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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.”
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. “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  this 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  on Thursday, Feb. 11. A SAS Viya powers a COVID dashboard that helps save lives in India
Other SAS Viya users are pushing the boundaries of innovation through analytics. For example, the Government of Odisha, an eastern India state on the Bay of Bengal, uses an advanced analytics and visualization platform powered by SAS Viya to better understand and control the effects of the COVID pandemic on its 46 million residents. Odisha’s citizens and government officials proactively use the  Odisha State COVID-19 dashboard  as the single, trusted source for tracking trends in infection rates, hospitalizations and available medical resources. Using this platform, high volumes of data around citizen registrations, contact tracing, health conditions and quarantine compliance are aggregated, transformed and processed to generate insights. In addition to rich visualizations, this data has been successfully used in forecasting peak infection times and modelling the optimal infrastructure augmentation and distribution by the State. In essence, the dashboard has enabled Odisha to stay ahead of the virus and save lives. COPD Foundation uses SAS Viya to make a difference to members facing the pandemic
When the COVID pandemic ramped up, the 320 million people suffering with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) felt more vulnerable than ever. But SAS Viya and its built-in artificial intelligence (AI) strengths helped the  COPD Foundation  explore unstructured data, identify patterns and create meaningful reports for its members. Collectively, this allowed the organization to pinpoint topics that were the most concerning for members – access to oxygen, medicine, jobs and pulmonary rehabilitation services. It made the foundation’s support and outreach more relevant in the early days of COVID when members needed it most. University College Dublin helps save babies and mothers with help from SAS Viya
Pre-eclampsia is a serious complication of pregnancy affecting one-tenth of pregnancies worldwide. It results in the death of 50,000 women and 500,000 babies annually. Researchers from Ireland’s University College Dublin (UCD) together with its AI Healthcare Hub are developing a tool that helps clinicians diagnose and better manage patients to save the lives of mothers and their babies. SAS Viya provides all the needed components to seamlessly navigate the analytics lifecycle so UCD researchers can interactively explore data and build and deploy analytic models within one unified environment. Boemska acquisition makes cloud-native SAS Viya more portable and scalable 
SAS’ January 2021  acquisition  of Boemska, a UK-based analytic workload management company, enriches the SAS Viya platform with capabilities that accelerate cloud migration. Boemska’s offerings boost the portability of SAS Viya and open-source models for mobile and enterprise applications. They also ease the development and execution of models and decisions that depend on low-code and no-code technologies for tasks such as fraud detection, medical event decisions and manufacturing-defect identification. Boemska also offers enterprise workload management tools that optimize cloud migrations. SAS collaborates with SingleStore to help customers view data holistically in the cloud
SAS and database company SingleStore created a  strategic relationship  in late 2020 to improve performance, reduce costs, and help customers with analytics and decisioning capabilities in the cloud. The relationship with SingleStore means SAS customers will more easily gain real-time insights from data residing in any cloud environment. Related

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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.”
