Fusion Applications and Your BI/EPM Investment

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1 Fusion Applications and Your BI/EPM Investment Understanding how it is used

2 Extract Oracle Fusion Applications are here today providing the next generation of applications. They are about having everything the user needs in one place, and that includes information. Fusion Applications is a window on Oracle's Fusion Middleware stack and a very big part of that is BI/EPM and analytics. This presentation will include a small demo of how Fusion looks and is designed to give you an appreciation of how BI/EPM is embedded in Fusion. For anyone thinking of Fusion in the future it will underline that your B/EPMI investment today is an investment in that future and protected. 1

3 Debra Lilley Oracle Alliance Director and Fusion Champion for Fujitsu UK & Ireland Oracle ACE Director, OCP & Oracle Masters Fusion Applications UX advocate Director and Past President UKOUG Oracle App since (17 years) End User Advisor for Constellation Research 2008 Oracle Magazine Award User Group Evangelist of the Year 2011 Friend of Quest Award 2011 SOA Community Award Winner

4 My Audience? Technical? BI / EPM? Business User? Apps User? Oracle? Architect?

5 Fujitsu & Oracle & Fusion Apps Diamond Partner More Specializations than any other partner Fusion UX testing (7 people) 3 waves of Fusion Apps Testing (5 people) Regional Ramp Up Partner UX Customer Advisory Board Early Adopter Customer Assessment Proof of Concepts SaaS Customers 4

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7 Fusion Applications 6

8 Design Principles Oracle Slide with permission 7

9 REVOLUTIONARY INFORMATION ACCESS REPORTING AND ANALYSIS TOOLS TO FIT YOUR NEEDS REPORTING NEED SOLUTION Professional quality, boardroom ready financial statements with live drilldowns to source transactions Exception-based account monitoring with multi-dimensional analysis Financial Reporting Center Spreadsheet-based financial reporting and ad hoc queries with multi-dimensional analysis, pivoting, and drilldown Smart View High volume operational reporting Easy-to-use ad hoc queries of transactions with live drilldowns to transactions BI Publisher Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) KPIs, metrics, and highly summarized queries from a data warehouse OBIA Oracle Slide with permission 9

10 Essbase in Fusion Within GL it is used in GL to store account balances. You can get data directly from it by using: 1) financial reporting center - Account inspector and Account Monitor - two native UI built using ADF 2) Hyperion Financial Reports a (simple reporting tool) 3) Smartview 4) OTBI (views accessed by OBIEE) 5) Allocation manager, not for reporting but for running financial allocations. 10

11 Account Monitor Region (Dashboard) Addresses Key Challenges Insight Accuracy GL Manager Exceptions Timing Monitor Accounts Confidently Increase visibility to critical accounts Alerts users to account anomalies as they happen so they can take corrective action Improve insight to information with dynamic ad hoc analysis and drilldown to account balances at every level of the account hierarchy, with access to supporting journal entries and subledger transactions Oracle Slide with permission 11

12 Journal and Intercompany Activity Regions Addresses Key Challenges Process Approval GL Accountant Validation Timing Process Transactions Efficiently Increase productivity with a consolidated view of transactions that need immediate attention or further action Increase accuracy by delivering the right information at the right time to guide users actions and eliminate errors Improve real-time collaboration and communication with participants in the transaction processing cycle Oracle Slide with permission 12

13 Reporting and Analysis Improvements Addresses Key Challenges Complexity Accuracy Visibility Accessibility Financial Analyst Analyze & Report with Ease Answer questions immediately via spreadsheet access to real-time financial data Reduce complexity with multi-dimensional reporting tools Increase visibility through a wide variety of reporting formats Gain insight with the ability to analyze data using multiple hierarchies Oracle Slide with permission 13

14 Financial Reporting Centre Information how, when and where you need it Secure self-service reporting and analytics against real-time data Centrally access live reports and report snapshots Efficiently distribute reports to authorized users Perform multidimensional analysis and drill down from anywhere View reports in any output View pre-published snapshots for point-in-time reporting View live reports Be alerted to account balances that exceed thresholds Oracle Slide with permission 14

15 Smart View Ad-hoc multi-dimensional pivot analysis combined with full Excel functionality Drill from any parent to next parent level, or to detail balances, journal lines and subledger transactions inv1tob5hpe Oracle Slide with permission 15

16 Essbase Storage Options and importance in Apps BSO (Block Storage Option) o Historically the only option o Designed for Accounts and Time dimensions, Time balance, Variance and reporting o Currency conversion. o Complex calculations using calculation scripts. ASO (Aggregate Storage Option) o Larger numbers of dimensions and members o Optimized for sparser data sets, operational analytics o Faster load and calc times o Efficient tuning for storage and query response o Faster than BSO o Default for Fusion GL Essbase cube

17 Understanding Fusion Applications What we do today Enter Journals ADI The impact run a report / query a balance Slice & dice / Consolidate export to OFA / HFM Query a journal entry identify user FND_user Corporate address book Phone / Add a flexfield And in Fusion Apps Everything in one place 17

18 Fusion Reporting and Analytics Oracle Transactional BI (OTBI) Real time, self service reporting directly off Fusion Apps data Pre-packaged content covering major Fusion Applications Built on Oracle BI EE technology Oracle BI Applications (OBIA) Unlimited historical analysis - trending and cross-domain insight Pre-packaged DW, ETL, metrics, and interactive dashboards Now for EBS, PSFT, JD Edwards, Siebel. Extending to Fusion Applications Built on Oracle BI EE technology Specialized Analytics Financial statements, sales territory planning, project performance, and more built on Essbase technology Whitespace analysis built on Real-Time Decisions and Oracle Data Mining technologies Oracle Slide with permission 18

19 Fusion BI Architecture Pre-Packaged Reports & Dashboards Fusion Embedded Analytics Self-Service Query & Reporting Content Summary: 150+ embedded analytics OBIA: 3,000+ reports, 4,000+ metrics OTBI: Covers 35+ Fusion Products OBIA BI Common Semantic Model OBIA Data Warehouse OTBI Real-Time Queries BI Common Semantic Model: Supports highly aggregated trending and realtime transaction listings from a single query model ETL EBS, PSFT, JDE, Siebel, Other BI View Objects Fusion Apps Transactional Database BI View Objects: Are single source of truth for BI Represent facts and dimensions Implement Apps data security Oracle Slide with permission 19

20 Board Quality Financial Statements Information how, when and where you need it Supports multiple output options: (MS Office, PDF, HTML) Expand parent to view detail balances Drill down to original transactions Live, interactive financial reporting Professional quality, webbased financial reports Multi-dimensional analysis, pivoting, and drill down on live data Easy to define reports Export to Excel for further analysis Oracle Slide with permission 20

21 The Database Just Two unless.. You install in stages You Use in Co-existence model BI Apps Data warehouse Fusion Apps Transactional Database Schema (EBS & Siebel Based) MetaData Store Essbase

22 BI in Fusion Applications Fusion Applications is a window on FMW BI is a big part of that utilising the complete BI suite and Apps Fusion Apps is about having everything in one place Embedded, pervasive and timely Fusion Apps is Exadata and Exalytics ready Most important, investment in BI suite today is an investment protected, it is key to Oracle Fusion Applications 22

23 TAKE AWAYS Oracle Fusion Applications are totally written in FMW That includes BI & EPM Not going anywhere Therefore YOUR INVESTMENT IS PROTECTED Financial Skills

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25 Thanks To: Fusion Apps Development Team Fusion UX Team Mark Rittman for the Idea and Original Invitation DOAG for this invitation You for listening 25

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