2. Business Intelligence (BI) refers to technologies, applications and
practices for the collection, integration, analysis, and
presentation of business information and also sometimes to the
information itself.
The purpose of BI is to support better business decision-making.
Some applications of BI are:--
Online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, process
mining, text mining, business performance management.
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4. • Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications are
complete, prebuilt BI solutions that deliver intuitive, role-
based intelligence throughout an organization. These solutions
enable organizations to gain more insight and greater value
from a range of data sources and applications including Oracle
E Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, and third
party systems such as SAP.
• Oracle BI Applications are built on the Oracle BI Suite
Enterprise Edition, a comprehensive and market leading BI
platform. This enables organizations to realize the value of a
packaged BI application, such as rapid deployment, lower
TCO, and built-in best practices, or to build custom BI
applications—all on one common BI foundation.
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6. • Oracle Business Intelligence Applications support over a dozen
different functional areas with complete, pre-built, best-
practice analytics, and a rich set of KPIs, metrics and analytic
workflows.
• By accessing data from across the enterprise and delivering
deep insight directly to business users, Oracle Business
Intelligence Applications enable faster and more informed
decisions that help the organization optimize resources, reduce
costs, and improve the effectiveness of front-and -back-office
activities ranging from sales to human resources (HR) to
procurement.
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7. • Oracle's ERP Analytics help front line managers improve cash
flow, control expenses, manage headcount and employee
performance, stream-line spend and supply chain operations, and track
the financial performance of major projects.
• Oracle's CRM Analytics provides fact-based insight into the
entire sales process and into product demand, customer price
sensitivity, and overall pricing effectiveness.
• They enable firms to manage and track campaign
performance, and to segment and retain the most valuable customers.
Organizations can assess the effectiveness of loyalty promotions and
partner relationships, track and analyze key service center
metrics, and generate a complete picture of contact center
performance.
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9. Get Accurate, Timely, Transparent Reporting and Better
Compliance:--
Understand and manage the key drivers of shareholder value and
profitability. Oracle Financial Analytics helps front-line managers
improve financial performance with complete, up-to-the-minute
information on their departments' expenses and revenue
contributions. Hundreds of key performance indicators and more
than 200 reports enable financial managers to improve cash
flow, lower costs, and increase profitability while maintaining more
accurate, timely, and transparent financial reporting that helps
ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
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10. • Payables—Assess cash management and monitor operational
effectiveness of the payables department to ensure lowest
transaction costs.
• Receivables—Monitor DSOs and cash cycles to manage working
capital, manage collections, and control receivables risk.
• General ledger—Manage financial performance across
locations, customers, products, and territories, and receive
real-time alerts on events that may impact financial condition.
• Profitability—Identify most profitable
customers, products, and channels and understand profitability
drivers across regions, divisions, and profit centers.
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12. Deeper and Integrated Talent Insight:--
Talent management is about providing workforce information to
business leaders so they can attract, develop, and retain the best
people. With more than 300 metrics and 600 dimensional
attributes, Oracle Human Resources Analytics provides the
workforce information your human resources (HR) professionals
and front-line managers need to analyze workforce staffing and
productivity, and to better design compensation that rewards
performance. Oracle Human Resources Analytics integrates data
from a wide array of functional areas in HR and Finance, presenting
the best tools available to better source high quality
applicants, and to reduce employee retention and absence costs.
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13. • Workforce Insight—Monitor workforce demographics in line
with your recruitment and retention objectives. Analyze
efficiency of the entire recruitment process
lifecycle, understand and prevent the drivers of employee
turnover.
• Targeted Workforce Development —Gain insight into the
movement of top and bottom performers in the organization to
engage and develop internal talent. Gain insight into learning
demand by analyzing course enrollments by job, delivery
methods, and organizations.
• Improved Compensation—Understand how compensation
impacts performance, ensure compensation is equitable and
consistent across roles, and align variable compensation with
your organization's objectives and goals.
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14. • Leave and Absence—Get a comprehensive view into employees'
current, planned, and historical absence events; monitor absence
trends as a predictor for employee engagement.
• Better Understanding of HR Performance—Assess HR's overall
performance and employee productivity using industry
benchmarks such as revenue per employee, contribution per
headcount, and return on human capital.
• US Statutory Compliance—Monitor US EEO, AAP, and Vets100
compliance reporting.
