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<div>  <p>         SAS provides business analytics software and services, and is the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market.  </p>  <p>    SAS helps organizations anticipate business opportunities, empower action and drive impact. They do this through advanced analytics that turn data about customers, performance, financials and more into meaningful information.   </p></div>

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<div>
 <p>SAS, the software firm, has bought the main software properties of Hazy, a company from London that leads in synthetic data technology. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed.</p>
 <p>This purchase will improve SAS' Data Maker platform, enabling users to simulate a range of possible future circumstances. The benefits include a quicker route to market for AI initiatives through the use of synthetic datasets, enhanced data privacy, and reduced costs in data collection. These improved solutions are anticipated to be ready for preview in early 2025.</p>
 <p>Hazy specializes in synthetic data technology which replicates the statistical trends of real data while avoiding the exposure of private, identifiable, or protected information. This aids businesses in tackling data scarcity and privacy problems, while enhancing the accuracy of models.</p> 
</div> <p><b>Analyst QuickTake:<br>
 </b> The news aligns with SAS's USD 1 billion commitment in <a href="https:<br>
//itbrief.co.uk/story/sas-invests-1-billion-to-propel-generative-ai-in-multiple-sectors-expands-microsoft-partnership"> September 2023 </a> to expand GenAI solutions across multiple industries, including banking, life sciences, and retail. The M&amp;A also expands on the company's existing machine learning operations, including <a href="https:<br>
//www.sas.com/en_hk/solutions/ai/generative-ai.html"> SAS Viya </a> , an LLM deployment solution.</p>

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