Cloud Analytics for E-Business Suite

① Challenges w/ Existing EBS Reporting Solutions
② What is Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS)?
③ Oracle BICS Demo
④ What is KPI Cloud Analytics for EBS?
⑤ KPI Cloud Analytics Demo (Proc & Spend, Order Mgmt, Inventory, Finance, Ad-Hoc)
⑥ Q&A
Agenda
Cloud Analytics for E-Business Suite 3

Challenges With Existing E-Business
Suite Reporting Solutions
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Challenges With Existing E-Business Suite Reporting Solutions
Real Time Reporting
Corporate Ad-Hoc Query
Reporting & Analysis
Dashboards
Data Dump, Historical Capture
Scheduled Report Distribution
Merge Server Data w/ Local Files
I don’t know what I’m looking for.
I’ll know it when I see it.
DiscovererOracle BI
Applications
Oracle BI
Foundation
Suite (BIFS)
3rd Party
Solutions
(Noetix, GL Wand, etc.)

Problem
Solution
Expensive to maintain hardware and software
Lack of mobile support
Legacy solutions no longer supported
Difficult to do data mash-ups of EBS & non-EBS data
Cloud-based system
Modern solution w/ support for mobile & desktop
Easy data mash-ups of EBS & non-EBS data

Departmental BI
Operational BI
Enterprise BI
Data Integration across multiple systems
Analytics requiring complex data transformation
Analytics that essentially need standardized metrics
Spectrum of E-Business Suite Users

Departmental BI
Operational BI
Enterprise BI
Source systems provide such reporting via embedded reporting
Often real time business intelligence

Departmental BI
Operational BI
Enterprise BI
Need data analysis that only matters to a particular group.
Metrics can be different than enterprise metrics.
Need data mash-ups between EBS data and local spreadsheets.

DiscovererOracle BI
Applications
Oracle BI
Foundation
Suite (BIFS)
3rd Party
Solutions

DiscovererOracle BI
Applications
Oracle BI
Foundation
Suite (BIFS)
3rd Party
Solutions
Oracle BI
Cloud Service
(BICS)
A New Option
Dept. Ad-Hoc Query
Reporting & Analysis
Simple Data Modeling
Merging Server Data
w/ Local Files

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Why BICS for EBS?
 Alternate to Discoverer for
non-real time reports
 Perform mash-ups of EBS
and non-EBS data
 Adopt a cloud strategy
 Broad mobile support
Cloud Analytics for E-Business Suite
Built for Agile BI

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Why Cloud BI for EBS?
 Democratize information on
Analysts desktops today
 Provide quick Analytics for
LOB’s
 Data dumps to Excel or
Access
 Want to “Mash-Up” data
 Restricted capital budgets,
project priorities
 Rapid Prototyping
 Fail fast, more design cycles,
low cost & risk, validate
requirements
 Allow IT to govern data,
security & provide tools for
more complex requirements

What Is Oracle
BI Cloud Service?
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Business Intelligence Cloud
What Is Oracle BI 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

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

Powerful BI Capabilities… 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

Proven Dashboard & Analysis Platform
 Rich Charting Gallery, Interactive
Visuals, & Comprehensive Formatting
 Drilling, Advanced dynamic prompting,
Right-click interactions, master-detail
linking
 Pivoting and Visual Aggregations

Proven Dashboard & Analysis Platform
 Full featured query generation and
calculation engine
 Comprehensive filtering and aggregation
 Powerful groupings, selections
 Hierarchical, time-series, and statistical
functions

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

Includes The Market-Leading
Oracle Database
 Oracle Database
 Oracle Managed
 Automated Backup
 Point-in-time Recovery
 Administrative Access
 Oracle Application Express
(APEX)
 SQL Developer

BICS DBaaS
Multiple Data Load Options
BICS Data Loader
Web-based File Upload
SQL Developer
Interactive Loading & Administration
DBCS Rest API
Define Your Own Custom API
PL/SQL Data Import
Generic Web Services Data Import

Easy Data Modeling
 Wizard based Star Schema
design
 Auto Time Dimension
 Rich hierarchy and time series
calculations, aggregations
 Advanced Analytics: Trending,
Binning, etc., based on Oracle
database
 Leverage any Oracle database
procedure

