Making Sense of Oracle’s Business Intelligence Tools
July 19, 2007
Erez Azaria
Agenda
IntroductionUnderstanding the PiecesBusiness Intelligence Tools– Standard Edition– Enterprise Edition– In Review - Platforms
Business Intelligence Applications– DBI– Fusion Intelligence– Oracle BI Applications– In Review - Applications
OBI EE: Delivering Value in the Real World
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Agenda
Introduction
Understanding the PiecesBusiness Intelligence Tools– Standard Edition– Enterprise Edition– In Review - Platforms
Business Intelligence Applications– DBI– Fusion Intelligence– Oracle BI Applications– In Review - Applications
OBI EE: Delivering Value in the Real World
Understanding the Pieces
Understanding the Pieces
Agenda
IntroductionUnderstanding the Pieces
Business Intelligence Tools– Standard Edition– Enterprise Edition– In Review - Platforms
Business Intelligence Applications– DBI– Fusion Intelligence– Oracle BI Applications– In Review - Applications
OBI EE: Delivering Value in the Real World
Oracle BI Standard Edition
Oracle BI Discoverer
Oracle BI Warehouse Builder
BI Spreadsheet Add-in
Oracle BI Beans
Oracle Reports
Optimized to work with an Oracle environment!!
Common Component Architecture– Oracle BI Discoverer
– Discoverer Portlets
– Spreadsheet Add-in
– Leverage Oracle DB built in analytic and pl/sql functions
Oracle BI Enterprise Edition
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (OBI-EE) offers the complete spectrum of BI capabilities.
Designed for use by anyone
Provides intelligence across virtually any data source
Based on a proven, modern, web Services-Oriented Architecture
Delivers next-generation business intelligence capabilities
Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Enables Consistency, Security, Reuse, Flexibility
Presentation Layer
Physical Layer
Semantic Object Layer
• User roles, preferences• Simplified view• Logical SQL interface
• Dimensions• Hierarchies• Measures• Calculations• Aggregation Rules• Time Series
• Map Physical Data• Connections• Schema
Multi-layered AbstractionSeparation of physical, logical and presentation layers
Logical modeling builds upon complex physical data structures
Logical model independent of physical data sources, i.e. can be remapped to another data source quickly
Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Enables Consistency, Security, Reuse, Flexibility
Presentation Layer
Physical Layer
Semantic Object Layer
• User roles, preferences• Simplified view• Logical SQL interface
• Dimensions• Hierarchies• Measures• Calculations• Aggregation Rules• Time Series
• Map Physical Data• Connections• Schema
Oracle BI Enterprise Edition
BI Answers Ad-hoc information explorationMulti-dimensional analysisWorks against a logical view of information from multiple data sources in a pure web environment.Easy dashboard and notification creation
BI Interactive Dashboard Rich, interactive pure web dashboards Personalized interactive dashboardsGuided analytics
BI DeliversAlerting engine to capture and distribute notifications via multiple channels in response to pre-defined business events to speed decision makingAutomated analytic workflows and processesManage delivery to mobile devices
BI Briefing BooksCapture a snapshot of an Oracle Dashboard allowing the information to be viewed offline presentation style.
Oracle BI Enterprise Edition
BI Disconnected Analytics Provide Answers and Dashboards to users on computers disconnected from the network.
BI Office Plug-ins Synchronize information from Answers, Dashboards and Reports to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
BI Publisher Scalable reporting tool to generate reports from multiple data sources (delivered as XML) in multiple document formats and to multiple delivery channels.
Oracle BI Enterprise Edition
BI ServerHighly scalable, highly efficient query and analysis server
Efficiently integrates data from multiple relational, unstructured, OLAP and pre-packaged application sources, Oracle and non-Oracle
Also incorporates calculations, multiple languages, and complex hierarchies in a single piece of metadata which is both aggregate and fragment aware
Enables ease of use for business users while reducing IT involvement.
Streamlined server deployment,
Unified security
Single web-based administration
Data Federation and caching are including as part of the core platform
In Review - Platforms
Description Standard Edition Enterprise Edition
Platform Oracle Centric. Separation of:End User BI ToolsBusiness MetadataData Source
Heterogeneity Oracle Centric – effort required to integrate non-Oracle data sources. (Still Oracle DB Centric for Query Submission)
Enterprise BI Platform; Source Independent (Oracle and Non-Oracle)
Intelligently Combine Data- Multiple DW(s), OLAP, and Apps- Historical and Real Time
Disconnected /Off-Line
No Yes
MS Office Integration Excel Excel, Word, PowerPoint
Report Distribution Limited Alerting, Report Distribution, and Workflow Support
“BI Delivers” – full support for scheduling and distributing reports
Development Integration
Limited support of open APIs and Integration
Advanced Web Services Integration Capabilities (SOA/BPEL)
Agenda
IntroductionUnderstanding the PiecesBusiness Intelligence Tools
– Standard Edition– Enterprise Addition– In Review - Platforms
Business Intelligence Applications– DBI– Fusion Intelligence– Oracle BI Applications– In Review - Applications
OBI EE: Delivering Value in the Real World
Daily Business Intelligence (DBI)
Out-of-the-Box:
– Predefined Roles– Predefined Key Performance Indicators
(KPIs)– Drill-Down Reports
Embedded EBS Role-based Security
Data Synchronization– Summary Tables & Materialized Views– Refresh Daily or As Desired
Runs Directly from Transactional System – No Separate Reporting Infrastructure Required
SummariesSummaries
TransactionsTransactions
Fusion Intelligence - EBS Edition
Leverage Existing DBI Capabilities & Investment
Greater Flexibility to meet Reporting Requirements (i.e.adhoc reporting)
Greater Extensibility with Developing Custom KPIs
Greater Personalization: Add, Rearrange, Hide or Rename Dashboards, Reports, Graphs etc.
