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Salvage Your Investment in Discoverer with Oracle BI Cloud Services (BICS)
March 10, 2015
Kshitij Kumar Global VP of BI/EPM and CTO
Apps Associates LLC
Alan Lee Director, Product Management
Oracle Corporation
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Agenda
• Introduction
• Why Migrate
• What is BICS?
• Migrating Discoverer to BICS
• Live Demonstration
• Behind the Scenes
• Apps Associates Offering
• Q & A
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Confidentiality Statement
Apps Associates
The content of this document is proprietary, confidential information pertaining to Apps Associates’ products, services, solutions and methods. Information herein is intended for use by the client or prospective client only and must not be shared with any third party without consent from Apps Associates.
Oracle
The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporate into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
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About Apps Associates
Kshitij Kumar Global VP of BI/EPM and CTO Apps Associates LLC
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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) - Certified
‒ AWS Certified for Oracle on AWS (only 2 partners worldwide)
• Over 125 consultants (all employees) delivering OBI services
• Proprietary data lineage and migration tools
Exalytics Certified
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Keys to a Successful BI Program
Oracle Centers of Excellence
Lifecycle of Services
Assess Deploy Integrate Train Support Optimize
Business Intelligence
Hyperion ERP / Fusion
Apps CRM
Fusion Middleware
Managed Services
Cloud Engineered
Systems Architecture
Services Apps
University Oracle Testing
ShipConsole
Exalytics Certified Delivery Partner
Business, Technical, Functional, and Infrastructure Services: All from one organization
Strong Process Background – Engage Business Architecture / Security / Performance
Multiple Distributed Sources Integration with IT Strategy
Training & Adoption
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Complete BI/EPM Service Offerings All Platforms
BICS
On-Premise Oracle Database Appliance
Advise
• BI / EPM Assessment and Roadmaps
• BI on Cloud • OBI Architecture Assessment • Data Governance Process
Design and Implement • MDM for BI / EPM • OBI / Hyperion and R12
Planning • Integration of structured and
unstructured data
Implement
• OBI Foundation Suite • BI Apps • EPM • User Adoption & Training • BI / EPM on the Cloud • Endeca Information Discovery
(EID) • EID for EBS (connectors) • BI Cloud Services (BICS)
Optimize & Support
• Upgrades • Support Services for OBI and
EPM • User Training • Functional Design • Tool Adoption Methods • Report Rationalization • New Module Development
Integrate
• EBS • PeopleSoft • SAP • Salesforce.com • JD Edwards • Siebel • Clarity • Lawson • Kronos • PPM • ADP • Demantra • Oracle Governance (GRC) • Oracle Learning Management
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Why Migrate: A trip down memory lane
Kshitij Kumar Global VP of BI/EPM and CTO Apps Associates LLC
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• One device does all • Provides all functionality • Ease of install and start
• Multiple devices • Expand and change as necessary • Complicated setup
Which One Would You Like to Have?
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• Serves multiple purposes • New apps and updates pushed • Rich features • More learning than traditional • More productive
• Serves one purpose • What you see is what you get • Traditional way, no learning • Less productive
Which One Would You Rather Have?
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• Automated – saves time exponentially • Focus on what to do not how to do • Be anywhere, any geography, any time • Secure – less lost checks
• Lot of manual effort • Not scalable – Wait time, long lines, holidays • Dependency – no money until drive down to bank • Geography dependent - ATM machine
Does this look familiar?
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How would you like to power your home or office?
• Just consume – same as others • Want more, ask for it – no change • Minimal install • Always there – Don’t think about it
• Your own equipment on premises • You install, manage etc. – full control • No expansion, constant upkeep • Unique to you, worry about downtime
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Lets Bring It All Together
× Multiple devices × Expand and change as necessary × Complicated setup
× Serves one purpose × What you see is what you get × Traditional way, no learning × Less productive
× Your own equipment on premises × You install, manage etc. – full control × No expansion, constant upkeep × Unique to you, worry about downtime
× Lot of manual effort × Not scalable – Wait time, long lines, holidays × Dependency – drive down to bank × Geography dependent – ATM machine
On Premise – Discoverer
One device does all Provides all functionality Ease of install and start
Serves multiple purposes New apps and updates pushed, rich features More learning than transitional More productive
Just consume – same as others Want more, ask for it – no change Minimal install Always there – don’t think about it
Automated – saves time exponentially Focus on what to do not how to do Be anywhere, any geography, any time Secure – less lost checks
BI Cloud Services
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Discoverer Report in BICS
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BICS : Best of both worlds
Analytics Reports Based on Discoverer Views
Discoverer Reports Based on Discoverer Views
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Benefits of Migration
1. Discoverer End of Life
2. Data from multiple sources, not just EBS
3. Focus on answers to questions you are looking for in reports
4. Data analysis and decision making very different now
5. Actionable Insight – Focus on exceptions with ability to drill to detail and take action
6. KPI, Chart and Summary Table based reports with drilldown capabilities to details
7. Option to create ‘Discoverer like’ reports in BICS
8. Access reports on any device (desktop and mobile)
9. Richer self-service report creation capability with minimal training
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What is BICS?
Alan Lee Director, Product Management Oracle Corporation
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Business Intelligence Cloud Service
• 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
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Why Oracle BI Cloud Service?
