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Business Intelligence & The CLOUD

Craig Wood

What is the Business Intelligence Store?

Complete Business Intelligence Services as One

• Hardware: Cloud Computing through Infrastructure as a Service

• Software: Business Intelligence Software via Oracle’s Bi 11g

• Services: BI Consulting Services

The Bi-Store hosts a packaged pre-configured and loaded Oracle BI Instance on secure Infrastructure ready to be switched on accessed by you.

Why the Business Intelligence Store?

• BI-a-a-S: Business Intelligence as a Service removes the need for Servers, Data Centers and Overhead costs. 

• The BI Store provides Business Intelligence without the CapEx of supporting hardware and infrastructure & the configuration of Reporting Environment’s.

Why the Business Intelligence Store?

• Fast to Market BI: Instead of long term Warehouse projects costing millions of dollars and failure to meet client and user expectations, the BI-Store opens its doors in weeks with a multitude of Reports, Dashboards, KPI’s & a rich collection of Business Intelligence Objects.

Why the Business Intelligence Store?

• Secure Data: The BI Store keeps your data safe in the cloud with a full suite of Security processes and standards, Private, Public & Hybrid Clouds available.

What is Cloud Computing?

• Computing resources on the Internet – No upfront Hardware Cost

• Service on Demand – Expert Business Intelligence Consultants

• Is Elastic – Easily Scale up or Down whenever required

• Is Paid by Usage – OpEx as opposed to CapEx

Reasons for Business Intelligence Store?

• The Bi-Store eliminates expensive Bi project’s

• Minimum up front costs – Environments leased on a monthly basis

• The BI-Store solves the issue of the lack of highly skilled people

• Available to Small & Medium Sized Organizations as well as Large

• BI Technology is highly adaptable to the Cloud

• Complements the varying needs of the clients

• Integrates well with On-premise ERP

How to open your own Bi Store?

• Allocation of a pre-configured OBIEE & OBIA instance

• Using our Bi experts upload on-site ERP data to your Bi-Store

• With our Bi experts apply Security to your data and objects

• Security to match your Production E-Business Application

• Configure Dashboards, KPI’s, Reports & Score Cards

• Migrate the instance to a Production Cloud Instance or to an On-

Premise Production Instance – the choice is yours

• Commit month-by-month to a running Bi-Store Instance

Already have Bi and need an Environment?

• Simply Lease an Environment when required

• UAT, DEV, Training, Patching

• Switch on the environment when needed

• Switch off the environment when your done

• No need to purchase Hardware for Non-Production Instance

What Business Intelligence Software is the Store Loaded with?

• Oracles Business Intelligence 11g

• OBIEE & OBIA (Business Intelligence Applications/Analytics)

Oracle BI Foundation

Oracle Business IntelligenceComplete, Open, Integrated

Common Enterprise Information Model

Data Integration

Ad-hoc Analysis

Interactive Dashboards

Essbase Reporting &Publishing

ProactiveDetectionand Alerts

Disconnected& MobileAnalytics

MS Office& OutlookIntegration

BI ServerBI Server• Integrated Security, User Management, Personalization• Multidimensional Calculation and Integration Engine• Intelligent Request Generation and Optimized Data Access Services

OLTP & ODSSystems

Data Warehouse, DatamartDatabase Machine,

Exadata

SAP, Oracle, Siebel,PeopleSoft, Custom

ExcelXML

BusinessProcess

OLAPEssbase

Smart Office Access Dashboards and Scorecards

Interactive Analysis

Any Interaction Style

Drill anywhere visualization

Published ReportingPage-Oriented, High Volume, Pixel-Perfect

Secure Integration with Microsoft Office Role-based and Personalized

Proactive Alerts, Mobile Access

Drive BI Pervasively Across Your Enterprise

Push BI to email and mobile devices

Guided AnalyticsEnable greater analysis success

BI Drives Business ProcessesIntelligence-driven business processes

BPEL, ESB Oracle BI

FPO

In-Context InsightEmbedded in OLTP Applications

Oracle BI Applications

EPM Workspace

OLTP & ODSSystems

SAP, Oracle, Siebel,PeopleSoft, Custom

ExcelXML

BusinessProcess

OLAP

Fusion Middleware

Business Intelligence Foundation

Market-Leading Packaged ApplicationsFinancial and Operational

Performance ManagementApplications

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS

StrategyManagement

BusinessPlanning

ProfitabilityManagement

FinancialReporting &Compliance

Data Warehouse, DatamartDatabase Machine,

Exadata

CRM Analytics ERP AnalyticsSales | Service | Marketing

Contact Center | Loyalty | Price

BI APPLICATIONS

Finance | Procurement | ProjectsHR | Supply Chain | Order Mgmt

Oracle BI Applications SuiteComplete, Prebuilt, Best Practice Analytics

CRM ANALYTICS ERP ANALYTICS

SALES

• Pipeline Analysis• Forecast Accuracy• Up-sell/Cross-sell• Cycle Times• Lead Conversion• Sales Team

