SAS Viya analytics suite now available on Azure Marketplace

With enterprise customers unwilling to commit to huge expenses since of the unstable financial system, SAS on Tuesday mentioned that it is creating its Viya analytics suite out there on Microsoft’s Azure Market to aid enterprise consumers obtain all capabilities of the suite in a pay-as-you-go product.

“The availability of Viya on the Azure Market gives enterprises the choice to operate the suite with a single simply click and in a shell out-as-you-go model. These selections make for a great way to beat any headwinds around economic uncertainty in the upcoming,” said SAS CIO Jay Upchurch.

Yet another motive to place Viya on the market, in accordance to SAS, is the increasing development amid enterprises to obtain application from marketplaces alternatively than from sellers.

A current report from software program market G2 pointed to adjustments in the software program acquiring method and claimed that 1 component driving the acceptance of program marketplaces was the presence of peer opinions in their person interface.  

Viya, as aspect of the Azure Marketplace, will contain an in-app finding out middle to enable help onboarding, SAS mentioned. Other Viya factors will include things like SAS programs these kinds of as Visual Analytics, Visual Data, Visible Info Mining and Machine Learning, Design Manager, Studio Analyst, Data Governance, Econometrics and Optimization.

Pricing will be based on computing methods made use of, SAS reported.

Continued partnership with Microsoft

SAS said its launch of Viya on the Azure Market is an extension of the strategic partnership it declared with Microsoft in June 2020. That partnership, developed on SAS integrations throughout Microsoft cloud options for Azure, was intended to allow enterprises to migrate their analytical workloads to the cloud, with Azure as SAS’ most popular cloud supplier.

But that choice is not exclusive. Upchurch said Viya will be built readily available on other marketplaces in the potential.

On the other hand, enterprises may well want Azure over AWS and Google Cloud Platform for jogging analytical workloads, mentioned Matt Aslett, vice president and analyst at Ventana Exploration.

“Our analytics and info benchmark analysis exhibits a slight choice for Microsoft Azure more than AWS, which are both equally additional well-known that Google Cloud Platform for analytics and knowledge workloads amongst our participants,” he said.

Offering Viya in a shell out-as-you-go edition on the market could also be found as an energy to draw in scaled-down shoppers in contrast to its present-day client base of substantial banking companies, insurance coverage firms, and pharmaceutical and health care firms, reported Doug Henschen, principal analyst at Constellation Investigate.

“Every enterprise would like and wants to entice new shoppers, and this is a apparent work by SAS to make it easier for consumers to get started modest with anything they can deploy on their own, that’s delivered as a assistance and that they can pay out as aspect of their cloud account,” Henschen mentioned.

In the professional software program current market, SAS rivals include Alteryx, Amazon (with SageMaker), Dataiku, Domino Facts Labs, Google (with Vertex), H2O.ai, Knime, RapidMiner and TIBCO, explained Henschen.

“Microsoft also provides co-opetition with both Azure Databricks and Azure ML. An additional sort of competitiveness arrives from open-source equipment and information science libraries delivered by the likes of Anaconda,” Henschen included.