Action intelligence, powered by SAS Viya

Know what needs doing. Get it done, together.

Viya joins the data your departments keep apart and recommends what needs doing. Lantern gives each action to the right owner, one workspace for the team to work it through, and a record of what it was worth.

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AirSeaRoadExample workspace: Meridian Components, a fictional manufacturer.

SUP-04 · Kaohsiung → Bắc NinhExpedite PO-002071Assigned to Do Minh Khoa · Purchasing
SUP-08 · Osaka → Bắc NinhReorder 1,980 units of ELE-08Assigned to Ngo Thu Trang · Planning
Đà Nẵng · night shiftFind the cause of the defect riseAssigned to Phan Quoc Bao · Plant operations

Built by GDA at FPT Software. Powered by SAS Viya.

A loaded container ship leaving port with a tug alongside, seen from the air

The fastest-growing factories still run on hand-built reports and spreadsheets.

Le Havre, France · Arizonaman1, CC0

Vietnam now exports more than US$100 billion of electronics a year, and economies like it are scaling output fast. Behind that growth, decisions still wait on reports built by hand every week: Excel workbooks, CSV exports and figures copied out of legacy systems, far from the data and AI that could guide them.

$107.8B+48% in one year

Electronics exported by Vietnam

Vietnam Customs, 2026

Vietnam is one of many economies building factories fast.

Manufacturing growth, 2025Output, US$

India+11.5%$533B
Vietnam+10.0%$126B
Bangladesh+5.8%$102B
Indonesia+5.3%$276B
Malaysia+4.5%$104B
Poland+3.7%$156B
Philippines+2.5%$75B
Thailand+0.4%$137B
Mexico-0.5%$366B

World Bank, World Development Indicators, 2026 (2025 values may be preliminary)

Most plants sit between spreadsheets and AI.

54of every 100 plants worldwide still run operations on paper or spreadsheetsIoT Analytics, 2025

Custom enterprise AI tools, share of companies

Evaluated60%

Piloted20%

In production5%

MIT NANDA, 2025

80%

of German Mittelstand firms did not use AI in 2022–2024

KfW Research, 2026

From workbooks to AI, without starting over.

1Today
Weekly reports put together by hand: Excel workbooks, CSV exports, figures copied from legacy systems and retyped between departments.
- Bao_cao_tuan_T9_FINAL_v3.xlsx
- PO_tracking_2025 (copy).xlsx
- ton_kho_BacNinh.csv
- QC_ca_dem_DaNang_sua.xlsx
- export_ERP_20251006.csv
19 department files, merged by hand every week
2With Viya
The same files, cleaned by logged rules into governed data, with forecasts, models and AI on top.
3With Lantern
Owned actions, one workspace for the team, and results that can be measured.
- MKExpedite PO-002071
- TTReorder 1,980 units of ELE-08
- QBFind the cause of the defect rise

po	supplier	score	at_risk_vnd
PO-002071	SUP-04	0.974	2,818,000
PO-002527	SUP-04	0.974	1,699,000
PO-001358	SUP-11	0.950	734,000

Sources

From department files to every team.

Viya reads the files and exports your plants already keep. Lantern gives each team its own view of what to do and why.

From a signal in the data to work that is done, and measured.

Follow one action through a week at Meridian Components.

