CARY, N.C. and REDMOND, Wash., June
15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. and SAS today
announced an extensive technology and go-to-market strategic
partnership. The two companies will enable customers to easily run
their SAS® workloads in the cloud, expanding their
business solutions and unlocking critical value from their digital
transformation initiatives. As part of the partnership, the
companies will migrate SAS' analytical products and industry
solutions onto Microsoft Azure as the preferred cloud provider for
the SAS Cloud. SAS' industry solutions and expertise will also
bring added value to Microsoft's customers across health care,
financial services and many other industries. This partnership
builds on SAS integrations across Microsoft cloud solutions for
Azure, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365 and Power Platform and supports
the companies' shared vision to further democratize AI and
analytics.
"Through this partnership, Microsoft and SAS will help our
customers accelerate growth and find new ways to drive innovation
with a broad set of SAS Analytics offerings on Microsoft Azure,"
said Scott Guthrie, Microsoft
Executive Vice President of Cloud and AI. "SAS, with its recognized
expertise in analytics, data science and machine learning, is a
strategic partner for Microsoft, and together we will help
customers across dozens of industries and horizontals address their
most critical and complex analytical challenges."
Organizations around the world are moving to the cloud to
innovate and move faster toward their business goals. As part of
this transition, many customers, like St.
Louis-based health system Mercy, are migrating their SAS
analytic workloads to Azure to improve performance and
cost-efficiency.
"At Mercy, we're focused on how to continuously improve patient
care and outcomes and realize the role of data analytics, machine
learning in bringing that focus to light. Working with SAS and
Microsoft, we can capitalize on analytics software and the Azure
cloud platform to strengthen our ability to harness Real World
Evidence for improved outcomes and more informed care," said
Curtis Dudley, Mercy Vice President of Data Analytics. "We're
excited about the potential for increased speed, scalability and an
expanded catalog of analytics solutions the SAS and Microsoft
partnership brings in helping us deliver a new care model."
To provide a seamless experience and help organizations
accelerate their cloud transformation initiatives, SAS and
Microsoft are working together to ensure that SAS products and
solutions can be successfully deployed and run effectively on
Azure.
"SAS and Microsoft have a shared vision of helping customers
accelerate their digital transformation initiatives. We both
understand that it is about enrichment of data and improving lives
through better decisions," said Oliver Schabenberger, SAS Chief
Technology Officer and Chief Operating Officer. "Partnering with
Microsoft gives customers a more seamless path to the cloud that
provides faster, more powerful and easier access to SAS solutions
and enables trusted decisions with analytics that everyone –
regardless of skill level – can understand."
This will include optimizing SAS® Viya®,
the latest release of the company's cloud-native offering, for
Azure as well as integrating SAS' deep portfolio of industry
solutions, from fraud to risk to retail, into the Azure Marketplace
to provide improved productivity and enhanced business outcomes for
customers.
"The partnership between SAS as a leader in the analytics space,
and Microsoft as a leader in cloud makes for an interesting
strategic alliance. With SAS planning to build integrations across
Microsoft's entire cloud portfolio (Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics
365 & Power BI) it opens up a lot of joint solution potential,"
said Steve White, Program Vice
President, Channels and Alliances at IDC.
Additionally, through the partnership, Microsoft and SAS will
explore opportunities to integrate SAS analytics capabilities,
including industry-specific models, within Azure and Dynamics 365
and build new market-ready joint solutions for customers that are
natively integrated with SAS services across multiple vertical
industries. This further integration will enable SAS customers to
capitalize on the scalability and flexibility of the cloud for
their analytics and AI workloads. For example, Microsoft and SAS
are already empowering customers with solutions that help them
capitalize at scale on the vast amount of data being generated by
the Internet of Things by combining Microsoft's Azure IoT platform
with SAS' edge-to-cloud IoT analytics and AI capabilities.
Currently, the Town of Cary, NC,
is using a joint IoT offering from Microsoft and SAS to power a
critical flood prediction solution.
"Localized flooding is something all communities experience, and
ours is no exception," said Nicole
Raimundo, Cary's Chief
Information Officer. "Using sensors, weather data, SAS IoT
analytics and the Azure IoT platform, we expect to increase
situational awareness of rising stream levels, predict where
flooding might occur, and improve our emergency response through
automation. Cary is also proud to
be able to share this data with our neighboring communities to help
them better serve their citizens."
Supported with joint co-selling and go-to-market activities,
additional SAS products and solutions will begin rolling out later
this year. This will enable SAS and Microsoft customers to address
some of their most critical and complex analytical challenges while
fostering continuous innovation. SAS is also committed to using
Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 to power its internal
operations.
Today's announcement is in conjunction with Virtual SAS Global
Forum 2020, the world's premier analytics conference. Due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, this year's conference is being held virtually.
Register now for the June 16 virtual
event to hear more on this partnership from SAS and Microsoft
executives during the SAS Executive Welcome at 11 a.m. ET.
To learn more about how SAS and Microsoft are partnering and to
register for an upcoming SAS on Azure virtual event, please visit
sas.com/Microsoft.
About SAS
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transform data into intelligence. SAS gives you THE POWER TO
KNOW®.
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