1. Spanning the Oracle EBS Reporting Spectrum Operational and Analytical Reporting
Joe Dahl – Product Specialist

2. About Noetix BI solutions experts since 1994
Offices in North America, Europe and South Asia
Certified with all leading BI Platforms
Recent Product Awards: KMWorld, eWEEK, DMReview
1400+ customers globally
Drop the 4th bullet about “awards” if the Industry Slide Recognition slide is used in conjunction with this one.
SW 4/13/10
PARTNERSHIPS 2

3. Noetix’s History of Dedication to Oracle Applications Reporting
Noetix Analytics
Noetix Generator for Cognos
NoetixViews for PeopleSoft
Noetix EUL Generator
Noetix incorporated
Noetix for Siebel
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
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2001
2002
2003
2004
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2007
2008
2009
1994
SW 4/29/10
Noetix Incorporated: (Nov filed w/ State of Oregon)
NoetixViews launched: 1994 first use in commerce
Noetix EUL Generator launched: (1997)
Noetix Platform launched: (1999)
Noetix for Siebel launched: (2002)
Noetix Generator for Cognos (Jan. ‘07)
Noetix Generator for Business Objects (Nov. ‘07)
NoetixViews for PeopleSoft Enterprise: (Mar. ‘08)
Noetix Generator for Oracle BI (Jun ‘08)
Noetix acquisition of Jaros (Oct. ‘09)
**Speakers note: The brown colored line from was added so that the presenter could mention how long the analytics product has been in development.
NoetixViews
Noetix Platform
Noetix Dashboard
Noetix Generator for BusinessObjects
Noetix Generator for Oracle BI

4. Noetix Business Intelligence4

5. Noetix Supports the Full Spectrum of Reporting Needs
Historical Trending
Near Real-time
Summarized Data
Drillable Reports
Common Dimensions
Data Integration
Packaged ETL
Enterprise Models
Enterprise-wide
Strategic
Performance Management
Analytics / KPIs
Noetix Supports the Full Spectrum of Reporting Needs
Database Views
Application Security
Operational Reports
Ad hoc query
Real-time
Detailed Data

6. Operational Reporting6

7. BI Content Generation Experts
Oracle E-Business Suite
Siebel CRM
PeopleSoft
NoetixViews
NoetixAnswers
Noetix Analytics
Oracle Discoverer
Noetix Platform
Cognos BI
Business Objects
Oracle Business Intelligence EE

8. The Information Gap 70% of BI < The Information Gap >
Query, Reporting and Analysis Tools
Generic Templates
Additional costs
Additional resources
Additional delay
70% of BI
implementation
costs & delay
M a p p i n g R e w o r k
M a n u a l M a p p i n g
< The Information Gap >
Custom Application Configuration
Enterprise Application (v2)
Enterprise Application (v1)

9. The Information Gap < The Information Gap >
Query, Reporting and Analysis Tools
Custom Application Configuration
Generated Content
Generic Templates
Generates configuration specific BI content
Noetix MetaBuilder
< The Information Gap >
Custom Application Configuration
No additional rework costs or delay
Enterprise Application (v1)
Enterprise Application (v2)

10. Information About Your Setup
Configuration
Information about your enterprise application
User Interfaces
Security
Flexfields
[Interrogated]
Financials
Business Best Practices
Supply Chain
Manufacturing
Human Resources
[Handcrafted]
Noetix provides best practice templates/queries based on customer feedback and market experience – handcrafted
Metabuilder crawls specific configuration picking up business rules, sets of books, operating units, etc as well as end user interface information (Siebel) and very importantly – Security
The crawled metadata populates the handcrafted meta data and drives out Business Views…Reports….and Help File (Navigator)
Generated data
Business Views
[Configuration-specific Views]
Reports
[Configuration-specific Answers]
Documentation
[Configuration-specific Help]