1
RecommendMonday · Viya weekly run
Viya joins the data and says what needs doing
Purchasing, stock, quality and sales files become one governed model. Decision rules, forecasts and machine learning score each risk, and the reason is written in plain language with the value at stake.
Example
Viya19 files → 23 governed tables40 logged cleaning rules28,098 rows fixed
- RuleSUP-04 late on recent deliveries
- ForecastLine 2 in Bắc Ninh needs HYD-03 by Thursday
- Score0.974 from the lateness rule
- AIReason written and checked against the facts
High priority
Expedite PO-002071
₫2,818,000at stake
2
AssignMonday · 08:00
The right owner sees it, and only the right people
Each action goes to the person whose job it is. Role and site decide who sees what, enforced in the database, not only on the screen.
Example
MK
Do Minh KhoaPurchasing
Owner
Who sees this action
- Truong Gia Huy · LeadershipSees every action
- Planning · Own inboxNot shown
- Shift leads · Own lineNot shown
- SUP-04 · SupplierNever sees internal data
Row-level security in the database
3
DiscussMonday · 09:15
One thread per action, not a hundred emails
Reply, @mention the person who knows, drop in a photo from the line. Ask @Lantern and it answers in the thread from the data you may see. No reply-all chains or side chats: the conversation stays with the work it is about.
Example
- Viya · RecommendationSUP-04 has been late on recent deliveries. PO-002071 is due 13 Oct.
- GH
  Truong Gia Huy · Leadership@Lantern which line depends on HYD-03?
- Lantern · AI · from Viya’s weekly runLine 2 in Bắc Ninh. The forecast says it needs HYD-03 by Thursday, so a late delivery stops the line.
- MK
  Do Minh Khoa · Purchasing@Truong Gia Huy calling Lin now. I’ll record what they say.
ResolveTuesday · 10:42
The owner does the work, and Viya learns from it
Call the supplier, check the line, research a price, update the order. Record what was done and resolve it. The outcome goes back to Viya, which checks whether it worked.

One workspace. The right people see the right things.

People, AI and Viya work on the same actions in Lantern. What each person sees follows their role and site, and every decision and resolution is on the record.

Enforced in the database
Access rules live in Postgres row-level security, so an API call sees exactly what the screen shows.
On the record
Decisions are append-only. Who did what, and when, is never overwritten.
Back to Viya
Each resolution flows back to Viya, so the analysis knows what people did.

Who sees which actions

	Expedite orders	Reorders	Line quality	Margin
Leadership
Buyer
Planner
Plant operations
Finance
Shift lead · Đà Nẵng night

Sees and acts
Own site and shift
Not shown

Factory floor, Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Ringo448, CC BY-SA 4.0

What acting on it is worth.

An example: a components maker with four plants, two years of operations data, and what Viya found in it.

Recoverable

₫4.9B

4% of annual revenue, recoverable

At stake: ₫13B

Stock · Margin lost below reorder point
₫2.6B / ₫10.6B
Margin · Fasteners sold at a loss
₫1.3B / ₫1.3B
Reporting · Hours merging 19 files by hand
₫416M / ₫416M
Quality · Scrap after a night-shift alert
₫399M / ₫399M
Suppliers · Late deliveries from three suppliers
₫172M / ₫343M

Example figures. What Lantern finds in your operations depends on your data.

The layer between analytics and the people who act on it.

SAS Viya governs the data, traces its lineage, runs the models and makes the call. Lantern turns that into work people own and do together, in their own language, with every action resolved and recorded.

SAS Viya
- Data governance
- Lineage
- Forecasts and ML
- Decision rules
- Visual analytics
Lantern
- Owned actions
- One shared workspace
- Roles and permissions
- Resolution records
- Every team’s language
People and partners
- Buyers
- Planners
- Shift leads
- Plant ops
- Finance
- Leadership
- Suppliers, by email

77.6%

of ERP users call usability a key trend

Trovarit, ERP in der Praxis 2024/25

49%

of executives said miscommunication had stood in the way of a major international deal

Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012

90%+

of business software buyers prefer their own language

CSA Research, 2008

Designed for the people on shift.

Quick to pick up
Every action looks the same and works the same, on a desk or a phone.
Clear at a glance
The reason in one line, the value at stake, the next step ready.
Fewer mistakes
Nothing is closed without a record of what was done. Dismissing needs a note.
Focused on your work
Each person and team sees what is theirs, ranked by what it is worth.

One supplier email, translated for the reader

EnglishRequest to expedite PO-002071, due 13 Oct 2025

繁體中文請協助加急採購單 PO-002071（交期 2025/10/13）

日本語発注書 PO-002071 の納期前倒しのお願い（納期 2025年10月13日）

Tiếng ViệtĐề nghị đẩy nhanh đơn PO-002071, hạn 13/10/2025

Our product, on a proven engine, built by people who know the floor.

A container ship under the cranes at the Hai Phong International Container Terminal — Hải Phòng, Vietnam · Nathan.cima, CC BY-SA 4.0

SAS has built analytics software since 1976. SAS Viya is the engine inside Lantern.

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