1. Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications on Oracle Exadata:
Right Technology/Solution

2. Agenda
Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications on Oracle Exadata:
Right Technology/Solution
OFSAA & Exadata
SunTrust’s Vision for Financial Transformation
Key Business Challenges
Infrastructure
OFSAA Financial Transformations
Run Time Comparisons (pre and post Exadata)

3. About BIAS Corporation
About SunTrust Bank Inc.
SunTrust Banks, Inc. (SunTrust) is a commercial banking organization. SunTrust delivers a full suite of financial products and services to a broad range of consumer, business, and institutional clients. Our businesses are organized around three client segments:
Consumer Banking and Private Wealth Management
Wholesale Banking
Mortgage Banking
About BIAS Corporation
Founded in 2000
Distinguished Oracle Leader
Technology Momentum Award
Portal Blazer Award
3 Time Titan Award
Excellence in Innovation Award
Management Team is Ex-Oracle
250 employees with 10+ years of Oracle experience on average
Inc.500|5000 Fastest Growing Private Company in the U.S. for the 5th Time
30 Oracle Specializations spanning the entire Oracle stack
Locations:
Atlanta (Headquarters)
Washington D.C.
Offshore – Hyderabad, India
Offshore – Chennai, India
Alpesh: SunTrust
Mark: BIAS

4. ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS (OFSAA)
Alpesh: Discuss OFSAA Modules
Alpesh: Performance managment

5. Exadata Innovations + Smart Flash Cache Smart Flash Log Smart Scan
Uses flash for physical I/O
Smart Flash Log
Uses flash to improve log I/O latency
Smart Scan
Runs portions of a database query in storage
Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC)
Reduces the number of blocks (and I/O) for compressed data
IO Resource Manager (IORM)
Prioritizes I/O bandwidth based on database or workload within a database +

6. Vision for Financial Transformation
The goal of the Finance Transformation is to create a high performing Finance Division
Improved Effectiveness
Improved Efficiency
From..
Finance as a function: silo-based
Transaction processing takes up much effort and attention
Focus on ad hoc operational solutions
Finance functioning, but not at top quartile performance
Performance management partially effective
Finance professionals under-challenged
Alpesh: SunTrust Vision
To…
Finance as a business partner
Focus on business performance management for core processes
Finance operations low cost and effective

7. Business Challenge
Business Requirement to model 48 months of forward looking Indirect Costs within an SLA of 48 hours drove the move to Exadata
Key Challenges
Existing Process Time Consuming
Inconsistent methodology
Inability of existing platform to perform complicated cost calculations
Mark: The Business Challenge

8. Legacy Infrastructure
Alpesh: The Legacy Infrastructure

9. Exadata Database Machine X3-2
Pre-Configured for Extreme Performance Quarter Rack
2 Xeon-based Dual-processor Database Servers
32 cores (16 per server)
256 GB memory (128GB per server)
10 Gig E-connectivity to Data Center
10 x 10 GB E-ports (5 per server)
4.8 TB High Speed Flash
3 Exadata Storage Servers X3-2
All with High Performance 12 x 600GB SAS disks
2 Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36
36-port Managed QDR (40GB/s) switch
1 “Admin” Ethernet switch
Redundant Power Distributions Units (PDUs)
Jag: Exadata Platform

10. Exadata Infrastructure
Jag: Exadata

11. Finance Transformation…
DOP and partitioning on tables to enable faster reads and writes by forcing parallel operations
Drop indexes to reduce DB overhead for I/O during data population and re-create them upon completion
Direct path insert to bypass DB UNDC
DOP on LEDGER_STAT
Alpesh: Discuss Workflow
Jag: Discuss Oracle modifications
DOP on source tables to enable parallel read operations
Dropped non-unique indexes on LEDGE_STAT
Primary/Unique Key index INVISIBLE during batch process to force FULL TABLESCAN
Additional indexes on DIM related tables based on allocation
methodologies (e.g. Org, GL etc.)

12. Run Time Comparison Mark: Actuals Legacy 600 minutes total 10 hours
Exadata 155 minutes total 2.5 hours
Activity Based Costing

13. Run Time Comparison Jag: Legacy 3600 minutes total 60 hours
Exadata 490 minutes total hours
Activity Based Costing

14. Run Time Comparison Alpesh: Legacy 14400 minutes/ 240 hours/ 10 days
Exadata 2020 minutes/ 34 hours/ 1.5 days
BOOM!
Activity Based Costing

15. Run Time Comparison
ALL

16. Actual + Plan + Forecast
Results
Actual + Plan + Forecast
Mark:

17. Additional Strategic Value
OFSSA on Exadata allows the Finance organization to model initiatives and future projects and see the fully loaded impact of those things within the same Forecast cycle, enabling executive input and action on a timely basis.
OFSAA on Exadata gives Sun Trust a strategic advantage by allowing them to see the fully loaded impact of a wide range proposed business initiatives in there forward looking views. 
OFSAA on Exadata gives Sun Trust insight into their proposed impact on Revenue, Expense, Efficiency Ratio and fully loaded profitability.
Mark/Jag/Alpesh

18. Customer Quote
Quote from Dean Harrelson (Senior Vice President for SunTrust, CFS)
Wow! Cutting a 12 hour cycle to 2 is amazing!
This type of performance will be the lynchpin for:
Integrating our single Indirect Cost Allocation engine into the very tight timeframes required to run 48 months in the Forecast cycle
Moving from a single 9 day Management close cycle that runs once, with Cost a month in arrears, to a multiple complete cycle with an improved publish date and Cost running current month.
These items will be key in driving our new culture of enabling buyer and seller conversations and systemically driving better efficiency ratios across the bank. “
Mark ”

19. Contact Us Mark Saltzman Alpesh Topiwala Jagannath Poosarla
BIAS Corporation
SunTrust Bank
Jagannath Poosarla
BIAS Corporation