SAS has announced that its Viya artificial intelligence, analytics and data management platform is now available as a paid Microsoft Azure market option, bringing vast analytical power to everyone – and at a price. which means there’s no reason not to integrate analytics into your applications.
Alice McClure, Director of AI and Analytics at SAS, spoke with iTWire about the announcement, saying “We believe analytics should be experienced by everyone, everywhere.” Specifically, she added, “everywhere” means analytics capability must be portable and cloud-agnostic, and must provide a range of flexible consumption options.
“Experience analytics anywhere is essential for us,” McClure said, “and what we’ve launched is available to users and customers in a flexible way, including self-service and pay as you go. your needs.”
Specifically, McClure announced that SAS Viya is now available as a consumption-based, on-demand Azure Marketplace application at the near-insane price of $0.55/hour, based on vCPU clusters used.
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Forget high upfront fees, forget long lock-in contracts; SAS enables your applications to integrate with SAS’ advanced and extensive analytics portfolio for literal pennies.
The product is integrated with Azure services and applications at many levels of the stack, from ingest to staging and pipelines and beyond. It works with Azure data services such as Data Lake, Cosmos DB, SQL Server, Synapse and others, and provides integrated management. It offers flexible end-to-end AI and ML capabilities to Azure subscribers, and also provides risk-free entry into SAS for analysts, data scientists, and others interested in exploring Vita’s capabilities.
With SAS Viya on Azure Marketplace, you can apply AI to interpret patterns, monitor bias, manage patterns, enable responsible AI, troubleshoot issues with automated insights, and more — all with a support community ready to help you and using the language of your choice to discover information in seconds.
The product makes no assumptions about your prior SAS experience level and includes in-app integration with sample welcome screen templates, sample quick build videos, how-to guides and training resources and documentation.
The news reinforces the strong strategic alliance between SAS and Microsoft, following Microsoft’s announcement that SAS was its 2022 Independent Software Publishing (ISV) Global Partner of the Year.
SAS CEO Dr. Jim Goodnight said, “We are excited to offer customers a new way to access SAS Viya while continuing to provide all of the powerful features our users already know and love.” declared Goodnight. “We’ve spent decades building the most comprehensive analytics suite on the market, with next-gen AI that addresses the full analytics lifecycle. We design and test our software to be the fastest and most productive. And now we’re making it all available in just a few clicks on Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
“Our commitment to cloud and AI innovation is critical to the success of our customers, whether they are creating simple reports or developing advanced AI solutions to answer critical business questions,” said Bryan Harris. , Executive Vice President and CTO of SAS. “Making SAS Viya available to all analytics organizations is our goal, regardless of skill level, team or preferred programming language. We want Viya to be the foundation of our customers’ innovation stories.
See Alice McClure talking about it here:
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