SAS extends business rules governance experience to agentic AI. Here's why

Silicon Valley start-ups might be excited about the prospects of letting AI agents run around their infrastructure. However, traditional enterprise buyers will need to see a few more guardrails in place. With that in mind, SAS is extending its Intelligent Decisioning tooling to support trustworthy and agentic AI.

The company was an early leader in decision management governance, with Business Rules Manager in 2013. Its more flexible agentic variant helps design, deploy, and scale AI agents with human stewardship, embedded governance, and explainability of decisions.

This takes advantage of the work on the Viya AI platform, which has a rich ecosystem of supporting tools for data ingestion, performance tracking, governance, and security. On the governance side, this includes embedding auditability, bias detection, compliance across various processes, and now agents. Marinela Profi, Global AI Market Strategy Lead, SAS, explains:

The evolution of SAS Intelligent Decisioning positions the product as the ideal ...