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How Oracle E-Business Suite Customers Have Achieved Modern Reporting in the Cloud

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Program Agenda

Introducing Fusion Accounting Hub Reporting Cloud Service

Technical Overview

What Is Supported (and What Is NOT Supported)

Implementation Activities and Skills Required

Niagara Bottling on FAHRCS

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Compare To Your Reporting Environment Today

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Real-Time Multi-Dimensional Reporting /Analytics for your Existing General Ledger

Spreadsheet Integration

Multi-Dimensional Essbase Analytics

Dashboards

Drilld

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Balan

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Referen

ce data

synch

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ization

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Self-Service + Mobile Reporting

General Ledger On-Premises

Social Collaboration

12.1.3+

Accounting Hub Reporting Cloud Service


Feature Highlights


• Delivers a modern user experience optimized to help a business to effectively measure financial performance

• Highlights potential issues and financial variances to help investigate deviation

• Drills all they way to E-Business Suite

General Accounting Infolets


Feature Highlights


• Monitor performance with user configurable interactive infolets based upon balances and supplemental information such as targets and performance goals

• Improve business insight and decision making with self configured executive dashboard

Custom Infolets


Feature Highlights


• Central repository for easy access to:

OTBI BI Publisher reports Sunburst BIMAD FR Smart View

• Integrated collaboration capabilities connect all stakeholders and promotes co-analysis of financial results from all angles

• Optimized for mobile access

Financial Reporting Center


Feature Highlights


• Report and analyze multi- dimensionally for the highest level of efficiency, accuracy and insight

• Advanced formatting and graphic capabilities

• Quick and easy report creation and ad hoc analysis

Powerful Reporting Tools – FR, Smart View, OTBI, …


Feature Highlights


Integrated analytical visualization tool easily identify patterns and anomalies to provide deeper understanding of financial results

Sunburst


Real-time conversations during your Report

Review

Web-based document viewing and real-time

annotation

Tablets, Mobile, Outlook and Web

clients

Feature Highlights Oracle Social Network


Compare To Your Reporting Environment Today

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Modern Cloud Reporting With Drill To E-Business Suite










SmartView for Excel With Drill To E-Business Suite






Step

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3 Get a Cup of Tea Your setup data and balances will be transferred and sample reports generated Download EBS patches.

Enter Setup Parameters in EBS. A process configures your Cloud Reporting Environment

Sign Up for Fusion Accounting Hub Reporting Cloud Service.

Accounting Hub Reporting Cloud Service Rapid Time to Value


Extremely Fast Time To Value

Step 1 Go to cloud.oracle.com & sign up for the service


Step 2.1 Complete EBS Setup Information


Enter Cloud URL and Username and

Password

Enter top nodes of hierarchy (used in

auto-generate d reports)


Step 2.2 Complete EBS Setup Information


Select which ledgers to push to the cloud and

how much history


While you are getting tea, magic (aka Smart Engineering) happens: •Synching your EBS set up to the cloud

(chart of accounts, calendars, ledgers, value sets, segment values, hierarchies, etc)

•Transferring your GL balances to the cloud •Generating a set of 7 Financial Reports

Step 3 Go and get a cup of tea and wait for an email that your environment is ready



Summary Flow


Create Employee. Create User. Assign Roles.

Create Cloud Reporting User


Summary Flow


Prepare EBS Environment


Verify patch level. Verify cloud access. Install cloud environment security certificate.



Summary Flow



Register Cloud details

in EBS UI



Navigate to Setup -> Other -> Fusion Accounting Hub Cloud Service Enter Cloud URL, Username, Password. Enter top accounts. Select ledger, enter initial period and Apply.



Summary Flow




in EBS UI




Submits Business

Event

Validates the Cloud URL Business Event raised to make https call to the cloud service. Cloud service creates EBS registration record



Summary Flow




in EBS UI

Concurrent program launched




Concurrent program “Transfer Setups and Balances to Accounting Hub Reporting Cloud Service” launched.

Submits Business

Event




Summary Flow




in EBS UI

Concurrent program launched

Submits Business

Event

Business Event raised to make https call to cloud service to transfer setup and balances files. EBS data sent via payload attachments




Concurrent program “Transfer Setups and Balances to Accounting Hub Reporting Cloud Service” launched.

Submits Business

Event




Summary Flow


Loads setup in Cloud

Creates the COA, Calendar and Ledger setup. Essbase cubes are created.


Summary Flow



Loads balances in

Cloud

Journals are imported and posted in cloud to recreate balances.



