"Vivint Solar is a leading full-service residential solar provider in the United States with more than 100,000 solar systems to its credit. Vivint Solar uses MicroStrategy on AWS to keep track of internal processes, including operations, finance, customer support, and human resources. With MicroStrategy on AWS, Vivint Solar could deploy a fully configured MicroStrategy environment in just an hour, giving their IT team more time to focus on other high-value projects. Today, Vivint Solar uses over 25 different AWS tools and services including, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Amazon SQS, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CodeDeploy to track and analyze their data. Join us in this session to learn how Vivint Solar is using analytics to transform the way they do business and revolutionize the way people think about renewable energy. Session sponsored by MicroStrategy"

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Learn How MicroStrategy on AWS is
Helping Vivint Solar Deliver Clean
Energy
Jed Rampton, Data Architect, Vivint Solar
Shreyas Shah, Senior Product Owner, MicroStrategy
Chris Whaley, Senior Director, Cloud Operations, MicroStrategy
N o v e m b e r 2 0 1 7
AWS re:INVENT

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Today, Vivint Solar is one of
the largest full-service
residential solar providers,
with over 113,000
customers.
2011
FOUNDED:
as a sister company
of Vivint Smart Home
2014
PUBLIC OFFERING:
with $330 million in gross proceeds
COVERAGE AREA:
Currently operating in 41 offices in 20 states with 3,300 employees
774 MWs installed since inception with $2.8 billion in nominal
contracted payments remaining
Closed over $3.3 billion of funding since inception including 21
separate investment funds and 4 back-leverage facilities
CONSULTATION
ENGINEERING
FINANCING
INSTALLATION
SERVICE
REFERRAL
Routes to Market:
Direct-to-home
Dealer Program
Inside Sales
Retail Channel
BUSINESS MODEL:

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106,000+customers since 2011
3,000+
employees
21
states
770+
megawatts

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MicroStrategy on AWS
Live Demo

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Our MicroStrategy Story
Data in the Wild Wild West
• No centralized system / process for reporting
• Each department extracts, massaged and
reported their own numbers
Results
• No two reports were the same – Very often the same metric from one
report didn’t match another report
• We were reaching the limits of Excel – Too many rows and columns.
Sheets would take a hour + to calculate
• Analysts spent most of their time producing reports and analyzing data
Before MicroStrategy…
Marketing Operations Sales
Version #1 Version #2 Version #3

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Our MicroStrategy Story
BI Solution Needed
• Executive support
• BI Coordination Committee
• Centralized system to ingest data, apply business logic and
distribute data
Results
• BI Coordinating committee formed
• Chaired by Finance
• Members from each business unit and IT
• Data Warehouse implemented and MicroStrategy purchased
• With executive sponsorship and our coordinating we now have
consistent, repeatable reports with significantly less many hours
• Our business analyst have been freed up to Analyze data
versus Wrangle data
Why we chose MicroStrategy
Unified Enterprise Data
Marketing Sales Operations
Singular Version of the Truth for everyone on any device

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MicroStrategy Implementation
• Our IT infrastructure resides almost entirely in AWS
• New tool – No skills with MicroStrategy
• We used MicroStrategy Consulting to assist in installation and configuration
• We deployed on RedHat Amazon EC2 instances in a multi-node cluster
• Installation and initial configuration took 1 week
• Upgrades take similar efforts
Start
1 week
1 hour
On-Premises
AWS

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MicroStrategy on AWS
• Rapid deployment: Rolling out new instance or an upgrade takes hours not weeks
• Scales: Supports small single node deployments to larger multi-node deployments
• Elastic: You can re-size your deployments as needed
• Scheduling: You can use built in scheduler to stop, start or resize instances based on schedule
Start, stop, resize
environments
Schedule events
based on your needs
and requirements
• Start
• Stop
• Reboot
• Resize
• Upgrade
Calendar view of all
scheduled events
Upgrade

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ORCHESTRATION
Behind the scenes details

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D eploying t o Your A ccount
Running MicroStrategy on AWS in a self-contained environment

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D eploying t o Your A ccount
MicroStrategy on AWS Cloud Offerings

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D eploying t o Your A ccount
Running MicroStrategy on AWS in a self-contained environment

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D eploying t o Your A ccount
Running MicroStrategy on AWS in a self-contained environment

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D eploying t o Your A ccount
Running MicroStrategy on AWS in a self-contained environment

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D eploying t o Your A ccount
Running MicroStrategy on AWS in a self-contained environment

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D eploying t o Your A ccount
Running MicroStrategy on AWS in a self-contained environment

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D eploying t o Your A ccount
Running MicroStrategy on AWS in a self-contained environment

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D eploying t o Your A ccount
Running MicroStrategy on AWS in a self-contained environment

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MicroSt rat egy on AW S “ U nder t he H ood”

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D eploying t o Your A ccount
Running MicroStrategy on AWS in a self-contained environment

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K eeping Your AW S A ccount A ut onomous
Maintaining complete access control over your account

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Leveraging AW S R esources and Guarant ees
Advantages of managed compute resources

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Use cases and value

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Simple Enterprise Deployment:
• Deploy a complete MicroStrategy platform, fully configured
and ready to use
• Choose type and size of infrastructure based on cost or
usage requirements
• Select your version of MicroStrategy
• Select AWS data center region
• Deploy directly to your AWS account
• Requires no MicroStrategy or AWS expertise to use
Deploy in minutes
Eliminate installation and setup

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More Time Focused on Business
1. Understand the business problem
2. Define requirements
3. Identify and assign resources
4. Develop the architecture
5. Research technology options
6. Process RFI, RFP, and proof of concepts
7. Select providers
8. Negotiate agreements
9. Develop and approve capital expenditures
10. Build orders with purchasing
11. Process approvals and place orders
12. Hire and/or train technical staff
13. Receive and test equipment
14. Install and configure software
15. Test software and hardware configurations
16. Build the application
17. Test and deploy the application
Traditional on-premises
1. Understand the business problem
2. Define the requirements
3. Select configuration options
4. Deploy MicroStrategy on AWS
5. Build the application
6. Test and deploy the application
MicroStrategy Enterprise Cloud

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Faster Time to Value

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API Services:
• Create custom workflows to enable embedded analytics applications
• Empower developers to automate MicroStrategy deployment and
management leveraging native AWS capabilities
• Integrate with automation and scripting tools such as Chef and Perl
• Ideal option for use by:
• Corporate IT organizations that have a DevOps strategy in automating
the building and managing their cloud infrastructure
• Third-party developers that want to enable automated deployment and
management services for their analytics and mobility applications
• Third-party service providers that want to enable easy deployment and
management of the MicroStrategy platform
Integrate with your business processes

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Significant Costs Savings—Pay For What You Use
On 24 hours a day
$1,888/mo
$22,656/yr
Midnight Midnight
9 am 6 pm
$708/mo
$8,496/yr
2 server instances
8 vCPUs 61 GiB of memory
1 developer instance
2 vCPUs 15.25 GiB of memory
2 metadata instances
2 vCPUs 15 GiB of memory
On during work hours

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• Customers fill out the form from our website and get
access to the MicroStrategy on AWS administrative
console
• The ability to deploy a fully configured
MicroStrategy environment into their own AWS
account
• 30-day free trial license key to the MicroStrategy
platform and the full breadth of capabilities
What’s included
https://www.microstrategy.com/us/products/platform/cloud

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