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Viya’s potential uses in wearable devices and the Industrial Internet of Things is also significant. Wexler said that 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 madeMicrosoft 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.
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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.”
