1. PeopleSoft Application Engine Basics for Building a Data Mart App Engine 101

2. © 2007 BearingPoint, Inc.HCM COIN 2 Agenda Read an App Engine Program App Engine – What it’s for Techniques – (Data Modeling 101?) Configure a Run Control to run an App Engine Create an App Engine Program

3. © 2007 BearingPoint, Inc.HCM COIN 3 What’s App Engine For Data Extract, Transform, Load Source and target data, performs aggregations, transformations, conforms data to an analyze-able model Processing Can be a Program performs a process. Example, puts away inventory in a batch process based on staged receiving DML Database Operations, for example, dropping tables and creating indexes

4. © 2007 BearingPoint, Inc.HCM COIN 4 Compare and Contrast SQR to App Engine SQRApp Engine 3 rd PartyProprietary, part of PeopleTools Doesn’t use PeopleTools macrosUses PeopleTools macros Used extensively in early versions of PeopleSoft PeopleSoft decided around version 7.5 to stop using SQR and use App Engine Strength is handling of ETL, Processing of Procedures, DML Lots of programmersScarcity of programmers Less visual in last PeopleSoft release (SQR 6.0)* Steps are somewhat visual in Application Designer Good reporting capabilitiesCreate a reporting table and use another tool * Hyperion is up to release 9 in SQR with many new features

5. © 2007 BearingPoint, Inc.HCM COIN 5 Read an App Engine Program

6. © 2007 BearingPoint, Inc.HCM COIN 6 Read an App Engine Program (cont)

7. © 2007 BearingPoint, Inc.HCM COIN 7 Equivalent in SQR Nested DO

8. © 2007 BearingPoint, Inc.HCM COIN 8 Features in App Engine Steps are numbered Commit after statement Can abort on error or continue Can click on or off the Active box to not use that step Can abort or continue if no rows Can print out the whole app engine Can include all macros available in PeopleCode Step can be a PeopleCode step, capable of processes Many other features

9. © 2007 BearingPoint, Inc.HCM COIN 9 Create an App Engine Easiest way to Create an App Engine: Take an existing App Engine, click File, Save as Rename App Engine App Engines can be put in Projects and imported from one database to another

10. © 2007 BearingPoint, Inc.HCM COIN 10 Configure a Run Control to Run an App Engine

11. © 2007 BearingPoint, Inc.HCM COIN 11 Technique for Building the Fact Only do a full load once a month (incremental on 15 th ) Drop Indexes before massive INSERTs and then build indexes after Lookup Key - Projects that are: -Current Projects -Public Sector Create Narrow Tables based on the Lookup Key -Select Foreign keys to join in later steps -Select only data needed for this datamart Join PROJ_RES to VCHR_ACCTG for ATX, TLX Join PROJ_RES to EX_ACCTG for Subcont, ACT, EXP Effect a Triangulated Reconciliation of Cost, AP, EXP, Proj Resource, GL because we are tying out to the source of the GL, the ACCTG LINE tables.

12. © 2007 BearingPoint, Inc.HCM COIN 12 Q&A Steven Stein, Senior Consultant BearingPoint 100 Matsonford Rd One Radnor Corporate Ctr Radnor, PA 19087 Tel: +1.610.263.7160 Cell: +1.267.872.9838 E-mail: Steven.Stein@BearingPoint.com