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15. Fact-Based, Actionable Insights for Improving Your Supply
Chain:--
Oracle Supply Chain and Order Management Analytics delivers deep
customer insight into order and inventory data so you can make
better decisions in each stage of the order lifecycle. Oracle Supply
Chain and Order Management Analytics enables you to assess
inventory levels, determine likely product fulfillment needs before
the order has been booked, quickly identify potential order backlog
issues, and stay on top of critical accounts receivable (A/R) and daily
sales outstanding (DSO) issues. By leveraging actionable and fact-
based insights, you can transform your current Supply Chain and
Order Management processes to improve financial performance and
customer satisfaction.
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16. • Better Business Performance—Improve revenue recognition
with faster order to booking conversion and fewer bottlenecks
in the order to cash cycle.
• Better Order Fulfillment—Improve inventory management for
those products that consistently fall into backlog due to a lack
of appropriate stock levels.
• Better Inventory Management—Gain visibility into inventory
activities to minimize unnecessary expenditures and optimize
inventory to conserve working capital.
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18. • Critical pricing decisions are made every day that affect the
ultimate profitability of an enterprise. Often, analysts and
managers are forced to determine prices and discounts with
limited information, guessing at what price the customer will pay
or using the most recent customer price as the basis for the next
price.
• Oracle Price Analytics enables users to make insight-driven
pricing decisions, to measure pricing effectiveness and to take
improvement actions, informed by consistent data and the right
business context. Users are armed with visibility into a single
consolidated view of profitability and simple-but-sophisticated
analytic tools and alerts.
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19. • Enable Accurate, Data-Driven Pricing—Make decisions based
on valuable insight into product demand, customer price
sensitivity, and overall pricing effectiveness.
• Better Understand Impact of Pricing Decisions—Analyze and
understand impacts on product velocity, discounting on
margins, effectiveness of pricing promotions, and product
profitability across channels.
• Identify Pricing Improvement Opportunities—Understand
price drivers by considering the bottom-line impact of all
discounts, services, incentives, rebates, and marketing
programs.
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20. • Monitor and Optimize Performance—Measure the
effectiveness of given price profiles and price segments.
Monitor corporate and regional prices and policies as they are
executed in the field.
• Proactive and Predictive Intelligence—Determine hidden
contributors to price variance, find natural clusters of
willingness-to-buy and cost-to-serve behavior, and otherwise
use data mining and statistics to improve your price insights
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22. Dramatically Improve the Effectiveness of Your Sales People:--
Oracle Sales Analytics provides hundreds of key performance
indicators and more than 130 reports in five customizable
dashboards. These analytics solutions dramatically improve the
effectiveness of your sales people by providing real-time, actionable
insight into every sales opportunity at the point of customer contact.
With more accurate sales forecasts and enhanced identification of
potential problems and opportunities, Oracle Sales Analytics helps
close business faster and increase overall sales revenue.
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23. • Analyze pipeline opportunities to determine actions required to
meet sales targets.
• Determine which products and customer segments generate the
most revenue.
• Understand which competitors are faced most often and how to
win against them.
• Identify up-sell and cross-sell opportunities within existing
accounts.
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25. Get Maximum Results from Your Marketing Investment:--
Oracle Marketing Analytics allows your organization to obtain
maximum results from your marketing investments by providing your
entire marketing team with a complete, up-to-the-minute picture of
customer preferences, buying behavior, and profitability. Oracle
Marketing Analytics helps you to develop closer, more valuable
customer and prospect relationships and improve marketing
effectiveness.
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26. • Marketing Planning—achieve better campaign response
rates, profile customers for more effective event-based
promotion, and allocate resources more effectively by
identifying what drives campaign results
• Campaign Performance—track and measure campaign
effectiveness in real time, understand factors that drive
campaign results and lead conversion rates, and compare
individual campaign results to target metrics
• Customer Insight—understand product affinity for targeted
promotions, profile customers' buying behavior for more
effective promotions, and gain better insight into segmentation
characteristics
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28. Maintain Visibility into Project Performance Throughout the
Project Lifecycle:--
• Oracle Project Analytics offers organizations a comprehensive
analytics solution that delivers insight into project-based data to
seamlessly track the lifecycle of a project.
• Oracle Project Analytics provides robust analysis of important
project-based data such as
forecast, budgets, cost, revenue, billing, profitability and other
aspects of project management.
• It provides consolidated, timely, and complete information to
Project Managers, Project Executives, and Project Accountants.
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29. • Control Project Costs—Enhance visibility into project costs and
variances for improved cost management and project
profitability.
• Improve Project Performance—Track and manage non credit
card invoices paid on time and interest penalties payments.
Minimize delinquent debt amounts to improve management
accountability, and reduce Treasury borrowing.
• Maximize Cash Flow—Promote the use of electronic payment to
vendors to reduce paperwork, and improve payment
performance management.
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