Dickey's Barbecue Pit Heats Up Analytics with Amazon Web Services
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Heading to the cloud for Big Data analytics? Or, want to take your current projects to the next level? When Dickey's Barbecue Pit needed an easy and cost-effective way to quickly understand — and act upon — rapidly growing business data across more than 550 stores, they turned to an advanced analytics solution hosted on Amazon Web Services. The results have been game-changing — driving insights to make real-time decisions on everything from staffing to inventory to marketing. In this webcast, CIO Laura Rea Dickey presents a first-hand account of the company's journey to the cloud, including: The business challenges that led to the new solution How they picked the right platform and partner Their success plan and results And lessons learned along the way!
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Dickey's Barbecue Pit Heats Up Analytics with Amazon Web Services
- 1. Dickey's Barbecue Pit Heats Up Analytics with Amazon Web Services Presented by:
- 2. Meet Today’s Presenters 2 Laura Rea Dickey CIO Dickey’s Barbecue Pit Nick Larsen Vice President iOLAP
- 3. Global Leader in Big Iron to Big Data Solutions 3Syncsort Confidential and Proprietary - do not copy or distribute • Provider of enterprise software and global leader in Big Iron to Big Data solutions • Solutions address complex set of requirements for delivering rich data from mainframe and legacy sources to next-gen Big Data environments to power business and operational analytics • Innovative and high-performance software harnesses valuable data assets while dramatically reducing the cost of mainframe and legacy systems • Unique focus on customer value through cost-effective solutions and unparalleled support; trusted leader for nearly 50 years WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ JAPAN SINGAPORE 3 Global customer base of leaders and emerging businesses across all major industries Strategic partnerships in Big Iron and Big Data ecosystems
- 4. Syncsort DMX & DMX-h: Simple and Powerful Data Processing for Big Data 4Syncsort Confidential and Proprietary - do not copy or distribute • GUI for developing MapReduce & Spark jobs • Test & debug locally in Windows; deploy on Hadoop • Use-case Accelerators to fast-track development • Broad based connectivity with automated parallelism • Simply the best mainframe data access and integration with Hadoop • Improved per node scalability and throughput DMX-h High Performance Hadoop ETL Software • Template driven design for: • High performance ETL • SQL migration/DB offload • Mainframe data movement • Light weight footprint on commodity hardware • High speed flat file processing • Self tuning engine High Performance ETL Software DMX
- 5. Simplify Data Integration with Syncsort 5Syncsort Confidential and Proprietary - do not copy or distribute Access – Get best in class data ingestion capabilities. Mainframes, RDBMS, MPP, JSON, Parquet, Avro, ORC, NoSQL, Kafka and more. Integrate – Single interface for streaming and batch processes. Single data pipeline for all enterprise data, batch or streaming. Comply – Secure data access, data governance and lineage. Provide secure access to all enterprise data and metadata lineage across platforms Simplify – Design once, deploy anywhere & insulate your organization from rapidly changing eco-system. Future proof your applications for new compute frameworks, on premise or in the cloud.
- 6. Syncsort in the Cloud 6Syncsort Confidential and Proprietary - do not copy or distribute ETL engine on AWS Marketplace Available on EC2 and EMR, Google Cloud S3 and Redshift connectivity Google Cloud Storage connectivity First & only leading ETL engine on Docker Hub Big Data + Cloud = Powerful and Affordable Try us for free in the AWS Marketplace!
- 7. Slide 7 6/28/2016 DRIVE OUR BRAND. DRIVE STORE PROFITS. © 2016 Dickey's Barbecue Restaurants, Inc. Confidential & Proprietary
- 9. Smoke Stack: Dickey’s Proprietary Data Platform 183,756214,697246,761256,104249,135270,666293,590316,803344,823352,968 Q1 '14 Q2 '14 Q3 '14 Q4 '14 Q1 '15 Q2 '15 Q3'15 Q4'15 Q1'16 Q2'16 (thru 5/4) 0 50000 100000 150000 200000 250000 300000 350000
- 10. Dickey’s Press
- 11. Smoke Stack: Dickey’s Proprietary Data Platform
- 14. Tech In a Box Free Wi-Fi Amazon Echo Sensor technology Geo-fencing
- 15. Globally Integrated Analytics Company End-to-end services 16 years delivering success across multiple industries Global customer base Analytics development center based in Europe Headquartered in Frisco, Texas Technical Breadth & Depth Expertise across analytic value chain Premier partner to multiple vendors IOLAP OVERVIEW Focused solely on big data, data strategy, advanced analytics, and reporting iOLAP Services
- 16. AWS Strategic Partnership Customer for 6 years Partner for 5 years Shared a co-working space with AWS Central Enterprise team Focus Areas Strategy Cloud fit assessments, cloud estimates, and TCO Architecture design and reviews Redshift workshops and quick starts Migrations plans and execution Managed services Hosted best of breed BI/DW solution Serverless patterns AWS EXPERTISE Why we’re in this space and our offering Delivery Team Certified AWS Solutions Architects Internal training platform for all technologies built on AWS Rigorous internal Redshift training, from design through load Onsite Near Shore Offshore
- 17. Engage the business experts early and keep them involved Establish a base “foundation” quickly as a working prototype Expand functionality through iterative development cycles and business reviews DICKEY’S SUCCESS PLAN Define the journey and execute with excellence Strategic Alignment Establish Foundation Sprint Cycle 1 Sprint Cycle N Don’t Wait to Start Build Something Valuable Innovation & Growth Iterate, Improve, and Build on Success • Sprint Planning • Sprint Design, Build and Test • Daily Scrums • Biweekly Scrum of Scrums • Sprint Demo and Review • Sprint Deployment and Production Cutover • Sprint Planning • Sprint Design, Build and Test • Daily Scrums • Biweekly Scrum of Scrums • Sprint Demo and Review • Sprint Deployment and Production Cutover• Infrastructure deployment and configuration • Proof of Value (optional) • Governance and process definition • Vision and value • Business capabilities • Data and technology Operate & Optimize
