Migration Services

SAS to Snowflake Migration

Corios is a SAS to Snowflake migration specialist. Corios migrates SAS code, data, and users to Snowflake so you can retire SAS. Corios AMP scans your SAS estate, translates your programs into code that runs on Snowflake, and validates every result against your original SAS output, so your team can retire SAS without losing trust in the numbers.

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 Snowflake

What is Snowflake?

Snowflake is a cloud-native data platform that provides storage, processing, and analytics as a fully managed service. It lets organizations store and analyze large datasets on a single platform without managing infrastructure, and its architecture separates storage, compute, and services for scale and performance.

How it works

How do you migrate SAS to Snowflake?

A Corios SAS to Snowflake migration runs in six steps, and Corios runs each one with Corios AMP.

  • Scan your SAS estate. The Scanner inventories every program, macro, and dataset and grades each workload, so the plan reflects what you actually have.
  • Translate SAS code for Snowflake. The Translator converts SAS programs into Snowflake native languages, such as Snowflake SQL and Snowpark Python. 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 that translated workloads run together, in sequence, the way your SAS jobs run today.
  • Validate every result. The Validator compares Snowflake outputs against your SAS outputs cell by cell and remediates differences until they match.
  • Move your data and users. SAS data lands in Snowflake, and your analysts move onto the new environment, supported by Corios Academy training.
  • Cut over and retire SAS. With validated results in hand, you decommission SAS on your timeline.

Corios and Snowflake

How does Corios work with Snowflake?

Corios is a Snowflake partner.

Corios AMP can also run on Snowflake Cortex, so the AI work behind a migration runs on the platform you are moving to. Corios AMP performs the migration. Cortex is the engine it runs on.

Why Snowflake

Why move SAS workloads to Snowflake?

Snowflake puts analytics next to your data, scales compute when you need it, and removes SAS license cost for the workloads you move. For regulated industries, the move also means a modern, governed platform for analytics that used to live in SAS.

Why does conversion alone not finish a migration?

Conversion produces code. A migration is finished when the results match. Translation is about 10 percent of the effort, and validation is the other 90 percent. Corios automates ~100% of translation and validates every result against SAS. Workloads that land on Snowflake validated and trusted are workloads your teams keep running there.

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 Snowflake migration FAQ

How do I migrate SAS code to Snowflake?

With Corios AMP, you scan your SAS estate, translate the code to run on Snowflake, test it end to end, validate every result against SAS, and then move your data and users. Corios runs the migration for you.

Who can migrate SAS workloads to Snowflake?

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

How is migrated SAS code validated on Snowflake?

The Corios AMP Validator compares Snowflake outputs with your SAS outputs cell by cell and remediates differences iteratively. Quality review logs document the results. For the data behind this approach, read SAS Migration with AI: Corios vs Doing It Yourself.

How long does a SAS to Snowflake 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.

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 Snowflake migration at a glance

  • Corios migrates SAS code, data, and users to Snowflake with Corios AMP, its automated SAS migration platform.
  • Corios AMP converts SAS programs to Python, PySpark, SQL, and Snowflake-native languages, and loads SAS datasets into Snowflake 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 AMP can run on Snowflake Cortex. Corios AMP performs the migration, and Cortex is the engine it runs on.
  • Corios is a Snowflake partner.
  • The Corios AMP Validator compares Snowflake outputs with SAS outputs cell by cell and remediates differences until they match.
  • 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 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 Snowflake.

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