Our work

Our culture has always been an integral part of who we are as a company, connecting the curious nature that gave us our start, and the spirit of innovation that moves us forward. The way we act and interact is based on trust, respect and a bold motivation to drive change.
Core R&D
- Analytics Research and Development
- SAS9
- Data Management and Platform Services
- Applied AI and Modeling (AAIM)
- Compute Division
Analytics Research and Development
The Analytics Research & Development team's mission is to contribute to developing a SAS Viya platform that offers packaged solutions for every data and analytics need and for every use case.
The Analytics Research and Development team focuses on the development of the Analytics associated part of the SAS Viya platform and helps accomplish the mission through:
- Developing SAS Visual Forecasting Software, which helps generate large numbers of trustworthy forecasts quickly and automatically using time series and machine learning techniques.
- Developing SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning software that helps solve the most complex analytical problems with a single, integrated, collaborative solution – with its own automated modeling API.
- Developing SAS procedures that help customers address their various statistical and analytical needs through simple, reliable offerings.
SAS9
SAS9 division in Pune is primarily focused on prioritising the customer issues resolution and development and release process for all the SAS Platform products. There is a focused effort on making the SAS Platform secure by adapting and supporting the industry standard security like default TLS, multi-factor authentication, FIPS compliance, etc.
- Conduct product/technology analysis to support portfolio optimization decisions to help better manage the SAS 9 Portfolio.
- Upgrading and modernizing third-party software and alliances to enhance efficiency, improve security, and ultimately protect revenue.This proactive approach not only safeguards existing revenue but can also open doors to new opportunities and growth.
- Defining and championing a premium customer experience across all touchpoints involves creating a holistic approach that ensures every interaction adds value and fosters customer loyalty.
Data Management and Platform Services
At Data Management and Platform services, we primarily focus on core technologies of SAS. We are responsible for developing building blocks for data management through product and component ownership in Unified Data Layer, Data Exploration, Data Import and Data Transformations.
- This area helps our customers to connect to the data, explore the data, and import it within SAS Viya environment and while doing data is also transformed as the need of the analysis to be conducted. We also build those data transformation as a part of our SAS Studio product.
- Primary technology that is used in data management is full stack development that primarily focuses on Go, ReactJS, JavaScript, Playwright, Python, Java, Cloud, and SAS Viya Platform.
- In the Viya4 architecture, platform services lie at the foundation level and are responsible for providing necessary services to all the products and solutions of SAS.
- Teams own many of the core services in this area as well as they contribute other non-functional requirements of SAS Viya4 software such as multitenancy, backup recovery, migration etc. This is highly technologically savvy area focusing on technologies of Kubernetes, Cloud, Go, Python, Java, SAS Viya Platform etc.
Applied AI and Modeling (AAIM)
The Applied AI and Modeling (AAIM) team focuses on developing analytics models as products across various domains, including Healthcare, Life Sciences, Banking, Fraud, IoT, Retail, CPG, and Insurance. These models leverage advanced analytics techniques such as AI, GenAI, ML, DL, and Optimization, and can be implemented in multiple programming languages like SAS, Python, and R, based on project requirements.
Additionally, the team plays a key role in presales demonstrations, consulting, and implementation, actively contributing to accelerating sales and driving business growth.
A model product will be structured with the following architecture.
- Solution-Based Models – Require integration with a specific prerequisite solution for deployment.
- Viya General Models – Can be deployed on the Viya Platform without any additional prerequisites.
- Standalone Model Packages – Operate independently and can be connected to various databases such as Snowflake, Databricks, etc.
Compute Division
At compute division, we strive to establish a leading force in developing scalable, intelligent, and innovative compute solutions, that empower SAS customers to achieve unparalleled performance, flexibility, and efficiency, enabling them to thrive today while confidently addressing the challenges of tomorrow. Across the division, we have multiple core functional areas, out of these, Pune center focuses on Cloud Analytics Services (CAS), Proc CAS, CASL, CAS Clients and Viya CAS Control Service.
There are abundant opportunities within the Compute Division for growth and extending the skillset.
- We are achieving operational efficiency, enabling groundbreaking innovation, and supporting robust workload orchestration and monitoring.
- We actively collaborate with the Open-Source community to advance platform capabilities and deliver impactful solutions creating value for both SAS customers and Open-Source contributors.