- 18. Engage the business experts early and keep them involved Establish a base “foundation” quickly as a working prototype Expand functionality through iterative development cycles and business reviews DICKEY’S SUCCESS PLAN Define the journey and execute with excellence Strategic Alignment Establish Foundation Sprint Cycle 1 Sprint Cycle N Don’t Wait to Start Build Something Valuable Innovation & Growth Iterate, Improve, and Build on Success • Sprint Planning • Sprint Design, Build and Test • Daily Scrums • Biweekly Scrum of Scrums • Sprint Demo and Review • Sprint Deployment and Production Cutover • Sprint Planning • Sprint Design, Build and Test • Daily Scrums • Biweekly Scrum of Scrums • Sprint Demo and Review • Sprint Deployment and Production Cutover• Infrastructure deployment and configuration • Proof of Value (optional) • Governance and process definition • Vision and value • Business capabilities • Data and technology Operate & Optimize Source discovery and roadmap alignment Technology decisions and acquisition
- 19. Engage the business experts early and keep them involved Establish a base “foundation” quickly as a working prototype Expand functionality through iterative development cycles and business reviews DICKEY’S SUCCESS PLAN Define the journey and execute with excellence Strategic Alignment Establish Foundation Sprint Cycle 1 Sprint Cycle N Don’t Wait to Start Build Something Valuable Innovation & Growth Iterate, Improve, and Build on Success • Sprint Planning • Sprint Design, Build and Test • Daily Scrums • Biweekly Scrum of Scrums • Sprint Demo and Review • Sprint Deployment and Production Cutover • Sprint Planning • Sprint Design, Build and Test • Daily Scrums • Biweekly Scrum of Scrums • Sprint Demo and Review • Sprint Deployment and Production Cutover• Infrastructure deployment and configuration • Proof of Value (optional) • Governance and process definition • Vision and value • Business capabilities • Data and technology Operate & Optimize Source discovery and roadmap alignment Technology decisions and acquisition AWS basics Stack installation and configuration Common dimensions
- 20. Engage the business experts early and keep them involved Establish a base “foundation” quickly as a working prototype Expand functionality through iterative development cycles and business reviews DICKEY’S SUCCESS PLAN Define the journey and execute with excellence Strategic Alignment Establish Foundation Sprint Cycle 1 Sprint Cycle N Don’t Wait to Start Build Something Valuable Innovation & Growth Iterate, Improve, and Build on Success • Sprint Planning • Sprint Design, Build and Test • Daily Scrums • Biweekly Scrum of Scrums • Sprint Demo and Review • Sprint Deployment and Production Cutover • Sprint Planning • Sprint Design, Build and Test • Daily Scrums • Biweekly Scrum of Scrums • Sprint Demo and Review • Sprint Deployment and Production Cutover• Infrastructure deployment and configuration • Proof of Value (optional) • Governance and process definition • Vision and value • Business capabilities • Data and technology Operate & Optimize Source discovery and roadmap alignment Technology decisions and acquisition AWS basics Stack installation and configuration Common dimensions POS Sales & Labor Purchases Inventory
- 21. Engage the business experts early and keep them involved Establish a base “foundation” quickly as a working prototype Expand functionality through iterative development cycles and business reviews DICKEY’S SUCCESS PLAN Define the journey and execute with excellence Strategic Alignment Establish Foundation Sprint Cycle 1 Sprint Cycle N Don’t Wait to Start Build Something Valuable Innovation & Growth Iterate, Improve, and Build on Success • Sprint Planning • Sprint Design, Build and Test • Daily Scrums • Biweekly Scrum of Scrums • Sprint Demo and Review • Sprint Deployment and Production Cutover • Sprint Planning • Sprint Design, Build and Test • Daily Scrums • Biweekly Scrum of Scrums • Sprint Demo and Review • Sprint Deployment and Production Cutover• Infrastructure deployment and configuration • Proof of Value (optional) • Governance and process definition • Vision and value • Business capabilities • Data and technology Operate & Optimize Source discovery and roadmap alignment Technology decisions and acquisition AWS basics Stack installation and configuration Common dimensions POS Sales & Labor Purchases Inventory RT Sales Goals and forecasts Training compliance Loyalty and sentiment Digital marketing Aggregates and applications
- 22. Usability Performance Value Future Proofing/Product Roadmap WHY DMX?
- 23. DMX Follow general best practices; don’t create tech debt Leverage Provisioned IOPS on EBS volumes Maximize usage of DMX features; future proof Redshift Minimize row by row updates/inserts; build an ELT framework Get your encoding and distribution keys in order Type 7’s are fantastic; sorry developers Get creative in your modeling Overall De-risk innovation by enabling developer freedom Leverage AWS tools available to you: Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, CloudWatch LESSONS LEARNED
- 24. Alexalytics – Cognitive Boardroom A simple solution for next-generation analytic consumption Frameworks enables quick configuration and deployment of multiple intents: KPI querying Data integration status and triggering Data warehouse maintenance Sending notification Serverless infrastructure Advanced Analytics Utilize machine learning models and neural networks to analyze guest behaviors, commodities pricing, weather forecast impacts to sales and supply chain, franchisee and consumer fraud, etc. Streaming of WiFi observations via Kinesis with marketing triggers Customer 360 INNOVATION: WHAT’S IN THE SMOKER?
- 25. Thank You