A smarter approach to SAS migration: Dufrain partners with T1A.
Dufrain has partnered with T1A, the company behind Alchemist — a specialist SAS migration accelerator — to help organisations move from SAS to modern data platforms with greater clarity, control and confidence.
Alchemist provides organisations with a comprehensive understanding of their SAS estate by analysing complexity, mapping dependencies and supporting code conversion and validation throughout the migration journey. Combined with Dufrain’s expertise in data migration, engineering, governance and delivery, organisations benefit from a structured approach that takes them from discovery and planning through to successful migration and operational adoption.
For many organisations, this creates a clearer starting point for SAS migration. Instead of starting with uncertainty around risk, effort, cost and disruption, organisations can build a stronger business case, prioritise the right workloads and execute migration in a way that protects business-critical reporting, analytics and regulatory processes.
Critical reporting, risk models, regulatory processes, forecasting and analytics often depend on SAS estates that have grown over many years. That can make migration feel complex, risky and difficult to prioritise — particularly where business continuity and auditability are essential.
Powered by T1A’s proven methodology, Alchemist helps automate up to 80% of the overall migration journey, significantly reducing both code conversion effort and user acceptance testing (UAT). Organisations can complete migrations up to twice as fast and at up to half the cost of traditional manual approaches while maintaining transparency and control throughout the process.
Together, Dufrain and Alchemist help organisations:
- Gain clear visibility of their current SAS estate, so they can make informed migration decisions
- Understand dependencies across code, data flows, models and reports before migration begins
- Assess migration complexity and effort before committing to execution
- Prioritise the workloads that deliver the greatest business value or carry the highest t risk
- Support efficient conversion from SAS to modern data platforms, including Databricks, while preserving code quality and maintainability
- Reduce migration risk through structured planning, validation and delivery
- Protect continuity across business-critical reporting, risk and analytics processes
- Build a clear, credible business case for change
- Create stronger foundations for modern analytics, AI and future data transformation
The result is a structured, transparent and lower-risk migration journey – from initial discovery and dependency analysis through roadmap creation, automated conversion, validation, execution and long-term operational success.
Automate up to 80% of the migration journey. Complete projects up to 2× faster and 2× more cost-effectively than traditional manual approaches.
“We’re excited to partner with T1A to help organisations take a more practical, lower-risk approach to SAS modernisation. SAS migrations can feel daunting because organisations are not just moving technology — they are moving years of business logic, reporting, controls and operational knowledge. By combining T1A’s Alchemist with Dufrain’s experience delivering complex data transformation in regulated environments, we can help clients understand complexity, reduce uncertainty and move forward in manageable phases with greater clarity and confidence.“ Ed Rees, Director of Growth and Partnerships, Dufrain
Artem Belyasov, Regional Director for EMEA and Senior Director of Business Development, T1A: “SAS migration should no longer be viewed as a technical conversion exercise. It’s an opportunity to modernise how organisations manage data, analytics and AI for the future. Alchemist was designed to remove the uncertainty by combining deep dependency analysis with intelligent conversion capabilities. Together with Dufrain’s expertise in delivering complex enterprise transformations, we’re helping organizations move beyond legacy platforms with greater confidence, transparency and measurable business value”.
How Dufrain and T1As Alchemist can help
The partnership will support organisations across financial services, insurance and other regulated sectors, where data quality, lineage, governance, resilience and reporting continuity are critical.
Dufrain is now offering SAS Migration Readiness Conversations for organisations reviewing their current SAS estate or considering the next phase of their data modernisation journey.
Talk to us to find out more details, request a Q&A session or demo.
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