1. Practice Manager, BI & EPM
Oracle Business Intelligence Visual Analyzer Cloud Service:
View and Analyze Your Data
Satish Rapolu
Sr. Architect, BI & EPM
Madhu Pinninti
Practice Manager, BI & EPM
27th October 2015

2. Agenda About Speakers Who is Apps Associates?
What is BICS & Visual Analyzer?
What are Accelerators?
Demo: Visual Analyzer
Salesforce
Spend Analysis
Self-service data upload & Analysis
Summary
Q & A

3. About Speakers Madhu Pinninti Satish Rapolu Practice Manager, BI/EPM
Over 13 years of IT Consulting experience
Over 7 years of experience with OBI / BI Apps implementations
Over 10 years experience in EBS Upgrades/Implementations
Responsible for delivery and execution of new projects
Responsible for BICS initiatives
Satish Rapolu
Sr. Principle, BI/EPM
Over 10 years of IT Consulting experience
Over 5 years of experience with OBI / BI Apps implementations
Over 8 years experience in EBS Upgrades/Implementations
Responsible for execution of new projects and support
Architect for OBIEE, OBI Applications and BICS

4. Performance. Growth. Excellence.
Global Reach for Global Customers
Founded in 2002 – 650+ employees
HQ in Massachusetts
US (East, Central, West)
Europe, India, Middle East
Oracle BI Journey Started in 2007 – Represents 40%+ of Our Business
BI Pillar Partner & Specialized
Oracle Platform Technology Solutions BI/EPM
Oracle BI Applications Leadership Board
Beta Program for ODI 12c
First Oracle Exalytics Certified Delivery Partner
Analytics in a Box (Co developed H/W S/W bundle offering with Oracle)
One of the first partners selected for BI Cloud Services (BICS)
AWS Certified for Oracle on AWS (one of the first two partners worldwide)
Over 150 consultants (all employees) delivering BI services
Proprietary data lineage and migration tools
Exalytics Certified

5. What is BICS and Visual Analyzer?

6. Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS)
Based on proven BI technology relied on by millions of users
Integrated with Oracle Database Cloud Service
Built-in mobile
Simple administration and data integration
Low-cost monthly subscription
BICS overview

7. Easy Modelling Wizard-based Star Schema design Auto Time dimension
Rich hierarchy and time series calculations, aggregations
Advanced Analytics: Trending, Binning, etc.

8. What You Get Production
Two independent environments: separate database, BI service
Easy T2P, P2T
Oracle managed patching and upgrades
Visual Analyzer
DataSync
Pre-Production
Production

9. Visual Analyzer(VA)

10. Visual Analyzer Visual Grammar Keyword Search Pattern Brushing
Visualizations automatically created and updated by applying visual grammar to data selections made by user
All visualization types share foundation in visual grammar
All relevant artifacts are automatically indexed for search
Unfamiliar data models can be intuitively accessed using keywords
Sophisticated technique to highlight correlations between visualizations
Patterns highlighted across any components on the canvas
Note on brushing image – one of lines should have color to illustrate connections 10

11. Library of Visual Components
Creative use of color, size, shape and various coordinate systems
Implemented via modern Java Script library and rendered through HTML5

12. Data Mashup – When pre-built data is not enough
Extend Facts
Extend Dimensions
Standalone analysis
Smart blending extends curated model to cover all
Smart Joins
Full outer join support
Lose no data in analysis

13. Apps Associates – BICS Accelerators

14. Apps Associates’ BICS Accelerator
Hire to Retire
Financial Close
BICS
Order to Cash
Procure to Pay
Sales force
Each Accelerator Provides
Reports 30
Dashboards 5
Reportable Fields
100+
Data Model
Yes
Security
Mobile
Excel Upload
Training
Custom App

15. Apps Associates’ Accelerators
Back Office Processes
Discoverer to BICS Migration
BRIO / IR to BICS Migration
PBCS / Essbase to BICS Integration
EBS Security Integration
Salesforce and BICS Integration
Taleo and BICS Integration
Under Development
Workday and BICS Integration*
Cloud ERP and BICS Integration*
Industry Vertical Solutions*
BICS overview
*Under Development

16. Demo: Visual Analyzer
Salesforce
Spend Analysis
Self-service data upload & Analysis

17. Lost Opportunities Analysis : Salesforce

18. Visual Analyzer Based Dashboards

19. Data Load Options Data Sync Tool BICS REST API & DBCS REST API
Load on-premise data residing in one or more relational or CSV file sources
Data Sync Tool
BICS REST API & DBCS REST API
Programmatically create,
manage, and load schemas,
tables, and data into BICS
Data Mash-up
Thin Client Data Load
ApEx Data Load
Upload CSV\Excel files into new table or load data into an existing table
Browser Based Loading
Uses SFTP, SQL Carts and
the database utility SQL*Loader
to perform the data load
SQL Developer
All of the above except the thin client data loader can be automated (scripted)
SQL Developer only works with Oracle databases
SQL Developer - Basic support for either replicating the whole table or filtered data with simple where clause.

20. Disco To BICS Migration Process
On Premise
Cloud
You cannot lose
the functionality
Cloud

21. BICS Accelerators – Sample Dashboards

22. HR Dashboards

23. Procure to Pay

24. Financials

25. Transformation of Disco Into BICS

26. Salesforce

27. Summary BICS & VA Accelerators Demo: Visual Analyzer Salesforce
Hire to Retire
Financial Close
BICS
Order to Cash
Procure to Pay
Sales force
BICS & VA
Accelerators
Demo: Visual Analyzer
Salesforce
Spend Analysis
Self-service data upload & Analysis
Custom App

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29. Thank You!