Customers benefit from easier cloud migration and management of analytic workloads; SAS continues to strengthen its partnership with Microsoft Azure
Analytics leader SAS continues to innovate by making it easier to access its powerful, cloud-native SAS Viya platform. Recent product developments help customers more efficiently democratize analytics throughout their organizations while seamlessly managing analytic workloads and building SAS into a variety of applications.
“Among analytics providers, SAS is a recognized leader for reimagining the way analytics and machine learning are consumed so users realize optimal results that solve business challenges faster with more accuracy,” said Ritu Jyoti, Program Vice President of Artificial Intelligence Research at IDC. “This iteration of the SAS Viya platform gives users at all levels of an organization an agile, powerful advanced machine learning engine to help master the complex data that’s in cloud environments.”
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Recognizing that so many organizations have struggled with the global pandemic and its effects, SAS CEO and founder Jim Goodnight says SAS Viya can help in the toughest times. “SAS Viya helps organizations see their data, customers and operations in new ways that encourage confident decision making,” said Goodnight. “Leading organizations like Hanesbrands, Mercy, Banco Bradesco and Qualitas Insurance Company rely on SAS Viya each day. Organizations expect to accelerate innovation and reduce costs when they operationalize analytics.” SAS Viya provides the missing layer between models developed in multiple languages and the systems where they’re deployed, eliminating the need for time-consuming recoding to deploy models.
SAS Viya now offers deep integration with Microsoft Azure services
SAS Viya is now available on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, marking the latest momentum in SAS’ strategic partnership with Microsoft announced last year. This integration between Azure and the SAS Viya analytics platform will empower customers to stand up SAS analytics in their cloud environments with ease, run them reliably, easily give users access to the latest innovations and enhancements and centrally manage everything with tools they are already familiar with. All of this will enable IT to focus less on routine analytics workloads and more on high-value, strategic workloads that help business leaders make better decisions.
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“The partnership we have with SAS has helped our customers accelerate growth and expand their digital transformation initiatives” said Casey McGee, Vice President of Global ISV Sales at Microsoft. “We’re excited about this latest innovation of SAS Viya which provides a seamless customer experience with Microsoft Azure and will bring the power of analytics to our customers, across industries, enabling them to make business decisions faster and more effectively in a cloud experience that’s unique to SAS and Microsoft.”
As for joint solutions, the Predict & Plan Consumer Demand offering built on SAS Viya is available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace now. SAS’ legacy of helping retail and consumer goods companies increase forecast accuracy, improve margins, reduce stock levels and connect to customers more meaningfully, combined with the flexibility of Microsoft Azure automates complex planning tasks that improve supply chain efficiency. It’s the first of many industry-specific cloud analytics solutions SAS and Microsoft Azure plan to build together.
Goodnight and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discuss SAS Viya and the SAS partnership in a recorded conversation. You can learn more about SAS Viya and the SAS partnership with Microsoft at the virtual event Travel to Faster, Trusted Decisions in the Cloud.
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