Fishing for Success in the Wild with SAS and Oracle Alejandro Farias, Texas Parks & Wildlife Maureen Chew, Oracle

Fishing for Success in the Wild with SAS and Oracle Alejandro Farias

The Idea & Reality The Story The Vision Mission: To manage and conserve the natural and cultural resources of Texas and to provide hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation opportunities for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Cloud Proven Database as a Service (DBaaS) Benefits from TX Cloud DBaaS Provides Valuable Services to Constituents Mission: To manage and conserve the natural and cultural resources of Texas and to provide hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation opportunities for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Our Role as Analysts Have Changed Mission: To manage and conserve the natural and cultural resources of Texas and to provide hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation opportunities for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. Technological advances are reshaping Analyst’s role into that of a Data Scientist. Multi-disciplinary backgrounds influence our perspective. Our knowledge bridges the gap between the Information Technology aspect and the Business Units. Stress strategic problem solving by understanding and applying a broader knowledge base.

LURES: License Utilization and Revenue Enhancement System LURES Goal: A comprehensive analytics application that provides a 360-degree view of TPWD customers. Business Goal: Understand how customer relationships impact revenue to help reduce costs and better deploy resources to improve the customer experience. Technology Goal: Integrate, cleanse and secure all databases that track customer interactions, especially revenue. Mission: To manage and conserve the natural and cultural resources of Texas and to provide hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation opportunities for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Award Winning Innovation Using SAS and Oracle Database … From Days to Minutes …. Automated complex accounting reconciliation between Oracle Financials and State Accounting System Highly optimized Oracle SQL via SAS PROC SQL Pass-Thru Result: Advanced reconciliation reporting Automated Days to minutes Journal and accounting smart matching Incorporated validation and integrity checkpoints Mission: To manage and conserve the natural and cultural resources of Texas and to provide hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation opportunities for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.

SAS Business Intelligence (BI) Server and Oracle Supercluster SAS Business Intelligence Server Tiers: Metadata, Mid-Tier, Compute Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 DBaaS DB for Oracle E-BIZ Financials Two node RAC  DEV&TEST/PROD: Each 2 cores/24GB Solaris Zones provide fine grained virtualization DB user response times improved Performance leveled as additional agencies came on-line Resource management prioritization Mission: To manage and conserve the natural and cultural resources of Texas and to provide hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation opportunities for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Technical/Practical Takeaways Optimization Techniques SID rename technique for SAS migration to new Oracle instance. Further improve the speed of data retrieval through optimized SQL queries. Review legacy reporting scripts to tune and improve. Utilize Oracle SQL Developer to run explain plans to tune and optimize SQL used for SAS data warehouse jobs. Maximize in-database processing to leverage the compute power of Supercluster and free up SAS compute resources. Initiate logging at each level to track and improve latency from sender to receiver and back again. Client logging via SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office SAS Server logging Oracle SuperCluster logging Mission: To manage and conserve the natural and cultural resources of Texas and to provide hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation opportunities for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Presenter Biography Alejandro Farias is a Financial Analyst in the Planning, Analysis, and Reporting section in the Administrative Resources Division at Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). He has a B.S. in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University. Over the last 5 years, Mr. Farias was instrumental in the design, architecture and implementation of SAS Business Intelligence (BI) tools and is experienced with data techniques for extracting, cleaning, conforming and delivering data to end-users. He is proficient in SQL and is versed in SQL tuning. Mr. Farias was awarded the 2013 Employee Recognition Award for Innovation at TPWD for his work on developing new methods for financial analytics, reporting, reconciliation and training. Mr. Farias also serves as a team member on the License Utilization and Revenue Enhancement System project at TPWD.

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