BIG DATA: 5) Case Studies with Search ================== A. GEFCO Breaking through Performance Barriers Rather than continuing to ramp up its existing RDBMS, or acquiring a NewSQL system, GEFCO decided to redeploy the Track & Trace portal as a CloudView SBA. The result was an award-winning makeover that boosted performance, enhanced usability, and enabled operational business intelligence— at half the cost of the legacy solution. In addition to slashing per-user costs 50%, the use of an SBA also allowed GEFCO to: • Cut query response time to a sub-second rate • Drop data latency from 24 hours to 15 minutes (a rate selected by GEFCO, though the system can support a quasi real-time refresh rate) • Increase the user base 100-fold—with no end user training (complex forms were replaced by a single search text box and faceted navigation) • Achieve a 99.98% availability rate with a limited material investment • Offer customers operational reporting and analytics with visual dashboarding and unrestricted drill-down and roll-up • Preserve the transactional performance of the Oracle system by offloading IR and analytics The nature of GEFCO’s business and the special characteristics of the revamped application (fresh data, instant responsiveness, high availability, and maximum usability) made rolling out a mobile version of the application a natural next step. As the application was already endowed with mobile-ready usability, the main task was to adapt the application for a small screen format and mobile modes of input. Routing and mapping capabilities were then integrated to create a highly successful mobile application for logistics. to be contd . . .
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:16:40 +0000
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