1. Presentation by Apps Associates LLC
Heterogeneous Data Sources and Their Integration Leveraging Oracle BI Apps / OBIEE
Vinay Dhingra
BI Practice Manager, Apps Associates
Date:
Presenter

2. Agenda
Introduction
Challenges faced in Successful Implementation of BI
BI Products Levels of Maturity
Oracle BI Application Architecture
Our Company: Apps Associates
Q&A

3. Introduction
Vinay Dhingra
BI Practice Manager, Apps Associates
12+ years of experience as BI Architect, Tech lead, PM, etc.
Practice Manager with Apps Associates managing 50+ consultants
Lead Consultant/Architect in Core Engineering group at Oracle for Financial and HR Analytics
Consultant in US with KPI Partners and started the BI GDC for them
Holds Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering
Vinay has participated in over 20 Business Intelligence implementation / upgrades
Lead the first Oracle BI Financial Analytics implementation in 2008

4. Today’s Discussion
Heterogeneous Data Sources and Their Integration Leveraging
Oracle BI Apps / OBIEE
What is BI ?
Business Intelligence (BI) is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions.
BI Applications includes the activities of decision support system, query and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting and data mining.
What is involved in BI ?
Key challenges faced by organization in Implementation
Build Robust Data Warehouse Architecture
Integration of Heterogeneous Data Source System
Performance
Scalability

5. Heterogeneous Data Sources
Multiple Applications
Transactional data stored in multiple applications such as Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards, SAP or home grown custom applications…..
Multiple Databases/Files
Data is stored in multiple databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Teradata, MySQL, Access, Excel ....
Multiple Domains
Financials, HRMS, Order, Management, Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing, Inventory Control, CRM…etc.
Data Flow across Multiple Applications
Flow of data across multiple applications

6. BI Solutions – Level of Maturity3
Level 3 : Plug and play technology
More efficient & faster
Ex: Oracle BI Apps/OBIEE 2
Level 2 : Automated tools created domain based intelligent reporting sets ex. Purchasing Intelligence
Ex: Daily Business Intelligence
Business Value 1
Level 1 : Limited technology to extract relevant data
Time consuming & lot of manual effort required
Ex: Discoverer/Oracle DWH
Level of Sophistication

7. 1st Level of Maturity: Ex. Oracle Discoverer
Adhoc
Reporting
Challenges:
Oracle DB only
Challenging to configure
Difficult to use
EBS OLTP Data
Source: Oracle

8. 2nd Level of Maturity: Ex. Oracle DBI
EBS Apps
Utilizes EBS Instance
Created via Concurrent job extracts
Drill to Transactional data
DBI
MVs
Challenges:
Contention with OLTP users (limited scalability)
Limited configurability
No Adhoc capability
EBS OLTP Data
Source: Oracle

9. 3rd Level of Maturity: Ex. Oracle BI Apps
EBS Apps
DBI
Oracle buys Siebel, introduces new set of BI
Tools – Oracle Business Intelligence Suite
Enterprise Edition
Discoverer
MVs
EBS OLTP Data
Source: Oracle

10. Oracle BI Applications - Detailed Single- and multi-source Analytic Apps Built on BI Suite EE
Sales
Service & Contact Center
Marketing
Order Management & Fulfillment
Supply Chain
Financials
Human Resources
Oracle BI Applications
Oracle BI Suite EE
Ad-hoc Analysis
Proactive
Detection
and Alerts
MS Office
Plug-in
Reporting &
Publishing
Interactive
Dashboards
Disconnected
Analytics
Web Services
IVR, ACD, CTI
Hyperion
MS Excel
Other Data Sources
BAW Schema
Packaged
ETL Maps
Universal Adapters
Source: Oracle

11. Oracle BI Apps Core Proposition –Fin. Analytics

12. Heterogeneous Data Extraction and Loading
Business Analytics Warehouse
Source Independent Load
Staging Tables
Source Dependent Extract
Siebel OLTP
Oracle
Other
App Layer
Power Connect
SQL
ABAP
PeopleSoft
SAP
Load
Extract
Is source-specific and supports universal business adaptors
Exposes simplified business entities from complex source systems
Converts source-specific data to universal staging table format
Is lightweight and designed for performance and parallelism
Is extensible

13. Heterogeneous Data Extraction and Loading
Encapsulates warehouse load
logic
Handles:
– Slowly changing dimensions
– Key lookup resolution / surrogate key generation
– Insert/update strategies
– Currency conversion
– Data consolidation
Uses bulk loaders on all database platforms
Business Analytics Warehouse
Source Independent Load
Staging Tables
Source Dependent Extract
Siebel OLTP
Oracle
Other
App Layer
Power Connect
SQL
ABAP
PeopleSoft
SAP
Load
Extract

14. Oracle Data Warehouse Administration Console

15. About Apps Associates
In operation since 2002 with consistent year- over-year growth, privately held
2011 Inc 500/5000 list of fastest growing U.S. companies
Offices in USA – MA (HQ), New York, Atlanta, Germany and India
Over 400 employees with strong local presence
Core Specializations: E-Business Suite, Oracle Business Intelligence, Microsoft Applications, Hyperion, Integration & Fusion Middleware, Infrastructure Services
Founded by former Oracle Consulting Service employees

16. Service Offering (All)
E-Business Suite Consulting
Release 12 Upgrades and Implementation
EBS Managed Services
Remote DBA Service
Business Intelligence/EPM*
OBI-EE, BI Applications
Hyperion
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
BI Publisher
*BI Pillar Partner
Fusion Middleware
SOA, Process Management
Web Services
E-Business Suite Integrated Product**
ShipConsole
**Product is Oracle Validated
Technical Services
Remote DBA Services
Microsoft Development & Support
Contact Information:
Pavan Kanugo:(M)
Practice Director
Locations:
Boston I New York I Germany I India

17. BI Engagement Type Experience

18. BI Solution Footprint Experience

19. Questions?