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.
NEW! Migration best practices and success stories from SAS Innovate 2026
Hear directly from organizations that made the move to SAS Viya. They share their real migration journeys – the strategies that worked, the lessons learned along the way and the best practices that helped them get there.
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BANKING
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- Banking
- Financial Services
- Insurance
- Manufacturing
- Public Sector
- Transportation
- Services
- Life Sciences
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 turned to SAS Viya and SAS SpeedyStore (hosted managed service) to modernize its logistics - moving from SAS 9/SPDS over three years to gain 24/7 data access, real-time insights and dramatically faster performance for smarter operations and future growth.
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>Hear their story
Spotlight Stage: From Plan to Progress - the key learnings, successes and takeaways from Posten Bring's modernisation journey.
>Hear their modernisation lessons
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 unified two disconnected SAS 9 environments into a single SAS Viya cloud platform - eliminating data silos, accelerating analytics and sparking a culture of innovation.
>Hear their story
How Aldermore cut operational friction and refocused teams on delivering business value - and the impact on speed, resilience and growth.
> Hear about their managed cloud journey
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.
>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
LIFE SCIENCES
Regeneron
Regeneron is upgrading from SAS®9 on SAS Grid to SAS Viya in the cloud - tackling the unique demands of analytics in a regulated pharma environment.
How Regeneron and SAS co-developed a new way to batch-run hundreds of programs and logs in Viya, meeting strict pharma submission standards.
>Hear their batch process story
How Regeneron built a scalable, multilingual Statistical Computing Environment around SAS Viya — covering GxP compliance, migration strategy and the change management that made adoption stick.
> Hear their SCE journey
INSURANCE
Shriram
Shriram General Insurance moved to SAS Viya on SAS Managed Cloud Services to replace slow, manual reporting with an always-on, cloud-first analytics platform. Reporting time dropped from days to hours - a 75% efficiency gain and 7x faster actuarial prep - so teams serving 11 million customers can make faster, fairer decisions when it matters most.
> Read their story
BANKING
Absa Bank
Absa Bank rebuilt its credit risk model monitoring from the ground up with SAS Viya on AWS - replacing slow, manual processes with an automated, cloud-native solution that generates reports in hours instead of weeks. The result: faster, more reliable credit decisions, stronger model governance and analysts freed up for higher-value work.
>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
Absa Bank
Absa Bank rebuilt its credit risk model monitoring from the ground up with SAS Viya on AWS - replacing slow, manual processes with an automated, cloud-native solution that generates reports in hours instead of weeks. The result: faster, more reliable credit decisions, stronger model governance and analysts freed up for higher-value work.
>Read 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
Shriram
Shriram General Insurance moved to SAS Viya on SAS Managed Cloud Services to replace slow, manual reporting with an always-on, cloud-first analytics platform. Reporting time dropped from days to hours - a 75% efficiency gain and 7x faster actuarial prep - so teams serving 11 million customers can make faster, fairer decisions when it matters most.
> 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
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
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
LIFE SCIENCES
Regeneron
Regeneron is upgrading from SAS®9 on SAS Grid to SAS Viya in the cloud - tackling the unique demands of analytics in a regulated pharma environment.
How Regeneron and SAS co-developed a new way to batch-run hundreds of programs and logs in Viya, meeting strict pharma submission standards.
>Hear their batch process story
How Regeneron built a scalable, multilingual Statistical Computing Environment around SAS Viya — covering GxP compliance, migration strategy and the change management that made adoption stick.
> Hear their SCE journey
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