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Business Analytics Solutions Provider Using Oracle EPM and BI Technologies

Unlocking New Insights with

Information Discovery Ed Sullivan

Oracle Endeca Information Discovery

Agenda

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Introduction

Overview of Information Discovery

Key Fundamentals of Information Discovery

Introduction to Oracle Endeca Information Discovery

How does OEID fulfill the fundamentals of Information

Discovery

Demo

Q&A

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Edgewater Ranzal is a full-service Oracle

Platinum Consulting Partner with premier services

in North America and regional offices in the

United Kingdom

We deliver Business Analytics solutions that

include Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance

Management (EPM) and Business Intelligence (BI)

Our multiproduct focus offers domain expertise and technical leadership

We have industry expertise and specializations to help us deliver end-to-end

solutions for each client’s business needs

Who We Are

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Our Services

Financial Close &

Consolidations

Business

Intelligence

Enterprise

Planning &

Analytics

Data Integration

Services

Training &

Support Services

Advisory Services Infrastructure

Costing &

Profitability

Mgmt

Business Intelligence

• Scorecards & Dashboards; Mobile Delivery

• Prepackaged Analytic Applications (OBIA)

• BI Foundation (OBIEE / Essbase)

• Financial & Operational Analytics

• Reporting & Publishing

• Visual Exploration

• Information Discovery (Endeca)

• Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS)

Financial Close & Consolidations

• Legal, Segment, & Mgmt Reporting

• Financial Performance & Close

• Optimization & Performance Lab

• Tax Provisioning

• Regulatory Requirements

Data Integration Services

• ERP Integration

• Financial Data Management

• Data Warehousing

• MDM & DRM

• ETL Services and Automation

Infrastructure

• Hardware Sizing, Installation, & Configuration

• Exalytics Benchmarking

• System Monitoring, Backup, & Disaster Recovery

• Upgrade & Migrations

Advisory Services

• Project/Program Management &

Process Change

• EPM & BI Road Maps

Training & Support Services

• Standard & Custom Training

• Virtual Classroom

• Multimedia and UPK

• Service Level Agreements

• Managed Services & Hosting

• Performance Engineering

Enterprise Planning & Analytics

• Strategic Planning (HSF) &

Modeling

• Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

• Workforce, Capital, & Project

Financial Planning

• Public Sector Planning

• Cloud Services

Costing & Profitability Management

• HPCM Standard & Detail Models

• Waterfall Allocations

• Shared Service Charges

• Activity Based Costing

• Customer, Product, Segment &

LOB Profitability

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Edgewater Ranzal Enables OEID

Deep OEID product and implementation experience

Strong relationships with Oracle OEID product

management, sales and solution consulting

Full service services with experience in companion

products such as OBIEE

Successful iterative methodology for rapid time to value

Fast-start program that leverages our methodology and

experience to provide a 8-12 week business release

Hosted solutions options

Today’s Environment

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What is current Sales?

How much Inventory?

What is Production?

ERP, Data Warehouse, Internal

Systems, Reporting Solutions

Information Overload

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Why is this happening?

What factors are driving this?

What patterns are we seeing?



Other Systems, repositories,

internal and external

Documents, Depart. data, desktop Industry forums, social media,

agencies, 3rd party data

What happens when there are Questions?

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What is Information Discovery?

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Traditional BI

Information

Discovery Advanced Analytics

• Static reports

• What happened

• Predefined reports

• Why did it happen?

• Many follow on questions

• Undefined

• What might happen?

• Predictive

The act of utilizing internal/external and disparate data, combining it to find

insights and relationships with adhoc discovery …

...to solve unanswered questions , define new business models, solve

problems and create innovation.

Key Discovery Fundamentals

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Fundamentals of Information Discovery

Govern

All Data Ease of

Use

Agile and Fast

Information Discovery

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Must leverage ALL the data, inside outside, third party,

structured, unstructured, semi-structure

Only 20% of the data needed for analysis is within our 4 walls. 80% of

the data is outside our organization and not controlled by the

organization

Data doesn’t always conform to other data sources. There are too

many variables to work out all the combinations and the business

environment is prone to changes impacting maintenance

Relationships in data are not always known and cannot be

predetermined

Unstructured content contains valuable insights

Data must be at the lowest detail

All Data

Fundamental – All Data

Fundamental – Ease of Use

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Just acquiring the data is not enough. Information

Discovery must be easy to use and allow the

user to ask their own questions and explore the data

Must facilitate business users who know the business and

have tribal knowledge the ability to perform the analysis

directly

Must allow a dialogue with the data and ability to ask

additional unscripted questions as the user interacts with

the data

Business people with domain knowledge can’t ask the

right questions because they can’t write the queries to

express them

Ease of Use

Fundamental – Agile and Fast

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Information Discovery must be Fast and Agile

