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Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications on Oracle Exadata:
Right Technology/Solution
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Agenda
1. OFSAA & Exadata2. SunTrust’s Vision for Financial Transformation 3. Key Business Challenges 4. Infrastructure5. OFSAA Financial Transformations6. Run Time Comparisons (pre and post Exadata)
Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications on Oracle Exadata: Right Technology/Solution
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About SunTrust Bank Inc.
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
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
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ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS
(OFSAA)

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Exadata Innovations
• Smart Flash Cache– 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
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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
To…• Finance as a business partner• Focus on business performance management for
core processes• Finance operations low cost and effective
Vision for Financial Transformation The goal of the Finance Transformation is to create a high performing Finance Division
Improved Effectiveness Improved Efficiency
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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
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Legacy Infrastructure
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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)
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Exadata Infrastructure
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Primary/Unique Key index INVISIBLE during batch process to force FULL TABLESCAN
DOP on source tables to enable parallel read operations
Dropped non-unique indexes on LEDGE_STAT
DOP on LEDGER_STAT
Additional indexes on DIM related tables based on allocationmethodologies (e.g. Org, GL etc.)
Direct path insert to bypass DB UNDC
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
Finance Transformation…
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Run Time Comparison
Legacy Exadata
ABC Results 210 90
Vol/Cost Agg 180 40
Dynamic Distribution 210 25
50
150
250
350
450
550
OFSAA ActualsM
inut
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Activity Based Costing
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Run Time Comparison
Legacy Exadata
ABC Results 360 40
Vol/Cost Agg 720 150
Dynamic Distribution 2520 300
250
750
1250
1750
2250
2750
3250
3750
OFSAA PlanM
inut
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Activity Based Costing
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Run Time Comparison
Legacy Exadata
ABC Results 1440 220
Vol/Cost Agg 2880 600
Dynamic Distribution 10080 1200
1000
3000
5000
7000
9000
11000
13000
15000
OFSAA ForecastM
inut
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Activity Based Costing
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Run Time Comparison
Actual Legacy Actual Exadata Plan Legacy Plan Exadata Forecast Legacy Forecast Exadata
ABC 210 90 360 40 1440 220
Vol/Cost Agg 180 40 720 150 2880 600
Dynamic Distribu-tion
210 25 2520 300 10080 1200
1000
3000
5000
7000
9000
11000
13000
15000
OFSAA Consolidated
Min
utes
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Results
Actual + Plan + Forecast
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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.
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Customer QuoteQuote 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:
1. Integrating our single Indirect Cost Allocation engine into the very tight timeframes required to run 48 months in the Forecast cycle
2. 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.
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Mark Saltzman
BIAS [email protected]
Jagannath Poosarla
BIAS [email protected]
Alpesh Topiwala
SunTrust [email protected]
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