1. Oracle Report Manager June 13, 2013

2. Agenda MSS Overview Oracle Report Manager Overview Templates
Submitting Reports
Repository Management

3. Why MSS?
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We bring years of “business” and “industry” experience with best practices
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Transcript:
So what we want to talk about today is basically where we are with E-Business Suite, what we're going to be doing going forward, and a lot about the value of upgrading from earlier releases to the current release of E-Business Suite and then a little bit about how you can extend the value of your E-Business Suite footprint with some of the other applications we have in our portfolio. In particular we'll talk a little about some of the new Fusion applications and talk about how they relate to what we're doing in the E-Business Suite. So that's kind of what we're all about today. Let me ask, before I get started here, just give me a sense of the audience how many folks in the audience are currently running 11i of the E-Business Suite? Okay, that looked like unanimous consent. How many people are running Release 12.0 of the E-Business Suite? Okay, that's probably 5, 10%. How about how many people are running 12.1 of the E-Business Suite? Good for you, okay, another about 5 or 10%. Okay, so basically maybe 80/20 on 11i versus the newer releases. So I'm going to gear a lot of what I have to say today to the audience that's still on 11i. I'll try to make it as relevant as I can for people who have already made it to the later releases, but that's kind of where the center of gravity of the audience is.

4. Customer Successes Transcript:
So what we want to talk about today is basically where we are with E-Business Suite, what we're going to be doing going forward, and a lot about the value of upgrading from earlier releases to the current release of E-Business Suite and then a little bit about how you can extend the value of your E-Business Suite footprint with some of the other applications we have in our portfolio. In particular we'll talk a little about some of the new Fusion applications and talk about how they relate to what we're doing in the E-Business Suite. So that's kind of what we're all about today. Let me ask, before I get started here, just give me a sense of the audience how many folks in the audience are currently running 11i of the E-Business Suite? Okay, that looked like unanimous consent. How many people are running Release 12.0 of the E-Business Suite? Okay, that's probably 5, 10%. How about how many people are running 12.1 of the E-Business Suite? Good for you, okay, another about 5 or 10%. Okay, so basically maybe 80/20 on 11i versus the newer releases. So I'm going to gear a lot of what I have to say today to the audience that's still on 11i. I'll try to make it as relevant as I can for people who have already made it to the later releases, but that's kind of where the center of gravity of the audience is.

5. Oracle Report Manager

6. Oracle Report Manager Overview
Oracle Report Manager is an online report distribution system that provides a secure and centralized location to produce and manage all Oracle Reports (FSG, Variable, and Standard).
Oracle Report Manager allows for the use of data from any existing Oracle report or FSG and reformat the data to a different presentation style or delivery format (Excel, PDF, HTML)
Oracle Report Manager reports can be placed on the Oracle E-Business Suite Home page or portal.
Approve reports before making them available for general viewing.
Secure reports by utilizing values, custom, and flexfield segment
Archive reports for future reference that no longer need to be displayed.

7. Reporting Tools Included Included/Optional Optional Report Name
End User Definable
Highly Formatted Reports
Content
Drill Down Capability
Exports to Excel
Supports Pie Charts/Bar Charts
Supports OLAP (Online Analytical Processing), Cubes
Additional
Cost
Oracle Report Manager
Yes No
All
Included
Oracle Reports
Yes – difficult
Oracle Discoverer
Included/Optional
Oracle BI Publisher
FSG Reports
Financial Only
Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE)
Optional

8. Templates

9. Template Overview
A template is the report format that is used by the report manager to publish the reports. All templates are created in Excel
All the templates are report specific and templates need to be defined for each and every report the user has.
Pre-seeded template called ‘Generic FSG Template’ can be used with any report, however, cannot be modified
When creating a new template or editing an existing template you can make the following changes:
Add and remove report elements.
Change the location of report elements on the page.
Modify row and column sizes.
Use standard Excel font formatting such as bold. Default formatting is provided.
Insert text that remains static in the report.
Add images. Supported image files are png, gif, jpg, and bmp
Add background watermark images
Include hyperlinks
Add data values. Data values are report objects that link to XML elements of the report output file and the values are obtained during the publishing process.
Move columns
Insert blank rows

