SAS® Viya® Customer Migration Stories
Practical advice and lessons on migrating your SAS estate – from customers just like you
Thinking about migrating your SAS estate to SAS Viya? This is an excellent place for you to start. These customer stories offer valuable advice and best practices for IT and business leaders.
ALL BUSINESS UNITS
INSURANCE
Markerstudy Group
Markerstudy, a top UK managing general agent and long-standing SAS customer, modernized with SAS Viya to meet their growth targets. Learn how migrating from SAS®9 to SAS Viya 4 allowed for innovation in analytics and data management.
>Hear their story
BANKING
Shawbrook Bank
Learn about Shawbrook Bank's migration to SAS Viya 4 on Microsoft Azure. Explore model deployment, open source integration, data visualization and governance.
>Hear their story
>Learn more about Shawbrook
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Nationwide Building Society
Learn why Nationwide Building Society transitioned from SAS®9 to SAS Viya and how they employed systematic migration and testing processes for nearly 2,500 users.
>Hear their story
GOVERNMENT
Norwegian Seafood Council
Discover how the Norwegian Seafood Council migrated their entire data warehouse to SAS Viya and a cloud-based solution. Uncover different migration strategies and learn how rewriting jobs on a cloud-based platform increases value and simplifies solutions.
>Hear their story
TRANSPORTATION
Fraport
Learn about Fraport's strategic migration to SAS Viya, emphasizing their organizational evolution. Hear how they prioritize adaptability, involve senior executives and align with
industry trends for sustained success and innovation.
>Hear their story
>Learn more about Fraport
PUBLIC SECTOR
Rijkswaterstaat
Rijkswaterstaat, the Dutch government agency, modernized with SAS Viya to enhance infrastructure management. Learn how migrating from SAS®9 to SAS Viya 4 enabled predictive maintenance and real-time insights for roads and waterways.
>Read their story
MANUFACTURING
Comelit Group
Comelit Group, an international leader in the security and smart building market, modernized with SAS Viya to enhance decision making. Learn how migrating to SAS Viya 4 on Google Cloud enabled intelligent analytics and AI for business growth.
>Read their story
BANKING
National Bank of Greece
National Bank of Greece, a leading Greek financial institution, modernized with SAS Viya 4 on Microsoft Azure to enhance agility and profitability. Learn how migrating to Viya enabled advanced analytics and AI for digital transformation.
>Read their story
SERVICES
Posten Bring
Posten Bring turns to SAS Viya and SAS SpeedyStore to modernize its logistics, achieving 24/7 data access, real time insights and dramatically faster performance — enabling smarter operations, improved delivery experiences and a stronger foundation for future growth.
>Read their story
BANKING
DNB Bank
Real-Time Credit Decisions in the Cloud with DNB Bank
Learn how DNB Bank, Norway’s largest financial institution, transitioned from on-premises credit scoring to SAS Viya on Microsoft Azure. By adopting Python and SAS Container Runtime, DNB achieved scalable, compliant, and cloud-native credit decisioning.
>Hear their story
>Learn more about DNB
BANKING
Aldermore Bank
A Modernization Success Story: How One Bank’s Move to the Cloud Sparked a Culture of Innovation
Learn how Aldermore Bank transformed two disconnected SAS 9 environments into a unified SAS Viya cloud platform—eliminating data silos, accelerating analytics, empowering teams with self service capabilities, and sparking a culture of innovation.
>Hear their story
BANKING
PTSB
Boosting Model Performance and Efficiency at PTSB
PTSB highlights how migrating to SAS Viya led to a 300-hour annual time saving in model execution. The bank now focuses more on innovation and strategic initiatives, enhancing its competitive edge.
>Hear their story
BANKING / TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING
OTB Bank and Consortix
Collaborative Migration Success: OTB Bank and Consortix
This joint presentation showcases how OTB Bank partnered with Consortix to migrate to SAS Viya. The collaboration enabled seamless integration, improved data governance, and accelerated analytics capabilities.
>Hear their story
BANKING
Vanquis Bank
Vanquis Bank modernized its analytics by moving to SAS Viya on Microsoft Azure, reducing cloud costs, improving risk reporting, and boosting efficiency — giving teams faster, more reliable insights to support regulatory compliance and better serve customers. Industry: Banking
>Hear their story
INSURANCE
Stuttgarter Lebensversicherung a.G
Cloud agility leads to enhanced, timely insights for midsize insurer
Stuttgarter Lebensversicherung modernized its analytics by moving to SAS Viya 4 in a private cloud, boosting performance, accelerating daily reporting, and enabling 450 users to build no code dashboards — all while strengthening scalability, security and operational agility.
