The Transportation Challenge

AAs competition intensifies, transportation companies are under more pressure than ever to maximize revenue and reduce costs. In order to make the decisions that will bring them a competitive edge, these organizations need to be able to quickly access and analyze the vast amounts of data they collect about customers, their transactions, and the organizations' own internal operations.

The SAND/DNA Solution

SAND/DNA enables enterprise customers in the transportation industry to cost-effectively retain massive amounts of compressed data in a nearline repository for extended periods, in accordance with any applicable business rules and regulatory requirements, and to rapidly retrieve just the information they need, whenever it is needed. A centralized data management solution with unparalleled performance and storage efficiency, the SAND/DNA suite dramatically reduces costs and management complexity while ensuring continuous data availability.

“SAND integrated information from five separate parcel delivery systems, which enables us to analyze every single parcel movement across all of our business units. For the first time, we have a single view of each customer at the corporate, customer and business route level. Now we can optimize our delivery operations and maximize revenue from each customer, and continue to provide the outstanding service that sets us apart from the competition.”— David Brown, IT Director, Lynx Express

SAND/DNA can act as the platform for high-performance analytic applications in areas such as:

  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Supply Chain Analysis
  • Financial Analysis
  • Traffic Analysis

Or, it can enhance data warehouse performance through application of Intelligent Information Management principles to warehouse design and data storage practices.

More Information

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Customer Success

Atos Origin is a leading European systems integration consulting company, charged with providing analytics on a complex set of railway transportation billing data for the UK Rail Settlement Plan (RSP).

Business Challenge

Atos Origin's mandate was to keep 10 years' worth of data and perform the analytics necessary to understand what should be cross-charged amongst the associated facility owners. Data for the most recent 401 days was to reside online, while all older data had to be archived and ready for quick restoration if requested. It was estimated that with a traditional warehouse close to 15 TB of storage would be required over the period of the contract.

SAND/DNA Solution

A SAND/DNA solution was set up to automatically archive all billing data older than 401 days in SAND DNA/Access, resulting in a footprint that was 5% of the raw data size. Users who need access to the older data submit their request to the system, which extracts the required data set and loads it into SAND DNA/Analytics, where it is available for high-performance analytics for a specified period. With this solution, the projected size of the archive over the contract period has been reduced to 700 GB.



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