual Statistics.)

You create one type of document, a report, in SAS Visual Analytics. Whether you are working with text, a table, or a linear regression, you can add any object to pages in a report. You can use the various layouts that are supported by SAS Visual Analytics to present these objects.

For information about new features, see What’s New in SAS Visual Analytics.

What Are the SAS Visual Analytics Apps?

The SAS Visual Analytics Apps are free mobile apps. You can download the apps from the following locations:

Using these apps, you can view and interact with SAS Visual Analytics reports, as well as share comments and observations with others. The apps support all charts and graphs that are available in SAS Visual Analytics.

SAS SDKs

SAS Viya SDK for JavaScript

SAS Viya SDK for JavaScript is a collection of JavaScript libraries that you can use to interact with SAS Viya platform resources and to embed SAS content into custom web pages and portals. These libraries are included:

  • va-report-components is a JavaScript library that you can use to embed SAS Visual Analytics insights within your web pages and web applications. It enables you to do the following:
    • embed entire SAS Visual Analytics reports
    • embed individual SAS Visual Analytics objects from one or more reports
    • perform interactions between multiple SAS Visual Analytics objects
    • share data and actions between SAS Visual Analytics objects and JavaScript controls (by using data-driven content)
  • content-components is a JavaScript library that you can use to browse your SAS content inside of a web page or web application.

    You can use the content-components library and the va-report-components library together to browse and view reports within your web pages or web applications.

  • sas-auth-browser provides an API that enables an application or web page to ensure that a user is authenticated before that user makes SAS API calls or uses SAS web components.

These libraries are free. For more information, see the SAS Viya SDK for JavaScript page at developer.sas.com.

Mobile SDKs

The SAS SDK for iOS and the SAS SDK for Android let you create mobile apps that include SAS Visual Analytics content. The SAS SDK gives you the ability to personalize, preconfigure, customize, and manage the user experience of including SAS Visual Analytics content in your apps.

  • Personalize your apps by substituting your organization’s name and icon in the SAS Visual Analytics App.
  • Preconfigure your apps to include server connections and report subscriptions so that your users do not have to perform these tasks.
  • Create completely customized mobile apps that combine the interactivity of SAS Visual Analytics reports with any other external content and capabilities that you choose.
  • Manage and secure your mobile deployments by integrating your mobile apps with your mobile device management (MDM) service.

Your mobile apps can connect to your SAS servers and can be managed by your organization’s SAS administrators. The SAS SDK is free and is available for iOS and Android devices from the SAS SDK product page.

Benefits of Using SAS Visual Analytics

By using SAS Visual Analytics, users can enhance the analytic power of their data, explore new data sources, uncover relevant patterns, and create reports. In traditional reporting, the resulting output is well defined up-front. That is, you know what you are looking at and what you need to convey. In contrast, data discovery invites you to plumb the data, its characteristics, and its relationships. Reports can be made available on a mobile device or on the web.

SAS Visual Analytics provides users with the following benefits:

  • enables users to apply the power of SAS analytics to massive amounts of data
  • empowers users to visually explore data, based on any variety of measures, at amazingly fast speeds
  • enables users to quickly create powerful statistical models if SAS Visual Statistics is licensed at your site
  • enables users to work with factorization machines, forests, gradient boosting, neural networks, support vector machines, and Bayesian networks if SAS Viya (which provides machine learning objects) is licensed at your site
  • enables users to quickly create reports or dashboards using standard tables, graphs, and gauges
  • enables users to share insights with anyone, anywhere, via the web or a mobile device

SAS Visual Analytics Community

The SAS Visual Analytics community is dedicated to users who are focused on exploratory visualization and analytical techniques, data preparation, dashboard reporting, and mobile reporting. Using the community, you can share your experiences, discuss topics and ideas, seek help from your peers, and share information about upcoming events. You can access the user community at communities.sas.com/visual-analytics.

For questions requiring immediate technical assistance, contact SAS Technical Support at support.sas.com.

Last updated: September 22, 2026