Oracle Business Intelligence Applications

The Value of Cross-Functional BI

Darryn Hinett
Business Solutions Consultant

The Problem No Vendor Has Solved

Until Now
COMPLETE BI SOLUTIONS ARE MUCH MORE THAN JUST DASHBOARDS
DASHBOARDS
Visible

PLUMBING

Data warehouse
design

Under the
Surface
Significant time,
resources and
expertise required

Data mapping &

transformation
from multiple
applications
Analytic models,
KPIs, metrics
Much more

Building BI Solutions is Challenging

Significant Investment, Skills and Time Required
Develop detailed understanding of operational data sources
Design a data warehouse by subject area
License an ETL tool to move data from operational systems
to this DW
Build ETL programs for every data source
License interactive user access tools

Research/understand analytic needs of each user community

These steps require

multiple different BI
and DW technology
INVESTMENTS

These steps require IT

or BI staff resources
with specialized
SKILLS

Build analytics for each audience

License/create information delivery tools

Set up user security & visibility rules
Perform QA & performance testing
Manage on-going changes/upgrades

These steps take TIME

to understand and
perfect as knowledge
of best practices is
learned

Typical Effort & Customization balance

Dashboards & Reports

OBIEE Metadata

DW Schema

ETL

Degree of
Customization

Easy

Moderate

Intermediate

Involved

Additional dashboards and

reports, guided and conditional
navigations, iBots, etc.
Additional derived metrics,
custom drill paths, exposing
extensions in physical, logical and
presentation layer, etc.
Extension of DW Schema for
extension columns, additional
tables, external sources,
aggregates, indices, etc.
Extension of ETL for
extension columns,
descriptive flexfields,
additional tables, external
sources, etc.

Level of
Effort
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Speeds Time To Value and Lowers TCO

Build from Scratch
with Traditional BI Tools

Oracle BI Applications

Training / Roll-out

Results

Define Metrics
& Dashboards

Faster time to value

Lower TCO
Assured business value

DW Design
Training / Rollout
Back-end
ETL and
Mapping

Define Metrics
& Dashboards
DW Design
Back-end
ETL and
Mapping

Months or Years

Easy to use, easy to adapt

Role-based dashboards and
thousands of pre-defined metrics
Prebuilt DW design, adapts to your
EDW
Prebuilt Business Adapters for
Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel, SAP,
others

Weeks or Months

Source: Patricia Seybold Research, Gartner, Merrill Lynch, Oracle Analysis

Packaged BI Applications
Business Intelligence EE 11gR1
Sales
Service and
Contact
Center

Procurement
and Spend

Financials

Marketing
Supply Chain
and Order
Management

CRM
ANALYTICS

ERP
ANALYTICS
Projects

Loyalty

Price

Human
Resources

ORACLE BI ENTERPRISE EDITION

AND OTHER OPERATIONAL AND ANALYTIC SOURCES

Complete. Open. Integrated.

Oracle Business Intelligence 11g
Data
Scorecards Interactive Reporting &
Integration
Dashboards Publishing

Ad-hoc
Analysis

Office
Integration

Search

Detect
& Alert

Collaborate Mobile

Embedded

Common Enterprise Information Model

OLTP & ODS

Systems

Common Metadata Foundation across all Data Sources

Common Security, Access Control, Authorization, Auditing
Common Request Generation and Optimized Data Access Services
Common Clustering, Workload Management, & Deployment
Common Systems & Operational Lifecycle Management

Data Warehouse
Data Mart

Exadata

OLAP
Sources

Packaged
Applications
(Oracle, SAP, Others)

Unstructured &
Semi-Structured

Excel
XML/Office

Business
Process

11g Upgrade Options for

BI Apps Customers

BI Apps 7.9.6.x / OBIEE 11g Upgrade Plans

Upcoming Fusion BI Apps 11g and BI Apps

11g PS1 will uptake OBIEE 11g features
BI Apps 7.9.6.x certification with OBIEE
11.1.1.4.0 is under consideration

Option 1: Upgrade BI Apps With OBIEE 11.1.1.3.0

BI Apps 7.9.6.x is upgradeable to OBI EE 11g with the 11.1.1.3

release, but a number of known issues have been identified
and are discussed in the product documentation
Understand the risk of being an early adopter
Consider and include all the risks in your project planning
Require patience and risk tolerance
Consider environment requirements (Windows/Linux)
Recommended ONLY If there are critical OBIEE 11g features
that are needed, e.g. 64-bit operation, scorecarding, Answers+
etc.

