The document discusses Oracle's analytics cloud strategy and Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) platform. It covers OAC's features such as self-service report creation, data visualization capabilities, and integration with other Oracle products. The document also summarizes how customers can migrate existing on-premise analytics solutions like OBIEE, BICS, and DVCS to OAC. Finally, it provides an overview of Oracle Analytic Cloud - Essbase for flexible analytic applications and management reporting in the cloud.

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Result Oriented Innovation with
Oracle HR Analytics
Cloud Platform Architecture Session
7 June 2017
Madhur Hemnani
Principal Sales Consultant – Analytics
and Big Data

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Agenda
• Analytics Cloud Strategy
• Oracle Analytics Cloud Introduction
• Migration to Oracle Analytics Cloud
• Oracle Analytics Cloud – Essbase
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BI Requirements Model
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Value
Time / Effort
Predictive
Strategic
Tactical
Transactional
Transactional
• Usually real-time
• Limited information and restricted data-set
• Simple filtering
Tactical
• KPI driven
• Allows historical analysis
• Slice-dice and self-service capabilities
• Large data volumes
Strategic
• Root cause analysis and what-if analysis
• Advanced self-service
• Cross-functional data and mashups
• Enterprise-scale data volumes
Predictive
• Advanced statistical analysis
• Next best action suggestions
• Big Data volumes
OTBI
BICS
/ OAC

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AGILE multi-source
insight for the business
SCALABLE corporate
analytics platform
FLEXIBLE and engaging
real-time reporting
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Oracle’s Analytics
Strategy
Embedded Analytics Insight Analytics Enterprise Analytics

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Oracle Analytics Cloud Solutions
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Enterprise
Scale
Departmental
Solution
On-Premise Public
Cloud
OBIEE
Data Visualisation
Oracle Analytics Cloud
(OAC)
BICS
AND
DVCS
(Data Visualisation
Cloud Service)
DVD
(Data Visualisation
Desktop)

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Oracle BI Platform – Features
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Drag-n-drop self service
reports creation
Voice Integration – build
charts from mobile devices
Tailored Mobile Apps
Drag-n-drop data upload Ease of self-service –
No data modelling
One-click Advanced
Analytics
Reports Scheduling, Bursting Dashboards, KPIs

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Connecting to any data source Pre-built connectors for
Fusion and other apps
Historical point in time
analytics
Build complex calculations
and comparisons
Interactive analysis of large
data volumes
Fine grained data security
- Syncs with Fusions apps
Storytelling using
storyboards
Access and edit information
offline

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Migration to Oracle Analytics Cloud

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Data Integration and Access
Data Sync
On-premise data sources
Web services
ETL
SQL*NET
Direct Query
Via RDC or
Virtual Networking
DV Connections
Cloud to Cloud
Virtual Network for On-Prem

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Migration Use Cases
• On-Prem OBIEE to OAC
• BICS to OAC
• DVCS to OAC
• DVD Inter-Op with the Cloud
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Oracle Analytic Cloud – Essbase

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Oracle Analytic Cloud – Essbase

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Oracle Analytics
Cloud - Essbase
Flexible platform for the creation of
departmental or enterprise-wide
custom analytic applications and
management reporting
Software as a Service
Platform as a Service
Infrastructure as a Service
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• Essbase users looking for
a Cloud solution
– Reduce costs and simplify
maintenance
– Hybrid Deployments
between on-prem
applications and cloud
cubes
– Faster access to latest
Essbase innovation
• Integration with other
cloud services
– Essbase as a data source for
BICS and DVCS
– Consolidated data from
multiple EPM cloud and on-
prem instances
– Analyze data from other
SaaS applications
• Analytics platform for
every Excel user
– Analytics happens
everywhere
– Most still use Excel, using
data downloaded from other
applications
– Essbase empowers Excel by
adding unified analysis
model, interactivity and
collaboration
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• Access to Essbase capabilities
– BSO/ASO/Hybrid databases
– Flexible dimensionality
– Dynamic formulas
– Calc scripts
– Data uploads
• Smartview connectivity
• Browser based UI
• Integration with BICS
• Cloud Only features
– Sandboxing
– Scenario management
– Design by Example templates
– Excel Import/Export
• Administration
– Database statistics
– Manage connections
– Locks
– Security
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Scenario Management
Create
What-if
Submit
Approve
Apply
• Sandboxing and Scenario
Management
– Create private copy data for
what-if and sensitivity
analysis
– Refresh from the base data
or merge the Sandbox into it
– Apply lightweight workflow
to scenarios and submit
approvals
– Assign Approver and Viewer
type roles
Reject

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Cloud Based UI for Design and Management
• New database management
and outline editor tools
• Execute Jobs – Dim builds, Data
Load, Calc Scripts
• Create Calc Scripts
• Administration capabilities
– Manage Files
– Define Substitution Variables
– Manage application/Database settings

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Simplified Security
Server Roles
Administrator Full access to administer users, applications and
databases.
Power User Ability to create and delete applications and databases
User Ability to access any application or database that has a
minimum access permission
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Application Privileges
Application Manager Ability to create, delete, and modify databases and application
settings; assign users
Database Manager Ability to manage the databases, database artifacts, locks, and
sessions
Database Update Ability to read and update data values; using any assigned
calculations and filters; Create and delete scenarios
Database Access Ability to access scenarios; read data values in all cells; and access
specific data and metadata

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AGILE multi-source
insight for the business
SCALABLE corporate
analytics platform
FLEXIBLE and engaging
real-time reporting
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Oracle’s Analytics
Strategy
Embedded Analytics Insight Analytics Enterprise Analytics

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Enterprise
Scale
Departmental
Solution
On-Premise Public
Cloud
OBIEE
Data Visualisation
Oracle Analytics Cloud
(OAC)
BICS
AND
DVCS
(Data Visualisation
Cloud Service)
DVD
(Data Visualisation
Desktop)

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