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Salvage Your Investment in Discoverer with Oracle BI Cloud Services (BICS)

March 10, 2015

Kshitij Kumar Global VP of BI/EPM and CTO

Apps Associates LLC

Alan Lee Director, Product Management

Oracle Corporation


Agenda

• Introduction

• Why Migrate

• What is BICS?

• Migrating Discoverer to BICS

• Live Demonstration

• Behind the Scenes

• Apps Associates Offering

• Q & A


Confidentiality Statement

Apps Associates

The content of this document is proprietary, confidential information pertaining to Apps Associates’ products, services, solutions and methods. Information herein is intended for use by the client or prospective client only and must not be shared with any third party without consent from Apps Associates.

Oracle

The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporate into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.


About Apps Associates

Kshitij Kumar Global VP of BI/EPM and CTO Apps Associates LLC


Performance. Growth. Excellence.

• Global Reach for Global Customers

‒ Founded in 2002 – 650+ employees

‒ HQ in Massachusetts

‒ US (East, Central, West)

‒ Europe, India, Middle East

• Oracle BI Journey Started in 2007 – Represents 40%+ of Our Business

‒ BI Pillar Partner & Specialized

‒ Oracle Platform Technology Solutions BI/EPM

‒ Oracle BI Applications Leadership Board

‒ Beta Program for ODI 12c

‒ First Oracle Exalytics Certified Delivery Partner

‒ Analytics in a Box (Co developed H/W S/W bundle offering with Oracle)

‒ One of the first partners selected for BI Cloud Services (BICS) - Certified

‒ AWS Certified for Oracle on AWS (only 2 partners worldwide)

• Over 125 consultants (all employees) delivering OBI services

• Proprietary data lineage and migration tools

Exalytics Certified


Keys to a Successful BI Program

Oracle Centers of Excellence

Lifecycle of Services

Assess Deploy Integrate Train Support Optimize

Business Intelligence

Hyperion ERP / Fusion

Apps CRM

Fusion Middleware

Managed Services

Cloud Engineered

Systems Architecture

Services Apps

University Oracle Testing

ShipConsole

Exalytics Certified Delivery Partner

Business, Technical, Functional, and Infrastructure Services: All from one organization

Strong Process Background – Engage Business Architecture / Security / Performance

Multiple Distributed Sources Integration with IT Strategy

Training & Adoption


Complete BI/EPM Service Offerings All Platforms

BICS

On-Premise Oracle Database Appliance

Advise

• BI / EPM Assessment and Roadmaps

• BI on Cloud • OBI Architecture Assessment • Data Governance Process

Design and Implement • MDM for BI / EPM • OBI / Hyperion and R12

Planning • Integration of structured and

unstructured data

Implement

• OBI Foundation Suite • BI Apps • EPM • User Adoption & Training • BI / EPM on the Cloud • Endeca Information Discovery

(EID) • EID for EBS (connectors) • BI Cloud Services (BICS)

Optimize & Support

• Upgrades • Support Services for OBI and

EPM • User Training • Functional Design • Tool Adoption Methods • Report Rationalization • New Module Development

Integrate

• EBS • PeopleSoft • SAP • Salesforce.com • JD Edwards • Siebel • Clarity • Lawson • Kronos • PPM • ADP • Demantra • Oracle Governance (GRC) • Oracle Learning Management


Why Migrate: A trip down memory lane



• One device does all • Provides all functionality • Ease of install and start

• Multiple devices • Expand and change as necessary • Complicated setup

Which One Would You Like to Have?


• Serves multiple purposes • New apps and updates pushed • Rich features • More learning than traditional • More productive

• Serves one purpose • What you see is what you get • Traditional way, no learning • Less productive

Which One Would You Rather Have?


• Automated – saves time exponentially • Focus on what to do not how to do • Be anywhere, any geography, any time • Secure – less lost checks

• Lot of manual effort • Not scalable – Wait time, long lines, holidays • Dependency – no money until drive down to bank • Geography dependent - ATM machine

Does this look familiar?


How would you like to power your home or office?

• Just consume – same as others • Want more, ask for it – no change • Minimal install • Always there – Don’t think about it

• Your own equipment on premises • You install, manage etc. – full control • No expansion, constant upkeep • Unique to you, worry about downtime


Lets Bring It All Together

× Multiple devices × Expand and change as necessary × Complicated setup

× Serves one purpose × What you see is what you get × Traditional way, no learning × Less productive

× Your own equipment on premises × You install, manage etc. – full control × No expansion, constant upkeep × Unique to you, worry about downtime

× Lot of manual effort × Not scalable – Wait time, long lines, holidays × Dependency – drive down to bank × Geography dependent – ATM machine

On Premise – Discoverer

One device does all Provides all functionality Ease of install and start

Serves multiple purposes New apps and updates pushed, rich features More learning than transitional More productive

Just consume – same as others Want more, ask for it – no change Minimal install Always there – don’t think about it

Automated – saves time exponentially Focus on what to do not how to do Be anywhere, any geography, any time Secure – less lost checks

BI Cloud Services


Discoverer Report in BICS


BICS : Best of both worlds

Analytics Reports Based on Discoverer Views

Discoverer Reports Based on Discoverer Views


Benefits of Migration

1. Discoverer End of Life

2. Data from multiple sources, not just EBS

3. Focus on answers to questions you are looking for in reports

4. Data analysis and decision making very different now

5. Actionable Insight – Focus on exceptions with ability to drill to detail and take action

6. KPI, Chart and Summary Table based reports with drilldown capabilities to details

7. Option to create ‘Discoverer like’ reports in BICS

8. Access reports on any device (desktop and mobile)

9. Richer self-service report creation capability with minimal training


What is BICS?

