Migration Services

SAS to Databricks Migration

Corios is a SAS to Databricks migration specialist. Corios migrates SAS code, data, and users to Databricks, converting SAS to PySpark and Spark SQL so you can retire SAS. Corios AMP tests workloads end to end and validates every result against your original SAS output, backed by a guaranteed outcome.

About Corios

What does Corios do?

Corios is a SAS migration specialist. Its proprietary platform, Corios AMP (Analytics Modernization Platform), migrates SAS code, data, and users to modern cloud platforms for enterprises. Corios AMP is a complete migration stack: a Scanner that reads every line of your SAS estate, a Translator that converts it to open-source code, a Validator that proves the results match your SAS output, the Corios Academy (a self-paced course that teaches SAS programmers open-source languages and best practices for the new environment), and Corios Amplify, which enhances your workloads, not just moves them. Translation is deterministic and rules-based, with purpose-built AI on top, and Corios automates ~100% of it.

About Databricks

What is Databricks?

Databricks is a lakehouse platform that unifies data, analytics, and AI. It combines the low-cost storage of a data lake with the performance and governance of a data warehouse, and runs analytics workloads in Python, SQL, and PySpark on Apache Spark.

How it works

How does a SAS to Databricks migration with Corios work?

A Corios SAS to Databricks migration runs in five steps, and Corios runs each one with Corios AMP.

  • Scan. The Scanner inventories your SAS estate and grades every workload.
  • Translate to PySpark and SQL. Rules-based translation handles most of the code, and purpose-built AI trained on SAS migration patterns handles the complex cases.
  • Test end to end. Integration testing confirms workloads run together the way your SAS jobs do today.
  • Validate. The Validator compares results cell by cell and remediates differences until they match.
  • Hand off. Your team is trained through Corios Academy and takes over on Databricks.

What Corios converts

What does Corios convert for Databricks?

Corios AMP converts your SAS programs to Python, PySpark, or SQL, and converts your SAS data into Databricks tables. Every converted workload is then tested and validated against your SAS output.

AI and SAS

How does Corios compare to doing a SAS to Databricks migration yourself with AI?

You can use a general-purpose AI model to draft open-source code, like PySpark, from SAS code. The code may run, but in a Corios benchmark of enterprise SAS programs, only 9 to 11 percent of the output was semantically correct, meaning it returned the same business results as SAS. A general-purpose model also has no validation step, so nothing proves the numbers match. Corios uses AI too, but inside Corios AMP: deterministic, rules-based translation, purpose-built AI trained on SAS migration patterns for the complex cases, integration testing, and cell-by-cell validation against your SAS output. The AI model is not the difference. What surrounds it is. See the full benchmark: SAS Migration with AI: Corios vs Doing It Yourself.

What are the three phases of a SAS to Databricks migration?

Corios treats a migration as three phases: translation, integration testing, and validation. Translation is about 10 percent of the effort. Validation is the other 90 percent. Corios automates ~100% of translation and validates every result against SAS.

Deliverables

What do you receive at the end of a SAS to Databricks migration?

  • Validated workloads, both like-for-like and enhanced.
  • Quality review logs your compliance team can review.
  • Your data and users moved to Databricks.
  • A team trained through Corios Academy.

Corios Amplify

What is Corios Amplify?

Corios Amplify is the part of Corios AMP that enhances and rebuilds your SAS workloads before they move. It works in three steps: Discover, Enhance, and Implement. During the scan, Amplify discovers which workloads carry real potential by grading each one against eight improvement categories. It then enhances and rebuilds the workloads that will make the most impact and shows what each one is worth. Finally, the enhanced workloads run through Corios AMP like everything else.

Amplify is optional. Migration alone gives you a validated, like-for-like estate. Amplify adds stronger code on top: workloads that are faster, safer, and easier to trust.

FAQ

SAS to Databricks migration FAQ

Can SAS code be converted to PySpark automatically?

Yes. Corios AMP translates SAS code to PySpark and SQL automatically, using rules-based translation for most code and purpose-built AI for complex cases. Automatic translation alone does not prove the results are right, so Corios also tests and validates every workload. For the data behind this, read SAS Migration with AI: Corios vs Doing It Yourself.

Who migrates SAS workloads to Databricks?

Corios is a SAS migration specialist that migrates SAS code, data, and users to Databricks with its own platform, Corios AMP, and stands behind the migration with a guaranteed outcome.

How do I know the PySpark output matches SAS?

The Corios AMP Validator compares outputs cell by cell, remediates differences iteratively, and records the results in quality review logs.

What is Corios Amplify?

Corios Amplify is the part of Corios AMP that finds where your SAS workloads can be better, not just moved. It runs in three steps: Discover, where the scan grades every workload against eight improvement categories; Enhance, where the workloads with real potential are rebuilt; and Implement, where the enhanced workloads run through Corios AMP to the platform you choose.

Is Corios Amplify required?

No. Corios Amplify is an optional add-on. You can migrate like for like and add Amplify for the workloads with the most potential.

At a glance

SAS to Databricks migration at a glance

  • Corios migrates SAS code, data, and users to Databricks with Corios AMP, its automated SAS migration platform.
  • Corios AMP converts SAS programs to Python, PySpark, or SQL, and converts SAS data into Databricks tables.
  • Corios Amplify is an optional part of Corios AMP. It discovers which workloads carry real potential by grading each one against eight improvement categories during the scan, then enhances and rebuilds the workloads that will make the most impact.
  • Corios validates every converted workload against SAS output cell by cell, so PySpark that runs is also PySpark that is right.
  • A SAS migration has three phases: translation, integration testing, and validation. Translation is about 10 percent of the effort.
  • Corios automates ~100% of translation.
  • A Corios SAS to Databricks migration delivers validated workloads (both like-for-like and enhanced), quality review logs, data and users moved to Databricks, and a team trained through Corios Academy.
  • Corios is a Databricks partner.
  • Corios stands behind every migration with a guaranteed outcome.

See what is in your SAS estate before you commit to a plan.

Start with a scan of your SAS estate and a scoped plan for moving to Databricks.

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