
The market for Data & AI services is highly fragmented. Many providers position themselves as offering end-to-end capabilities, AI expertise, and sustainable architectures. In practice, however, levels of performance, maturity, and market positioning vary significantly. Against this backdrop, an objective classification of service providers is particularly important for organizations.
The Lünendonk® Study 2025/2026 provides decision-makers and project leads with a well-founded market overview and helps them realistically assess providers, topics, and expectations. Based on an independent analysis of the German Data & AI market, the study reduces complexity and supports strategic decision-making in the Data & AI environment.
The inclusion of HMS in the Lünendonk® Study helps you to
The study therefore provides an additional, independent perspective to support the preselection of suitable partners.

Finance
Since 2006, HMS has supported the regulatory reporting departments of a large German banking network with SAS expertise and comprehensive know-how. We provide ongoing consultation, performance optimisation, and customised solutions for regulatory requirements.
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Banking
We successfully migrated our client's SAS platform from on-premises to SAS Viya on Azure. We built a cloud infrastructure with Kubernetes and implemented migration and automation tools.
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Energy Supplier
A leading energy supplier migrated critical systems from SAS 9.4 on-premises to the cloud-based SAS Viya platform. HMS optimised the infrastructure for stable operations.
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Finance
Our solution contributed to the modernization of core SAS BI landscapes by successfully facilitating the transition to the cloud. We effectively used GenAI for automated code migration to Python.
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Life Science / Pharma
HMS replaced a 25-year-old central SAS-based system with a modern, cloud-native Statistical Computing Environment (SCE) for analyzing clinical studies for Germany's largest pharmaceutical company.
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Grüne Meile 29
69115 Heidelberg
Germany