SAS Viya on Microsoft Azure can deliver 204% return on investment according to independent study

(MENAFN- Golin Mena) Organizations deploying SAS® Viya®, SAS’ cloud-native AI, analytic and data management platform, on Microsoft Azure can see benefits including a204% return on investmentover three years, according to a new commissioned Total Economic Impact™ study conducted by Forrester Consulting.Additional study resultsfurther emphasize the value of customers’ investments in SAS Viya on Azure, includingmillions of dollars in net present value anda14-month payback period. The full TEI studyfindings will be shared at a SAS and Microsoft webinar with guest speakers from Forrester on May 18 at 11 a.m. ET.

Forrester interviewed nine decision makers at six customer organizationsusing SAS Viya on Azureto understand the benefits, costs and risks associated with their investment. The customers spanned industries, including government, manufacturing, financial services, IT professional services and banking.

Prior to implementing SAS Viya on Azure, interviewees noted that barriers to data access and disparatedata sources made it difficult and time-consuming to build, deploy and manage AI models. Other issues they faced included the inefficiencies and high costs of on-premises analytics infrastructure.

After their investment in the product, interviewees addressed these challenges and saw improved overall productivity and performance, according to the study. Quantified benefits included faster time to market for analytics insights, improved operational efficiency in model building and testing, and cost savings from retiring on-premises analytics infrastructure. With a strong three-year, risk-adjusted total present value of these benefitsalongside numerous unquantified benefits, the investment plays a key role in improved organizational decisionmaking and overall success according to customers.

“Many organizations today experience a multitude of friction points on their path from data to decisions. Our strategic partnership with Microsoft aims to simplify this process to improve trusted decisions and accelerate innovation,” said Jay Upchurch, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at SAS. “This study shows we are jointly delivering on our promise and providing immense value to our customers, including cost reduction, increased time to value and improved productivity for data scientists and analysts across industries.”

Since SAS and Microsoft announced a strategic partnership in 2020, the companies have continued finding new ways to serve joint customers’ cloud migration and modernization needs.

• From harnessing streaming IoT data and advanced analytics to help maintain COVID-19 vaccine integrity to providing fast, personalized customer service based on real-time analytics,joint customers are addressing their most complex challenges with SAS Viya on Azure.
• The companies have also launched newindustry-specific solutions,like SAS Cloud for Intelligent Planning as apart of the Microsoft Cloudfor Retail, and SAS for ImprovedManufacturing Qualityfor the MicrosoftCloud for Manufacturing. These powerful solutions help industry leaders remain resilient among today’s rapidly shifting markets.
• New SAS Viya on Azure integrationsincludeSAS Event Stream Processing, Azure IoT Edge and Azure IoT Hub to act on real-time insights; SAS Intelligent Decisioning with Power Automate to empower enterprise decisioning; and SAS Model Manager with Azure Machine Learning to remove barriers organizations face as they put more AI models into production.

Thesecontinued benefits of the partnership were also highlighted by the TEI study intervieweeswho shared positive feedback about feature integrations, including SAS Model Manager and Azure Machine Learning, SAS Intelligent Decisioning and Power Apps and Power Automate, and the ability to score models in-database in Azure Synapse Analytics.

“SAS Viya on Azure gives customers better insights with less time, cost and complexity to help accelerate time to value,” said Alvaro Celis, Vice President of Global ISV Commercial Solutions at Microsoft. “This enables Azure customers to address their most critical analytics challenges to drive innovation.”

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