THIRD LARGEST HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY IN THE US
SITUATION
- 1000 SAS users
- Long-running SAS jobs
- A team of 12 assigned to fix SAS issues
- Friction within teams as SAS users fought to prioritize jobs
- Attempts to scale the SAS environment repeatedly failed and additional servers and storage could not solve the problems
HOW DESTINY HELPED
- Working with the company’s IT team, the whole SAS process was redesigned
- Systems were migrated to a new SAS/Grid environment
- New storage and servers were integrated
BUSINESS OUTCOME
- Contention was eliminated within SAS/Grid with a queuing option for processing
- SAS jobs run 400% faster
- SAS servers reduced by 75% from four to one
$250B U.S. BANK
SITUATION
- 100 SAS users
- $27 million in infrastructure costs in the past three years
HOW DESTINY HELPED
- We interviewed departments, ran analysis and designed a strategy to optimize the current SAS infrastructure
- We trained the IT team on SAS infrastructure utilization
- Projects and workstreams were created to restructure platforms and reduce costs
BUSINESS OUTCOME
- 360% reduction in SAS infrastructure costs
- An organization developed that supports the SAS user community
- $7 million a year saved in SAS infrastructure costs
U.K. BANK WITH OVER £210 BILLION IN ASSETS
SITUATION
- 800 SAS users
- Mission-critical SAS software was running on Windows servers
- Servers were crashing regularly
- No standardized processes were established for running and maintaining SAS
- SAS jobs ran for hours and days
- IT departments could not back up systems while the SAS jobs were running
HOW DESTINY HELPED
During a 14-month project:
- The Destiny team designed an infrastructure to support the SAS processing needs
- Custom scripts were written to read all SAS storage locations
- 22 million lines of SAS code with logic and data issues were discovered
- The client was trained in batch use of SAS/Grid
- Every touchpoint of SAS logic and datasets were uncovered and demonstrated to the client
- Standards and educational processes were developed for SAS users
BUSINESS OUTCOME
- SAS jobs run 500% faster
- Five SAS servers were reduced to one IBM Power server
- No reported SAS job crashes
- The time taken to run SAS jobs reduced from all weekend to minutes
BIG FOUR CONSULTING FIRM IN THE U.S.
SITUATION
- 300 SAS users
- 30 SAS servers based around the world
- A large audit division couldn’t access customer data reliably
- A general ledger system was in place
- Server and SAS jobs were taking hours longer than needed
HOW DESTINY HELPED
- The Destiny team recommended a new architectural design for business processes
- A batch grid process was implemented
- Systems were migrated from multiple Windows servers to one AIX server
BUSINESS OUTCOME
- SAS performance is now five times faster
- SAS infrastructure costs were reduced by 60%
- 30 Windows servers were consolidated to just one large AIX server
- Server crashes are now eliminated
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