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Fusion Applications and Your

BI/EPM Investment

Understanding how it is used


Extract

Oracle Fusion Applications are here today providing the next

generation of applications. They are about having everything

the user needs in one place, and that includes information.

Fusion Applications is a window on Oracle's Fusion

Middleware stack and a very big part of that is BI/EPM and

analytics. This presentation will include a small demo of how

Fusion looks and is designed to give you an appreciation of

how BI/EPM is embedded in Fusion. For anyone thinking of

Fusion in the future it will underline that your B/EPMI

investment today is an investment in that future and protected.

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Debra Lilley

Oracle Alliance Director and Fusion Champion for Fujitsu UK & Ireland

Oracle ACE Director, OCP & Oracle Masters

Fusion Applications UX advocate

Director and Past President UKOUG

Oracle App since 9.4.1 (17 years)

End User Advisor for Constellation Research

2008 Oracle Magazine Award ‘User Group

Evangelist of the Year

2011 Friend of Quest Award

2011 SOA Community Award Winner


My Audience?

Technical?

BI / EPM ?

Business User?

Apps User?

Oracle?

Architect?


Fujitsu & Oracle & Fusion Apps

Diamond Partner

More Specializations than any other partner

Fusion UX testing (7 people)

3 waves of Fusion Apps Testing (5 people)

Regional Ramp Up Partner

UX Customer Advisory Board

Early Adopter Customer Assessment

Proof of Concepts

SaaS Customers

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Design Principles


REPORTING NEED SOLUTION

• Professional quality, boardroom ready financial statements with live

drilldowns to source transactions

• Exception-based account monitoring with multi-dimensional analysis

• Financial Reporting

Center

• Spreadsheet-based financial reporting and ad hoc queries with multi-dimensional analysis, pivoting, and drilldown

• Smart View

• High volume operational reporting • BI Publisher

• Easy-to-use ad hoc queries of transactions with live drilldowns to

transactions

• Oracle Transactional

Business Intelligence

(OTBI)

• KPIs, metrics, and highly summarized queries from a data warehouse • OBIA

REVOLUTIONARY INFORMATION ACCESS REPORTING AND ANALYSIS TOOLS TO FIT YOUR NEEDS


Essbase in Fusion

Within GL it is used in GL to store account balances. You can get data

directly from it by using:

1) financial reporting center

- Account inspector and Account Monitor - two native UI built using ADF

2) Hyperion Financial Reports a (simple reporting tool)

3) Smartview

4) OTBI (views accessed by OBIEE)

5) Allocation manager, not for reporting but for running financial allocations.

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GL Manager

• Increase visibility to critical accounts

• Alerts users to account anomalies as they happen so they can take corrective action

• Improve insight to information with dynamic ad hoc analysis and drilldown to account balances at every level of the account hierarchy, with access to supporting journal entries and subledger transactions

Monitor Accounts… Confidently

Insight

Exceptions

Addresses Key Challenges

Accuracy

Timing

Account Monitor Region (Dashboard)


GL Accountant

• Increase productivity with a consolidated view of transactions that need immediate attention or further action

• Increase accuracy by delivering the right information at the right time to guide users’ actions and eliminate errors

• Improve real-time collaboration and communication with participants in the transaction processing cycle

Process Transactions… Efficiently

Process

Validation


Approval

Timing

Journal and Intercompany Activity Regions


Financial Analyst

• Answer questions immediately via

spreadsheet access to real-time financial

data

• Reduce complexity with multi-dimensional

reporting tools

• Increase visibility through a wide variety of

reporting formats

• Gain insight with the ability to analyze data

using multiple hierarchies

Analyze & Report… with Ease

Complexity

Accuracy


Visibility

Accessibility

Reporting and Analysis Improvements


Secure self-service

reporting and analytics

against real-time data

• Be alerted to account balances that exceed thresholds

• Centrally access live

reports and report

snapshots

• Efficiently distribute

reports to authorized

users

• Perform multi-

dimensional analysis

and drill down from

anywhere

View pre-published snapshots for

point-in-time reporting

View live reports

View reports in

any output

Financial Reporting Centre Information how, when and where you need it


Smart View – Ad-hoc multi-dimensional pivot analysis combined with

full Excel functionality

– Drill from any parent to next parent level, or to detail

balances, journal lines and subledger transactions

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BSO (Block Storage Option)

o Historically the only option

o Designed for Accounts and Time dimensions, Time balance, Variance and

reporting

o Currency conversion.

o Complex calculations using calculation scripts.

