With enterprise prospects unwilling to decide to large expenditures due to the unstable economic system, SAS on Tuesday stated that it’s making its Viya analytics suite out there on Microsoft’s Azure Market to assist enterprise customers entry all options of the suite in a pay-as-you-go mannequin.
“The supply of Viya on the Azure Market provides enterprises the choice to run the suite with a single click on and in a pay-as-you-go mannequin. These choices make for an ideal solution to fight any headwinds round financial uncertainty sooner or later,” stated SAS CIO Jay Upchurch.
One more reason to place Viya on {the marketplace}, in line with SAS, is the rising development amongst enterprises to purchase software program from marketplaces slightly than from distributors.
A current report from software program market G2 pointed to adjustments within the software program shopping for course of and claimed that one issue driving the recognition of software program marketplaces was the presence of peer opinions of their consumer interface.
Viya, as a part of the Azure Market, will embrace an in-app studying heart to assist help onboarding, SAS stated. Different Viya elements will embrace SAS functions equivalent to Visible Analytics, Visible Statistics, Visible Knowledge Mining and Machine Studying, Mannequin Supervisor, Studio Analyst, Data Governance, Econometrics and Optimization.
Pricing will likely be primarily based on computing assets used, SAS stated.
Continued partnership with Microsoft
SAS stated its launch of Viya on the Azure Market is an extension of the strategic partnership it introduced with Microsoft in June 2020. That partnership, constructed on SAS integrations throughout Microsoft cloud options for Azure, was supposed to allow enterprises emigrate their analytical workloads to the cloud, with Azure as SAS’ most well-liked cloud supplier.
However that desire shouldn’t be unique. Upchurch stated Viya will likely be made out there on different marketplaces sooner or later.
Nonetheless, enterprises could want Azure over AWS and Google Cloud Platform for operating analytical workloads, stated Matt Aslett, vp and analyst at Ventana Analysis.
“Our analytics and information benchmark analysis exhibits a slight desire for Microsoft Azure over AWS, that are each extra standard that Google Cloud Platform for analytics and information workloads amongst our contributors,” he stated.
Providing Viya in a pay-as-you-go model on {the marketplace} is also seen as an effort to draw smaller prospects in distinction to its present buyer base of huge banks, insurance coverage corporations, and pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, stated Doug Henschen, principal analyst at Constellation Analysis.
“Each firm needs and desires to draw new prospects, and this can be a clear effort by SAS to make it simpler for patrons to start out small with one thing they will deploy themselves, that’s delivered as a service and that they will pay as a part of their cloud account,” Henschen stated.
Within the business software program market, SAS rivals embrace Alteryx, Amazon (with SageMaker), Dataiku, Domino Knowledge Labs, Google (with Vertex), H2O.ai, Knime, RapidMiner and TIBCO, stated Henschen.
“Microsoft additionally presents co-opetition with each Azure Databricks and Azure ML. One other type of competitors comes from open-source instruments and information science libraries supplied by the likes of Anaconda,” Henschen added.
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