Using Oracle BI Suite EE Plus with Oracle E-Business Suite Joe Dahl Product Specialist Noetix Corporation

Agenda Introduction Overview of Oracle BI Integrating Oracle BI with Oracle EBS Product Demonstration Summary Q & A

About Noetix Oracle BI solution experts since 1994 Offices in North America, Europe and South Asia Certified with all leading BI Platforms Recent Product Awards: KMWorld, eWEEK, DMReview customers globally PARTNERSHIPS

Oracle Certified Advantage Partner Reporting Requirements Change Over Time Relationship Over 15 Years Noetix integration — Oracle on Demand Noetix integration — DBI Designer Noetix integration — Oracle Demo Environments Co-developed Noetix Generator for Discoverer Noetix/Oracle PeopleSoft Agreement R12 and Future Development Plans 1994 Noetix integration — OBI EE

Components of Oracle BI

Oracle BI Server A query and analysis server that integrates data via query federation capabilities from multiple relational, unstructured, OLAP, and pre-packaged application sources Oracle BI Server A query and analysis server that integrates data via query federation capabilities from multiple relational, unstructured, OLAP, and pre-packaged application sources Oracle BI Answers A query and analysis tool that works against a logical view of information from multiple data sources in a pure Web environment Oracle BI Answers A query and analysis tool that works against a logical view of information from multiple data sources in a pure Web environment Oracle BI Interactive Dashboard Interactive pure Web dashboards that display personalized information to help guide users in decision making Oracle BI Interactive Dashboard Interactive pure Web dashboards that display personalized information to help guide users in decision making Oracle BI Publisher A reporting engine capable of generating reports from multiple data sources in multiple formats via multiple delivery channels Oracle BI Publisher A reporting engine capable of generating reports from multiple data sources in multiple formats via multiple delivery channels OBI EE Plus does NOT include Oracle’s BI Applications. Those are separate products, with separate pricing and additional implementation costs. Oracle BI Architecture

Data Warehouse, Data MartOLTP RDBMS OperationalTacticalStrategic Present day What is happening now ? Live transactional reporting History and short to medium term Ad hoc reporting, Why ? Management & statutory reporting Long term What will happen ? KPIs, Long term plans Scorecards,Dashboards Oracle BI Suite Oracle Discoverer Meeting Reporting Needs with Oracle

Oracle BI Suite Oracle Discoverer Meeting Reporting Needs with Oracle Data Warehouse, Data MartOLTP RDBMS OperationalTacticalStrategic Present day What is happening now ? Live transactional reporting History and short to medium term Ad hoc reporting, Why ? Management & statutory reporting Long term What will happen ? KPIs, Long term plans Scorecards,Dashboards Data Warehouse Data Mart OLTP RDBMS OperationalTacticalStrategic Present day What is happening now ? Live transactional reporting History and short to medium term Ad hoc reporting Why ? Long term KPIs Scorecards Dashboards

Federated Data Sources BI Answers Dashboards BI Publisher Direct access to source data Data Warehouse ETL EDW People Soft OracleSiebel SAP Other Direct Access to Source Data Oracle EBS NoetixViews for Oracle Operational and Tactical reporting Tactical and Strategic reporting KEY POINT: You don’t have to wait until you build a data warehouse to get reporting value from Oracle BI Oracle BI and Noetix

Using NoetixViews with Oracle BI

MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS HZ_CUSTOMERS OE_ORDER_LINES_ALL OE_ORDER_HEADERS_ALL MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS_TL PA_PROJECTS_ALL PA_TASKS How Noetix views work Oracle database tables Noetix view of the database Order Lines ATO Flag Booked Date Customer Customer No. Item Item Desc. Line Status Open Quant. Order No. Order Quant. Project Quantity Organization  Ad hoc query  Report  Extraction Customer Selling Org. Customer No. Open Quant. Order Quant. Booked Date Order No. Orders

MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS OE_ORDER_HEADERS_ALL MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS_TL PA_PROJECTS_ALL How reports are protected during upgrades Oracle changes the database... Noetix remaps the view… Order Lines ATO Flag Booked Date Customer Customer No. Item Item Desc. Line Status Open Quant. Order No. Order Quant. Project Quantity Organization Report doesn’t break Customer Selling Org. Customer No. Open Quant. Order Quant. Booked Date Order No. Orders HZ_CUST_ACCOUNTS OE_ORDER_LINES_ALL HZ_PARTIES PA_TASKS

Financials Business Best Practices Supply Chain Mfg. Human Resources [Noetix Functional Experts] Information About Your Setup Object Definition Information about your enterprise application User Interfaces Security Business Rules [Interrogated]

Financials Business Best Practices Supply Chain Mfg. Human Resources [Noetix Functional Experts] Information About Your Setup Object Definition Information about your enterprise application User Interfaces Security Business Rules [Interrogated] Generated metadata Business Views [Configuration-specific Views] Reports [Configuration-specific Answers] Business Glossary [Configuration-specific Help]

NoetixViews Coverage

Browser-based application to access the Noetix Business Glossary Familiar UI paradigm Structural organization Filter by Oracle Applications organizational details Noetix Search

Noetix Generator for Oracle BI Oracle E-Business Suite NoetixViews Oracle BI Server Generate object definitions Export UDML Convert UDML to RPD UDML RPD (Repository Model) RPD (Repository Model)

Product Demonstration

Oracle BI administrators and users benefit immediately Administrators Automatically creates Enterprise Information Model – all 3 layers Automatically populates & publishes NoetixViews details into the model Automatically creates facts and dimensions from relational model End Users Descriptive NoetixViews content Intuitive organization of subject areas Predefined joins and view relationships

Why our Customers are Successful Richest, Deepest Application Content – Business views that pick up configuration End User Independence – Ease of use – auto-generated documentation Automate Administration Tasks – Automatically generate Oracle BI models Change Management – Upgrade protection Faster Time to Deployment – Models are completely generated in minutes History of Success in Oracle Customers – Successful Customers      

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