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WiseWithData Celebrates New HQ & 7 Year Anniversary In Style
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 22, 2022 - Ottawa, Canada: Wise With Data Inc. celebrates 7 years of helping customers modernize their legacy SAS analytics. Leveraging their sophisticated automated SPROCKET engine, WiseWithData has helped dozens of customers to...
WiseWithData Strengthens Its Management Team With The Appointment Of Luigi Di Serio As Head Of R&D
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 10, 2022 - Ottawa, Canada: Wise With Data Inc. has appointed Luigi Di Serio as head of Research & Development (R&D). Mr. Di Serio joins WiseWithData (WWD) as a deep expert in analytics, business intelligence, data warehousing and...
WiseWithData Announces Ban On Services For Russian and Belarusian Based Companies
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 7, 2022 - Ottawa, Canada: WiseWithData, leaders in legacy SAS migrations, announces a ban on delivering services to Russian or Belarusian based companies. With the dangerous and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Russia has threatened not just...
Databricks adds teeth to WiseWithData’s SPROCKET Cloud migration solution
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 20, 2021 - Ottawa, Canada: WiseWithData, leaders in legacy SAS migrations, announces a partnership with Databricks to migrate SAS code to the industry leading Databricks Lakehouse Platform. Under the arrangement, WiseWithData will provide...
Dedicated to helping its customers, WiseWithData signs long-term Spark support contract
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 30, 2020 - Ottawa, Canada: Apache Spark™ experts WiseWithData, signed a long-term Spark support agreement to help TransUnion optimize and maintain their Hadoop/Spark clusters. Under terms of the agreement, WiseWithData will...
WiseWithData’s SPROCKET cranks out another milestone with Spark 3.0 and Delta support
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 15, 2020 - Ottawa, Canada: WiseWithData, masters in legacy SAS migrations to Apache Spark, have released version 3.0 of their extraordinary automated SPROCKET migration solution. With this release, SPROCKET pushes the boundaries of...
Mission Accomplished – Record breaking SAS migration delivered by WiseWithData
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2020 - Ottawa, Canada: WiseWithData, leaders in legacy SAS migration, announces the successful completion of the largest automated SAS code migration in history for TransUnion, a global credit bureau. Over the past 12 months, over...
Lost no more, SPROCKET SearchParty addresses missing link in SAS migration
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 10, 2020 - Ottawa, Canada: WiseWithData, leaders in legacy SAS migration, are announcing the general availability of the SPROCKET SearchParty tool for cataloging SAS processes. Solving the first challenge many customers face in...
Making perfection easy – WiseWithData announces SPROCKET Validator
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 7, 2020 - Ottawa, Canada: WiseWithData, proven leaders in legacy SAS migrations, announce the general availability of SPROCKET Validator tool for validating migrated code. Hardened by several large scale migrations, Validator is a key...
WiseWithData finds a new home in Downtown Ottawa
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 1, 2019 - Ottawa, Canada: After outgrowing their existing West-end Ottawa office, WiseWithData defined market leader in SAS migrations, has moved into a LEED Platinum certified building at the Sun Life Financial Center, 99 Bank...
TransUnion selects WiseWithData for critical SAS removal strategy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 14, 2019 - Ottawa, Canada: After an extensive evaluation, TransUnion has selected WiseWithData to migrate over 2,000 critical SAS based business processes (over 400,000 lines of SAS code) to PySpark using its SPROCKET automated solution....
Global finance firm validates WiseWithData’s SPROCKET SAS migration solution
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 28, 2019 - Ottawa, Canada: TransUnion has certified that WiseWithData's automated SPROCKET migration was able to accurately convert thousands of lines of production SAS code within 5 days. After a thorough month-long review, TransUnion...
TransUnion to put WiseWithData’s SPROCKET SAS migration solution to the test with complex production code
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 15, 2019 - Ottawa, Canada: TransUnion has agreed to engage WiseWithData to prove out that the SPROCKET migration solution can efficiently and accurately deliver production ready PySpark code. Under the agreement, WiseWithData will be...
Accenture and WiseWithData team up to deliver SAS Cloud migration for CMHC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 15, 2018 - Ottawa, Canada: Accenture has engaged WiseWithData (WWD) to help them with their client, Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporate (CMHC). Accenture has won a transformational project to deliver a Cloud Hadoop/Spark based...
WiseWithData puts SPROCKET into high-gear
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 17, 2018 - Ottawa, Canada: WiseWithData announces that it has made a strategic decision to re-align the company around its SPROCKET SAS To PySpark migration solution. The upcoming Apache Spark 2.4 release contains an array of new...
PD Summit invites WiseWithData to share what makes Apache Spark so revolutionary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 1, 2018 - Ottawa, Canada: PD Summit has invited WiseWithData founder Ian J. Ghent to share his thoughts on why the revolutionary Apache Spark is the analytics platform of the future. PD Summit, a premier professional development conference...
Moving into the LogHaus – WiseWithData’s advanced log analyics solution to fast-forward House Of Commons IT service capabilities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 5, 2018 - Ottawa, Canada: The House Of Commons of Canada (HoC) has selected WiseWithData to implement its Apache Spark based LogHaus log anaytics solution. A competitive process determined that WiseWithData was uniquely qualified to...
IRCC to leverage WiseWithData’s GuardDog security intelligence solution for Visas and eTAs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 20, 2017 - Ottawa, Canada: Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has engaged WiseWithData to develop a risk screening system for their various programs, starting with Electronic Travel Authorizations (ETA). IRCC will...
MD Financial Management selects WiseWithData for Apache Spark training program
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 29, 2017 - Ottawa, Canada: WiseWithData is honoured to be selected to deliver Apache Spark training sessions to MD Financial Management. WiseWithData, leaders in Apache Spark have developed an Apache Spark based training curriculum that...
Service Canada asks WiseWithData to ensure payment accuracy on $100B in spending programs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 28, 2017 - Ottawa, Canada: WiseWithData has been selected by Service Canada to provide advanced analytics services. Service Canada would like to improve their program and payment accuracy systems used by the Employment Insurance, Canadian...