Intuitive Security & Admin
 Integrated ID Management
 Application roles
 Snapshots and Exports
 Advanced Permissions
Framework
 Easy backup/restore
 Database administration via
APEX

Multiple Data Load Options
1. Load Your Data
4. Use, Share,
& Distribute
3. Create Analysis
2. Organize The Data

① Self Service User Assistance
② Sample App of Best Practices
③ Web-Based Data Loader
④ Web-Based Data Modeler
⑤ Web-Based Admin
⑥ Create a new report
Oracle BICS Demo

What is
KPI Cloud Analytics for
Oracle E-Business Suite?
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 25 on-premise solutions (EBS, Peoplesoft, Salesforce)
 15 cloud-based solutions (EBS, Netsuite, Salesforce)
 2 solutions for Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EBS, Salesforce)
 KPI Co-founders are from Oracle’s Product Management Team
What is KPI Cloud Analytics for Oracle E-Business Suite?

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# of Metrics
# of Reports
# of Dashboards
Subject Areas
Pre-Built
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KPI Cloud Analytics for EBS
EBS Module Subject Areas # of Dashboards # of Reports # of Metrics
Inventory 10 5 20 40
Order Mgmt 7 8 30 40
Proc/Spend 5 8 30 40
HR 5 8 30 40
Manufacturing 5 8 30 40
Projects 3 5 20 20
GL 2 8 30 20
Fixed Assets 2 4 10 15
AP 2 4 10 10
AR 2 4 10 10

Architecture
on-premise
Oracle BICS Data Loader
Pre-Built Metadata
Pre-Built Reports

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Procurement & Spend
Spend Reduction Supplier Management
① What are my top categories for
spend?
② Vendor mix for top categories
③ What items have the highest
savings potential ?
④ Through how many internal
purchasing organizations do I
purchase this category?
① What are my top categories for
spend?
② Vendor mix for top categories
③ What items have the highest
savings potential ?
④ Through how many internal
purchasing organizations do I
purchase this category?
Key Business Questions

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Procurement & Spend
Contract Management Procure-to-Pay
① Is there rogue buying?
② Do I have volume purchasing
contracts in place with these
vendors?
③ Is there much off contract spend
for vendors with a contract?
① Cycle time from purchase req to
purchase order
② What requisitions have been
processed but the PO still needs
to be approved?
③ Which cost centers have the
highest amount of open
requisitions?

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Order Management
Sales Order Fulfillment
① Sales by Region, Product,
Customer, etc.
② Sales Trend by Region, Product,
Customer, etc.
① Orders on Hold, Back Orders,
Shipped Orders
② Bill of Materials
requisitions?

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Inventory
Inventory Balances Inventory Transactions
① Where and which product am I
carrying the largest inventory?
② What is causing these large
balances?
③ Where do I need to reorder?
① Orders on Hold, Back Orders,
Shipped Orders
② Bill of Materials
requisitions?

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Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable
AP AR
① Top outstanding balances
② AP transactions: invoices,
payments, etc.
① Top outstanding balances
② AR transactions: invoices,
payments, etc.

KPI Cloud Analytics Demo
Oracle BI Cloud Service & E-Business Suite
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① Proc/Spend (Diane)
② Ad-Hoc (Diane)
③ Order Management (Todd)
④ Inventory (Todd)
⑤ AP/AR (Todd)
KPI Cloud Analytics Demo

 Great solution to move off Discoverer for non-real time reports
 Great solution for users that are doing mash-ups of EBS and
non-EBS data
 Customers that are adopting a “cloud by default” strategy
 Customers needing broad mobile support
 Rapid Prototyping
Next Steps
 Fail fast
 More design cycles
 Low cost & risk
 Validate requirements

Faster time to value
 Pre-built extracts for EBS
 Pre-built metrics, reports and dashboards
Next Steps

Low risk
 Open, configurable system
 All code can be extended and changed by customer (i.e. SQL
Developer scripts, BICS metadata and reports).
 Solution from a company with a deep Oracle BI/Hyperion
heritage
Next Steps

Next Steps
Oracle BI Representative KPI Partners
Oracle BICS Pricing
Oracle BICS Demo
Free 1 Hour Cloud Analytics Assessment Call
Cloud Analytics for EBS Quick Start Package
Contact
events@kpipartners.com
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1-888-988-4KPI
Who To Contact?

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