1. Applied Advanced Technology Series:
Oracle Business Intelligence Services
KT Verma
Senior Principal Consultant
KBACE Advanced Technology Group (ATG)
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2. Agenda
• Business Intelligence
• Oracle Business Intelligence Suite
• KBACE BI Services
• Questions and Answers
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3. Business Intelligence
• Business intelligence (BI) refers to skills, technologies, applications, and
practices used to help a business acquire a better understanding of its
commercial context
• BI technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of
business operations to support better decision-making for competitive
advantage
• Functions of BI technologies include: reporting, OLAP, analytics, data
mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining,
and predictive analytics
Source Wikipedia
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4. Oracle Business Intelligence Suite
• Oracle Business Intelligence Suite is part of the Oracle
Middleware Platform
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5. Oracle Business Intelligence Suite
•Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE Plus)
• BI server technology
• BI presentation tools
• BI reporting tools
•Several common attributes
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Data access services
• Analytic and calculation infrastructure
• Metadata management services
• Semantic business model
• Security model and user preferences
• Administration tools
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6. OBIEE Interdependent Components
•Oracle BI Server
• Oracle BI Answers
• Oracle BI Interactive Dashboard
• Oracle BI Publisher
• Oracle BI Briefing Books
• Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics
• Oracle BI Office Plug-In
• Oracle BI Delivers
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7. OBIEE Platform
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8. Oracle BI Plus Reporting Components
• Tools acquired from Hyperion with strong integration with
multidimensional data sources
• Hyperion Financial Reporting
• Hyperion Web Analysis
• Hyperion Interactive Reporting
• Hyperion SQR
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9. Oracle Pre-Packaged BI Solutions
• Complete, prebuilt BI solutions that deliver role-based
intelligence for everyone at all levels in an organization from a
wide range of data sources and applications
• Oracle Financial Analytics • Oracle Service Analytics
• Oracle Human Resources • Oracle Supply Chain and Order
Analytics Management Analytics
• Oracle Loyalty Analytics • Oracle Contact Center Analytics
• Oracle Price Analytics • Oracle Marketing Analytics
• Oracle Project Analytics • Oracle US Federal Financial
• Oracle Procurement and Analytics
Spend Analytics • Oracle Business Indicators
• Oracle Sales Analytics
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10. Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
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11. KBACE Advanced Technology BI Services
• Implementing Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
• Install, configure, and deploy prebuilt Oracle BI Applications
such as Oracle Financial Analytics, Oracle HR Analytics,
Project Analytics, etc.
• Custom Business Intelligence Applications
• Complete custom Business Intelligence Solutions based on
customer requirements
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12. Custom Versus Prepackaged BI Apps
Custom Solution Pre-Built BI Applications from Oracle
No Pre-Built BI Content Pre-Built BI Content
Oracle BI Platform Oracle BI Platform
(Custom Metadata) (w/ Pre-Built Metadata)
Siebel Siebel
Oracle Custom Oracle Pre-Built DW
Pre-Built
ETL Custom Built DW ETL
Other Other
Sources Sources
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13. Implementing Oracle BI Applications
• Analyze customer requirements
• Conduct workshops to educate/demo prebuilt Oracle BI
Applications
• Identify the gaps and additional requirements
• Install, configure, and deploy OBIEE Components and prebuilt
Oracle BI Applications
• Deliver additional reports/dashboards based on the gaps
• Integrate OBIEE security with Oracle E-Business Suite security
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14. KBACE Custom BI Applications
• Analyze customer requirements
• Identify the data sources and mappings
• Build underlying Data Warehouse for the BI Application
• Build Extraction & Transformation Tools (ETL) to extract data
from source systems to the Data Warehouse
• Install, configure and deploy OBIEE Components
• Build Reports/Dashboards per customer requirements
• Integrate OBIEE security with Oracle E-Business Suite security
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15. KBACE ATG BI Offerings – Case Study 1
Business Challenge:
A major Defense Contracts company needed Business Intelligence for
analyzing, measuring and planning various projects they run with DOD.
Environment :
Oracle E-Business Suite – Financials, HCM, and Projects
KBACE Solution:
Implemented Oracle BI Applications
• Oracle Project Analytics
• Oracle Financial Analytics
• Oracle HR Analytics
• Additional custom reports and dashboards for WIP and Margin analysis
• Integrated security with Oracle EBS
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16. KBACE ATG BI Offerings – Case Study 2
Business Challenge:
A leading media company required Human Resources Analytics capability
Environment :
Oracle E-Business Suite HCM Modules and In-house Applications
KBACE Solution:
As Oracle BI Applications did not meet all of their requirements, KBACE
implemented a complete custom solution with the OBIEE platform
• Custom Data Warehouse to host the data
• Custom ETL to extract data from Oracle EBS and third party system
• Custom Reports and Dashboards
• Integrated security with Oracle EBS
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17. Questions & Answers
Speaker:
KT Verma
Email: kverma@kbace.com
Phone: 603-318-1679
Recording & Presentation:
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