Summary Flow



Loads balances in

Cloud

Creates FR reports

Balances are imported as journals and posted in cloud to recreate balances.


Sample FR reports are created.


Summary Flow



Loads balances in

Cloud

Creates FR reports

Assign data roles

Assign data roles to the cloud reporting user. Create additional reporting cloud users





Summary Flow



Loads balances in

Cloud

Creates FR reports

Assign data roles

Report & Drilldown


View the FR reports. View balances online in Cloud and drilldown to EBS.





Summary Flow



Loads balances in

Cloud

Creates FR reports


Assign data roles

Transfer further

balances

Schedule regular runs of seeded EBS concurrent program “Transfer Setups and Balances to Accounting Hub Reporting Cloud Service”.

Report & Drilldown


View the FR reports. View balances online in Cloud and drilldown to EBS.




Program Agenda


Technical Overview




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AH Reporting Cloud Service

On Premise E-Business Suite R12.1.3+ or R12.2.4+

- CoA Structure - Segment Values - Ongoing sync -Hierarchy - One time push, then xls

- Balances - User defined streaming frequency - Incremental uploads only so very fast - No Down Time

- Drill Back to Detail

Fusion Accounting Hub Reporting Cloud Service

Embedded Essbase cubes

– Created and maintained automatically

– Dimensioned by chart of accounts and calendar

– Updated automatically by a single posting process

– Instant summarization = faster reporting

- Initial Config - GL Balances


Accounting Hub Reporting Cloud Service Technical Integration Architecture

ERP Cloud

SOAP Web Service

(SOA Suite)

Drilldown to EBS GL – SLA -

Transactions

Set Up Data

GL Balances

http request from user’s

browser

EBS Workflow Service Invocation Framework

EBS General Ledger

https protocol


Uses Standard Technology Already In Your EBS Instance No Extra Technology Dependency


Business Event

Event Payload as

Attachment

Service Invocation Framework

Cloud SOAP Web Services Web Service Subscription

Transfer Ledger Setup, Balances

Programs

XSL Transformation

Embed WS-Security headers

Embed custom SOAP Headers

Cloud Financial Reports

HTTPS Request

HTTPS Response

• Create Ledger • Import and Post Journals • Generate Reports

E-Business Suite Applications Accounting Hub Reporting Cloud Service


Program Agenda


Technical Overview




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What is Included As Part of This Service?

• EBS Setup synch and balances from EBS Ledgers

– The ledgers with balances coming from EBS must have no other data in them

– Balances for EBS Secondary Ledgers and Reporting Currencies (NOT Balance Level)

• General Ledger Reporting Tools – Hyperion Financial Reports

– Smart View (Excel Plugin)

– Infolets, Account Monitor, Account Inspector, Sunbusrt Data Vizualization

– OTBI Reports (for custom infolets)

• Oracle Social Network

– A fully featured social platform integrated to your business transactions



What is Included As Part of This Service?

• Manual GL Adjustment Journals*

• Adjustment Allocations*

• Ledger Set Reporting

– Create Reports across EBS Legers and Cloud Only Ledgers

*A new ledger would need to be defined in the Cloud environment for adjustments



What IS Supported As Part of This Service?

• Table Validated Value Sets

– Converted to Independent Value Sets in the Cloud

• Dependant Value Sets

– Converted to Independent Value Sets in the Cloud

• New Segment Values Created In EBS – Synched to Cloud When Balance Posted To Them In EBS



What is NOT Supported As Part of This Service?

• Budgetary Control

– Encumbrance Journals NOT Transferred From EBS

– Commitment Control Should NOT be Enabled In Cloud Environment

• EBS Budgets – No Budgets are Transferred From EBS

– Must Be Entered Manually In Cloud Environment

– A Spreadsheet Loader is Provided

• Ongoing Synch of Hierarchies from EBS – There is a one time transfer of EBS Hierarchies During Initialization

Customers Need To Be Clear About This



What is NOT Supported As Part of This Service?

• Average Daily Balances from EBS are not sent to the cloud

• Balance Level Reporting Currencies

• Account Aliases

– Aliases from EBS are not Synched to the cloud

• Cross Validation Rules Synch From EBS

• Multiple EBS Instances -> One cloud Instances

• Users and Security Synch From EBS To Cloud

– Users Created and Maintained In Cloud



Program Agenda


Technical Overview




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Skills Sets for FAHRCS Implementation?