11. OE_ORDER_HEADERS_ALL
What is a Noetix view?
Your report
Customer
Selling Org.
Cust. Status
Open Quant.
Order Quant.
Booked Date
Order No.
Orders
Customer No.
Oracle database tables
Noetix view of the database
Order Lines
ATO Flag
Booked Date
Customer
Customer No.
Item
Item Desc.
Line Status
Open Quant.
Order No.
Order Quant.
Project
Quantity
Organization
Flexfield column in the table
[Oracle EBS upgrade]
[remaps view]
[doesn’t break]
MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS_B
HZ_CUSTOMERS
OE_ORDER_LINES_ALL
OE_ORDER_HEADERS_ALL
MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS_TL
PA_PROJECTS_ALL
PA_TASKS
HZ_CUST_ACCOUNTS
OE_ORDER_LINES_ALL
HZ_PARTIES
PA_TASKS
ATTRIBUTE1: “Customer Status”
Flexfield column in the view
Cust. Status
“The core value propositions of NoetixViews are 1) they simplify access to data in the Oracle E-Business Suite database tables; 2) they are configuration specific, meaning they automatically pick-up each customer’s site-specific setups of Oracle, i.e., flexfields; 3) they provide upgrade protection, meaning they shield reports, queries and data extraction programs from changes in the structure of the Oracle database.”
The Basics of a View
Data about Tax Balances, for example, is stored in multiple tables within the Oracle Applications database. These tables and their columns have names that are not user-friendly. To extract data from these tables for a report requires precise knowledge of the table design and skill with SQL in order to assure the results are correct.
The NoetixViews are a simplified rendering of this complex table structure. A View is a virtual table that maps the database tables together to create a single table-like object that behaves like a table when queried by SQL. For the person writing a report, their effort is now greatly simplified and less prone to error because they only have a single object to query—the NoetixView—in order to retrieve their data.
Upgrade Protection
As Oracle continuously updates its software, it is not uncommon that this will include a change to the database structure, meaning that data that once was called one thing and stored in a given table may now have a different column name and be stored in a different table. Any SQL or report that was written against the older structure will fail to work correctly because of these changes. The same goes for the NoetixViews. However, at Noetix we make it our business to understand these changes and our software will reconstruct the same simplified View on top of the new structure. So even though the database changed—and so therefore too our Views change under the covers—the “view” of the data to the report remains consistent. Hence, the report continues to work without having to make changes to account for the database changes.
When Oracle changes the database tables
Noetix remaps the view
Your reports don’t break
SW - Updated 12/07

12. Oracle Flexfields and Noetix
Key Flexfield Base Table Column Names
Key Flexfield View Column Names
SEGMENT1
Company
SEGMENT2
Division
SEGMENT3
Cost Center
Descriptive Flexfield Base Table Column Names
Descriptive Flexfield View Column Names
ATTRIBUTE1
Web Site
ATTRIBUTE2
Preferred Vendor
ATTRIBUTE3
Approved Until

13. NoetixViews Help File SW - Updated 12/07
Noetix groups views by functional area into roles. A set of roles are created for each business group, set of books and operating unit for each module where applicable.
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SW - Updated 12/07
The first 3-5 characters in a role name, or role “prefix”, is defined by the customer at install time.

14. Immediate Answers to Questions
Automatically generates more than ~900 reports custom to your Oracle implementations
Provides end users with immediate answers to common business questions
Financials
Which accounts receivable invoices are due this month and next month?
Supply Chain
What are the on-hand quantities for the components of a bill of material?
Human Resources
SW - Updated 12/07
What is the wage or salary history for a specific employee or group of employees?
Manufacturing
What is the average price difference between a purchase order and stored cost?

15. NoetixViews Global Extension
SIRA Inc.
HR, BEN, PAY, OTL
Global
Business Group
United States
United Kingdom
Business Group
GL, FA, FV, AR, AP, PO, OE, PB, PC, GMS
Global
Chart of Accounts “A” Sets of Books/Ledgers Operating Units
Chart of Accounts “B” Sets of Books/Ledgers Operating Units
Chart of Accounts “C” Sets of Books/Ledgers Operating Units
INV, BOM, WIP, CST, MRP, EAM, QA
Global
Master INV Organization “X” INV Organizations
Master INV Organization “Y” INV Organizations
Master INV Organization “Z” INV Organizations
Also Global: ASCP, Service & OPM Suites

16. Global Security Row-level security
EBS data access privileges of the user
Manual & automatic setup
Applications Data is secured
Organizational accessibility
Application-specific security is enforced
MOAC (Multi Org Access Control) supported
Custom row-level security option, as needed

