Forrester highlights SAS’s ability to connect disparate data sources and support cross-technology workflows, with a focus on FRAML convergence—the integration of fraud and AML—driving consistent advanced analytics across financial crime detection.

SAS’s financial crime management suite runs on AI-powered, cloud-native SAS Viya and emphasizes converged AML and fraud management, enhanced by agentic AI capabilities for investigations and decisioning.

Data convergence and governance are central as AI agents take on more investigative and decisioning work, underscoring trusted, responsible AI in financial crime management.

Forrester Wave evaluation notes SAS has no below-par scores across current offering criteria, with strong customer feedback on ML model building and testing.

This year marks SAS’s 50th anniversary, and the Wave assessment reflects above-average customer feedback, particularly for ML model building and model testing capabilities.

In Forrester Wave: Financial Crime Management Solutions, Q3 2026, SAS is named a Leader with the highest overall current offering score of 4.70 out of 5 among 15 vendors.

SAS earned top scores in nine of eleven criteria—more than any other vendor—including data integration, administrator management, watchlist management, AI/ML-based risk scoring, and regulatory reporting.

The 4.70 current offering score reflects SAS’s leadership across data integration, alerting, case management, third-party integrations, and other key capabilities.

The press release frames SAS as a data and AI leader delivering trusted AI with governance, directing readers to SAS resources and the Forrester report for more details.

SAS positions itself as a global leader in data and AI, highlighting its 50th anniversary and commitment to governance-focused AI in financial crime management.

Chartis Research has previously highlighted SAS’s FRAML convergence as a key differentiator, reinforcing its leadership in this space.

Forrester notes SAS has no below-par scores across current offering criteria, indicating broad and deep capabilities across the financial crime management lifecycle.