Case Study: Leading Consulting and Research Firm achieves faster SAS performance and reliability with Saturn Business Systems

Leading Consulting and Research Firm - Customer Case Study

Leading Consulting and Research Firm, a legal consulting and research firm, needed a more reliable and scalable SAS environment. Running SAS across multiple Intel-based Windows servers with EMC storage caused frequent crashes, reboots, and slow query performance, wasting valuable time and limiting the analyses they could complete. Saturn Business Systems helped address these issues with an infrastructure optimized for SAS.

Saturn Business Systems implemented IBM Power 8 and AIX with IBM Flash storage, consolidating the firm’s eight-server Windows grid into a single high-performance platform. After migrating applications and data, SAS analytic job processing time dropped from 18 hours 49 minutes to 3 hours 52 minutes, and data preparation and sort time fell from 3 hours to 28 minutes. The result was a more reliable, scalable “game changing” SAS environment that enabled faster turnaround and more work for clients.