Integrated, Cost-Effective and Secure Financial Analytics in the Cloud

Integrated, Cost-Effective and Secure Financial Analytics in the Cloud Kshitij Kumar Global VP of BI/EPM and CTO Apps Associates LLC Anna Lee Senior Sales Consultant Oracle Corporation July 14, 2015 Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 1

Agenda Introduction to Oracle BI Cloud Services (BICS) Apps Associates Accelerators Finance Accelerator: Financial Analysis on the Cloud General Ledger Receivables Payables Live Demonstration Dashboards Self Service Reporting Mash up My Excel with BICS Q & A Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 2

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Complete BI/EPM Service Offerings All Platforms Advise Implement Optimize & Support Integrate 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 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) Upgrades Support Services for OBI and EPM User Training Functional Design Tool Adoption Methods Report Rationalization New Module Development EBS PeopleSoft SAP Salesforce.com JD Edwards Siebel Clarity Lawson Kronos PPM ADP Demantra Oracle Governance (GRC) Oracle Learning Management BICS Oracle Database Appliance On-Premise Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 7

Why Oracle BI Cloud Service? Quick Time to Value All required capabilities preintegrated in a single service Analytics for everyone... from the workgroup to the enterprise Built for user self-service Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 9

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 Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 10

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 Low-cost monthly subscription Self-service data mashup Rich visualization Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 11

What You Get Pre-Production Production Two independent environments: separate database, BI service Easy T2P, P2T 99.5% availability Oracle managed patching and upgrades Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 12

Proven Dashboard & Analysis Platform Rich Charting Gallery, Interactive Visuals, & Comprehensive Formatting Drilling, Advanced dynamic prompting, Rightclick 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 Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 13

Visual Analyzer Single interface for creating visualizations and composing them together Optimal use of screen real estate automatically chosen for user Fine grain positioning and sizing accomplishing with simple dragging Blend and extend enterprise data with user-provide data sets Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 14

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 Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 15

Focus on What s Important! 1. Load your data 3. Author reports, visualizations and interactive dashboards 2. Organize and secure your data 4. Use, share and distribute Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 17

BICS: Cloud First Roadmap Answers + Dashboards BI M DB Cloud 50GB Mobile HD Visual Analyzer Data Mashup DBaaS Support RPD Lift and Shift Languages Support Report Delivery November 2014 March 2015 May July Aug Fall 2015 REST API for ETL DataSync Client Data Modeler Update Bug Fixes Exadata Service 250 GB Schema DB Mapviewer Data Enrichment CS Support Essbase Service Direct SaaS Import On-premise Query Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 18

Business Intelligence Cloud Service * In Development 1. Back Office Processes 2. Industry Vertical Solutions* 3. Discoverer to BICS Migration 4. BRIO / IR to BICS Migration 5. PBCS 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* Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 20

Apps Associates Pre-Packaged Accelerators Financial Close Hire to Retire Each Accelerator Provides Reports 15 Dashboards 5 Reportable Fields 75+ Order to Cash BICS Custom App Data Model Security Mobile Yes Yes Yes Forecast to Delivery Procure to Pay Excel Upload Training Yes Yes Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 21

Finance Accelerator: Manage Close Process Financial Close Calendar Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 AP CutOff Interco Balancing Revenue Reporting Preliminary Trial Bal Royalty Calculation Cash Flow Agings, DPO, DSO, Subledgers, Accrued Liabilities Interco AP & AR Balances; Profit Elimination Report Sales Reports by Div, Product, Program, Cust Trial Balance, Journal Listings, prior period comparisons Sales Reports by Div, Product, Program, Cust Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 Tax Provision Reconciliations Fin Statements Profitability For Curr Hedging Trial Balance Gaap, non-gaap ledger pro forma reports TB by Account vs. Prior Period - drill to account, Journal BS, P&L, Cash Flow - Global & Local currency P&Ls by Cust, Prod, Div; Dept Expense Rpts Currency Exposure reporting Journal Entries Day 11 Day 12 Day 13 Day 14 Day 15 FP&A / Audits Plan vs. Actual - drill to account, journal AP Sub-Ledger AR Sub-ledger Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 22

