AEG Sports uses advanced analytics to adapt to fan needs during COVID-19

Team uses SAS Viya on Microsoft Azure to improve fan experience during turbulent times and plan for the ‘new normal’ of spectator sports

VIRTUAL SAS GLOBAL FORUM 2021 - In the spring of 2020, as COVID-19 spread across the world, live entertainment and spectator sports were brought to a screeching halt. With stadiums shuttered, sports teams had to find new ways to engage with fans. Thankfully AEG Sports, which includes storied franchises like the LA Kings, the LA Galaxy and the Ontario Reign, was already an analytically savvy organization adept at using data to make informed business decisions. Using AI-powered SAS® Viya® on Microsoft Azure, AEG Sports was able to anticipate the needs of its fans and keep engagement high even amid a pandemic.

SAS AI-powered chatbot boosts fraud victim support

With the conversational AI of SAS Viya, the Identity Theft Resource Center can quickly help fraud victims

VIRTUAL SAS GLOBAL FORUM 2021 - Facing increased demand for real-time and personalized digital experiences, organizations are turning to virtual assistants and chatbots to engage with consumers in new ways, at any hour. SAS, the global analytics leader, has partnered with the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) to develop a customized virtual assistant to help fraud victims. The virtual assistant is built with SAS® Viya®.

SAS honors global partners empowering customer innovation

SAS Partners of the Year help customers uncover hidden value, improve decisions and drive digital transformations

VIRTUAL SAS GLOBAL FORUM 2021 - To successfully adapt and reinvent business decisions amid the uncertainty of the past year, organizations have leaned on support from their partner ecosystems. Together, SAS and its vibrant SAS Partner community have collaborated to find new answers to customers’ toughest challenges and support efforts to drive innovation and digital transformation. In honor of this, SAS proudly recognizes the 2021 global partner award recipients for their outstanding collaboration and contributions.

“A robust partner community serves as a force multiplier, helping to strengthen connections and explore new opportunities around the globe,” said Helen Morin, SAS Vice President of Global Alliances and Channels. “SAS is constantly innovating with our partner ecosystem of global systems integrators, regional partners and technology partners to drive business outcomes and improve decisioning for our customers. We congratulate all of our 2021 award winners and look forward to continued partnership with them on initiatives that help transform the world.”

SAS expands support for additional cloud providers

Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud join growing list

VIRTUAL SAS GLOBAL FORUM 2021 - SAS continues its commitment to ensuring advanced analytics run where customers locate their data. As part of its strategic partnership with Microsoft, SAS Viya was released in November on Microsoft Azure. Raising the bar, SAS now expands cloud-native support for Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, with Red Hat OpenShift coming later this year.

SAS strives to combat deforestation, improve reef health and lower emissions

Analytics leader working with the Smithsonian and Amazon Conservation to help protect the planet

SAS’ commitment to creating a more sustainable future through social innovation is highlighted this Earth Day, as the analytics innovator works with the Amazon Conservation and the Healthy Reefs for Healthy People (HR4HP) Initiative, led by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, to help address three critical environmental issues: stopping rainforest deforestation, improving reef health, and reducing SAS’ carbon footprint. 

“As a global leader in analytics, we feel a responsibility to use our technology and our resources to find answers to the world's most pressing needs.” said Susan Ellis, Brand Director and Head of Social Innovation Programs at SAS. “But it is our employees' passion and commitment to social innovation that makes it a powerful force for change.

SAS top-ranked in three Chartis RiskTech100 categories

The analytics giant continues 15-year streak as a preeminent risk and compliance technology provider

For the 15th consecutive year, SAS has been named one of the top risk technology players in Chartis’ global RiskTech100® 2021 report. The analytics leader ranked fifth overall, and its risk management solutions won three industry categories: Risk & Finance Integration, Model Risk Management and International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS 9).

“As financial and risk sectors shift under the influence of a variety of new dynamics, SAS’ content business has remained strong in key areas, such as ALM and model governance, bolstering its strength in core risk markets,” said Phil Mackenzie, Senior Research Specialist at Chartis. “SAS’ inclusion as a top five industry player year over year since the RiskTech100’s inception is an achievement no other vendor has attained and illustrates its long-standing innovation and industry expertise.”

Chronic lung disease patients navigate COVID-19 aided by SAS analytics

Health organization’s data transformed into valuable insights to improve quality of life for COPD sufferers

More than 320 million people worldwide suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a condition causing severe chest and breathing problems. As the coronavirus pandemic quickly escalated, a collaboration with analytics leader SAS helped the COPD Foundation use its data to measure impact to this vulnerable population and develop critical resources and programs.

