Enabled a large theme park to migrate, and process their data quickly and improve customer services
Migrating from SAS to Hadoop for Efficient Data Processing for a Theme Park

About the Client
The Business Challenge
The client wanted to process the incoming data at a faster pace to improve its services. The client was getting its data from two sources (Omniture and Digital Envoy) where the processing time was around four days for a week’s worth of data.
What Aptus Data Labs Did
We migrated the client’s database from SAS to the Hadoop platform to process data from the two sources quickly.
The Impact Aptus Data Labs Made
Our approach helped the client to
The Business and Technology Approach
Aptus Data Labs used the below process to migrate the data and solve the existing challenge. Aptus Data Labs:
- Transferred the data files from landing to the Hadoop cluster
- Loaded data files to HDFS
- Converted all SQL scripts to Hive Scripts
- Loaded the processed data to a staging location on the Hadoop platform
The Architecture & Work Flow

Tools Used
- Hortonworks
- SAS platform – Campaign
- Legacy CRM
- CDE platform
The Outcome
The migrated Hadoop platform helped the client to increase the data processing performance by 80%. The client was able to use the Hadoop platform as a storage and data processing engine for data derived from both the sources. The capability helped the client to make better business decisions quickly.
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