General Ledger Reports Bal Sheet Cash Flow P&L Drilldown to Details: Traceability from highest to lowest level Detect high level trends / issues Uncover lower level root cause Trial Balance Journal Entries Efficient Navigation: Amounts are hyperlinks Reduce dependency on Excel, email Get access to actionable details Search / filter by any dimension AP Sub-ledger AR Sub-ledger Meet Global Needs: Local, global or transaction currency Gaap, proforma, management formats Fiscal or calendar year Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 23

Scenario Partnership Liabilities Bal Sheet Trial Balance Sales by Partnership Problem Observed: While reviewing the Preliminary Bal Sheet, I observe Accrued Liabilities is 15% less than last month Problem Investigated: I drill into the Accrued Liabilities Balance Sheet Line and see that Partnership Programs account is significantly less than prior period Problem Solved: I launch the Sales by Partnership report for current period and see that one of the major partner programs has no accrual for current period. I call the Billing Department and confirm. Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 24

Payables Reports Spend Reports Spend by Supplier Spend by Buyer Spend by Category PO Counts Purchasing Transactions Summary Reports AP Aging Reports AP Aging by Company AP Aging by Supplier AP Aging (by Invoice) DPO Report Payables Transactions Invoice Count by Pay Method PO Reports Accrual Rpt Requisition Reports AP All Trans Details INV, PMT, W-OFF Open or Closed PO Line Reports Req Lines Reports PO Accrual Report AP Invoice Reports AP Open Invoices AP Open Invoices On Hold AP Invoices no PO AP Payment Reports AP Payments by Pay Method Fx Scheduled Payments Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 26

Receivables Reports Sales Reports Sales by Product, Program Sales vs Credit Limit Sales vs Prior Period New and Lost Account summaries Summary Reports Receivable Transactions AR Transactions All Interco AR Aging Reports Consolidated AR Aging AR Aging by Customer AR Aging All transactions INV, PMT, W-OFF Open or Closed DSO Report AR Invoice Reports AR Payment Reports Customer Adjustments Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 27

Integrating Planning and Actuals Hyperion ERP BICS Measure Execute Plan BICS Financial Dashboards Plan Actual Var $xx,xxx,xxx $xx,xxx,xxx $xx,xxx,xxx $xx,xxx,xxx $xx,xxx,xxx $xx,xxx,xxx $xx,xxx,xxx $xx,xxx,xxx $xx,xxx,xxx Planning Data: Product P&Ls New Projects Capital Projects Headcount / Workforce Plans Departmental Expense Budgets Financial Statements Integration: Shared Technology Shared Essbase Cube Shared Financial Vision Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 29

Visual Analyzer: Data Discovery 1. Find Return Reason 2. Find the product being returned 3. Find the customer being impacted 4. Find the location for these returns Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 31

How BICS Shortens the Financial Close Cycle Weeks Simplification: - Standardizing chart of accounts, reports - Synchronize calendars and cut offs - Eliminate ad hoc and low value reports Automation: Automate account mapping, data import Automate report creation and distribution (coming) Automate notifications and alerts (coming) Enable Fin statement line Item drill down Collaboration: - Self service / personalization (sort, filter, analyze) - MS Office integration (coming) - Interoperability with Hyperion Planning, SmartView - Cross functional / department views Error Prevention and Monitoring: - Detect variances from plan, prior period - Allows more time for doing & analyzing vs. preparing Days Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 32

Discoverer (DISCO) to BICS Accelerator BICS DB BICS Reports Map DISCO Views to BICS Star Schema for reporting 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 Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 35

PBCS to BICS Accelerator PBCS BICS DB BICS Reports Flatten cube to relational Star Schema for reporting Revenue Cube Dimensions Account Product Entity Period Year Scenario Version BICS Revenue Cube BICS Account BICS Entity BICS Management Entity BICS Product BICS Period BICS Year BICS Scenario BICS Version Smart view Type Reports Revenue cube by Entity Revenue cube by Management Entity Revenue cube by Account Revenue cube by Product BICS Type Reports Actual vs Plan by Account Actual vs Plan vs Forecast DSO trend plan vs actual DPO trend plan vs actual Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 36

Thank You Integrated, Cost-Effective and Secure Financial Analytics in the Cloud Kshitij Kumar Global VP of BI/EPM and CTO Apps Associates LLC kshitij.kumar@appsassociates.com Anna Lee Senior Sales Consultant Oracle Corporation anna.e.lee@oracle.com Copyright 2015. Apps Associates LLC. 40

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