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10g Spend Analyser

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11g Spend Analyser

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Option 2: Upgrade BI Apps With OBIEE 11.1.1.4.0

Better than Option 1

11.1.1.4.0 includes lot of bug fixes
Still Requires few manual changes to RPD/Webcat to
complete the successful upgrade
Consider additional efforts in your project planning
Please do Cost vs Benefits analysis before
considering the upgrade
Consider installing in development environment and
start exploring the new features, even if upgrade is
not required immediately

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Option 3: Upgrade Certified BI Apps Release (796x

with 11.1.1.4.0/11.1.1.5.0)
Best option as all the manual fixes will be done by
Oracle as part of certification
Still requires manual changes to customized objects
of RPD/Webcat, but changes should be minimal
It is highly recommended to wait for this release,
unless there is a compelling business need for the
immediate upgrade

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Financial Analytics
Cascading Prompts
Select Fiscal Year = 2008
Fiscal Quarter
shows only 2008
values

In-place Drill using

presentation
hierarchies

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Oracle Confidential
Internal Use Only

Financial Analytics

Graph Sliders

Enhanced
Visualizations

Playback option
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Oracle Confidential
Internal Use Only

Oracle BI Applications
Roadmap

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Oracle BI Applications
Release Roadmap
Convergence Release

Available

Dual ETL Support

Planned

Applications Unlimited

INFA

Fusion Apps
Apps
Unlimited

7.9.6

7.9.6.1

7.9.6.2

SAP

7.9.6.3

Select Edge / Industry

Fusion Apps

11g

ODI

11g PS1

7.9.5.2

SAP

7.9.7

7.9.7.1

Certification
with OBIEE 11g

11g PS2

Oracle BI Applications Planned Additional Content

11g Family

FINANCIALS

HIGHER EDUCATION

Project Analytics (resources, scheduling, grants accounting,

etc.)
JDE Adapter for Project Analytics
Add back new Fusion content for Project Commitments,
Project Cross Charge
Integration of PeopleSoft Campus Solutions
Academic Enterprise

PROCUREMENT

Quality Analytics
Enhancements to Order Mgmt and Inventory
Manufacturing Analytics (EBS)
Manufacturing Analytics (JDE)
Enterprise Asset Management
Add back new Fusion content for Sourcing, Inventory/Cycle
Count, Order Holds/Aging

CRM

Compensation
HR Competencies / Qualifications
HR Performance Management
Benefits
Workforce Optimization Analytics
Time & Labor, Absence/Payroll/Global Payroll

PROJECTS

MANUFACTURING

HR

Commitment Control & Public Sector Financial/Budget

Analysis
Fusion Scorecard/embedded analytics for Financial Analytics
Fixed Assets (Assets Revaluation, Leases, Warranties)
FSG Integration with Financial Analytics
HFM Integration and extensions for EPM
AX Accounting support (Global Accounting Engine)

Price Analytics (EBS)

Service Analytics (EBS R12)
Service Analytics (PSFT HelpDesk)
Sales Analytics (Usage Accelerator Oppty Action Plan and
Usage)
Loyalty Analytics enhancements
Public Sector Case Analytics enhancements

GBU & EDGE PRODUCTS

Warranty Analytics
Integration of Agile PLM Analytics
Integration of Retail Analytics
Integration of Fusion Transportation Intelligence
Integration of Incentive Compensation Analytics
Integration of P6 Analytics (Primavera)
Integration of Tax / Utilities Analytics
Integration of Communications Analytics

Procurement & Spend (Contract Lifecycle Management)

Procurement & Spend (integration with Supplier Hub)
JDE Adapter for Procurement & Spend Analytics
Add back new Fusion content for Procurement Change Orders
and Agreements

"This information is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality. The development,
release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle"

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Oracle BI Applications 11g

Planned Support for
Fusion Applications

Fusion Applications
Complete, Modular Suite of Applications
Oracle Fusion
Human Capital Management

