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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
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My Audience?
Technical?
BI / EPM ?
Business User?
Apps User?
Oracle?
Architect?
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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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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
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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)
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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
Addresses Key Challenges
Approval
Timing
Journal and Intercompany Activity Regions
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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
Addresses Key Challenges
Visibility
Accessibility
Reporting and Analysis Improvements
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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