Alan Lee Director, Product Management Oracle Corporation


Business Intelligence Cloud Service

• Based on proven BI technology relied on by millions of users

• Integrated with Oracle Database Cloud Service

• Built-in mobile

• Simple administration and data integration

• Low-cost monthly subscription


Why Oracle BI Cloud Service?

• Quick Time to Value

• All required capabilities pre-integrated in a single service

• Analytics for everyone... from the workgroup to the enterprise

• Built for user self-service


Powerful BI. Low Cost of Ownership.

Proven BI Platform

Enterprise Class Feature Rich

Oracle Data Centers

Oracle Owned and Operated Highest Industry Security Standards

Fully Managed

Upgrades and Patching 99.5% Availability


Pre-Production Production

What You Get

• Two independent environments: separate database, BI service

• Easy T2P, P2T

• 99.5% availability

• Oracle managed patching and upgrades


• Rich Charting Gallery, Interactive Visuals, & Comprehensive Formatting

• Drilling, Advanced dynamic prompting, Right-click interactions, master-detail linking

• Pivoting and Visual Aggregations

• Full featured query generation and calculation engine

• Comprehensive filtering and aggregation

• Powerful OLAP groupings, selections

• Hierarchical, time-series, and statistical functions

Proven Dashboard & Analysis Platform


Automatic Mobile Support Based on BI Mobile HD

• Analytics on mobile with no additional development

• Touch, drill, interact

• Swipe, zoom – touch gestures

• Offline access to content with fine-grained security to grant or revoke privileges


1. Load your data

4. Use, share and distribute

3. Author reports, visualizations and interactive dashboards

2. Organize and secure your data

Focus on What’s Important!


Discoverer Migration to BICS: Process and Tools



Discoverer Report As Is


Migration Process

On Premise

Cloud

Cloud


AR Transactions Report

Description Base View (out of the box) Custom View

AR Invoices ARFG_INVOICE_ARS None

AR Transactions ARFG_AR_TRANSACTIONS None

Customers ARFG_CUSTOMERS None

Customer Sites ARFG_CUSTOMER_SITES XX_ARFG_CUSTOMER_SITES

Customer Locations ARFG_LOCATIONS XX_ARFG_LOCATIONS


BICS Data Modeler and Answers

Create tables in BICS DB Expose fields to report


Business Areas to BICS Subject Area


BICS Report Designer


Discoverer Report in BICS


Apps Associates Offering: Process and Accelerator



Migration Process

On Premise

Cloud

Cloud


Map DISCO Views to BICS Star Schema for reporting

BICS DB BICS Reports

1. Combination of methodology and developer code

2. Pre-built reports and metrics delivered via BICS Dashboards

3. Pre-built schema for Out of the Box Discoverer Views

4. Pre-Built extract programs to load Discoverer data into BICS Database

5. Pre-Built extract programs to incrementally update BICS database

6. Pre-Built reporting fields for ad-hoc self service fields

7. Pre-Built E-Business Security extended to BICS

Discoverer (DISCO) to BICS Accelerator


Requisition Processing

Enter Requisition

Approve Requisition

Purchase Order

Processing

AutoCreate or Enter

Order

Approve Order

Send order to vendor

Receive order to

purchasing

Invoice Processing

Enter Invoice Match

invoice to order/receipt

Pay vendor

Payment processing

Enter payment

Pay suppliers

Procurement Accelerator: Procure to Pay Process


Procurement Accelerator: Procure to Pay Fields


Apps Associates’ Pre-Packaged Accelerators

Hire to Retire

Financial Close

BICS Order to

Cash

Procure to Pay

Forecast to

Delivery

Each Accelerator Provides

Reports 15

Dashboards 5

Reportable Fields 75+

Data Model Yes

Security Yes

Mobile Yes

Excel Upload Yes

Training Yes

Custom App


Apps Associates’ Accelerators

1. Back Office Processes

2. Industry Vertical Solutions*

3. Discoverer to BICS Migration

4. BRIO / IR to BICS Migration

5. PBCS / Essbase to BICS Integration

6. EBS Security Integration

7. SQL Cart Automation

8. Rest API Data Loads*

9. Workday and BICS Integration

10. Salesforce and BICS Integration*

11. Taleo and BICS Integration* *Under Development


Closing: You Decide

9i (2002)

• iPod introduces a year back

• No Blackberry Smart phone

10g (2003)

• No iPhone

• No Twitter, No Facebook, No Micro SD

• No Cloud

11g (2009)

• 3G technology just starting

• No 3D TV

• No iPad

• Cloud just starting

Think about Return on Investment (ROI)

1. Moving off from an unsupported system 2. Fast provisioning and Fully managed software 3. Operational investment (SaaS based) 4. No H/W and management cost 5. Better root cause analysis 6. Rapid Deployment – Apps Associates’ accelerators 7. Self Service – all types of reports

Look for Oracle’s Statement of Direction Document

Google Search : “Oracle’s Statement of Direction for Discoverer”


Kshitij Kumar Global VP of BI/EPM and CTO

Apps Associates LLC [email protected]

Alan Lee Director, Product Management

Oracle Corporation [email protected]

Salvage Your Investment in Discoverer with Oracle BICS

Thank You

Next Webinar on BICS: April 09, 2015 – Managing the Procure to Pay Process

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