Practice Manager, BI & EPM Oracle Business Intelligence Visual Analyzer Cloud Service: View and Analyze Your Data Satish Rapolu Sr. Architect, BI & EPM Madhu Pinninti Practice Manager, BI & EPM 27th October 2015

Agenda About Speakers Who is Apps Associates? What is BICS & Visual Analyzer? What are Accelerators? Demo: Visual Analyzer Salesforce Spend Analysis Self-service data upload & Analysis Summary Q & A

About Speakers Madhu Pinninti Satish Rapolu Practice Manager, BI/EPM Over 13 years of IT Consulting experience Over 7 years of experience with OBI / BI Apps implementations Over 10 years experience in EBS Upgrades/Implementations Responsible for delivery and execution of new projects Responsible for BICS initiatives Satish Rapolu Sr. Principle, BI/EPM Over 10 years of IT Consulting experience Over 5 years of experience with OBI / BI Apps implementations Over 8 years experience in EBS Upgrades/Implementations Responsible for execution of new projects and support Architect for OBIEE, OBI Applications and BICS

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) AWS Certified for Oracle on AWS (one of the first two partners worldwide) Over 150 consultants (all employees) delivering BI services Proprietary data lineage and migration tools Exalytics Certified

What is BICS and Visual Analyzer?

Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS) 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 BICS overview

Easy Modelling Wizard-based Star Schema design Auto Time dimension Rich hierarchy and time series calculations, aggregations Advanced Analytics: Trending, Binning, etc.

What You Get Production Two independent environments: separate database, BI service Easy T2P, P2T Oracle managed patching and upgrades Visual Analyzer DataSync Pre-Production Production

Visual Analyzer(VA)

Visual Analyzer Visual Grammar Keyword Search Pattern Brushing Visualizations automatically created and updated by applying visual grammar to data selections made by user All visualization types share foundation in visual grammar All relevant artifacts are automatically indexed for search Unfamiliar data models can be intuitively accessed using keywords Sophisticated technique to highlight correlations between visualizations Patterns highlighted across any components on the canvas https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/281815/analysis_business_graph_internet_magnifier_marketing_monitoring_optimization_search_engine_seo_web_icon http://epdlab.heinz.cmu.edu/ Note on brushing image – one of lines should have color to illustrate connections 10

Library of Visual Components Creative use of color, size, shape and various coordinate systems Implemented via modern Java Script library and rendered through HTML5

Data Mashup – When pre-built data is not enough Extend Facts Extend Dimensions Standalone analysis Smart blending extends curated model to cover all Smart Joins Full outer join support Lose no data in analysis

Apps Associates – BICS Accelerators

Apps Associates’ BICS Accelerator Hire to Retire Financial Close BICS Order to Cash Procure to Pay Sales force Each Accelerator Provides Reports 30 Dashboards 5 Reportable Fields 100+ Data Model Yes Security Mobile Excel Upload Training Custom App

Apps Associates’ Accelerators Back Office Processes Discoverer to BICS Migration BRIO / IR to BICS Migration PBCS / Essbase to BICS Integration EBS Security Integration Salesforce and BICS Integration Taleo and BICS Integration Under Development Workday and BICS Integration* Cloud ERP and BICS Integration* Industry Vertical Solutions* BICS overview *Under Development

Demo: Visual Analyzer Salesforce Spend Analysis Self-service data upload & Analysis

Lost Opportunities Analysis : Salesforce

Visual Analyzer Based Dashboards

Data Load Options Data Sync Tool BICS REST API & DBCS REST API Load on-premise data residing in one or more relational or CSV file sources Data Sync Tool BICS REST API & DBCS REST API Programmatically create, manage, and load schemas, tables, and data into BICS Data Mash-up Thin Client Data Load ApEx Data Load Upload CSV\Excel files into new table or load data into an existing table Browser Based Loading Uses SFTP, SQL Carts and the database utility SQL*Loader to perform the data load SQL Developer All of the above except the thin client data loader can be automated (scripted) SQL Developer only works with Oracle databases SQL Developer - Basic support for either replicating the whole table or filtered data with simple where clause.

Disco To BICS Migration Process On Premise Cloud You cannot lose the functionality Cloud

BICS Accelerators – Sample Dashboards

HR Dashboards

Procure to Pay

Financials

Transformation of Disco Into BICS

Salesforce

Summary BICS & VA Accelerators Demo: Visual Analyzer Salesforce Hire to Retire Financial Close BICS Order to Cash Procure to Pay Sales force BICS & VA Accelerators Demo: Visual Analyzer Salesforce Spend Analysis Self-service data upload & Analysis Custom App

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