Shashank Murthy is pursuing a Masters in Information Systems with a focus on IT and Business Intelligence. He completed an internship at LifeCell where he helped with their BI transformation project. This included developing KPIs and dashboards to monitor sales, orders, and manufacturing performance. He also helped centralize data and build analytical reporting capabilities in Oracle Discoverer and OBIEE.

1. Shashank Murthy, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Masters in Information Systems
IT – Business Intelligence

2. INTERNSHIP OBJECTIVE
To understand the Sales, Order Management and Manufacturing business processes and
monitor performance
To understand Data structures supporting business processes and develop analytical
dashboards and reports
DESCRIPTION OF PROJECTS
LifeCell BI Transformation
 Commercial Analytics – Sales and Order Management
 Centralized data repository for analytical and reporting capabilities
 Develop KPIs to monitor performance (Revenue, Margin and Inventory)
 Dashboards and reports to formulate strategies and making effective, fact-based
timely decisions
 Manufacturing Analytics
 Centralized data repository for advanced analytic capabilities
 Shop floor management solution that improves real-time searching and reporting
 Effectively plan, execute and monitor manufacturing floor operations

3. KEY TOOLS AND TERMINOLOGIES
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 Dashboard – A Data visualization tool that displays the current status
of data, metrics and key performance indicators.
 Oracle Discoverer
 ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning
 Oracle R12 – The primary system of record for the LifeCell business.
 Functional areas - Manufacturing, Finance, Order Management,
Procurement and Quality
 OBIEE – Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
 Improved analytical, reporting and visualization platform with
advanced capabilities
 Out of box modules for integrating Oracle R12 data
 Low cost of ownership

4. SALES PORTAL VS OBIEE
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SALES PERFORMANCE
SALES PORTAL
SALES PERFORMANCE OBIEE

5. SALES PORTAL VS OBIEE
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SALES PORTAL
OBIEE

6. SALES PORTAL VS OBIEE
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7. SALES PORTAL VS OBIEE
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DISCOVERER
OBIEE
ADHOC
REPORTING

8. KEY LEARNING AND CONCLUSIONS
 Data is the life blood of running business operations !
• Collecting, Integrating and Mining Data
 Understand the process and various phases of LifeCell’s SDLC
• Requirements Gathering / Analysis
 Business Requirements and Design documentation
 Identification of KPIs on current reports and generate use cases
 Report rationalization
• Development
 Implementation based on the BRDs and FSD
 New report generation on Discoverer based on custom requirement for Finance
• Testing Phase – SIT or System Integration Testing
 Developed test strategy, created and executed test cases
 Logged Defects; validated fixes
• Training and User Adoption
 2Day OBIEE training with Sales Representatives
 Knowledge Fair 2015 – iPad Consignment application
 Change Request / CR Lifecycle

9. RECOMMENDATIONS
 Automation of the Change Request Lifecycle
 Migration from Discoverer to OBIEE