17. Noetix Generator

18. How BI Tools Ship – No Content18

19. Noetix leverages existing EBS and BI platform investments
Noetix WebQuery
Noetix Dashboard
Oracle Discoverer
Oracle BI Suite EE
Cognos 8 BI
BusinessObjects Enterprise XI
BusinessObjects Edge Series
Other Third-party BI Tools
BI Platform Semantic Layer Repositories and Report Catalogs
Models / Packages
Universe
Other data models
End User Layer /
Enterprise Information Model
Noetix Generator
Virtual tables
NoetixViews can help you standardize on a common data access layer for the Oracle E-Business Suite across any BI tool.
Oracle E-Business Suite
NoetixViews 19

20. Noetix Provides a Reporting Application With Any Front End Tool
NOETIX HELP FILE
OBI EE
COGNOS
DISCOVERER 20

21. Noetix Platform Noetix QueryServer SW - Updated 12/07 NoetixViews
NOETIX WEBQUERY
MICROSOFT EXCEL
NOETIX DASHBOARD
Noetix QueryServer
Query Mgmt Services
Performance Manager
Delivery Server
Metadata Repository
SW - Updated 12/07
NoetixViews
Oracle ERP
Siebel
PeopleSoft
Legacy
Other ERP or CRM
DM/DW

22. Noetix Search A 360° View of Your Reporting Environment

23. Noetix Search Key Benefits
Powerful Search Capability for Report Developers
Familiar user interface
Easily find the right view(s) for queries & reports
Reporting Objects Cross-Referenced
List all views by column
List all Oracle tables by view
List all columns by Oracle table by view
List all views by Oracle table
Print/Save PDF Files of Views/Columns/Tables Detail
360 Degree View of Your Views!
SW - Updated 8/08

24. Bringing Search to Noetix Reporting
Filter search by view names, view column names, table names and table column names.
Search across multiple instances of NoetixViews.
Guided navigation enables searching by roles, modules, and Oracle configuration
SW - Updated 8/08

25. NoetixViews Coverage
SW updated 6/09

26. Analytical Reporting 26

27. BI Challenges
Achieve business reporting and data analysis requirements
Minimize or eliminate impact on the production transaction database (OLTP)
Improve query performance
Capture transitory or historical data that no longer resides in the OLTP database
Integrate data from multiple disparate databases 27

28. Noetix Analytics
“Packaged” subject area data models in star schema data marts
Conformed dimensions and dimension hierarchies
Snapshot data for history and trending
Detailed data for full drill in Operational Data Store
Pre-built ETL mappings from Oracle EBS
Complex transformations into data marts
Change Data Capture for incremental refresh
Integration interface to integrate legacy data
Extensibility framework for customizations
Pre-defined performance measures (KPIs), dashboards and reports
AP/AR Aging, Working Capital Management, Net Bookings, Profitability Analysis, Vendor Performance & Quality, Headcount & Turnover Analysis
Active metadata repository with administration tools
Generators for integration with BI Platforms

29. Sample Noetix Analytics Subject Areas
Working Capital
Profitability
Projects
Sales
ASCP
Discrete MFG
Cash Conversion Cycle
Daily Net Revenue
Project Commitment Details
Backlog
Full Pegging by MSC Plans
BOM Costing
Days Sales Outstanding
Margins by Customer, Product, Rep
Expenditure Details
Cost of Sales by Customer, Product, Rep
Exception Demand/Supplies by Resource
Make Items with no BOM
Days Inventory Outstanding
Projects Revenues
Project Revenue Details
On-time Performance
Exception Demand/Supplies by Customer
Order Items with no Associated Job
Days Purchasing Outstanding
Projects Expenditures
Cost Center Distribution Lines
Net Bookings & Net Change
MFG BOM Operation Sequences by MSC Plans
Component Usage - History, Trends
SW 3/15/10
As an example, AP Aging, AR Aging, NoetixViews customers may feel like they have that information, but that’s only as of today. You may be able to see your 30, 60, 90 days buckets of who is behind on payments, but that doesn’t tell you who is the worst paying customer over time. What Noetix Analytics can do is trend that over a month, many months, or years. You’ll be able to see what customers are poor payers over time.
Open Receivables & Payables
Operating Income as % of Sales
Job Bill Rate Overrides
Debookings/ Rebookings
PO Lines by Implement Task
Quantity Built vs. Quantity Ordered
Spend by Period and Vendor
Gross Profit (Contribution)
Cost Center Organization Relationships
Projected COGS Per Order
MFG BOM Operation Sequences by Customer
Material Transactions By Plant to Ship 29