Integrate Information from 3rd-party Data Sources (i.e.unify DBI and Non-DBI information)
SummariesSummaries
TransactionsTransactions
Fusion Intelligence - EBS Edition
Financials IntelligenceGeneral Ledger
– AP Expenses (GL)– AR Revenue (GL)– GL Activity– Budget
Accounts Payable– AP Invoices– AP Invoices Aging (Due & Past)– AP Payments Schedule
Accounts Receivable– AR Adjustments– AR Payments Schedule– AR Receipts – AR Invoices– AR Aging Receivables
Sales Credits
Compliance
CRM Intelligence
Supply Chain Intelligence
Human Resources Intelligence
Procurement Intelligence
Order to Revenue
Order Fulfillment and Shipping
Manufacturing (Process and Discrete)
Inventory (Process and Discrete)
General Ledger
Sales Opportunity
Sales Pipeline
Sales Forecasting
Service
DBI Workforce Activity and Deployment
DBI Compensation Salary Summarization
DBI Leave and Absences
HCM EUL Recruitment Pipeline
HCM EUL Recruitment Vacancies
Procurement Management
Supplier Management
Oracle BI Applications
Prebuilt ETL Adapters for Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, Siebel, SAP, others
Prebuilt DW Design, extensible to your requirements
Pre-mapped metadata repository, incorporating best practice metrics and calculations
Prebuilt role/function based Dashboards, Reports, and Alerts
In Review - Applications
Description DBI Fusion Intelligence Oracle BI Applications
Platform DBI: Integrated reporting tool fully contained on the EBS platform, no separate tools (licensing) required.
DBI Licensing + OBI EE: Standardize enterprise wide on a single BI Platform
Application Intelligence + OBI EE: Standardize enterprise wide on a single BI Platform
Heterogeneity EBS Only EBS + External Data Sources
Support for data from any Source (Oracle, DB2, SQL, etc)
Support for data from multiple ERP instances (SAP, EBS, PS, JDE)
Ad Hoc None Full Ad hoc capabilities Full Ad hoc capabilities
Extensibility Limited capabilities Full capability to customize metrics and dashboards
Full capability to customize metrics, dashboards, and extend data model
Data Layer Data resides in transactional DB
Data resides in transactional DB
Data resides in separate instance
Agenda
IntroductionUnderstanding the PiecesBusiness Intelligence Tools– Standard Edition– Enterprise Edition– In Review - Platforms
Business Intelligence Applications– DBI– Fusion Intelligence– Oracle BI Applications– In Review - Applications
OBI EE: Delivering Value in the Real World
Delivering Value – a Real World ExampleCLIENT PROFILE
Global solutions provider of computer products and services that guarantee continuously available processing for applications
INDUSTRYHi-Tech / Communications
SIZE$ 250M Revenue ~1,000 Employees
ORACLE FOOTPRINTSince late-1990’s, Oracle E-Business 10.7
PAIN POINTSImpossible to create a 360 view of customers for analysis
Single reports from Oracle unable to meet the business need
Extensive use of Excel to merge data from multiple sources and present information
As data increased, uncertainty of data validity and “True Source” of data also increased
Abstracting reporting metrics from the underlying transactional data
Delivering Value – a Real World Example
SOLUTION FOOTPRINT
Built a financial data mart
Secured end user access to a GUI front-end for easy access to standard reports and ad hoc reporting capabilities
Oracle BI components:– Oracle Warehouse Builder
(ETL)
– Oracle BI Server
– Oracle BI Answers
– Oracle BI Dashboards
WHY OBI?
Reporting capabilities met or exceeded all requirement’s
Group sharing by end-user
Ease of creating Dashboards
Leveraged existing Oracle skill sets
Future leveraging of Oracle 11i and Business Process Management
Single Vendor
Competitive Pricing
Delivering Value – a Real World Example
KEY DIFFERENTIATORS
Immediate comparison of Actual vs. Forecast data in a single report– Old method: Several Business Object/Excel iterations spanning hours.
Immediate fiscal year trend analysis– Old method: 10+ hour query processing
Users have easy to navigate front-end (BI Answers) and easy to understand presentation model of the data mart (via BI Server).
Confidence in the integrity of report data
IT control of end user access to data through BI Server
ETL programs easily maintainable through the OWB interface.
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Erez Azaria– Technology Practice Director
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