Advanced Data Mart-Driven Analytical Reporting Solutions for the Energy Sector
Case Studies
Challenges & Solutions
Technical Environment
Results
Executive Summary
Client
Energy Sector
Industry
Oil and Gas
Business Problem
The customer sought the implementation of a comprehensive reporting solution, along with a suite of associated services, utilizing the advanced capabilities of SAS technologies. Their goal was to harness the full potential of SAS to create a robust, efficient, and scalable reporting framework that could meet their complex analytical and data processing needs.
Outcome
- Centralized data integration: Unified data from multiple sources into a single reporting data mart.
- Advanced reporting: Created 10 detailed reports, improving decision-making capabilities.
- SAS implementation: Installed and configured SAS software for efficient analytics.
- Post-go-live support: Delivered training and support to the team.
Challenges
- There were no analytical insights derived from the data.
- The organization lacked the expertise to generate analytical reports and dashboards.
- A vast amount of data resided in the SAP suite, which needed thorough analysis.
- Additionally, unstructured data caused significant time consumption during integration activities.
Solutions
- Performed requirement assessments on historical data from SAP, SQL databases, Microsoft Excel, and CSV files.
- Installed and configured SAS software components, including SAS servers and clients, across development, QA, and production environments.
- Executed data integration activities and designed access to the source systems to extract data and populate the reporting datamart.
- Designed and built 10 analytical and standard reports, each with 3-6 sections.
- Provided support activities for one month post go-live and conducted training and knowledge transfer on the SAS solution to the IOCL team.
- Deployed four SAS experts for both the implementation and technical support phases.
Technical Environment
- SAS data management
- SAS visual analytics (VA)
- SAS enterprise miner with SAS analytics pro
- SAS O/R
- SAS access
- SAS ETS add on
Results
- 10+ analytical dashboards
- Automated production plan
- Order met with minimum slippage and cost
- Optimum production cost