• Quick Time to Value
• All required capabilities pre-integrated in a single service
• Analytics for everyone... from the workgroup to the enterprise
• Built for user self-service
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Powerful BI. Low Cost of Ownership.
Proven BI Platform
Enterprise Class Feature Rich
Oracle Data Centers
Oracle Owned and Operated Highest Industry Security Standards
Fully Managed
Upgrades and Patching 99.5% Availability
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Pre-Production Production
What You Get
• Two independent environments: separate database, BI service
• Easy T2P, P2T
• 99.5% availability
• Oracle managed patching and upgrades
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• Rich Charting Gallery, Interactive Visuals, & Comprehensive Formatting
• Drilling, Advanced dynamic prompting, Right-click interactions, master-detail linking
• Pivoting and Visual Aggregations
• Full featured query generation and calculation engine
• Comprehensive filtering and aggregation
• Powerful OLAP groupings, selections
• Hierarchical, time-series, and statistical functions
Proven Dashboard & Analysis Platform
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Automatic Mobile Support Based on BI Mobile HD
• Analytics on mobile with no additional development
• Touch, drill, interact
• Swipe, zoom – touch gestures
• Offline access to content with fine-grained security to grant or revoke privileges
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1. Load your data
4. Use, share and distribute
3. Author reports, visualizations and interactive dashboards
2. Organize and secure your data
Focus on What’s Important!
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Discoverer Migration to BICS: Process and Tools
Kshitij Kumar Global VP of BI/EPM and CTO Apps Associates LLC
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Discoverer Report As Is
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Migration Process
On Premise
Cloud
Cloud
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AR Transactions Report
Description Base View (out of the box) Custom View
AR Invoices ARFG_INVOICE_ARS None
AR Transactions ARFG_AR_TRANSACTIONS None
Customers ARFG_CUSTOMERS None
Customer Sites ARFG_CUSTOMER_SITES XX_ARFG_CUSTOMER_SITES
Customer Locations ARFG_LOCATIONS XX_ARFG_LOCATIONS
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BICS Data Modeler and Answers
Create tables in BICS DB Expose fields to report
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Business Areas to BICS Subject Area
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BICS Report Designer
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Discoverer Report in BICS
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Apps Associates Offering: Process and Accelerator
Kshitij Kumar Global VP of BI/EPM and CTO Apps Associates LLC
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Migration Process
On Premise
Cloud
Cloud
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Map DISCO Views to BICS Star Schema for reporting
BICS DB BICS Reports
1. Combination of methodology and developer code
2. Pre-built reports and metrics delivered via BICS Dashboards
3. Pre-built schema for Out of the Box Discoverer Views
4. Pre-Built extract programs to load Discoverer data into BICS Database
5. Pre-Built extract programs to incrementally update BICS database
6. Pre-Built reporting fields for ad-hoc self service fields
7. Pre-Built E-Business Security extended to BICS
Discoverer (DISCO) to BICS Accelerator
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Requisition Processing
Enter Requisition
Approve Requisition
Purchase Order
Processing
AutoCreate or Enter
Order
Approve Order
Send order to vendor
Receive order to
purchasing
Invoice Processing
Enter Invoice Match
invoice to order/receipt
Pay vendor
Payment processing
Enter payment
Pay suppliers
Procurement Accelerator: Procure to Pay Process
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Procurement Accelerator: Procure to Pay Fields
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Procurement Accelerator: Procure to Pay Fields
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Apps Associates’ Pre-Packaged Accelerators
Hire to Retire
Financial Close
BICS Order to
Cash
Procure to Pay
Forecast to
Delivery
Each Accelerator Provides
Reports 15
Dashboards 5
Reportable Fields 75+
Data Model Yes
Security Yes
Mobile Yes
Excel Upload Yes
Training Yes
Custom App
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Apps Associates’ Accelerators
1. Back Office Processes
2. Industry Vertical Solutions*
3. Discoverer to BICS Migration
4. BRIO / IR to BICS Migration
5. PBCS / Essbase to BICS Integration
6. EBS Security Integration
7. SQL Cart Automation
8. Rest API Data Loads*
9. Workday and BICS Integration
10. Salesforce and BICS Integration*
11. Taleo and BICS Integration* *Under Development
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Closing: You Decide
9i (2002)
• iPod introduces a year back
• No Blackberry Smart phone
10g (2003)
• No iPhone
• No Twitter, No Facebook, No Micro SD
• No Cloud
11g (2009)
• 3G technology just starting
• No 3D TV
• No iPad
• Cloud just starting
Think about Return on Investment (ROI)
1. Moving off from an unsupported system 2. Fast provisioning and Fully managed software 3. Operational investment (SaaS based) 4. No H/W and management cost 5. Better root cause analysis 6. Rapid Deployment – Apps Associates’ accelerators 7. Self Service – all types of reports
Look for Oracle’s Statement of Direction Document
Google Search : “Oracle’s Statement of Direction for Discoverer”
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Kshitij Kumar Global VP of BI/EPM and CTO
Apps Associates LLC [email protected]
Alan Lee Director, Product Management
Oracle Corporation [email protected]
Salvage Your Investment in Discoverer with Oracle BICS
Thank You
Next Webinar on BICS: April 09, 2015 – Managing the Procure to Pay Process
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