A proven engine, and a team that comes to you.
Lantern is built by GDA at FPT Software on SAS Viya.
SAS: fifty years of analytics.
SAS grew out of statistics research at NC State and was incorporated in 1976. It is one of the largest privately held software companies in the world, and SAS Viya is its cloud-native platform.
1976
incorporated, out of research at NC State
SAS, company history
US$3B+
annual sales in 2025
SAS Annual Report 2025
150+
countries with SAS customers
SAS, company information
71%
of Fortune 100 manufacturers or their affiliates use SAS
SAS, manufacturing
- Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Decision Intelligence Platforms, as reported by SAS.
- Named a leader in 36 analyst evaluations in 2025, as reported by SAS.
What SAS Viya brings to Lantern
- Governed data
- Governance, lineage and auditability built into data access.
- Models you can explain
- Machine learning, forecasting and optimization, with explainability, fairness testing and bias detection.
- Decisions as rules
- Business rules and decision flows, published as a service, that produce Lantern’s actions.
- Runs where you do
- On AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or on-premises.
FPT Software: global delivery, local understanding.
FPT Software has worked with manufacturers, automotive and logistics companies around the world since 1999, onshore, nearshore and offshore.
GDA1,100+
clients worldwide
FPT Software, 2026
100
offices in 31 countries
VietnamPlus, Oct 2026
80+
nationalities on the team
FPT Software, 2026
Industries
- Manufacturing
- Automotive
- Logistics
- Aviation
- Energy
- Retail and consumer goods
Partners FPT Software works with
- SAP
- Microsoft
- AWS
- NVIDIA
- OpenAI
- Databricks
- Snowflake
- Siemens
- Airbus
GDA works as a forward-deployed team.
We work beside your planners, buyers and shift leads until Lantern fits the way your company already decides.
01
On site
We start on your floor, with the files and reports your teams use today.
02
Your data first
SAS Viya is set up on your data and your rules, not a template.
03
Your language and culture
Screens and messages in the languages your people and partners use.
04
Handover
Your admins run it, your teams own it, and we stay close.
See Lantern at work.
The demo runs on Meridian, a fictional manufacturer built on a real supply chain dataset. Sign in and work this week’s actions the way its team would.