Nected vs SAS Viya
Where Viya requires pipelines, scoring engines, and MLOps layers to push decisions into production, Nected lets teams build real-time decision flows, orchestrations, and rules in minutes with a no-code/low-code interface.
As business logic expands, SAS Viya introduces high costs, long cycles, and infrastructure friction — exactly when companies need speed.
That’s the point where teams realize they need a simpler, faster way to ship logic changes.
Here’s the candid feedback teams often share when working with SAS Viya’s analytics and model-serving stack:
Lead Data Scientist
Engineering Manager
Business Manager
Solutions Architect
*These quotes are illustrative reflections based on publicly documented challenges shared by SAS Viya users and are not direct user testimonials.*
Before dedicating data science and engineering bandwidth, evaluate how Viya’s compute-based licensing, CAS node scaling, and model-serving pipelines inflate long-term TCO.
SAS Viya vs Nected
Advanced analytics & modeling platform
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No-code/low-code decision & workflow engine
| Business-Friendly No-Code Rule Editor | ❌ | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| No-Code Workflow Orchestration | ❌ | ✅ |
| Native Decision Tables / Trees for Business Users | ⚠️ Limited / Expert-focused | ✅ First-class, visual |
| AI Copilot for Rules & Workflows | ❌ | ✅ |
| No-Code Connectors (DB, APIs, SaaS systems) | ❌ | ✅ |
| Embedded UI / White-Label Decision Engine | ❌ | ✅ |
| Multi-Tenant Support for Your Own Customers | ❌ | ✅ |
| Versioning, Rollback & Environments Built-In | ⚠️ Possible via dev processes | ✅ Native feature |
| Self-Hosting & Cloud-Native Deployment | ✅ Cloud-native, heavy stack | ✅ Lightweight cloud & on-prem |
| Real-Time Decision APIs for Operational Use Cases | ⚠️ Via scoring services/MLOps | ✅ First-class, low-latency |
| Enterprise-Grade Security (RBAC, Audit Logs, SSO) | ✅ | ✅ |
Here are some notes from teams who migrated off SAS and now run on Nected:
Director of Product Management
Financial Services
Apparel & Fashion
Administrator
Nected gives both developers and business users the tools to create, manage, and scale decision logic. Without writing full applications or relying on DevOps.
See how Nected’s platform brings agile change and robust compliance in a product walkthrough:
For: CIOs, enterprise architects, innovation and governance leads
Nected supports DMN/FEEL standards and API-driven rule logic, making it straightforward to extract Viya decision flows, scoring logic, and conditional pipelines into Nected’s decision tables and workflows.
Most migrations take 6–10 weeks, depending on how much SAS DS2 logic, CAS actions, or model-scoring pipelines must be replaced with simpler rule-based decisioning.
SAS Viya is built on a complex, analytics-heavy infrastructure with CAS servers, proprietary engine runtimes, and specialized SAS syntaxes requiring trained data scientists.
Nected is cloud-native, lightweight, DMN/FEEL compatible, and API-first — easier to integrate, simpler to scale, and designed for fast-moving business rule changes rather than heavy analytical pipelines.
SAS Viya can scale, but scaling requires provisioning CAS nodes, tuning compute clusters, and optimizing scoring workloads — often with significant infra overhead.
Nected auto-scales horizontally with no infra work and handles millions of decision evaluations per minute with sub-200ms latency, offering real-time performance without MLOps complexity.
SAS Viya supports cloud and on-prem deployments but requires large infrastructure footprints, dedicated compute for CAS, and specialized administration.
Nected provides SaaS, Private Cloud, and On-Prem options without heavy infra requirements, proprietary runtimes, or multi-layer compute dependencies.
SAS Viya customization often involves DS2 coding, CAS actions, custom scoring containers, and orchestration scripts maintained by data science and engineering teams.
Nected enables business-friendly no-code rule editing, visual workflows, and developer extensions through APIs, connectors, and scripts, dramatically speeding up iteration cycles.
Yes. Nected includes RBAC, SSO, encryption, audit trails, versioning, rollback, SOC 2, ISO, GDPR compliance, and full governance controls out of the box.
SAS Viya also offers strong enterprise security, but its governance and compliance layers often require additional setup, configuration, and infrastructure management.
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