United States, April 27 -- SAS, a global leader in data and AI, announced expansions to SAS(R) Viya(R) that advance the platform's agentic AI features, introducing new AI assistants, agent infrastructure and acceleration tools. Together, these updates build on SAS Viya's existing AI foundation, helping organizations move from isolated generative AI use cases to governed, production-ready intelligence at scale.New SAS Viya features include:SAS Viya Copilot, a family of AI assistants embedded across the analytics life cycle.SAS Viya Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, using the open MCP standard to expose SAS Viya analytics and decisioning capabilities as tools for AI agents.SAS Agentic AI Accelerator, a curated framework for building, gover...