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ORACLE BUSINESS INDICATORS

KEY BENEFITS

INCREASE MOBILE USER PRODUCTIVITY

Access to comprehensive pre-

With Oracle Business Indicators, CFOs can view the latest company financial trends, sales managers can be alerted to sales performance and customer satisfaction issues, and commodity managers can quickly assess the viability of a supplier all from the convenience of the iPhone.
Convenient Access to Pre-defined Metrics Business users are becoming more mobile. Offices are more virtual than physical. Whether it is a business executive, sales manager, field service professional, or inventory manager, the business information needed by these users while away from their office has also become more complex. They need business insights that can help them understand the latest business conditions and trends to be highly productive while they are on-the-go. Oracle helps these mobile business users meet these challenges with a comprehensive set of pre-defined analytics that can be accessed by Oracle Business Indicators on the iPhone. These pre-built metrics and reports are delivered from Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications, and include financial, human resources, supply chain and customer relationship management analytics. Oracle Business Indicators delivers time critical intelligence to a broad group of business users across many disciplines. From the contact center to the order fulfillment department, managers require visibility at a moments notice. For example, a contact center manager can monitor call volume to determine the proper staffing level in order to provide superior service to their customers. Also, customer fulfillment managers concerned about a significant spike in customer demand for a product can monitor the available quantity to fulfill new orders. Users can also create custom reports and analyses using Oracles market-leading BI platform, Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE), then view the results on their iPhone with Oracle Business Indicators. Timely Alerts on Exception Conditions Mobile business users need to be alerted when there are exceptions in business conditions. They want relevant information to help them understand the circumstances that caused the exceptions. Additionally, they want to be able to quickly analyze what business areas might be impacted by these exceptions so that they can take immediate actions even when they are away from the office. Oracle Business Indicators enables the mobile business user to review alerts that are generated by conditions pre-defined in the Oracle BI Delivers component of the

built and custom analytic content

Timely alerts on exceptions

with insightful analysis

Flexible browse and search

capabilities in pre-defined catalog

A Favorites list to store

frequently-used reports
Intuitive user interface fully

leveraging Apple iPhone mobile platform INCREASE RETURN ON INVESTMENT

Leverage investment in

Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus

Leverage investment in

Oracle Business Intelligence Applications

Consistent role-based access

to analytical content QUICK AND SECURE DEPLOYMENT

Consistent user and data

security model with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications

Support of SSL encryption

protocol
Seamless integration through

powerful Oracle BI Web Services

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OBIEE platform. The business user can select an alert entry and immediately review an associated analytic report for details attributing to the exception. With Oracle Business Indicators, Sales Managers can be quickly alerted to product pricing or availability issues that can impact customer purchasing decisions, and Field Service Managers can be notified immediately how quality issues may impact their ability to service customers.

Figure1. Oracle Business Indicators application

Superior User Experience Built as a native application on the Apple iPhone platform, Oracle Business Indicators takes full advantage of the mobile platform to offer highly intuitive and flexible user interface features for a superior overall end user experience. Oracle Business Indicators can display metric reports with charts and tables with superb clarity leveraging the mobile platforms 3.5-inch, 320 x 480-pixel display high resolution screen. Users can easily zoom in and out of report details via the mobile platforms multi-touch (or pinch) technology. Using the iPhone touchscreen, users can easily browse through a catalog of predefined reports in Oracle Business Indicators with just a few taps. Similarly, with a tap of the Search button in the navigation bar, the dynamic keyboard appears to enable users to perform keyword searches in the catalog with wild card support. Frequently accessed reports can also be saved to a Favorites list, which can be easily launched from the iPhones tab bar. Oracle Business Indicators provides business users the capability to interact with reports. For example, users can access report-level prompts and filters to help refine the granularity of data that is displayed. Cell-level drills are supported so that users

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can drill up or down dimensional hierarchies to view summary analysis to increasing levels of detail. Additionally, users can launch related reports from the cell-level to perform previously defined guided-analysis. Robust and Consistent Security Model Access to the pre-defined and customized analytical content through Oracle Business Indicators is associated with user roles, thus providing information and intelligence that are secured and relevant to the job functions of individuals. This is the same user and data security model that is defined in Oracle BI Applications to ensure consistency in this seamless integration. Oracle Business Indicators also supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol to receive data securely from the OBIEE server. This robust encryption technology assures that the user can view any number of reports and any amount of data securely through the trusted SSL connection. High ROI with Low TCO Oracle Business Indicators leverages your investments in OBIEE and Oracle BI Applications for a comprehensive suite of pre-defined and customized metric reports and conditional alerts, thereby offering immediate access to rich analytical content while increasing your return on investment (ROI). The powerful set of Oracle BI Web Services, along with the support of SSL encryption protocol, enables Oracle Business Indicators to access the pre-built analytical content easily and securely, thus greatly reducing overall deployment time. Oracle Business Indicators highly intuitive and flexible user interface promotes quick user adoption, thus minimizing administration and training costs. Together these factors contribute to a lower total cost of ownership (TCO). These capabilities make the Oracle Business Indicators application an easy-to-use and insightful tool that enhances mobile business user productivity. Mobile business users are empowered with the information and intelligence necessary to gain valuable insight and facilitate decision-making when they are away from the office, between meetings, or traveling on the road. Licensing and Availability Oracle Business Indicators requires the licensing of OBIEE and optionally Oracle BI Applications so that users can access pre-defined and customized financial, human resources, supply chain and customer relationship management analytics and business intelligence alerts. The English language version of Oracle Business Indicators can be downloaded for free only from the following iPhone App Stores: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Australia and New Zealand

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