United States, Oct. 29 -- SAS, a global leader in data and AI, is now offering SAS(R) Viya(R) Essentials, a standard, secure deployment of select SAS Viya products on Microsoft Azure with SAS Managed Cloud Services. The ready-to-use offering makes it easier for customers to access SAS' leading data and AI software in a standardized, simplified way. Analytics at your fingertipsUsers can skip the learning curve and deploy SAS without complex workloads or customizations quickly and easily - a 99.5% uptime SLA guaranteed. There are four predefined architectural profiles that include SAS(R) Visual Analytics, SAS(R) Visual Statistics and SAS(R) Viya(R), SAS' cloud-native data and AI platform. A low fixed cost and dedicated support teams minimize ...