Migrating Discoverer to OBIEE, and getting OBIEE Live in 7 Days Mike Hartmann, Regional Sales Manager mike.hartmann@eistech.com

Agenda Introductions Sunsetting Discoverer, and your Options Transactional versus Analytical Reporting Where does OBIEE fit? (and REALLY fit?) And what about those Discoverer Workbooks? Choices for transactional reporting Why EiS? Summary

EiS Overview Founded in 2001 Privately owned Oracle Platinum Partner and ISV International presence – US, UK and India Distribution partners globally Resources Atlanta with over 60 Hyderabad with over 80 Global customers – exceeding 120 Partnerships–Oracle, Deloitte etc.

Sunsetting Discoverer, and your Options Discoverer 11g Premier Support – June 2014 Extended support through June 2017 What’s the direction of your organization BI Publisher Microsoft Excel OBIEE How would I move from 11.5.10.2 to say R12?

BI Publisher and Excel BI Publisher Microsoft Excel Development time & skills Ad-hoc capability? End user access? Microsoft Excel End users love it No security Manual reporting

Analytical & Transactional Reporting Analytical Reporting Analytical Reporting Transactional Reporting HCM SCM CRM Financials Projects Manufacturing FDM / FDQM ODI / ERPi Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) Informatica OBIA – BI Apps Planning/Essbase – HFM/FCM Common Enterprise Information Model Synchronize Dimensions and Metrics Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Hyperion Business Intelligence Foundation

Reporting - Utilization and Audiences Standard Reports & Ad Hoc Reports Query Drilldown & Alerts Dashboards, Scorecards, & KPIs Forecasting & Statistical Analysis Predictive Analytics & Optimization Strategic Support Operations Analytical Reporting Analytical Reporting Transactional Reporting Transactional Reporting Business Intelligence – Getting the Right Information to the Right People at the Right Time Transactional versus Analytical reporting is typically an 80/20 80% of reports keep your lights on 20% of reports help you plan and strategize

Where does OBIEE fit? (and REALLY fit?) Strategic In the next 5 years High level – CEO, CFO etc. Planned (in support of strategic) This year and next year Senior Mgmt – VPs etc. Operational Today and yesterday Line level Mgmt – Directors etc

Where Does OBIEE REALLY Fit? Oracle Discoverer Operational Planned Strategic Transactional System Warehouse Transactions, Transactions, Transactions Summary

What does OBIEE need to go live? Operational Planned Strategic Metadata, Schema, Views – EUL, Universes, Models, Star Schema etc. Warehouse Transactional System Transactions, Transactions, Transactions Summary

EiS provides what OBIEE needs for EBS Oracle Apps Data EiS Business Views RPD OBIEE Over 1,250 EiS Standard Reports

What does OBIEE need then?

What does OBIEE need then?

What about those Discoverer Workbooks? Discoverer Workbook Utility Discoverer Workbook View EiS eXpress Reporting EiS Views Standard Reports New EiS Report EiS Metadata OBI Analysis RPD File EiS Converter Export Import Create

What about those Discoverer Workbooks? Discoverer Workbook Utility Discoverer Workbook View EiS Staging Area Views Joins Components LOVs Comments (if needed) EiS Metadata OBI Answers RPD File EiS Converter Export Import Create www.eistech.com End user operational reporting

EiS - Choices for transactional reporting Addresses ad-hoc reporting needs and provides configured metadata (views) and ready to use reports for Oracle EBS OBI content, ready to use answers and dashboards for ad-hoc and real time transactional reporting for Oracle EBS Enables you to run reports from Oracle EBS in Excel securely while still maintaining all your formatting when refreshing Enables GL users to replace FSGs with Excel with almost unlimited drill down to any/all sub ledgers

EiS eXpress www.eistech.com End user operational reporting

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EiS/Oracle Integrated Architecture Configurations DFF KFF EIT SIT ORG OU Ledgers Source 11i/R12x E-BUSINESS SUITE Views Reports Security Datamarts GL Payroll Projects EBS Database (XXEIS) Business Layer Metadata (Configured) Report Layer eXpress Report Server Presentation Layer Analysis Dashboards SERVER OBIEE RPD Enterprise Edition EiS OBI Generator www.eistech.com End user operational reporting

Why EiS? Architecture - 100% Oracle based on your existing:- hardware extension of Oracle EBS based on your existing:- hardware technology stack transactional system configuration and setups utilizes Oracle Applications security IT can support EiS using existing skill-sets complete and mature EBS reporting solution OA Framework – Fusion Middleware Complimentary to OBIEE

Why EiS? Coverage and Configuration Implementation Specific Content Modules – R11.x, R12.x and beyond.......... Financials – GL, AP, AR, FA, iExp and CM Projects – Costing, Billing, Management, OTL and Grants HCM – HR, PAY, OTL, OAB, iRec, IC, CWB and OLM Supply Chain – PO, INV, iProc and OM CRM – Sales and Marketing Service – Install Base, Depot Repair and Service Order Manufacturing – Discrete, Process, Quality and ASCP Implementation Specific Content discovery of Sets of Books (Ledgers in R12), OU’s & Orgs auto-detection of all DFF’s, KFF’s, EIT’s & SIT’s complete online documentation with training exercises over 1,250 production ready reports fully supported and upgradeable to any version seamlessly

EiS Customers – 100% Retention

EiS Technologies Oracle EBS and technology experts since 2001 Oracle Certified Partner and ISV Oracle EBS implementation experts More than just a software company eXpress Reporting Solutions Fusion implementation services OBIEE implementation services Oracle EBS implementation services R12 assessments and upgrades/re-implementations Managed Services

Summary There is life outside Discoverer Several options to select from for transactional reporting needs OBIEE, BI Publisher and Excel all have a place Maintain investment from Discoverer in OBIEE or EiS eXpress

Intrigued??? Special Offer!!! Book a demo with us by March 21st Receive a 4 hour BI assessment at NO CHARGE! www.eistech.com End user operational reporting

Questions???

Mike Hartmann Mike.Hartmann@eistech.com @EiSTechnologies 973-479-6022 Thank you