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. “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 this 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 on Thursday, Feb. 11. A SAS Viya powers a COVID dashboard that helps save lives in India
Other SAS Viya users are pushing the boundaries of innovation through analytics. For example, the Government of Odisha, an eastern India state on the Bay of Bengal, uses an advanced analytics and visualization platform powered by SAS Viya to better understand and control the effects of the COVID pandemic on its 46 million residents. Odisha’s citizens and government officials proactively use the Odisha State COVID-19 dashboard as the single, trusted source for tracking trends in infection rates, hospitalizations and available medical resources. Using this platform, high volumes of data around citizen registrations, contact tracing, health conditions and quarantine compliance are aggregated, transformed and processed to generate insights. In addition to rich visualizations, this data has been successfully used in forecasting peak infection times and modelling the optimal infrastructure augmentation and distribution by the State. In essence, the dashboard has enabled Odisha to stay ahead of the virus and save lives. COPD Foundation uses SAS Viya to make a difference to members facing the pandemic
When the COVID pandemic ramped up, the 320 million people suffering with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) felt more vulnerable than ever. But SAS Viya and its built-in artificial intelligence (AI) strengths helped the COPD Foundation explore unstructured data, identify patterns and create meaningful reports for its members. Collectively, this allowed the organization to pinpoint topics that were the most concerning for members – access to oxygen, medicine, jobs and pulmonary rehabilitation services. It made the foundation’s support and outreach more relevant in the early days of COVID when members needed it most. University College Dublin helps save babies and mothers with help from SAS Viya
Pre-eclampsia is a serious complication of pregnancy affecting one-tenth of pregnancies worldwide. It results in the death of 50,000 women and 500,000 babies annually. Researchers from Ireland’s University College Dublin (UCD) together with its AI Healthcare Hub are developing a tool that helps clinicians diagnose and better manage patients to save the lives of mothers and their babies. SAS Viya provides all the needed components to seamlessly navigate the analytics lifecycle so UCD researchers can interactively explore data and build and deploy analytic models within one unified environment. Boemska acquisition makes cloud-native SAS Viya more portable and scalable 
SAS’ January 2021 acquisition  of Boemska, a UK-based analytic workload management company, enriches the SAS Viya platform with capabilities that accelerate cloud migration. Boemska’s offerings boost the portability of SAS Viya and open-source models for mobile and enterprise applications. They also ease the development and execution of models and decisions that depend on low-code and no-code technologies for tasks such as fraud detection, medical event decisions and manufacturing-defect identification. Boemska also offers enterprise workload management tools that optimize cloud migrations. SAS collaborates with SingleStore to help customers view data holistically in the cloud
SAS and database company SingleStore created a strategic relationship in late 2020 to improve performance, reduce costs, and help customers with analytics and decisioning capabilities in the cloud. The relationship with SingleStore means SAS customers will more easily gain real-time insights from data residing in any cloud environment.

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CARY, N.C., Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- 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. Organizations across the globe - in government, patient advocacy and medical research – are using SAS to transform data into better decisions, allocate scare resources and ultimately save lives. "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." 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. "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  on Thursday, Feb. 11. A SAS Viya powers a COVID dashboard that helps save lives in India
Other SAS Viya users are pushing the boundaries of innovation through analytics. For example, the Government of Odisha, an eastern India state on the Bay of Bengal, uses an advanced analytics and visualization platform powered by SAS Viya to better understand and control the effects of the COVID pandemic on its 46 million residents. Odisha's citizens and government officials proactively use the Odisha State COVID-19 dashboard  as the single, trusted source for tracking trends in infection rates, hospitalizations and available medical resources. Using this platform, high volumes of data around citizen registrations, contact tracing, health conditions and quarantine compliance are aggregated, transformed and processed to generate insights. In addition to rich visualizations, this data has been successfully used in forecasting peak infection times and modelling the optimal infrastructure augmentation and distribution by the State. In essence, the dashboard has enabled Odisha to stay ahead of the virus and save lives. COPD Foundation uses SAS Viya to make a difference to members facing the pandemic
When the COVID pandemic ramped up, the 320 million people suffering with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) felt more vulnerable than ever. But SAS Viya and its built-in artificial intelligence (AI) strengths helped the COPD Foundation  explore unstructured data, identify patterns and create meaningful reports for its members. Collectively, this allowed the organization to pinpoint topics that were the most concerning for members – access to oxygen, medicine, jobs and pulmonary rehabilitation services. It made the foundation's support and outreach more relevant in the early days of COVID when members needed it most. University College Dublin helps save babies and mothers with help from SAS Viya
