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Rapidly Improve Reporting with Oracle BICS
Derek Hayden VP, Application Development OUTFRONT Media
Jaime Seagraves Vice President Apps Associates LLC
October 22, 2015
Meet Us at OOW15 Booth 2025
Moscone South
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Customer Spotlight – OUTFRONT Media
• About OUTFRONT Media
• Business Challenges & Drivers
• Business Case & Success Criteria
• Vendor Analysis
• Solution
• Return on Investment
• Lessons Learned
• Roadmap
• Q&A
• Industry: Global Media
– Billboards, transit displays & digital media
• Solution:
– BICS
– DBaaS
– R12 EBS
– Apps Associates Accelerators
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Business Challenges & Drivers
• Large amounts of transactional data from Oracle and IBM sources
• Hundreds of ‘standard’ reports available but not utilized
• Cross platform reporting extremely limited and IT intensive
• Users create manual Excel and Access workarounds
• Data quality issues and inconsistent business terminology confuse results being reported
• Cumbersome distribution through email or shared folders
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Business Case
Implement centralized data warehouse and BI tool
Take advantage of cloud based solution
Rapid deployment of information to users
Mobile enabled Quick win to encourage user adoption
Leverage insights available in ‘Little Data’
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Vendor Analysis
Software
• Evaluated most of the standard niche players
• Finalists were Oracle and Microsoft
Consulting
• Traditional ‘big box’ firms
– Limited experience in BICS solution
• Apps Associates – introduced during Oracle sales cycle
– Experience across Oracle BI, Applications, and Middleware
– Certified with BICS and DBaaS
– Pre-built accelerators for key business areas (Financial Accelerator)
– Custom solution methodology
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Rapid Deployment
• Delivered ‘quick wins’ for Sales Reporting in 5 weeks
Sales Trend | AE Performance | Customer Trend
• Original Scope was 5 reports – delivered 15 reports with 2 years of historical data
• Daily refresh of data vs. weekly or monthly distribution
– Bell Curve Analysis delivery time reduced by 90%
• 100 users in Sales Management, Finance, and Executive Management, self-service
• 100% BICS deployment
• Mobile enabled – no additional development
• On time and under budget
– Utilized Apps Associates on-premises and offshore model
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Sales Performance
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AE Performance
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Delivered & Existing Roadmap
August 2015 November December | February 2016 Fall | 2017
• DBaaS DW Integration
• Real Estate Dashboard
• Enhanced Sales Dashboard
• Visual Analyzer
• LATAM integration
• Apps Associates BICS HR Accelerator
• BICS
• Data Sync
• Mobile HD
• Sales, AE, Customer Data • Finance Dashboard
• EBS Integration
• Canada integration
• Apps Associates BICS Financial Accelerator
Onboard 600 users by end of Q1 2016 vs. Original 3-year onboard plan
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Positive Feedback
“I love this. The customer trend capability by market and by type is fabulous. Each market can maniacally focus on which accounts should be contacted.” – CFO
“I’ve been using this dashboard. It’s exactly what we needed.” – Sales Manager
“This is exactly what this company needed…Great stuff!” – Sales Manager
“Victim of our own success – daily requests for new dashboards and reports!” – VP, Application Development
“I use this every day.” – General Manager
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Q & A
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Upcoming Events – Oracle OpenWorld
Apps Associates at Oracle OpenWorld 2015
Topic: Oracle Business Intelligence Visual Analyzer Cloud Service: View and Analyze Your Data Speakers: Madhu Pinninti and Satish Rapolu Tuesday, Oct 27, 12:15 PM | Moscone West—2020
Topic: Enterprise Data Hub with Oracle Exadata and Oracle Big Data Appliance Speaker: Satyendra Pasalapudi Sunday, Oct 25, 11:00 AM | Moscone South—254
Presentations at Booth 2025 – Moscone South
Big Data Discovery – Big Data Analysis as Easy as Excel – Will Hutchinson, Oracle & Kshitij Kumar, Apps Associates 11:00 AM – Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 2:00 PM – Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday
BICS Visual Analyzer – Look Again! – Kshitij Kumar, Apps Associates 11:30 AM – Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 2:30 PM – Monday & Wednesday
Apps Associates’ Oracle BICS Accelerators – Solutions offered exclusively by Apps Associates
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