>Read their story
BANKING
Shawbrook Bank
Learn about Shawbrook Bank's migration to SAS Viya 4 on Microsoft Azure. Explore model deployment, open source integration, data visualization and governance.
>Hear their story
>Learn more about Shawbrook
DNB Bank
Real-Time Credit Decisions in the Cloud with DNB Bank
Learn how DNB Bank, Norway’s largest financial institution, transitioned from on-premises credit scoring to SAS Viya on Microsoft Azure. By adopting Python and SAS Container Runtime, DNB achieved scalable, compliant, and cloud-native credit decisioning.
>Hear their story
>Learn more about DNB
Aldermore Bank
A Modernization Success Story: How One Bank’s Move to the Cloud Sparked a Culture of Innovation
Learn how Aldermore Bank transformed two disconnected SAS 9 environments into a unified SAS Viya cloud platform—eliminating data silos, accelerating analytics, empowering teams with self service capabilities, and sparking a culture of innovation.
>Hear their story
PTSB
Boosting Model Performance and Efficiency at PTSB
PTSB highlights how migrating to SAS Viya led to a 300-hour annual time saving in model execution. The bank now focuses more on innovation and strategic initiatives, enhancing its competitive edge.
>Hear their story
OTB Bank and Consortix
Collaborative Migration Success: OTB Bank and Consortix
This joint presentation showcases how OTB Bank partnered with Consortix to migrate to SAS Viya. The collaboration enabled seamless integration, improved data governance, and accelerated analytics capabilities.
>Hear their story
National Bank of Greece
National Bank of Greece, a leading Greek financial institution, modernized with SAS Viya 4 on Microsoft Azure to enhance agility and profitability. Learn how migrating to Viya enabled advanced analytics and AI for digital transformation.
>Read their story
BANKING
Vanquis Bank
Vanquis Bank modernized its analytics by moving to SAS Viya on Microsoft Azure, reducing cloud costs, improving risk reporting, and boosting efficiency — giving teams faster, more reliable insights to support regulatory compliance and better serve customers. Industry: Banking
>Hear their story
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Nationwide Building Society
Learn why Nationwide Building Society transitioned from SAS®9 to SAS Viya and how they employed systematic migration and testing processes for nearly 2,500 users.
>Hear their story
INSURANCE
Stuttgarter Lebensversicherung a.G
Cloud agility leads to enhanced, timely insights for midsize insurer
Stuttgarter Lebensversicherung modernized its analytics by moving to SAS Viya 4 in a private cloud, boosting performance, accelerating daily reporting, and enabling 450 users to build no code dashboards — all while strengthening scalability, security and operational agility.
>Read their story
INSURANCE
Markerstudy Group
Markerstudy, a top UK managing general agent and long-standing SAS customer, modernized with SAS Viya to meet their growth targets. Learn how migrating from SAS®9 to SAS Viya 4 allowed for innovation in analytics and data management.
>Hear their story
MANUFACTURING
Comelit Group
Comelit Group, an international leader in the security and smart building market, modernized with SAS Viya to enhance decision making. Learn how migrating to SAS Viya 4 on Google Cloud enabled intelligent analytics and AI for business growth.
>Read their story
PUBLIC SECTOR
Norwegian Seafood Council
Discover how the Norwegian Seafood Council migrated their entire data warehouse to SAS Viya and a cloud-based solution. Uncover different migration strategies and learn how rewriting jobs on a cloud-based platform increases value and simplifies solutions.
>Hear their story
Rijkswaterstaat
Rijkswaterstaat, the Dutch government agency, modernized with SAS Viya to enhance infrastructure management. Learn how migrating from SAS®9 to SAS Viya 4 enabled predictive maintenance and real-time insights for roads and waterways.
>Read their story
TRANSPORTATION
Fraport
Learn about Fraport's strategic migration to SAS Viya, emphasizing their organizational evolution. Hear how they prioritize adaptability, involve senior executives and align with
industry trends for sustained success and innovation.
>Hear their story
>Learn more about Fraport
SERVICES
SERVICES
Posten Bring
Posten Bring turns to SAS Viya and SAS SpeedyStore to modernize its logistics, achieving 24/7 data access, real time insights and dramatically faster performance — enabling smarter operations, improved delivery experiences and a stronger foundation for future growth.
>Read their story
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