1. Cypress Semiconductor
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad line of high-performance digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits for a range of markets, including data communications, telecommunications, computing, consumer and instrumentation systems.
Peg Pongpairoj, Sr. Business Systems Analyst supporting global procurement
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2. Oracle Products Current Oracle Products/Release versions
Applications R (U.S. sites)
PO, Inv, iProcurement, AP, GL, FA, AR, Projects, iExpenses
Procurement, Inventory, iProcurement are on Family Pack version G;
AP-Minipack G, AR Minipack H; GL-Minipack F, FA Minipack I
Noetix View is for Oracle not
Applications R (Philippines)
PO, Inv, BOM, MRP, AP, GL, FA
Recent upgrade upgrade Family Pack I in Q1 2004
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3. Purchasing Reports Standard reports include: Spend Cost Savings
Cycle time
PO Activity/Volume
Open Pos
Reports are posted on the department’s intranet and sent directly to distribution lists
Adhoc reports both for purchasing staff and internal customers
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4. Reporting products & infrastructure
Noetix View - NoetixViews transforms Oracle Applications data
into business information. It organizes Oracle data in folders or
views that are readily usable and easily accessible to users.
Noetix View provides the basis from which Noetix Web query and
Brio pull live data.
Noetix Web Query
Brio
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5. Reporting tools
Currently approx. 90% of departmental reports are created via Brio and Noetix.
For reporting and data dissemination, three tools are used:
1. Brio Complex, multi-dimensional queries; used mainly to build most standard reports
2. Noetix - simple queries, used mainly to build adhoc reports
3. Excel - all queries/data are posted in excel.
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6. Brio 6.0 Data extracting/query tool, third party-product
Connects directly to production database
Used for 90% of weekly, monthly and quarterly reports
Complex, multi-dimensional queries; used mainly to build most
standard reports
Security and setup done by IT
Available both for Oracle 11i and (all Cypress sites)
Users - 4 BSAs, one buyer
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7. Brio Pros & Cons Pros - allows complicated query with multiple tables
- good processing time against live database
- user setup is easy
- does not require SQL
Cons - not a user friendly tool
- requires some data modeling background
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8. Brio
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9. Brio
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10. Noetix Web Query Data extracting tool, third party-product
Connects directly to production database
Web-based tool
Used to create simple ad-hoc query
Data exportable to excel web query
Not available for (CML site)
Users - 3 BSAs, finance group
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11. Noetix Web QueryPros & Cons
Pros More user friendly
- good performance against live database
- does not require data modeling background
- all reports convertible to Excel web query
Cons Does not allow multiple-table query
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12. Noetix
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13. Noetix
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14. Noetix
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15. Excel Primary data reporting/dissemination tools
Widely used/accepted by users
100% of Brio/Noetix queries converted to Excel
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16. Next steps Automate report generating through scheduling
Noetix/web query training for end users
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