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Reporting Options – R12 and FusionToby Price, Business Development Manager, SolStonePlus


Agenda

• About SolStonePlus• Software framework• Discussion about now• Crystal ball gazing (10 minutes)


SolStonePlus Overview

• 28 years as a Business Intelligence solutions provider– Widely regarded as Oracle's most experienced BI

Partner – Staff and Customer Loyalty

• Premiere Annual Sponsors of the UK Oracle User Group for 2008-2011

• Independent Oracle advice• Pragmatic guidance on new and existing Oracle

products


Objectives of the presentation

• Leave with a better understanding of the realistic options and what other organisations are doing

• The views expressed in this presentation are my own personal views and do not reflect the views of Oracle or any other vendor. And I don’t know everything about everything!

• Safe Harbour ... Anything you see from potential future releases is not a commitment from Oracle (and therefore not many screenshots!)


Oracle Software Framework

• Reports, Discoverer and XML/BI Publisher• OBI

– EE– SE1– Foundation

• BI Applications / Analytics• Embedded Analytics


Some Roadmap Options to consider

• Stay with Discoverer and deal with Reports and FSGs using BI (XML) Publisher

• Perform a technical migration to OBI from Discoverer and Reports

• Build a bespoke data warehouse• Implement BI Applications before or after R12• Re-implement then build an archive data warehouse• Buy another software package to report from

Financials• Wait for Embedded BI in Fusion Applications• ... any other options raised by the audience


ETL Roadmap

• ODI• Informatica

– Choice in first release• OWB


A bit of crystal ball* gazing

• Oracle Transaction BI (OTBI)• Oracle BI Applications• Specialised Analytics (Essbase and Real-

Time Decisions)

• I won’t know all the details, but can find out

* Not of course Oracle Crystal Ball ;)


BI Applications with Fusion

• New modules– E.g. Fixed Assets– Payroll – Commitments


Transactional BI with Fusion

• Operational data from Financials

– Receivables– Payables– GL– Sub-Ledger Accounting– Cash Management– Assets– Intercompany


Integration of OBIA and OTBI and Fusion


Integration of OBIA and OTBI and Fusion

• Shared metamodel– OBIA from data warehouse– OTBI from source tables

• Many performance improvements promised

• OTBI can be placed on dashboard• OBIA can be added to the Fusion

Applications reporting pane• BI Composer for new reports• Search Integration


BI Composer – Available now


Specialised Analytics

• Enhancing the GL


Conclusion

• Many options to consider now• Look for material benefits and reducing IT support

costs• Consider reporting upgrade costs when deciding

on BI strategy• Single source or best of breed

• [email protected]


Any Questions?

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