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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Data sources

The traditional data warehouse

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Data sources Non-relational data

The traditional data warehouse

Data sources Non-Relational Data

HadoopRelational Data Warehouse

Data Platform

Analytics Platform System

SQL Server 2014

Azure HDInsight

Keep legacy

investment

Buy new tier-one

hardware appliance

Acquire Big Data

solution

Acquire business

intelligence

Roadblocks to evolving to a modern data warehouse

Limited

scalability and ability to

handle new data types

Significant training

and data silos

High acquisition

and migration

costs

Complex with low

adoption

Introducing the Microsoft Analytics Platform SystemThe 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

• 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

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Up to 100xfaster queries

Updateable clustered columnstore vs. table with customary indexing

Up to 15xmore compression

Columnstore index representation

Parallel query execution

Query

Results

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

WarehouseMicrosoft Azure

HDInsight

PolyBase

Microsoft

HDInsight

Hortonworks for

Windows and Linux

Cloudera

Connecting islands of data with PolyBaseBringing Hadoop point solutions and the data warehouse together for users and IT

Result setSelect…

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

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

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

Customers On Track

Microsoft APS

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• Current State Analysis

• Specific Use Case for APS

• Deep Dive• Infrastructure

• Architecture

• Data Growth

• Security

• Roadmap

• Implementation

• APS for Real-time Fraud Alerts

• APS for Faster Finance

For more information www.versashore.com