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Presenter Prasad Renati – Senior Principal
EiS Technologies Inc.
"Must Think" Discoverer Migration Challenges for APEX, OBIEE, SplashBI and Other tools
Agenda• Overview
• Oracle Discoverer • Brief History
• De-Support Announced
• Customer Concerns
• What are Your Options and Challenges?• Discoverer to OBIEE
• Discoverer to APEX
• Discoverer to SplashBI
• Q&A
Oracle announced de-support of Discoverer
Few Months To Go
The Birth and Deaths of Discoverer• 1997 Discoverer V2.0 released
• 1998 June V3.0 released – not very good!
• 1998 July V3.1 released – ah! That’s better!
• 2002 December Disco 2000 de-supported
• 2003 September 3.x de-supported
• 2007 June 4.x stand alone de-supported
• 2008 July 9i de-supported
• 2009 October 4.x EBS de-supported
• 2009 December 10g R1 de-supported
• 2011 December 10g R2 de-supported
• 2014 June 11g Premier Support Ends
• 2017 June 11g Extended Support Ends
Sources:Oracle SoDsMike DurranMichael Armstrong-SmithMark Rittman
Investment in Discoverer
Multiple Workbooks ranging from 100 – 70000
Multiple Business Areas
Integrity of the converted reports and the user experience
Is the solution robust?
Data Access & Security
High Costs, Time & Resources
Customer Concerns
What Are Your Options?1. Do Nothing… Continue to use your Discoverer tool
i. Least amount of effort and costii. Only Sustaining Support Available from Oracle after June 2017iii. No new licensing $$$ and No changes for users iv. No new features or enhancements will be made to Discoverer beyond 11.1.1.7.0
2. Find a replacement tool and rebuild the Discoverer reportsi. Oracle recommends migrating to Oracle Business Intelligenceii. Other Options
i. Transactional reporting tools: Third party toolsii. BI tools: BI Publisher/Tableau/Cognos/Business Objects, etciii. APEX
iii. Significant cost and time to rebuild reports
Discoverer Migration Options/Challenges
1. Discoverer to OBIEE
2. Discoverer to APEX
3. Discoverer to SplashBI
Discoverer to OBIEE Migration1. Discoverer Metadata Conversion Assistant
i. Command Line Utility to convert EUL to Repository (RPD)ii. Item Classes Not Convertediii. Folder Conditions not Convertediv. Limited
2. Workbooks Not Converted1. Columns2. Conditions3. Sort4. Calculations5. Page Items/Totals6. Format (Date, Number, Font and more)
3. Major Challenges1. Oracle Security Integration2. Calculation Expressions3. Sub Queries4. Development time constraints
Discoverer to OBIEE MigrationOracle EBS Standard Security Integration with OBIEE
Security Execution• User logs into EBS.
• EBS Authenticates
• Sets cookie
• User accesses OBIEE with EBS user login• Selects OBIEE responsibility in EBS
• EBS launches OBIEE• Fetch cookie, use to authenticate and authorization
• Read Oracle EBS for user, responsibilities, etc.
Solution Steps• Define EBS setups for BI access:
• Responsibility, Profile, Function, Menu
• Create roles to match Oracle EBS Responsibilities.• Set security privileges on Presentation catalog objects and subject area• Setup session variables, Initialization blocks, Connect scripts
Discoverer to APEXWhat is APEX?
• Oracle Application Express is a free development environment that runs on an Oracle database
• APEX can be used for Reporting, Charting and Data Entry Forms
• Fully supported and comes with all Oracle Database editions
• Browser based for development, deployment and run time
Discoverer to APEX
Discoverer to APEX Migration Process1. Extract Discover Query
2. Create a DB View to Hold Query
3. Grant Select and Create Synonym for View
4. Create Views for LOV’s for Non-Interactive Reports (optional)
5. Create APEX Page to Query View
6. Add APEX Security to Page
7. Create EBS Form Function for APEX Page
8. Add EBS Form Function to EBS Menu
Discoverer to APEX
Challenges/Pros (Compare to Discoverer)1. APEX does not allow the user to write an ad-hoc query
2. APEX Tables must be joined together in advance in a view
3. Create DB View for every report to Hold Query in APEX
4. After conversion to APEX, queries become reports and end users lose the ability to use Ad Hoc query tools
5. APEX is a declarative development platform not easily intuitive for a non-technical user.
6. Functional users will need to be moderately versed in SQL and will need to invest time learning in order to become proficient
ONE Framework
With In-Memory
Any Data Source
Any Device
Browser Tablet Mobile Excel
Dashboards Ad-hoc ReportingOn Demand Business Intelligence
& Reporting
Discoverer to SplashBI Migration
What is SplashBI?
Migration Utility – Fast and Accurate
Merge EULs
Keeps Report Infrastructure Intact
Run Reports from Excel, Mobile
Easy to Learn & more Features
EBS Responsibility Security & User Authentication
Built as Discoverer Replacement
Dashboards with Pre-Built Visualizations
Scheduling, Distribution & Bursting
Multiple Output Formats
In-Memory Analytics & Data Mashups
Ability to get EBS DFF/KFF
Connect to Other Data Sources
Drilldown Capability
What Should You Expect? High-Level
Discoverer to SplashBI Migration
What Should You Expect? Detail
EULBusiness Area
• Folder• Joins• Item Classes
Workbook/Sheet• Columns• Conditions• Sort• Calculations• Page Items/Totals• Security
Business AreaDomain
• Table• Joins• LOVs
Report Set/Reports• Columns• Filters/Parameters• Sort• Calculation Columns• Pivots• Share• Format
Oracle Discoverer New Tool
How Simple Should it be?
Demo
Q & A
Contact Information• Prasad Renati – [email protected]
• Contact Us –[email protected]
• Website – www.eistech.com , www.splashbi.com
Thank You!