Company Background
This research firm provides economic and financial analysis in all phases of commercial litigation and regulatory processing for their clients. Massive amounts of data are delivered to them in tens of terabytes for each case.
Objectives
Analytics processing for ad hoc queries were being run on a large environment of unstable x86 servers with EMC VNX Storage. The primary objective was to increase processing time for faster analysis.
Resolutions
Destiny Corporation introduced an MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) solution, resulting in the analytics processing time being reduced from 36 hours to 8 minutes. The result is now much faster turnaround on their analysis, no server crashes and a more educated user community on the best ways to analyze data on MPP systems.
Benefits
The organization can now run analytic queries in minutes, allowing them more time to focus on analysis.
Company Background
This non-profit institution conducts extensive government research and analysis using statistics, thereby helping to improve policy and decision making in both the private and public sector. Their desire to meet high technical standards in their research and analysis methodologies have allowed them to operate in a broad spectrum of industries.
Objectives
The company’s business office needed a software application that could track their entire inventory of computer hardware, software and telephone equipment for all employees, both on and off site. Monitoring multiple components for a large number of people at varying locations can present a challenge. The limited capabilities of their UNIX interface made their situation even more difficult.
Resolutions
Destiny Corporation developed online analytical processing (OLAP) applications to meet the organization’s inventory tracking requirements. This software solution enabled multiple users to have concurrent access to data with the ability to edit that data simultaneously. Modifications would be reflected across the company in real-time. It had a friendly GUI interface and included software upgrades that would be easy to execute. In light of the confidential nature of the data being tracked, we implemented several tight security measures for various access levels. This project was designed, built, and implemented within the specified budget and time lines.
Benefits
Employees now have a Windows driven, GUI front end while the data resides on a client server platform. With the new, consolidated tracking process, users have real-time access to accurate information that they are able to work with simultaneously. This enables key decision makers throughout the organization to track, monitor, and gain immediate access to this information for budgeting and reporting purposes.
Company Background
This large organization provides clinical trial and contract research services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. Offering these services on a contract basis gives their customers the ability to pursue new medications while eliminating the need for a dedicated staff, expensive infrastructure, and office space costs. This firm offers exceptional services, and are committed to ensuring their projects are carried out with dedication and integrity.
Objectives
The company was faced with slow turnaround on the information flowing through their data management group. They supported several clients and up to this point, edit checks were manual and ad hoc in nature, requiring several programmers for each study.
Resolutions
Destiny Corporation helped them standardize their edit check procedure by developing a batch edit check process that would automatically analyze case report form data and deliver error reports that could be easily read by non-technical data managers. The production process would run nightly and deliver reports on each study being conducted the company the following morning.
Benefits
This resulted in a significant reduction in processing time for the edit check portion of each study, and allowed the firm to respond to clients significantly faster as well as provide a reduced turnaround time.