Intelligent CIO APAC Issue 69 | Page 14

Anindita Sinha, VP of Commercial Operations at Shionogi Inc.

SAS powers Shionogi’ s data-driven transformation journey

Shionogi inc., a US subsidiary of Shionogi & Co. and a leading innovator in the pharmaceutical manufacturing space, required technical support with managing its data workload with cost control in a hosted environment. Jay Upchurch,
Executive Vice President and CIO at SAS, discusses how the tech player provided the answer. Anindita Sinha, VP of Commercial Operations at Shionogi Inc., offers her firsthand experience of the partnership and the future she envisions as a result.
AS, a leader in data and AI, has

S announced a new offering to its product portfolio – SAS Viya Essentials, a standard, secure deployment of select SAS Viya products on Microsoft Azure with SAS Managed Cloud Services. The innovative offering makes it easier for customers to access SAS’ data and AI software in a standardised, simplified way.

This development means users can skip the learning curve and deploy SAS without complex workloads or customisations quickly and easily – a 99.5 % uptime SLA guaranteed.“ At SAS, we believe in making AI accessible to everyone, no matter their industry or size,” commented Jay Upchurch, CIO at SAS.“ And we know that
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