ASO (Aggregate Storage Option)

o Larger numbers of dimensions and members

o Optimized for sparser data sets, operational analytics

o Faster load and calc times

o Efficient tuning for storage and query response

o Faster than BSO

o Default for Fusion GL Essbase cube

Essbase Storage Options and importance in Apps


Understanding Fusion Applications

What we do today

Enter Journals – ADI

The impact – run a report / query a balance

Slice & dice / Consolidate – export to OFA / HFM

Query a journal entry – identify user

FND_user

Corporate address book

Phone / email

Add a flexfield

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And in

Fusion

Apps

Everything

in one

place


Fusion Reporting and Analytics

• Real time, self service reporting directly off Fusion Apps data

• Pre-packaged content covering major Fusion Applications

• Built on Oracle BI EE technology

Oracle Transactional

BI (OTBI)

• Unlimited historical analysis - trending and cross-domain insight

• Pre-packaged DW, ETL, metrics, and interactive dashboards

• Now for EBS, PSFT, JD Edwards, Siebel. Extending to Fusion Applications

• Built on Oracle BI EE technology

Oracle BI Applications

(OBIA)

• Financial statements, sales territory planning, project performance, and more built on Essbase technology

• Whitespace analysis built on Real-Time Decisions and Oracle Data Mining technologies

Specialized Analytics


Fusion BI Architecture

Fusion Apps Transactional Database

BI View Objects

BI View Objects: Are single source of truth for BI

Represent facts and dimensions

Implement Apps data security

EBS, PSFT, JDE, Siebel, Other

OBIA Data Warehouse

BI Common Semantic Model

ETL

BI Common Semantic

Model: Supports highly aggregated trending and real-

time transaction listings from a single query

model

OBIA OTBI

Real-Time

Queries

Pre-Packaged

Reports &

Dashboards

Self-Service

Query &

Reporting

Content Summary: 150+ embedded analytics

OBIA: 3,000+ reports, 4,000+ metrics

OTBI: Covers 35+ Fusion Products

Fusion

Embedded

Analytics


Board Quality Financial Statements Information how, when and where you need it

• Live, interactive financial reporting

• Professional quality, web-based financial reports

• Multi-dimensional analysis, pivoting, and drill down on live data

• Easy to define reports

Supports multiple output options: (MS Office, PDF, HTML)

Export to Excel for further analysis

Expand parent to view detail balances

Drill down to original transactions


The Database

Just Two unless…………..

You install in stages

You Use in Co-existence model

BI Apps Data warehouse

Fusion Apps Transactional Database

Schema (EBS & Siebel Based)

MetaData Store

Essbase


BI in Fusion Applications

Fusion Applications is a window on FMW

BI is a big part of that utilising the complete BI suite and Apps

Fusion Apps is about having everything in one place

Embedded, pervasive and timely

Fusion Apps is Exadata and Exalytics ready

Most important, investment in BI suite today is an investment

protected, it is key to Oracle Fusion Applications

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TAKE AWAYS •Oracle Fusion Applications are totally written in FMW

•That includes BI & EPM •Not going anywhere

•Therefore YOUR INVESTMENT IS PROTECTED •Financial •Skills


Questions

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Thanks To:

Fusion Apps Development Team

Fusion UX Team

Mark Rittman for the Idea and Original Invitation

DOAG for this invitation

You for listening

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