10. Creating a Template

11. Creating a Template (Continued)

12. Created Template

13. Template Upload
When your template is opened in Excel, you can edit it by clicking on the Add-Ins tab and the Oracle menu command.
Once you have completed all of the changes to your template, you can upload it back to Oracle.
The upload process can be submitted by clicking on Oracle Menu from the standard toolbar. See above screenshot.
After clicking on the upload sub menu, a pop up will appear asking the user to provide the following information:
Template Name: This is user defined
Description: this can be a longer description of the template name.
Language: British English
Overwrite Existing Template: Check the box if you are overwriting an existing template. If you chose this option, it will overwrite any existing templates with the same name. If it is a new template, leave box unchecked.
Enable Drilldown: this will enable drilldown from your FSG report for this template.
Click on the Upload button

14. Uploading Template

15. Submitting Financial Reports

16. Submitting Financial Reports
You have the following options for submitting and publishing reports:
 Financial Report
Submit any of the Financial Statement Generator (FSG) reports available to your responsibility
Ad Hoc Financial Report Submission
Define the Financial Statement Generator report components at runtime, if a predefined FSG report does not exist.
Standard Report
Submit any of the standard Oracle Applications reports available to your responsibility. These reports require a template that must be setup using Oracle XML Report manager. However, many of the standard reports already have a defined XML template in R12.
Variable Report
Submit variable reports with attribute sets and publishing options defined in Oracle Applications. These are the reports that begin with RXI in the report name.

17. Submitting Financial Reports - Report Categories
There are four categories of reports
Single Report: A complete report for a specific time-period.
Single Report Over Time: A single report produced for different periods.
Expanded Report: One report displayed in a variety of ways depending upon an expansion value.
Expanded Report Over Time: An expanded report available for different time periods.

18. Submitting Financial Reports – Parameters
Enter the following Parameters
Report Name: Select existing report from list of values
Period: Select the period for which you want to run your report
Currency: Defaults to USD
Flag Exceptions: Select this box if you want any exceptions to be identified
Content Set: Optional
Display Set: Optional
Row Order Set: Optional
Rounding Options: Defaults to Calculate then round
Additional Parameters
Segment Override (optional)

19. Submitting Financial Reports – Parameters

20. Submitting Financial Report – Publishing Parameters

21. Submitting Financial Reports - Storage Location
Designate where to store the report in the repository.
Use Last –will default to the last place you stored the report
New – Allows you to select where you would like to store the report

22. Submitting Financial Reports - Presentation
Determine which responsibility will have access to a report. Users will access reports by selecting menu items under their responsibility.
One or more reports can be stored under the same location in the repository.
When a menu item is created, it is associated with the repository location, regardless of whether one or many reports are stored in that location.

23. Publishing Parameters - Review
Review all of your parameters before you submit the report.
Click on the refresh button until the report has completed. Click on view output to see your report.

24. Submitting Financial Report – Sample of Output
If you select a template that allows drilldown you can drilldown to the details of a line item on the report by double clicking on the amount.

25. Repository Management

26. Repository Management
All reports submitted through the Report Manager are stored in the Reports Repository.
The Repository Management allows you to:
Organize and view completed reports
Update publishing and security options for completed reports
Archive and delete reports
Repository Management shows you a hierarchical grid structure that provides an easy way of locating reports. You can only add reports to the repository when the report is published.

27. Maintain Repository
Use the Maintain Repository page to schedule the Maintain Repository concurrent request. This request will process all reports that are marked for archive or delete. In addition, it will remove menu items that no longer point to active reports.
You can schedule the request to run immediately, or you can set up a recurring schedule to ensure items are archived and purged on a regular basis.

28. Setup Considerations Patchset level –Metalink 820653.1 (9 Jul 2009)
Check for latest before implementation
For apply FRM.H over and above FRM.G
For R12 Report Manager is Auto-installed. Apply FRM.A
Report Manager uses Self Service Workflow Applications
Report Manager requires the BNE platform used by Web ADI
Functional Dependencies
FSGs should have been defined in GL
For standard reports, they should be assigned to Request Group assigned to the Report Manager
Custom menu and responsibility for Report Manager
Browser and Excel settings

29. Custom Menu and Responsibility
Pre-defined menus for Report Manager are not complete
“FRM_SECURITY_MENU” menu is pre-defined but not adequate
Need to define/assign additional functions to custom menu:
Financial Report Template Editor
Financial Report Submission
Standard Report Submission
Repository Management
Alternatively, you may add these functions to the
“GL_SUPERUSER” menu

30. Contact Information
Brian Jung – MSS Consulting Services Director