Pre-eclampsia is a serious complication of pregnancy affecting one-tenth of pregnancies worldwide. It results in the death of 50,000 women and 500,000 babies annually. Researchers from Ireland's University College Dublin (UCD) together with its AI Healthcare Hub are developing a tool that helps clinicians diagnose and better manage patients to save the lives of mothers and their babies. SAS Viya provides all the needed components to seamlessly navigate the analytics lifecycle so UCD researchers can interactively explore data and build and deploy analytic models within one unified environment. Boemska acquisition makes cloud-native SAS Viya more portable and scalable 
SAS' January 2021 acquisition  of Boemska, a UK-based analytic workload management company, enriches the SAS Viya platform with capabilities that accelerate cloud migration. Boemska's offerings boost the portability of SAS Viya and open-source models for mobile and enterprise applications. They also ease the development and execution of models and decisions that depend on low-code and no-code technologies for tasks such as fraud detection, medical event decisions and manufacturing-defect identification. Boemska also offers enterprise workload management tools that optimize cloud migrations. SAS collaborates with SingleStore to help customers view data holistically in the cloud
SAS and database company SingleStore created a strategic relationship  in late 2020 to improve performance, reduce costs, and help customers with analytics and decisioning capabilities in the cloud. The relationship with SingleStore means SAS customers will more easily gain real-time insights from data residing in any cloud environment. SAS Viya is an AI, analytic and data management platform that runs on a modern, scalable architecture. It is cloud-native software, designed to be delivered and updated continuously and bring the power of analytics to everyone, everywhere. SAS Viya integrates the art of decision making with the science of AI and advanced analytics, helping organizations to make better decisions, faster. SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative software and services, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright © 2021 SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. Editorial Contact:

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Karanovic & Partners, working with global lead counsel K&L Gates, has advised analytics company SAS Institute Inc on the acquisition of the Boemska technology company. According to Karanovic & Partners, “Boemska is a privately held technology company specializing in low-code/no-code application deployment and analytic workload management for the SAS platform.”
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SAS Viya 4, the next version of the analytics firm’s cloud platform, is already “breaking down” walls within organizations seeking to take advantage of collected data, according to Jonathan Wexler. “It’s not the traditional SAS experience,” the senior manager of decision product management at SAS told IT World Canada shortly after SAS announced the acquisition of U.K channel partner Boemska. Long-gone are the lengthy contract negotiations and license renewals, Wexler noted, and instead, customers are opting for cloud-native platforms that can run on-prem or as-a-Service. Playing nice with others is also par for the course these days, so customers need these platforms to embed themselves in other applications. That’s what Viya 4 is all about, and Boemska is destined to merge with it, he said. “Their technology will be integrated fully into the Viya experience,” Wexler explained. Boemska will provide upgraded, cloud-native SAS application portability for mobile and enterprise applications, a new workload management tool and deployment using low/no-code features. Viya’s potential uses in wearable devices and the Industrial Internet of Things is also significant. A customer could embed the software in cameras and factory floor sensors to detect defects. Equipment in hospitals and other non-enterprise environments could also benefit. Wexler pointed out how the Microsoft Power Platform (including Power BI) are often found in the environments that SAS is seeking to penetrate. That’s a big reason why SAS made Microsoft Azure the preferred cloud platform for its analytics portfolio. “And our focus isn’t just Microsoft. We have plans for the near future to support other cloud providers,” he said. Building on partnerships
SAS has deep partnerships with Canadian organizations such as Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and large financial institutions. CAMH has been licensing SAS for several years, using the platform to make sense of the copious amounts of data amassed since turning to an electronic health records system in 2014. With SAS Office Analytics running in the background, CAMH secured funding for 23 acute care beds thanks to a detailed examination of demographics, trends, and bed counts – data that was quietly sitting under their noses for years. In case you missed it:
Examples like CAMH help the rest of the market become less fearful of analytics software, which is what SAS is hoping to achieve on a mass scale, Wexler explains. “You always had to be a programmer or data scientist to approach analytics,” he said. “We’re finding it’s becoming more approachable.”
Channel partners are a big part of that process, Wexler added. Partners have strong relationships with risk-averse organizations and can effectively craft a real business case for analytics capabilities. “Partners are playing a big role in our marketplace. We want SAS to become part of those apps.”
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On January 7th, 2021, Boemska was acquired by SAS. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Valuation	$99M
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First funding	1/7/2021
Last Funding	1/7/2021
Investor	SAS
Rounds	1 Acquired
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Location	North Carolina

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