Live Webinar

SAS® Viya® Workbench Demo: Solving Your Productivity Challenges

See how Viya Workbench addresses your most common business challenges and developer roadblocks.

Feb. 18, 2025 • 10 a.m. ET • Cost: Complimentary

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About the webinar

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Developing models takes too long, is too expensive and our team is getting inconsistent results.

How productive could you be if none of that was true?

SAS Chief Technology Officer Bryan Harris, alongside Alice McClure and Brett Wujek, will cover these business challenges and show you how SAS Viya Workbench enables productivity through a variety of demos.

We will discuss:

  • Challenge #1: “It takes too long to spin up a model.”
    Workbench environments allow developers to create new models quickly, with minimal IT support. Viya Workbench gives developers this ability, with an important twist: The models can be published in a wide range of environments, not just SAS. You can choose your favorite. See this demoed live.
  • Challenge #2: “The infrastructure we need just costs too much.”
    Viya Workbench helps developers avoid cloud hosting surprises by allowing for easy scaling up and down. Plus, it’s self-terminating, so users won’t incur unnecessary compute costs on the cloud. See for yourself how you can easily configure and scale for your project.
  • Challenge #3: “I’m getting different results when I expand to blended teams.”
    Regardless of the programming language your developers use, the same underlying analytical tools driving Viya Workbench are consistent – and will deliver consistent results when using the same data. Watch how Viya Workbench makes model development a team sport.

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About the experts


Bryan Harris

Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, SAS

Bryan Harris is responsible for SAS’ award-winning software portfolio, which empowers organizations with data and AI. In this role, he leads a global research and development (R&D) organization of nearly 4,000 people, focusing on product design, engineering, advanced analytics and AI, industry solutions, modeling and quantum computing.

Under Harris’ leadership, SAS launched the cloud-native SAS Viya platform and unified the entire portfolio across industry solutions and models. He is also known for his dedication to fostering a purpose-driven, inclusive culture within the R&D organization. He has led several initiatives to support professional growth and encourage cross-divisional collaboration, all of which contribute to SAS’ reputation as a top employer in the technology industry.


Alice McClure

Product Marketing and Launch Programs, SAS

Alice is an accomplished and strategic product marketing leader with over 20 years of experience driving growth and innovation across diverse product marketing, analytics and alliance teams. Alice currently serves as the Senior Director of Product Marketing and Launch Programs at SAS, leading a global team responsible for crafting go-to-market strategies, brand and product positioning, demand generation, customer engagement, field readiness and strategic launch programs. She and her teams possess a unique ability to blend deep market insights with product knowledge and creative market engagement to address customer needs and achieve business objectives.

Before joining SAS, Alice held senior roles at IBM, Red Hat and Logi Analytics, including multiple Director and Chief of Staff positions within the IBM AI, Automation and Security business units. Alice frequently speaks at industry conferences and contributes to articles on technology trends and product innovation. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Indiana University.


Brett Wujek

Head of Product Strategy for Next-Generation AI Technology, SAS

Brett Wujek leads a team that drives product direction and vision through customer interactions and technology advancements. Upon joining SAS in 2014, he worked as a data scientist on the machine learning R&D team to support development projects, help guide the direction of the product, and drive technical promotion and customer engagements. Before joining SAS, Wujek led the development of process integration and design exploration technologies at Dassault Systèmes, helping architect and implement industry-leading computer-aided optimization software for product design applications. He received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame for his work in developing efficient algorithms and automation strategies for multidisciplinary design optimization.

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