• EBS Technical Administrator / DBA Skills

• Experience Creating Reports With Hyperion Financial Report Studio

• Experience Creating Reports With Hyperion Smartview

• Knowledge of EBS General Ledger Enterprise Structures (Ledgers/CoA)

• Oracle Financials Cloud

– General Ledger • Hierarchy Management – This is a key part of your reporting – critical for success.

• Budgets Loads

– User Set Up and Security Admin

– Functional Setup Manager



Typical Activities On A FAHRCS Implementation?

• EBS Patching, configuration and set up

• Review of EBS Data (particularly hierarchies)

• Writing Reports And Setting Up Dashboards

– Hyperion FR

– SmartView

– Define Account Groups

• Loading Budgets and Hierarchies

• UAT and Training End Users

• User Set Up and Assigning Security

• Migration of Reports, Budgets, Hierarchies, etc from Test To Production



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Technical Overview




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Step

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Step

3 Get a Cup of Tea You receive email from Oracle when you’re up & running.

Download EBS patches. Enter Setup Parameters in EBS. A process configures your Cloud Reporting Environment

Sign Up for Fusion Accounting Hub Reporting Cloud Service.




Four Little Steps

Step

0 DRINK A BOTTLE OF WATER

Step

1 Sign Up for Fusion Accounting Hub Reporting Cloud Service.

Get a Cup of Tea You receive email from Oracle when you’re up & running.

Step

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Step

3 Download EBS patches. Enter Setup Parameters in EBS. A process configures your Cloud Reporting Environment

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Sara Mannur, Functional System Analyst

Paul Gonzalez, Senior Oracle DBA


Implementation Experience (R12.1.3+) – On-Premise Configuration [Step #2]

Preparation Steps

Acquire / stage FAHRCS Certificates for import into EBS (Web) Tier.

Modify “on-prem” oc4j.properties to remove “proxy”* references.

Configuration Steps

Import Certificate(s) into your EBS Keystore.

Validate presence of FAHRCS certificate(s) in the EBS Keystore.

Apply Patches (2 required, 2 developed based on our experiences).

Restart EBS.

Verify Concurrent Program: “Transfer Setups and Balances to Accounting Hub Reporting Cloud Service”.

Complete HUB Transfer Setups (Username/Password, COA Items, Ledgers and Initialization Periods).

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Implementation Experience (contd) (R12.1.3+) – On-Premise Configuration [Step #2]

Initial Transfer Balances

Configure Data Security for Cloud Reporting Users in FAHRCS

Schedule Transfer based on Business Requirements

Install Client Software

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Realized Benefits

Financial Reporting Center provides the following components: 1. Financial Reporting Studio Design reports using object-oriented graphical report layout with

report objects, text boxes, grids, images, charts etc.

2. Smart View Download reports and/or create quick reports in an excel

spreadsheet with real time data to perform adhoc analysis Drill down balances to all levels to EBS transactions

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Realized Benefits (contd)

3. Financial Reporting

Drill down balances to all levels – Parents to other parents, detail balances, journal lines, sub-ledger transactions

PDF, Excel, HTML

4. Account Monitor & Account Inspector

Monitor and Track account balances at every level of dimensions and hierarchies

5. Work Space

Create folders and organize reports

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Words of Wisdom

Firefox worked better than IE, Chrome

Configure correct hierarchies before initial transfer to EBS

Configure and monitor Fusion Hub email notifications

Maintain compatible versions of Client Software:

Smart View

FRS (Financial Reporting Studio)

ADFDi (Application Developer Framework Desktop Integration)

Test thoroughly after each upgrade

Have Implementation Success Manager

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Our Next Steps…

The following additional features/functions are scheduled to be completed this year:

Consolidated Statements within EBS ledgers

Corporate Consolidated statements with EBS and non-EBS Ledgers

Automated Elimination Entries using Calculation Manager

Cash Flow Statements using Smart View

PDF Report Bursting

Financial Statements with Notes

Constant Dollar Statements

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Where To Get More Information? • Accounting Hub Reporting Cloud Service for E-Business Suite Customers

(Doc ID 2034564.1) on My Oracle Support

– Links To White Papers, Known Issues, Upcoming Release Information

– Diagnostic Scripts And Latest Patch Information

• Applications Customer Connect (http://appsconnect.custhelp.com) – Aimed at Customers / End Users (All Cloud Customers Get Accounts)

– Forums, Recorded Webinars, Announcements on New features

– Webinar on FAHRCS on November 5th 9am Pacific Time

• Twitter - @FAHRCS

• Oracle Partner Network – Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub Cloud Webcast Replay (3 hour training)


http://appsconnect.custhelp.com/

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