This deck cover Microsoft Analytics Platform System (APS) formerly known as Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW). This is based on massively parallel processing technology and can typically reduce your OLAP workloads by 98%. APS AU3 is a phenomenal technology based on SQL Server 2014 and costs a fraction of a comparable Netezza or Teradata.

1. Microsoft Analytics Platform
System (APS) Webinar for
Financial Services
The turnkey modern data warehouse appliance
Shawn Rao – Versa Shore
10/28/2014

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The traditional data warehouse
Data sources

3. 3
The traditional data warehouse
Data sources Non-relational data

4. Relational Data Warehouse Hadoop
Data sources Non-Relational Data
SQL Server 2014
Analytics Platform System
Azure HDInsight
Data Platform

5. Roadblocks to evolving to a modern data warehouse
Keep legacy
investment
Buy new tier-one
hardware appliance
Acquire Big Data
solution
Acquire business
intelligence
Limited
scalability and ability to
handle new data types
Significant training
and data silos
High acquisition
and migration
costs
Complex with low
adoption

6. Introducing the Microsoft Analytics Platform System
The turnkey modern data warehouse appliance
• Relational and non-relational
data in a single appliance
• Enterprise-ready Hadoop
• Integrated querying across
Hadoop and PDW using T-SQL
• Direct integration with
Microsoft BI tools such as
Microsoft Excel
• Near real-time performance
with In-Memory Columnstore
• Ability to scale out to
accommodate growing data
• Removal of data warehouse
bottlenecks with MPP SQL
Server
• Concurrency that fuels rapid
adoption
• Industry’s lowest data
warehouse appliance price per
terabyte
• Value through a single
appliance solution
• Value with flexible hardware
options using commodity
hardware

7. Up to 15x
more compression
• Store data in columnar format for massive
compression
• Load data into or out of memory for next-generation
performance with up to 60%
improvement in data loading speed
• Updateable and clustered for real-time trickle
loading
7
Up to 100x
faster queries
Updateable clustered columnstore vs. table with customary indexing
Columnstore index representation
Parallel query execution
Query
Results

8. Connecting islands of data with PolyBase
Bringing Hadoop point solutions and the data warehouse together for users and IT
Provides a single T-SQL query model for PDW
and Hadoop with rich features of T-SQL,
including joins without ETL
Uses the power of MPP to enhance query
execution performance
Supports Windows Azure HDInsight to enable
new hybrid cloud scenarios
Provides the ability to query non-Microsoft
Hadoop distributions, such as Hortonworks and
Cloudera
SQL Server
Parallel Data
Warehouse
Microsoft Azure
HDInsight
PolyBase
Microsoft
HDInsight
Hortonworks for
Windows and Linux
Cloudera
Select… Result set

9. Royal Bank of Scotland improves Analytics with Microsoft APS
RBS is a leading financial institution in the UK. RBS services 1.5 million
business customers and sees more than £7 billion per day and £1.5
trillion (US$2.4 trillion) annual transactions.
Before
 Struggled to load 50TB of data
 Quarter close query 48+ hours
 Typical query time was 4 hours
 Unable to analyze transactions in real time
 Struggled with unstructured data
 No Predictive Analytics
After Implementing Microsoft APS
 Leveraged data compression of ~15x
 Reduced query from 48 hrs to ~7 min
 Reduced avg. query time from 4 hrs to 15 sec
 Near real time analytics with APS
 Leveraged Hadoop with PolyBase
 Fast Predictive Analytics capabilities with APS

10. Royal Bank of Scotland improves Analytics with Microsoft APS
RBS is a leading financial institution in Great Britan. RBS services 1.5
million business customers and sees more than £7 billion per day and
£1.5 trillion (US$2.4 trillion) annual transactions.
✔ Hadoop
✔ PolyBase
 Time to close Quarter
 Speed of Analysis
 SAN/Disk Drive Cost
 Compression
✔ Real-time Analytics
✔ Predictive Analytics

11. Who is Versa Shore?
• Versa Shore is a Business Intelligence consulting company
• Focused on
– Microsoft SQL Server & APS, Big Data, Analytics and Data Warehousing
– Staffing, offshore and managed services
• 50+ associates in the US & India
• 250+ projects delivered in BI, Analytics & DW
• Strong knowledge of BI ecosystem
• We do it right… the FIRST time
• Strong references and ability to adapt to client needs
• Certified Minority Owned Business

12. Customers On Track

13. Microsoft APS

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• Current State Analysis
• Specific Use Case for APS
• Deep Dive
• Infrastructure
• Architecture
• Data Growth
• Security
• Roadmap
• Implementation

15. • APS for Real-time Fraud Alerts
• APS for Faster Finance
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