Effectiveness

MARKETING

• Campaign Effectiveness

• Customer Insight• Product Propensity• Market Basket

Analysis• Campaign ROI

SERVICE & CONTACT CENTER

• Service Effectiveness

• Customer Satisfaction

• Resolution Rates• Service Rep

Efficiency• Service Cost• Service Trends

ORACLE BI SUITE ENTERPRISE EDITION PLUS

SOURCE ADAPTERS:

FINANCIALS

• General Ledger• Accounts

Receivable• Accounts Payable• Cash Flow• Profitability• Expense

Management

PROCUREMENT & SPEND

• Direct & Indirect Spend

• Buyer Productivity• Contract

Compliance• Supplier

Performance• Purchase Cycle

Time• Employee Expense

SUPPLY CHAIN & ORDER MGMT

• Revenue & Backlog

• Inventory Analysis• Fulfillment Status• Customer Status• Order Cycle Time• BOM Analysis

PROJECTS

• Project Funding and Budget

• Product Cost• Project Revenue• Project Billing• Project Profitability

HUMAN RESOURCES

• Employee Productivity

• Compensation• Talent

Management• Recruiting Analysis• Learning Analysis• Workforce Profile

PRICE

• Price Segments• Price Waterfall

Analysis• Deal Life Cycle• Deal Desk

Analysis • Product Pricing

Performance

LOYALTY

• Member Demographics

• Membership Trends

• Promotion Cost• Promotion

Effectiveness• Points Analysis

A “best practice” library of over 360 pre-built metrics, 30 intelligent dashboards, 200+ reports plus alerts for CFO, Finance Controller, Financial Analyst, AR/AP Managers and Executives

Oracle BI Apps Product ComponentsExample: Financial Analytics

Pre-mapped metadata, including embedded best practice calculations and metrics for financial, executives and other business users

Pre-built ETL to extract data from over 3,000 operational tables and load it into the DW, sourced from PSFT, Oracle EBS and other sources

Pre-built warehouse with 16 star-schemas designed for analysis and reporting on financial analytics

• Presentation layer• Logical business

model• Physical sources

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2 4

Integrated BI Tools Role-based Dashboards Analytic Workflow Guided Navigation Reports Alerts & Proactive Delivery

BI Server Simplified Logical Business Model Calculations and Metrics Definition Visibility & Personalization Logical to Physical Abstraction Optimized SQL Generation

ETL Highly Parallel Multistage and Customizable Multi-source, multi-instance Deployment Modularity

Multi-source Data Warehouse

Abstracted Data Model

Conformed Dimensions

Heterogeneous Database support

Supercharge with Oracle Database Machine and Exadata Storage

Oracle BI Applications ArchitectureA

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Me

tad

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Oracle BI Presentation

ServicesDashboards by Role

Reports, Analysis / Analytic Workflows

Metrics / KPIs

Logical Model / Subject Areas

Physical Map

Oracle BI Server

Direct Access to

Source Data

Data Warehouse /Data Model

ETL

Load Process

Staging Area

Extraction Process

DA

C

Heterogeneous Data Sources

SiebelOracle SAP PSFT EDW

Other

Embedded Directly in ApplicationsPervasive Deployment

Siebel

E-Business Suite PeopleSoft

Action Links – “Insight to Action”

BI Apps Integration with Oracle ApplicationsExtends BI Value; Lowers TCO

Seamless navigation from analytical information to transactional detail

Integrated Security

ObjectSecurity

UserSecurity

Data Security

One login. Right content for each user.

Integrated Workflow

Intelligence-driven business processes

BPEL, ESB Oracle BI

Integrated with Planning and EPMS

View actual performance “in context” with budgets and plans

BI Applications - Business ContentOver 8,000 pre-defined assets

BI Application DashboardsDashboard

PagesReports Metrics

Sales 14 33 620 596

Price 5 32 92 453

Marketing 5 27 124 325

Loyalty 4 15 60 194

Service 8 15 102 308

Contact Center 5 17 72 209

Financials 6 36 255 488

HR 9 45 238 335

Supply Chain & Order Mgmt 4 22 157 235

Procurement & Spend 5 25 266 264

Project 3 15 146 323

All Industry Apps 44 147 1,117 1,216

Total 109 430 3,250 4,946

Demonstration

Q & A’s