So what are your options? EiS Proprietary and Confidential Replacing Discoverer? So what are your options? Andy Donovan – EiS Technologies EiS Proprietary and Confidential

Agenda Introductions What is Business Intelligence Strategic v Tactical v Operational When, Who and What Where does OBIEE fit (and truly fit OOTB) What does OBIEE need So show me! Why EiS? Summary

Agenda Introductions What is Business Intelligence Strategic v Tactical v Operational When, Who and What Where does OBIEE fit (and truly fit OOTB) What does OBIEE need So show me! Why EiS? Summary

What is Business Intelligence? Dashboards Key Performance Indices (KPIs) Balanced Scorecards Trending Benchmarking Analytics Ah-hoc Reporting Business Intelligence (BI) refers to skills, technologies, applications and practices used to help a business acquire a better understanding of its commercial context © Wikipedia 2009

What is Business Intelligence? Dashboards Key Performance Indices (KPIs) Balanced Scorecards Trending Benchmarking Analytics Ah-hoc Reporting “Getting the Right Information to the Right People at the Right Time to improve Organizational Performance” Business Intelligence (BI) refers to skills, technologies, applications and practices used to help a business acquire a better understanding of its commercial context © Wikipedia 2009

What is Business Intelligence? Strategic Strategic When - For the next 5 years Who - “C” Level What - Planning and forecasting

What is Business Intelligence? Strategic Tactical Tactical When - This and next year Who - VP’s and Senior Directors What - Analysis, Project Over-runs

What is Business Intelligence? Strategic Tactical Operational Operational When - Today and yesterday Who - LOB Management What - What happened?

Agenda Introductions What is Business Intelligence Strategic v Tactical v Operational When, Who and What Where does OBIEE fit (and truly fit OOTB) What does OBIEE need So show me! Why EiS? Summary

Oracle Apps Transactions Where Does OBIEE Fit? OBIEE Oracle Discoverer BI Publisher Operational Tactical Strategic Oracle Apps Transactions Data Warehouse Present day What is happening now? Live transactional reporting History and short to medium term Ad hoc reporting, Why? Management & statutory reporting What will happen Long term plans, Forecasts Scorecards and Dashboards

Where Does OBIEE Fit – REALLY !!! Oracle Discoverer BI Publisher Operational Tactical Strategic Oracle Apps Transactions Warehouse Transactions, Transactions, Transactions Summary

Agenda Introductions What is Business Intelligence Strategic v Tactical v Operational When, Who and What Where does OBIEE fit (and truly fit OOTB) What does OBIEE need So show me! Why EiS? Summary

Where Does OBIEE Fit – REALLY !!! Oracle Discoverer BI Publisher Operational Tactical Strategic Oracle Apps Transactions Warehouse Transactions, Transactions, Transactions Summary

What does OBIEE need then? Operational Tactical Strategic Metadata, Schema, Views – EUL, Universes, Models, Star Schema etc. Warehouse Oracle Apps Transactions Transactions, Transactions, Transactions Summary

What does OBIEE need then? Strategic Tactical Operational

Complexity What does OBIEE need then? What goes here? Strategic Tactical Operational What goes here? Complexity

X What does OBIEE need then? Strategic Tactical Operational Metadata, Views, Open Objects Tables, Columns, Fields, Joins, KP Prof, SQL, PLSQL, Triggers, Keys, Oracle DB, MS SQLDB

What does OBIEE need then? The Complexity Complex Data Structures Data is not always in one module Building a report needs IT involvement User-defined fields need to be reported on Configuration specific elements aren’t there Everyone wants their data in Excel And give it ALL the data to me, I will decide later!

Agenda Introductions What is Business Intelligence Strategic v Tactical v Operational When, Who and What Where does OBIEE fit (and truly fit OOTB) What does OBIEE need So show me! Why EiS? Summary

Agenda Introductions What is Business Intelligence Strategic v Tactical v Operational When, Who and What Where does OBIEE fit (and truly fit OOTB) What does OBIEE need So show me! Why EiS? Summary

Why EiS? Mask complexity with EiS Views EiS Views are cross modular Enable end users to create reports Auto-detection of ALL KFFs and DFFs Auto-detection of Books, OUs, Inv Orgs. OOTB Excel Pivot Tables with drill to detail The Complexity Complex Data Structures Data is not always in one module Building a report needs IT involvement User-defined fields need to be reported on Configuration specific elements aren’t there Everyone wants their data in Excel

Coverage and Configuration Why EiS? Coverage and Configuration Modules – R11.x and R12.x Financials – GL, AP, AR, FA and CM Projects – Costing, Billing, OTL and Grants HCM – HR, PAY, OTL, OAB, iRec, CWB and OLM Supply Chain – PO, Inv and OM Cross Modular – eg. AP to Projects Implementation Specific Content discovery of Sets of Books (ledgers), OU’s, Orgs auto-detection of all DFF’s, KFF’s, EIT’s & SIT’s detection of pick-lists, LOVs, IDs etc full documentation & training modules over 500 production ready reports fully supported & maintained software solution

Summary Why EiS ? Content - Apps Specific Module Coverage Apps Security All Oracle - Integrated Documented Proven

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Why EiS? Oracle Apps Data EiS Business Views UDML RPD OBIEE EiS Standard Reports

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