Suez owns and operates 16 water and waste utilities and operates 90 municipal water and wastewater systems. They had a very large Planning cube and aggregations could take three hours or more. They had to choose carefully which aggregations they did and when. Administration was arduous. This put severe limits on what Suez could do to improve service levels to users.
Suez partnered with TopDown Consulting to optimize the application. TopDown performed a series of tests on more than a dozen optimization techniques. The results provided two good options. FixParralel could reduce aggregation times to about 20 minutes. And even though Suez was on 11.1.2.3.500, the application appeared to be a good candidate for Hybrid Aggregation which would eliminate the aggregation.
Brian Brockway, Manager – IT Applications and Support at Suez and Ron Moore, Solution Architect, described this case study in their blog post, Transforming Planning at Suez with Hybrid Aggregation.
In this session, Brian and Ron will present the case study, including details such as:
- the tests performed to identify the best optimization options
- the steps to determine if the cube was a candidate for Hybrid Aggregation
- the trade-offs between FixParallel and Hybrid Aggregation and how Suez decided which option to pursue
- the step by step process (including code samples) of converting the cube to hybrid, including cross-dimensional operators, time balances, MDX WITH clauses, and other challenges
- how Suez addressed the effects of some of Hybrid’s disadvantages
Finally, we will describe how Hybrid transformed service levels for users and list the benefits of the conversion.
We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, June 27 at 8:30 am.
Don’t forget that TopDown’s experts are presenting seven other sessions at Kscope17. We’re covering the gamut of topics:
Extreme Calc Manager – Ludovic De Paz and Ron Moore
Elevating Your Workforce Planning Solution to the Cloud – Nick Blazosky and Ludovic De Paz
Handling Textual Data in Planning and Essbase—A Starbucks Case Study– Jordan Wilcox and Rhonda Brigham, Starbucks
Hybrid Cloud – A Solution for a Business Problem– Paul Hoch and Steve Davis
Agile/Scrum, a new way to manage your project development and delivery– R. Michael Smith
How to Get the Most Out of Essbase in the Cloud– John Maloney and Paul Hoch
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