1. Power-Up Your Reporting for Oracle Apps! Enterprise Reporting and Dashboard Solution Rob Griebel, Noetix

2. Agenda About Noetix Reporting Challenges The Noetix Solution Product Demonstration Q&A

3. About Noetix Information access experts since 1994 Offices in North America and Europe Oracle Certified Partner 1200+ customers worldwide Industry A W A R D SA W A R D S

4. Reporting Challenges

5. Oracle Reporting Challenges No Business User Reporting Capability ERP – Large and Diverse User Base Most Companies Have Significant Reporting Backlog Bundled Solution – Costly to Develop and Maintain – Requires Programming Expertise – Technical Challenges Limited Available Alternatives – Complex Data Model = Data Mapping Complex Data Nomenclature Poor End User Adoption Rates of Reporting Tools

6. The Noetix Solution

7. User Reporting Challenges Solved Challenge Ability to run ad hoc queries  Complexity of Oracle data model  Access to data no matter where it resides  Need IT assistance IT backlog  Report development cycle takes significant effort  IT constraints and other priorities Learning curve  Want data represented in familiar terms  Want to use tools I know  Re Use of content for reports, dashboards Quick installation of common technology that all tools can use (Noetix WebQuery, Excel, Dashboards) Valuable reports out-of-the-box you can customize and deploy yourself Automatically generates business views in terminology users understand Noetix Solution

8. NoetixViews ® Provided 650+ views of the underlying data structures Noetix AnswerPoint ™ Delivers hundreds of click-on, customizable answers to business questions. Noetix QueryServer ® Integrates disparate data sources into a secure query routing and management platform. Noetix WebQuery ® Empowers decision makers to create and modify reports without IT involvement.. Noetix Dashboards ™ Interactive graphical presentation of enterprise information Noetix Solution Components

9. Noetix Platform Query Mgmt Services Metadata Repository Custom ViewsHR CRMLegacyAppCustom DM/DW Oracle Generated Views Oracle Applications Data Noetix Architecture Noetix Dashboards Generated Reports (Templates) Oracle Application Noetix WebQuery with Excel Integration Query & Reporting Tools Applications Custom Reports

10. Noetix Metadata Repository What is Metadata? Your configuration… Setups Users/Roles Business Rules  Organizations Oracle Applications 11i  Noetix MetaBuilder

11. Oracle Applications 11i Security NoetixViews How Noetix Uses Metadata  Noetix Metadata Repository Query & reporting  KPIs and metrics Transaction data

12. What is a View? Example: Purchase Order tables in the database PO_HEADERSC PO_LINE_TYPES PO_LINES MTL_ITEM_CATEGORIES MTL_ITEMS AP_TERMS PO_UN_NUMBERS Your Report Open POs PO No. Item Description List Price Quantity Unit Price Vendor Simplified Noetix “View” PO_Lines Buyer Currency Item Description List Price Open Flag Line No. PO No. Quantity Terms Unit Price Vendor MTL_ITEM_CATEGORIES PO_LINE_TYPES PO_LINES_TL PO_HEADER_TL MTL_ITEMS_TL PO_NUMBERS AP_TERMS_II Same View No changes! New database structure…

13. Key Flexfields as Configured Key Flexfield Base Table Column Names SEGMENT12 SEGMENT6 SEGMENT3 Account$Company Account$Division Account$Cost_Center Key Flexfield View Column Names

14. Noetix QueryServer Integrates disparate data sources into easy-to-use virtual tables  Provides simplified integration with Oracle Application data  Centralizes control & data access management  Oracle Siebel Legacy Centralized Query & User Management

15. Dynamically integrates reports with Microsoft Excel  Noetix WebQuery Cost-effective, zero client information delivery (XML)  Easily-to-Use Reporting Interface for Casual User  Navigation Tool of the Noetix System  Web Based Interface

16. How much? How many?? Noetix AnswerPoint Provides end-users with immediate answers to business questions Automatically generates over 550 reports custom to your Oracle implementation Immediate Answers Provide Templates for Custom Report Requirements

17. Why We are Successful Pre-generated Content – Views and reports that pick up configuration End User Independence – Ease of use Faster Time to Market – Predictable, proven implementation Open Architecture – Easily integrate with other data sources Performance – Don’t have to sacrifice real-time data Change Management – Upgrade protection      

18. Why Noetix is Different? the only software provider that automatically generates content (metadata) from Oracle Applications, enabling immediate access to enterprise-wide information.

19. Product Demonstration

20. Demo Overview Pre-Built Reports You Can Customize What You See is What You Get Power-Up Your Query Tool of Choice – Microsoft Excel – Dashboards

21. Questions? Q&A