- We use wide array of technologies like C, C++, Golang, Python, SAS, Rust to build scalable software.
- We are also investing our efforts in upcoming projects that would be great value addition to SAS Viya.
Other areas supported are UI/UX, Technical Writing, DevOps and Project & Product Management.
Solutions
- SAS Risk, Fraud and Compliance Solutions
- Customer Intelligence
- Internet of Things
- Cloud and Information Services
SAS Risk, Fraud and Compliance Solutions
We play a pivotal role in Risk product development right from conceptualization to delivery and support.
- Creating a world made safe through trusted, industry-leading Risk, Fraud, and Compliance solutions.
- Accelerating customer value through timely and robust data-driven decision-making that unifies and streamlines the Risk, Fraud, and Compliance domains.
- Our products have won consistent accolades from Industry Analysts (Chartis RiskTech Rankings)
- We owe our success to our team of highly talented, cross-disciplinary Industry Professionals who share great pride and camaraderie while building world-class products for our global customer base.
- Our work spans across banking, insurance and risk platform with products for Risk Modelling, Regulatory Capital Management, Dynamic Actuarial Modelling etc.
For Fraud, AML and Security Intelligence, we also facilitate Proactive protection through advanced analytics, AI and machine learning, by taking a unified approach to fraud, compliance and security. Only security intelligence solutions from SAS deliver an essential layer of protection backed by domain expertise and the world’s best analytics.
The key highlights are:
- Fraud & Improper Payments: Safeguard your organization’s reputation and your bottom line. Stop improper payments associated with fraud, waste and abuse before they occur.
- Anti-Money Laundering/CFT Compliance: Comply with ever-changing regulations. And take a risk-based approach that increases transparency and reduces your compliance risk.
- Identity & Digital Fraud: Evaluate interactions across the entire customer life cycle to reduce the risk of identity and digital fraud.
- Public Security: Respond faster and more effectively to crime, terrorism and other security threats with a cohesive, analytics-based approach to risk and threat assessment.
Customer Intelligence
We contribute to the building of the SAAS (software as a service) solution in the Customer Intelligence Solution space. We have two offerings SAS Customer Intelligence 360 & SAS Marketing Decisioning.
- We are responsible for full product development of these solution areas solving customer problems in the targeting space and the decisioning space.
- Our portfolio for CI360 currently includes Planning, Integrations, and Technical Infrastructure work & the full product of Decisioning.
- We follow modern development practices of delivering software incrementally to our customers.
- “We Build It You Run It” is our approach and so we are on call 24*7 for our services.
- Technology stack is both on AWS and Azure and there are some exciting technologies we are constantly experimenting with, to enable our customers make better decisions.
Internet of Things
In Pune, we develop and maintain the Analytics for IoT product suite, and Energy Forecasting for Cloud. AIoT is a platform to analyze, forecast, and optimize the quality, operations, and production in a manufacturing facility. Energy Forecasting solution can be used to forecast load and generation, in traditional power setting, or renewable facilities.
- Underlying platforms are SAS Viya, and AppFactory for Cloud.
- UI is created using React library.
- We have created Java and Go based microservices.
- Advanced analytics code is written in SAS and/or Python.
- Sensor Data can be analyzed in real time using ESP engine.
Cloud and Information Services
CIS is a global organization with a mission to provide exceptional and consistent IT & Hosting services to our SAS employees and customers. The CIS Pune is organized and staffed to mirror CIS’s global service structure which includes SAS Cloud (Our Managed Application Services), IaaS, Information Security, Enterprise Technologies, and Employee Technologies.
- CIS has built a new 24x7x365 Global Operations Center in Pune to centralize the delivery of operational support to our internal and external customers.
- The new operations center will focus on proactive monitoring and management of our Managed Application Services for our global SAS customers in addition to reactive incident and event management.
- CIS Pune team is growing rapidly as we continue to look for curious minds, who thrive in a rapidly changing, fast growing, collaborative environment.
Advisory Team
To support all these functions and ensure that our techies have a seamless time creating and innovating ways to contribute to the sustainable development of our products and services, we have a strong team of advisory comprising of Human Resources, Finance, IT and Corporate Services.
Leadership Team
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Kiran Chitale
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Priya Raina Iyer
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Rajesh Khanwelkar
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Dinesh Kala
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Suhas Shingare
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Akash Vaid
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Prasad Kulkarni
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Vijay Chougule
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John George