Oracle Fusion
Financial Management

Oracle Fusion
Supply Chain Management

General
Ledger

Accounts
Payable

Asset
Management

Global Human
Resources

Workforce
Lifecycle
Management

Benefits

Product Master
Data
Management

Distributed
Order
Orchestration

Global Order
Promising

Payments &
Collections

Accounts
Receivable

Cash &
Expense
Management

Compensation
Management

Talent Review

Performance
& Goal Mgmt

Inventory
Management

Cost
Management

Shipping &
Receiving

Global
Payroll

Network @
Work

KPIs,
Dashboards,
& Extensibility

Common Modules

KPIs, Dashboards,
& Extensibility FW

Oracle Fusion
Project Portfolio Management

KPIs, Dashboards,
& Extensibility FW

Oracle Fusion
CRM

Oracle Fusion
Procurement

Project
Costing

Project
Billing

Project
Performance
Reporting

Purchasing

Self-service
Procurement

Sourcing

Customer
Master

Sales

Marketing

Project
Control

Project
Integration
Gateway

Project
Contracts

Procurement
Contracts

Supplier Portal

Spend &
Performance
Analysis

Incentive
Compensation

Mobile &
Outlook
Integration

Territory &
Quota Mgmt

KPIs, Dashboards,
& Extensibility FW

KPIs, Dashboards,
& Extensibility FW

Oracle Fusion
GRC

Financial
Compliance

Issue & Risk

Manager

Access
Controls

KPIs, Dashboards,
& Extensibility FW

Transaction
Controls

Configuration
Controls

KPIs,
Dashboards, &
Extensibility FW

Fusion Reporting and Analytics

Consistent, Timely, Complete
Oracle
Transactional BI
(OTBI)

Real time, self service reporting directly off Fusion Apps data
Pre-packaged content covering major Fusion Applications
Built on Oracle BI EE technology

Oracle BI
Applications
(OBIA)

Unlimited historical analysis, including trending and cross-domain insight

Pre-packaged data warehouse, ETL, metrics, and interactive dashboards
Now available for EBS, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel
Extending to Fusion Applications
Built on Oracle BI EE technology

Specialized
Analytics

Financial statements, sales territory planning, project performance, and

more built on Essbase technology
Whitespace analysis built on Real-Time Decisions and Oracle Data
Mining technologies

Empowering Customers with OTBI + OBIA

Complementary, Comprehensive Solutions

OTBI

OBIA

Business Solution

Current state analysis

What are the current deferred
payment account balances?

Unlimited historical analysis

What is the trend, and how does it
compare to this period last year?

Business Process
Reporting

Tactical reporting
Order more quantity?

Strategic reporting
Change supplier?

Fusion Application operational user

Purchasing Agent, Billing Clerk,
Expense Report User

Managers and knowledge workers

Executive, Manager, Sales Rep, Analyst

Homogeneous Fusion Applicationscentric

Heterogeneous Multiple business areas

and disparate applications

Granular views, No data movement

Data warehouse model with transactional

detail, persisted data, bulk and incremental
data movement, ETL processing

Real Time

Updated periodically via ETL; latency

determined by ETL refresh frequency

Target Users

Data Sources
Data Preparation

Data Availability
Cross Functional Analysis

Single semantic model with conformed dimensions across both

Fusion BI Architecture
PrePackaged
Reports &
Dashboards

Self-Service
Query &
Reporting

Fusion
Embedded
Analytics

BI Common Semantic Model

OBIA

OBIA Data Warehouse

OTBI

Real-Time
Queries

Content Summary:
300+ embedded analytics
OBIA: 3,000+ reports, 4,000+ metrics
OTBI: Covers 35+ Fusion Products
BI Common Semantic Model:
Supports highly aggregated
trending and real-time transaction
listings from a single query model

ETL

BI View Objects

EBS, PSFT, JDE,

Siebel, SAP, Other

Fusion Apps
Transactional Database

BI View Objects:
Are single source of truth for BI
Represent facts and dimensions
Implement Apps data security
Handle MLS

Analytics are Always Available in Fusion Apps

1. Embedded Analytics
Individual BI reports in transactional screens
Entire BI Dashboard as tab on Fusion Home Page

2. Navigator / Main Menu

Menu link to launch BI Homepage
Browse the BI content catalog or create new reports

3. Reporting Pane
Displays list of contextually relevant reports
One-click launch of report in new window
Customer configurable

Embedded BI in Fusion Applications

Embedded Analytics in Transaction Pages

Full Apps context and bidirectional event integration

Hundreds of pre-built
embedded analytics in v1
All BI reports available in
Resource Catalog for easy
embedding

Accessing BI from Fusion Applications

Reporting Pane

One-click access to reports & dashboards

Contextually relevant to current Apps work area
Customer configurable content

Accessing BI from Fusion Applications

Reporting & Analytics Work Area

Browse and view entire BI Catalog

Access personal & shared reports
View/edit BI Publisher report schedules
Launch BI tools for advanced actions
Create new reports with Report Wizard

Business Intelligence for Fusion Apps

Summary
Solution Offerings
Real-time, self-service reporting
Historical and complex analysis with a data warehouse
Domain-specific, specialised analytics
Key Features
Consistent user experience
Identical tabular, graphical and visualization components used throughout

Common semantic model

Unified definition of key entitiesCustomer, Invoice, Date, Account, etc.and
calculations

Tight integration with Fusion Applications

Pervasive embedded analytics, role-based dashboards, and reports
Architected for Fusion Apps: seamless integration with flex, trees, security,

Low cost of ownership

Easier installation, functional setups, and systems management

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