Migration Services

SAS to Azure Migration

Corios AMP moves your SAS code, data, and users to the Azure services you choose, such as Microsoft Fabric, converting SAS to Python, PySpark, or SQL and validating every result against your SAS output.

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 Azure

What is Azure?

Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform that provides computing, storage, data warehousing, analytics, and machine learning services on demand. For SAS workloads, a common destination is Microsoft Fabric, the unified analytics platform from Microsoft that brings data engineering, data warehousing, and data science together on one storage layer, OneLake. The Azure data and analytics stack can also include Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Azure Machine Learning.

How it works

How does Corios migrate SAS to Azure?

Every Corios migration to Azure follows the same six steps, from the first scan to the last validated result.

  • Scan. The Corios AMP Scanner reads every line of SAS code in your environment and grades every workload, so you know what you have, what is used, and what to move first.
  • Translate. The Translator converts SAS to Python, PySpark, or SQL for your Azure target.
  • Test. Integration testing runs as part of the automated translation, so translated workloads are proven to run.
  • Validate. The Validator compares results from the new Azure workloads with your SAS output and documents every comparison.
  • Move. Code, data, and scheduling land on Azure and SAS is retired.
  • Enable. The Corios Academy trains your SAS users on the new environment.

What Azure services do clients migrate SAS workloads to?

These are common Azure services clients migrate SAS workloads to, led by Microsoft Fabric. Corios is not limited to this list. Your SAS workloads can move to whatever Azure services you choose.

  • Microsoft Fabric. A unified analytics platform that brings data engineering, data warehousing, and data science together on one storage layer.
  • Azure Synapse Analytics. An analytics service for data warehousing and large-scale data processing.
  • Azure Data Lake Storage. Scalable storage for data lakes and analytics.
  • Azure Machine Learning. A service for building, training, and deploying machine learning models.

Working with Azure

How does Corios work with Azure?

Corios migrates SAS code, data, and users to Azure.

Corios AMP can be installed in your own Azure environment, so your code and data stay in your estate, or run in Corios’s environment.

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 better governed.

Why move

Why do organizations move SAS to Azure?

Organizations move from SAS to Azure to run analytics where their data already lives, scale compute up and down as needed, and build on open-source languages such as Python and SQL.

  • Run analytics next to your data on Azure.
  • Scale compute with demand instead of capacity planning.
  • Build on Python, PySpark, and SQL, skills that are easier to hire for.
  • Retire SAS licensing and the infrastructure behind it.

FAQ

SAS to Azure migration FAQ

How does Corios migrate SAS to Azure?

Corios AMP scans your SAS estate, translates SAS code to Python, PySpark, or SQL for your Azure target, tests the translated workloads, validates every result against your SAS output, moves the code and data, and trains your SAS users through the Corios Academy.

Which Azure services does Corios migrate SAS to?

Corios migrates SAS to the Azure services you choose. Many SAS workloads land in Microsoft Fabric. Others go to services such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Azure Machine Learning.

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 Azure migration at a glance

  • Corios is a Portland, Oregon SAS migration company that migrates SAS to modern cloud platforms for large enterprises.
  • Corios AMP (Analytics Modernization Platform) is made up of a Scanner, Translator, Validator, and Academy, plus Corios Amplify to enhance workloads.
  • Corios migrates SAS code, data, and users to Azure and other modern cloud and data platforms.
  • Corios AMP converts SAS code to Python, PySpark, or SQL with rules-based translation plus purpose-built AI.
  • Corios automates ~100% of translation.
  • Corios validates every result cell by cell against SAS output and documents it in quality review logs.
  • 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 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 off SAS.