SAS and Access Anywhere launch outbreak management analytics solution to help companies safely return to work

SAS and Access Anywhere have announced the launch of a solution that uses advanced analytics and AI, enabling companies to manage and track the risk of employee exposure to Covid-19. The solution aims to help organizations manage their employees' safe return to work.

The outbreak management solution, termed Liberty Corporate, provides a macro view of employees’ risk status in real time in the form of a cloud-based dashboard.

The system includes an easy-to-use mobile app for corporate staff, which can be used to record location data, temperature self-check results and COVID-19 test results that will be sent to a central administration. All data captured is anonymized and privacy is a priority.

SAS’ analytics and machine learning technologies provide real-time scoring and risk assessment of employees in the form of a risk status dial on the mobile app, showing the likelihood of the employee having been infected over the last 21 days. The app also provides a Hotspot Map showing known high-risk locations.

SAS named a leader in multimodal predictive analytics and machine learning solutions by independent research firm

This is the 9th consecutive iteration that SAS has been in the Leaders band

SAS has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Multimodal Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning Solutions, Q3 2020. The report noted, “SAS offers strengths across the board, including exceptionally well-integrated AutoML and other guided analytics capabilities.

SAS ranked a Leader in customer analytics technologies by independent research firm

Report states that SAS provides a deep bench of capabilities to help brands deliver the next best experience

SAS, which helps craft compelling next-best experiences tailored to wherever customers are in their journeys, is named a Leader in the Wave for SAS® Customer Intelligence 360, earning the highest score of all vendors in the strategy category.

SAS debuts tools to gauge risks and impacts of reopening

How will reopening affect your area? New tools enable health systems, communities to protect at-risk individuals and forecast outbreak impacts

As nations loosen stay-at-home orders and businesses reopen, protecting vulnerable populations and the public at large from the COVID-19 virus is paramount. To help fuel better decisions, analytics leader SAS debuts new tools to empower providers, data scientists and citizens alike – free for public use. The applications democratize powerful analytics to boost preparedness and mitigation efforts with real-time pandemic data.

SAS honors excellence in teaching and learning data science and analytics

Company adds new awards for HBCU and emerging educators

Through partnerships with colleges and universities around the world, SAS is building a sustainable pool of data science and analytics talent. At the virtual SAS® Global Forum 2020, the company is recognizing the educators and students who are teaching, learning and using SAS in innovative ways.

KPMG and SAS collaborate to support faster cloud transformation for SAS clients

KPMG and SAS today announced a plan to establish Cloud Acceleration Centers with specific focuses in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The organizations will work together to help accelerate the move to the Cloud for SAS clients.

As a positive response to the current challenges faced by global organizations, the goal of these centers is to help companies navigate their journey to the cloud – from design and architecture to implementation – more cost-effectively and with increased speed. The centers will be highly collaborative, tech-enabled environments that bring together multidisciplinary teams. They will look to support clients who have their own cloud environment as well as those who are employing other cloud-based managed services.

The next release of SAS Viya introduces a new category of analytics for the cloud

The upcoming release redefines how analytic decisions are made, combining the most successful AI and analytics platform with the flexibility and scale of the cloud.

SAS® Viya® 4, available in late 2020, is engineered to take advantage of the latest cloud technologies. Designed to be delivered and updated continuously, the new architecture helps bring powerful analytics to everyone, everywhere. Because SAS Viya integrates the art of decision making with the science of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics, organizations will be able to make better decisions, faster. The innovation behind this release underscores SAS’ commitment to helping organizations transform data into intelligence. This transformational release of cloud-native SAS Viya is one outcome of SAS’ $1 billion investment in AI.

SAS and Microsoft partner to further shape the future of analytics and AI

SAS’ AI and analytics more tightly integrate with Microsoft Azure; Microsoft to bring cloud-based SAS industry solutions to its customers

Microsoft Corp. and SAS today announced an extensive technology and go-to-market strategic partnership. The two companies will enable customers to easily run their SAS® workloads in the cloud, expanding their business solutions and unlocking critical value from their digital transformation initiatives. As part of the partnership, the companies will migrate SAS’ analytical products and industry solutions onto Microsoft Azure as the preferred cloud provider for the SAS Cloud. SAS’ industry solutions and expertise will also bring added value to Microsoft’s customers across health care, financial services and many other industries. This partnership builds on SAS integrations across Microsoft cloud solutions for Azure, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365 and Power Platform and supports the companies’ shared vision to further democratize AI and analytics.