Event
PHUSE SDE 2025
13.03.2025
About the event
The PHUSE Single Day Events provide a platform for exchanging ideas on current developments in clinical data analytics. Experts from industry, academia, and regulatory bodies discuss standards, emerging technologies, and innovations such as AI and open-source tools from a practical perspective.The PHUSE Single Day Event in Frankfurt focused on technological advances in clinical trials. Key topics included combining established approaches such as SAS programming and CDISC standards with open-source tools like R and Python, as well as using AI and machine learning to improve the efficiency of data processing and analysis.
Our contribution to PHUSE SDE
Talk
From SAS to R/Python: Practical Insights into Automated Code Translation
Dr. Robert Bauer
Migrating code between platforms such as SAS, R, and Python is complex, time-consuming, and costly – particularly in regulated environments. In this talk, we show how automation tools leveraging generative AI and advanced code templating can make these migrations more efficient.
Robert explains how deterministic results can be achieved despite AI-assisted automation – a challenge faced by many AI solutions. He also shares insights from several migration projects in which this approach was successfully applied to large legacy codebases of up to 500,000 lines of SAS code. While these projects primarily focused on the insurance and financial sectors, the underlying concepts are broadly applicable across industries.