30. Noetix Analytics Architecture
Packaged ETL
Informatica PowerCenter
Data Warehouse
Noetix Generator
Metadata Layer
Packaged Analytics
Oracle E-Business Suite
Extraction Views
Dashboards
Operational Data Store
Reports
Data Marts
Integration Interface
Cubes
2nd Tier ERP
Metadata Repository
Help System
Metadata Manager
KPIs
100+ Data Sources
Revenue Trends

31. Noetix Analytics – Operational Data Store
Reference Tables
Lookup tables such as country codes, terms codes, etc.
Master Tables
Customers, products, sales reps, etc.
Detail Tables
Order lines, invoice lines, journal entries, AP invoices, etc.
Master
Data
Master
Data
Transaction
Tables
Transaction
Tables
Master
Data
Master
Data
Hybrid Star Schema
- Tactical, Near Real Time -

32. Operational Data Store – Configurable Refresh
Functional Groups
Extraction, Transformation, Loading
AP – 1 hr
Country Codes
Order Types
OM – 10 min.
Customer
Order
Headers
Order Lines
Item
Oracle Applications
Operating
Unit
Sales Rep
Rest Nightly
Operational Data Store
- Operational data, dimensionalized, near real time - 32

33. Noetix Analytics Data Marts to answer specific business questions
Dimensions
Dimensions
Analysis
Slice and Dice
Trending
Out of the Box KPIs:
Spend by Period and Vendor
Days Sales Outstanding
Cost of Goods Sold
Inventory Turns
On-time Performance
Open Sales Order Aging
Projects Expenditures
Margins by Customer, Product, Rep
Daily Net Revenue
Customer
Facts
Date
Orders
Detail
Fact
Orders
Detail
Fact
Orders
Detail
Fact
Orders
Details
Product
Sales Rep
Set of Books
Operating
Unit
Exclusively Star Schema 33

34. Noetix BI Value Propositions
Packaged Analytics
Rapid Implementation
Open Architecture
EBS centric
Extensible
Metadata Driven
Upgrade Protection
Lowest TCO
Financials Human Resources Projects Procurement Discrete Manufacturing Order Management Process Manufacturing Service and Contracts Inventory Incentive Compensation Working Capital
METADATA LAYER
Data Warehouse
Operational Data Store
Data Marts
Enterprise Applications
E-Business Suite Legacy PeopleSoft JD Edwards Siebel QAD MFG/Pro 34

35. Nature of Solution: End Goal35

36. Product Demonstration Noetix Analytics36

37. Noetix Functional Coverage
JK updated 7/8/10
Identified which modules are in beta and custom status, also added EAM coverage for analytics. 37

38. Noetix Business Intelligence Reporting across the BI spectrum
BI APPLICATIONS
Packaged
Reports
Packaged
Analytics
Answers
Dashboards
KPIs
Drillable
Reports
BI PLATFORMS
Noetix
Noetix for Excel
Oracle BI
Discoverer
Cognos
Business Objects
METADATA GENERATORS
ENTERPRISE BI MODELS
OLTP
Data Warehouse
Database
Views
Operational Data Store
Data Marts
Before beginning the animation:
“The core value propositions of NoetixViews are 1) they simplify access to data in the Oracle E-Business Suite database tables; 2) they are configuration specific, meaning they automatically pick-up each customer’s site-specific setups of Oracle, i.e., flexfields; 3) they provide upgrade protection, meaning they shield reports, queries and data extraction programs from changes in the structure of the Oracle database.”
METADATA SERVICES & DATA INTEGRATION
ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS
E-Business Suite
PeopleSoft
Siebel
Legacy
JD Edwards
QAD MFG/PRO 38

39. Noetix Business Intelligence39

40. Supports Noetix Core Values
Rapid Implementation
Open Architecture
Configuration
Specific P P P
Bringing Data Into View
RAPID IMPLEMENTATION
Access to your data
Patented technology
OPEN ARCHITECTURE
Power-up third-party BI tools
Multiple data sources
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
upgrade protection
ADAPTABLE SECURITY
leverage vendor models
PROVEN SOLUTION
1,300 customers
85% customers renew support
Extensible
Metadata
Driven
Lowest
TCO P P P