SAS Announces New Open, "Cloud-Ready" Machine Learning/Cognitive Computing Platform - DATAVERSITY

SAS announced a new open, "cloud-ready" machine learning, cognitive computing, analytics platform. Recently, Customer Think wrote: The idea is to bring together the SAS portfolio, built over some 40 years, into one platform that can be used by data scientists and other analytics professionals; business users and IT management; and senior management. Customer Think stated, SAS is also working harder to be more "open" -- in the sense of being interoperable with other enterprise systems. This is hugely important in the age of cloud-based systems and infrastructure services like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. If you can't access a key functionality via a cloud-based API, it might as well not exist.