Elevate your analytics with SAS in the cloud

Elevate your analytics

with

The Cloud

SAS & Cloud

CHARACTERISTICS SERVICE MODELS DEPLOYMENT

MODELS

• On-Demand Self Service

• Broad Network Access

• The base layer

• Server, Storage, Networking

• Resources on-demand

• A Layer on top of IaaS

• Create and deploy custom applications onto cloud infrastructure

• Rapid innovation through sharing and collaboration

• More popular for developers - concentrate on develop rather than management.

Service Model: Platform as a Service (PaaS)

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• A layer on top of PaaS

• End-user, on-demand access to applications running on cloud infrastructure

• User has no control over infrastructure or application capabilities

• Consumers of resources are restricted to an organization

• On or off premises

• Resources, applications and storage available to general public

• Off premises

• Multi-tenant infrastructure shared between a group of organizations

• On or off premises

• Customer Cloud

• On-premises private cloud • Virtual private cloud

• SAS Cloud (SSoD)

 Software as a Service  Enterprise Hosting

 Remote Managed Services

• Partner Cloud

• Domain-specific custom solutions • Analytics as a Service

Customer Cloud

Customer

• Deploy SAS regardless of IT topology

• Virtual Private Cloud through Public Cloud infrastructure

• Run your analytics where your data lives

• Bandwidth / Speed • Security / Risk

• Predominantly in the IaaS clouds

Wherever Your Cloud Lives

• Lenovo: Number One PC Maker in the World

• Data: Social Media, product reviews, customers forums, call center logs, online chats

• Cloud Solution (IaaS): Data warehouse in Amazon Redshift, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• SAS Solution: SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS Sentiment Analysis and Text Analytics

• Results: Strengthened customer satisfaction and stronger brand

• Others: Many many clients running 100’s of SAS

products in AWS

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• Enterprise Hosting –

• Analytics as a Service

• Hosting Expertise to build and support your environment • Customized SAS Solutions

• Delivered through SAS Cloud

• Software as a Service –

• All SAS Solutions 9.4

• Zero Hardware Footprint

• No installation, configuration, upgrade or patch management • Delivered through SAS Cloud

SAS Cloud Analytics

• 400 Companies

• 5 – 35,000 analytic users

• 3+ petabytes of storage and growing • Secure

• Regulatory compliance

SSOD TODAY

• Remote Managed Services –

• SAS manages and supports customer/partner SAS environments

• On-premises in customer data center, or on public cloud infrastructure • Ideal for customers with regulatory requirements

SAS Cloud Analytics

• A US State Department of Revenue

• Data: 1.3 million individual income tax returns.

• Receive nightly tax returns and score them to flag for potential issues.

• Results: Quick turn-around allows examiners to assess immediately

• Reduction in fraudulent refunds.

• One of the largest healthcare systems in US

• Data: 20-state network of ~9000 physicians, 55,000 employees and more than 300 care centers, hospitals, urgent care, primary care clinics, and others.

• Results: Better understand each patient and tailor care to improve health and reduce cost

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• Reason to go to cloud (modernize – h/w & s/w obsolescence, challenge for a business case to upgrade SAS, analytics critical for business)

• Key criteria (performance, accuracy, bandwidth, cost) • Next steps (run in parallel, decommission local h/w)

• Reason to go to cloud (modernize – h/w & s/w obsolescence, challenge for a business case to upgrade SAS, analytics critical for business)

• Key criteria (performance, accuracy, bandwidth, cost) • Next steps (run in parallel, decommission local h/w)

• About us:

• From the owners of Clarity - a long SAS history • Big Data and Visual Analytics specialty

• Our Platform:

• Purpose Built Big Data Analytics Platform • Designed in New Zealand for New Zealand • Complete solution, Optimised for SAS VA & VS • Local

- data sovereignty - low latency

• Our SAS Services:

- Big data - Analytics

• SAS Managed service • Data Integration

Cloud is inevitable