The Datastore Presenters: Nicholas Couture – President / CTO Marc Tomkinson – Director of Product Innovation

General Systems Evolution Theory Communication and Optimization Transaction Management Exception management and reporting Strategic planning Strategic planning

Yard Smart’s evolution Automatically assign tasks & resources Replace Radio Software agents & reports Datastore

History of Yard Smart analytical data Yard Smart started with one database containing everything It evolved to a different set of tables for deleted and live data The operational model became loaded with analytical data elements The operational code has more and more functionality dedicated to analytical data capture and computing Yard Smart’s growth is becoming unsustainable… We need the datastore!

The datastore, how it works User Action YS OPS Staging Datastore SSIS

The benefits

Performance improvement Leaner operational database Only one action to save the event All data transformations are performed in an asynchronous process Sustainable operational performance

Empowered Customers Access to all the data available in Yard Smart Very limited impact on transaction processing Easier understanding of the database structure with de- normalization and documentation

Enough data to get strategic Ability to add numerous elements to the data model in new versions with no impact on transactional processing Ability to make relations between history to create new perspectives and correlations New areas of analysis – Shunter productivity – Door productivity – Zone utilization Enabler for new functionality

New features on datastore

YS 4.2 – See the Future Background Information Collector (BIC) Monitoring tool for: Physical Infrastructure USC Monitoring YS Server Monitoring Client Usage Establish Performance Benchmarks Forecast Hardware & Software impact of deploying new site Proactively identify potential issues

YS 4.2 – See the Past Interactive Dashboards KPI-specific dashboards Shunter Productivity Dock Utilization Etc… Easily and Efficiently… Manage your resources React to Yard Issues View & Quantify Improvements Built-in to the system – no config required

Reporting Compatible with any BI tool Sample Reports Out of the box with Yard Smart with MSRS Dock Door Usage Shunter Driver Hours …

Technical Requirements New instance of SQL server SQL server 2008 Reporting Services for C3 Sample reports Mandatory Data Store as of Yard Smart 4.1