User Performance must be at the speed of thought

Application improvements must quick and agile, users

can’t wait for the BI backlog for new data and new

reports

Data cleansing, summarizations and conforming to

relational databases increases time and labor

Data must be updated in real-time if use cases dictate

Agile and Fast

Fundamental - Governance

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Information Discovery must be governed the same as

all IT systems

The Business can ensure there is only 1 version of the

truth of the data

The application must allow for Security at the data level

and the application level

IT can be assured the same security models are

leveraged for all applications

Govern

Key Discovery Fundamentals

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Fundamentals of Information Discovery

Govern

All Data Ease of

Use

Agile and Fast

Information Discovery

Governed

Architecture

All Data Types

and Sources

Speed to Value

Enable the

Business User

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Endeca Information Discovery

Endeca Studio

• A search, guided navigation and data visualization interface for interactive build out of pages and components resulting in rapid intuitive analysis that requires zero training.

Endeca Server

• A hybrid search-analytical engine that organizes complex and varied data from disparate sources. Its patented technologies eliminate the need for up-front, complex modeling and provide in-memory performance.

Endeca Integrator

• A powerful data integration environment providing for the rapid integration of data from any source. Additional tools are available for Text Enrichment and Sentiment Analysis.


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EID Studio 3.1

Create and share

discovery applications

that anyone can use

State

CA (1,203)

NY (512)

IL (312)

MA (211)

CO (102)

Brand

Nikon (3,453)

Canon (1,512)

Fuji (322)

Panasonic (211)

search..

purchase

intent passionate

user-friendly loyalty

Price Range

Source

ORCL (301,203)

SAP (11,512)

EDW (10,312)

Discovery Application

EID Integrator 3.1

Quickly integrate and

enrich structured and

unstructured data

Structured Data Sources

Unstructured Content

Innovative

ETL

Web and File

Crawling

Text

Enrichment TEX

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Endeca Server 7.6

Self-Service

Provisioning

Sharing and

Collaboration

Drag & Drop

Composition

Intuitive

Exploration

Scalable, secure and

centrally managed in-

memory, search

analytic engine

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Quickly integrate and

enrich structured and

unstructured data

Structured Data Sources

Unstructured Content

Innovative

ETL

Web and File

Crawling

Text

Enrichment

TEX

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A Suite of Tools for ALL Data

Lightweight ETL with native Endeca

Server connectivity

Java SDK for extensibility – easily

connect to additional data feeds and

APIs

Modules for unstructured data:

• Text Enrichment

• Sentiment Analysis

• Content Management System

Connectors


Endeca Integrator

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Powerful, Flexible, Fast

Hybrid search/analytical database

Search, navigation, and analytics on

diverse, changing information

Designed for Discovery

• Flexible data model

• Columnar storage

• In-memory analytics


Endeca Server


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Advanced Search

• Search across all data

• Dynamic type-ahead

• Automatic spell correction

• Unlocks unstructured data

Visual Analysis

• Charts, crosstabs, key metrics

• Geospatial visualization

• Tag clouds

Contextual Navigation

• Data-Driven. Freely browse data without

predefined paths or writing queries

• Interactive. Shows only valid next steps

• Easy to Use. Familiar online experience

+ +

Endeca Studio

Discovery in Accountable Care

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Demo Overview

Sector: Healthcare: Accountable Care Organizations (ACO)

Business Purpose: Examine ACO provider performance to improve quality of care and identify areas to reduce costs when compared to associated ACOs.

Unique Value: Trace total cost and reimbursement claims back to the practice, provider, and patient encounters. Quickly address issues and identify abnormalities in care being provided for similar diagnosis and procedures.

Data Sources: Combines data from ACO provider, patient, insurance claim, and pharmacy claim sources. It includes unstructured data in the form of IP Operative verbatim free form text reports.

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Key Points from Demo: All Data – Search and discover over structured and unstructured content.

Ease of Use – Simple interface that requires zero training allowing the business user to find the answer to unexpected questions and discover hidden patterns in the data.

Govern – Gold standard data controlled by corporate governance.

Agile and Fast – Discovery is driven by the data provided, not a pre-built model of the data. Interface can provide both visualization of key performance indicators and an in-depth conversation with the data with in-memory performance.

Thank You

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Contact Information:

Ed Sullivan

Practice Director

m. (630) 251-2442

e. [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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OEID Fast Start

Leverages the OID Iterative

Methodology

Time Boxed

Quick win that provides you with

knowledge and skills for follow

on business releases.

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OEID Hosted Solution Options

Ranzal provides fully hosted solutions using

Amazon Web Services

Pass through pricing for AWS coupled with Ranzal

SLA for Level 1,2 and 3 support

Speeds time to value and lowers total cost of

ownership