Power-Up Your Reporting

for Oracle Apps! Enterprise Reporting and Dashboard Solution

Rob Griebel, Noetix

Agenda

• About Noetix

• Reporting Challenges

• The Noetix Solution

• Product Demonstration

• Q&A

About Noetix

• Information access experts since 1994

• Offices in North America and Europe

• Oracle Certified Partner

• 1200+ customers worldwide

Industry

A W A R D S

Reporting Challenges

Oracle Reporting Challenges

• No Business User Reporting Capability

• ERP – Large and Diverse User Base

• Most Companies Have Significant Reporting Backlog

• Bundled Solution – Costly to Develop and Maintain– Requires Programming Expertise– Technical Challenges

• Limited Available Alternatives– Complex Data Model = Data Mapping

• Complex Data Nomenclature

• Poor End User Adoption Rates of Reporting Tools

The Noetix Solution

User Reporting Challenges Solved

Challenge

Ability to run ad hoc queries

Complexity of Oracle data model

Access to data no matter where it resides

Need IT assistance

IT backlog Report development cycle takes significant effort

IT constraints and other priorities

Learning curve

Want data represented in familiar terms

Want to use tools I know

Re Use of content for reports, dashboards

Quick installation of common technology that all tools can use (Noetix WebQuery, Excel, Dashboards)

Valuable reports out-of-the-box you can customize and deploy yourself

Automatically generates business views in terminology users understand

Noetix Solution

• NoetixViews®

Provided 650+ views of the underlying data structures

• Noetix AnswerPoint™

Delivers hundreds of click-on, customizable answers to business questions.

• Noetix QueryServer®

Integrates disparate data sources into a secure query routing and management platform.

• Noetix WebQuery® Empowers decision makers to create and modify reports without IT involvement..

• Noetix Dashboards™

Interactive graphical presentation of enterprise information

Noetix Solution Components

Noetix Platform

Query Mgmt Services

Metadata Repository

Custom Views

HRHR CRMCRM LegacyLegacyAppApp CustomCustom DM/DWDM/DWOracleOracle

Generated ViewsOracle Applications

Data

Noetix Architecture

Noetix Dashboards

Generated Reports (Templates)Oracle Application

Noetix WebQuery

with Excel Integration

Query & Reporting

ToolsApplications

Custom Reports

Noetix Metadata Repository

What is Metadata?

Your configuration…

Setups

Users/Roles

Business Rules

Organizations

Oracle Applications 11i

Noetix MetaBuilder

Oracle Applications 11i

Security

NoetixViews

How Noetix Uses Metadata

Noetix Metadata Repository

Query & reporting

KPIs and metrics

Transaction data

What is a View?

Example:Purchase Order tables in the database

PO_HEADERSC PO_LINE_TYPES

PO_LINES

MTL_ITEM_CATEGORIES MTL_ITEMS

AP_TERMS PO_UN_NUMBERS

Your Report

Open POs

PO No.Item

DescriptionList PriceQuantity

Unit PriceVendor

Simplified Noetix “View”

PO_Lines

BuyerCurrency

ItemDescriptionList PriceOpen FlagLine No.PO No.QuantityTerms

Unit PriceVendor

MTL_ITEM_CATEGORIES PO_LINE_TYPES

PO_LINES_TL

PO_HEADER_TL MTL_ITEMS_TL

PO_NUMBERS AP_TERMS_II

Same View No changes!New database structure…

Key Flexfields as Configured

Key FlexfieldBase Table Column Names

SEGMENT12

SEGMENT6

SEGMENT3

Account$Company

Account$Division

Account$Cost_Center

Key FlexfieldView Column Names

Noetix QueryServer

Integrates disparate datasources into easy-to-usevirtual tables

Provides simplified integrationwith Oracle Application data

Centralizes control & dataaccess management

Oracle Siebel Legacy

Centralized Query & User Management

Dynamically integratesreports with Microsoft Excel

Noetix WebQuery

Cost-effective, zero client information delivery (XML)

Easily-to-Use ReportingInterface for Casual User

Navigation Tool of theNoetix System

Web Based Interface

How much?

How many??

Noetix AnswerPoint

• Provides end-users with immediate answers to business questions

• Automatically generates over 550 reports custom to your Oracle implementation

Immediate Answers

• Provide Templates for Custom Report Requirements

Why We are Successful

Pre-generated Content– Views and reports that pick up configuration

End User Independence– Ease of use

Faster Time to Market– Predictable, proven implementation

Open Architecture– Easily integrate with other data sources

Performance– Don’t have to sacrifice real-time data

Change Management– Upgrade protection

Why Noetix is Different?

the only software provider that

automatically generates content

(metadata) from Oracle

Applications, enabling immediate

access to enterprise-wide

information.

Product Demonstration

Demo Overview

• Pre-Built Reports You Can Customize

• What You See is What You Get

• Power-Up Your Query Tool of Choice

– Microsoft Excel

– Dashboards

Questions?

Q&A