Corios AMP

SAS Migration Services

Corios is a SAS migration company. Corios moves your SAS code, data, and users to Snowflake, Databricks, Dataiku, and AWS with Corios AMP, converting SAS code to Python, PySpark, or SQL, and retiring SAS on the cloud platform you choose. Corios Amplify can also enhance and rebuild the workloads that will make the most impact before they move.

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.

Corios is based in Portland, Oregon, and was founded in 2011. Our team brings more than 200 years of combined SAS experience to every SAS migration engagement.

What you get

What do Corios SAS migration services include?

Every Corios engagement covers the full migration, from the first scan to the last validated result.

  • Scan. The Corios AMP Scanner inventories your SAS estate and grades every workload, including against eight improvement categories, so you know what you have and what is worth enhancing before you commit to a plan.
  • Translate SAS code to Python, PySpark, or SQL. The Translator uses rules-based, deterministic translation for the majority of your code and purpose-built AI trained on SAS migration patterns for the complex cases.
  • Test. Integration testing confirms that translated workloads run together, in sequence, the way your SAS jobs run today.
  • Validate. The Validator compares results between SAS and the new platform cell by cell, then remediates differences iteratively until the outputs match.
  • Move. Your SAS datasets and your users move to the new platform alongside the code.
  • Enable. Corios Academy is a self-paced online course built for SAS programmers to learn open-source languages such as Python, PySpark, and SQL using the knowledge they already have. It includes guidebooks, PowerPoints, videos, and quizzes, and runs about 60 hours.
  • Enhance (optional). Corios Amplify grades every workload during the scan, enhances and rebuilds the workloads that will make the most impact, then runs them through Corios AMP to migrate them.

What are the three phases of a SAS migration?

Every SAS migration has three phases: translation, integration testing, and validation. Most teams plan around translation. That is the mistake. Translation feels like 80 percent of the work. It is closer to 10 percent. Validation is the other 90 percent. Corios automates ~100% of translation and validates every result against SAS.

AI and SAS

Why is general-purpose AI not a SAS migration strategy?

Many teams try pointing a general-purpose AI model at their SAS code. In Corios testing on enterprise SAS programs, the AI translated most of the code, but only 9 to 11 percent of the results were semantically correct.

The AI model is not the difference. What surrounds it is: deterministic rules, integration testing, validation, and SAS expertise. How you use AI matters more than which AI you use. See the full benchmark: Corios vs DIY AI.

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.

Why Corios

Why do enterprises choose Corios?

  • SAS is all we do. Migration and modernization is the whole business, not a side practice.
  • One accountable party. The platform and the people who run it come from Corios, and the outcome is guaranteed.
  • Evidence you can audit. Quality review logs document what was changed and validated.
  • Security you can verify. Corios holds an independent SOC 2 Type 2 report, with its 2026 audit under way, and has passed the AWS Foundational Technical Review.
  • Works with your platform partner. Corios is a partner of Snowflake, Databricks, Dataiku, and AWS, and works alongside the teams you already know.

FAQ

SAS migration services FAQ

What is SAS migration?

SAS migration is the process of moving SAS code, data, and users to a different analytics platform, typically open-source languages such as Python and PySpark running on a cloud data platform like Snowflake or Databricks.

How do I migrate SAS to the cloud?

Scan your SAS estate, convert the code, test workloads together, validate every result against SAS, move your data and users, then retire SAS. Corios runs each step with Corios AMP.

How long does a SAS migration take?

It depends on the size of your SAS estate. The Corios scan inventories your estate and produces a scoped plan and proposal. When enterprises use AI alone to attempt SAS migration, it takes developers, on average, 6 to 9 months or more to fix issues caused by AI and then validate the translated workloads. Corios does it in 10 to 30 percent of the time.

Do I have to rewrite my SAS code by hand?

No. The Corios AMP Translator converts your SAS code automatically, and the Validator confirms the results match your SAS output.

Why are companies moving off SAS?

Common reasons include SAS license and infrastructure costs, a move to cloud data platforms, a shift to open-source languages such as Python, and the difficulty of hiring SAS talent.

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 Migration Services at a glance

  • Corios is a Portland, Oregon SAS migration company, founded in 2011, that migrates SAS using Corios AMP.
  • Corios AMP (Analytics Modernization Platform) is the automated SAS migration platform Corios built, made up of a Scanner, Translator, Validator, and Academy, plus Corios Amplify to enhance workloads.
  • 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 migrates SAS code, data, and users to modern platforms, such as Snowflake, Databricks, Dataiku, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
  • Corios AMP converts SAS code to Python, PySpark, or SQL with rules-based translation plus purpose-built AI trained on SAS migration patterns.
  • A SAS migration has three phases: translation, integration testing, and validation. Translation is about 10 percent of the effort.
  • Corios automates ~100% of translation.
  • Corios validates every result cell by cell against SAS output and documents it in quality review logs.
  • Corios stands behind every migration with a guaranteed outcome.
  • Corios holds an independent SOC 2 Type 2 report, with its 2026 audit under way, and has passed the AWS Foundational Technical Review.

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.

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