Phase 2
Streamlining the ascent up the “messy middle”
In Phase 2, the focus is on building, innovating, and deploying new models at scale. This “messy middle” is where most organizations get mired in excessive complexity.
Explore the options below to make sure it's less messy for your organization.
IT can start to lose control in Phase 2, due to the exponential growth in deployed models as developers, who are not close to business problems, create models that don’t meet real business needs.
Developers use a vast array of tools to develop models — often in different versions — that create incompatibilities, integration issues, and rework. And yet developer preference for these tools is vital to maximizing productivity and job satisfaction, so eliminating tools isn’t the answer.
How many months do you think it takes organizations to recoup investment?
The right platform can help IT address tool complexity while giving developers the freedom of choice they need in order to be productive and innovative.
The right platform can also address developer talent shortages by empowering businesspeople to become “citizen” developers. For example, SAS Viya provides user-friendly no-code/low-code tools that even non-technical people can use to jump-start the design, build, and test phases of new analytic and AI models. It also seamlessly orchestrates integration, which is normally a very complex process, by supporting every package/release of SAS, Python, R, Airflow, and more.
What tools are developers using in your organization?
No matter what tools you're using, it's likely SAS Viya can help. For example, with SAS Viya, developers can opt to use the latest versions (and interfaces) for SAS, R, Python, Visual Studio, Rest, and Jupyter Notebook.
Alternatively, developers can code with the SAS Viya no-code/low-code user interface and reap benefits such as the ability to graph the outputs of models to understand their performance, test and compare models, access prebuilt code for testing and more.
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Which of the following steps is your organization most focused on?
Other great resources for this phase of the journey are linked below.
