This document provides an overview and summary of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications version 1.0 from June 2013. It describes Oracle BI Applications as complete prebuilt BI solutions that deliver role-based intelligence across various data sources. It outlines the product's features such as new visualizations, interfaces, and mobile enhancements. It also describes the product components, including pre-mapped metadata, ETL processes, and pre-built metrics, dashboards and reports. The document discusses data access capabilities such as leveraging Oracle Data Integrator for ETL and various configuration and validation tools. It highlights new capabilities in Oracle Data Integrator and contrasts building a custom BI solution versus using Oracle BI Applications.

1. Product Analysis
Introduction
Oracle Business Intelligence
Applications
Version: 1.0
Date: June 2013

2. Contents
Overview
Features
Product Components
Data Access
What´s New
Build Vs Buy

3. Overview
 Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications are complete, prebuilt BI solutions
that deliver intuitive, role-based intelligence for everyone in an organization—
from front line employees to senior management—that enable better decisions,
actions, and business processes. Designed for both “single source” and
heterogeneous environments, these solutions enable organizations to gain
insight from a range of data sources and applications including Siebel, Oracle E-
Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards, and third party systems such
as SAP.

4. Overview
 Oracle BI Applications are built on the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise
Edition (OBI EE), a comprehensive, innovative, and leading BI foundation. This
enables organizations to realize the value of a packaged BI Application, such as
rapid deployment, lower TCO, and built-in best practices, while also being able
to very easily extend those solutions to meet their specific needs, or build
completely custom BI applications—all on one common BI architecture.

5. Overview
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6. Contents
Overview
Features
Product Components
Data Access
What´s New
Build Vs Buy

7. Features
New visualization and user interface features to easily interact with analytics that
correspond to their roles and responsibilities, make better decisions, and stay on
track have been included within Oracle BI Applications:
 Visualization Enhancements: Performance Tiles, 100% Stacked Bar, Freeze
Headers, Waterfall Chart, View Suggestions, Trellis Chart Grid.
 User Interaction Improvements: Navigation/Action from Totals, Breadcrumbs,
Pass context to ADF, Search with Endeca MDEX, Save as Analysis on Dashboard,
Trellis Actions.
 BI Mobile HD Enhancements: Analytics available on mobile without additional
development, Data dense visualizations enabled by in-memory analytics,
enhanced right-click interactions, better interactivity with native gestures,
offline access to content with fine grained security to grant or revoke privileges.

8. Contents
Overview
Features
Product Components
Data Access
What´s New
Build Vs Buy

9. Product Components
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Pre-mapped metadata, including embedded best
practice calculations and metrics for Financial,
Executives and other Business Users.
 Presentation Layer
 Logical Business
Model
 Physical Sources
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Pre-built ETL to extract data from over 3,000
operational tables and load it into the DW,
sourced from SAP, PSFT, Oracle EBS and other
sources.
2 A “best practice” library of over 360 pre-built
metrics, 30 Intelligent Dashboards, 200+ Reports
and several alerts for CFO, Finance Controller,
Financial Analyst, AR/AP Managers and
Executives
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Pre-built warehouse with 16 star-schemas
designed for analysis and reporting on Financial
Analytics
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10. Business Content

11. Example
Business
Objectives /
Issues
Gain
Insights
Take Action
Target collection efforts to
reduce overdue balances
Drill to
Overdue Invoice Detail
Who are the Customers?
How long is the
underlying Overdue
Balance pending?
Is Overdue Balances
trending up?
Is DSO on target?
Maximize Cash Flow

12. Guided Navigation & Action Links
• Analytic Workflows
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• Action Links
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13. Integrated Security
• Launch Oracle OBI
EE dashboard from
Application
Navigator
•Shared
responsibilities
between Oracle
EBS and Oracle OBI
EE
•Sign in only once in
EBS

14. Business Content

15. Contents
Overview
Features
Product Components
Data Access
What´s New
Build Vs Buy

16. Data Access
Completely re-architected solution leveraging the power of Oracle Data Integrator
as well as new out-of-the-box tools to increase productivity and drive down TCO
Leveraging the power of ODI, the new release enables customers to increase IT
efficiency and reduce costs with a comprehensive data integration platform that
covers all data integration requirements. Amongst the benefits of leveraging the
ODI architecture:
 E-L-T Transformation vs. E-T-L
 Best in class for Performance, Scalability, Availability
 Lightweight Deployment for Lowering TCO
 Faster time-to-value through Declarative Design
 Heterogeneous, Open and Standards-based

17. Data Access
Configuration Manager (BIACM) provides a centralized Web based Administrative
User Interface to simplify the setup and maintenance of an Oracle Business
Intelligence Applications environment. Configuration Manager works in conjunction
with Functional Setup Manager to provide guided Tasks to configure Offerings and
Functional Areas.
Functional Setup Manager (FSM) provides a Web based Administrative User
Interface to track and manage implementation projects and their required
functional setup steps. Functional Setup Manager generates a list of configuration
tasks specific to the Offering and Functional Area(s) that were selected. These tasks
can be assigned to different functional developers and the status of the Oracle BI
Applications implementation project can be monitored in FSM. Setup UIs guide
functional developers through the performance of each task.

18. Data Access
BI Applications ETL Validation verifies ETL results after every ETL run by comparing
source data to Warehouse data. The validation tool generates validation reports
and supports multiple validation types and scenarios
A new optional pre-packaged solution, that leverages Golden Gate, eliminates the
need for an ETL batch window and minimizes the impact on the OLTP system, while
providing near real-time reporting and enabling more reliable change data capture
and delete support.
A new Data Lineage tool, allows customers and implementers to track lineage from
source to target – improving information transparency across their enterprise

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Overview
Features
Product Components
Data Access
What´s New
Build Vs Buy

20. What´s New – Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
Oracle Data Integrator, or ODI, provides a new declarative design approach to defining
data transformation and integration processes based on a unique Extract-Load-
Transform (ELT) architecture.
 Reduces the time spent in learning.
 Data quality without external engines.
 Heterogeneous databases.
 Eliminates the need for a standalone ETL server.
 supports all platforms, hardware and operating systems.
 cost-effective, as it reduces the initial hardware setup cost.

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Overview
Features
Product Components
Data Access
What´s New
Build Vs Buy

22. The Build Versus Buy Decision
Build from Scratch
with Traditional BI Tools
Oracle BI Applications
Prebuilt Business Adapters for Oracle,
PeopleSoft, Siebel, SAP, others
Prebuilt DW design, adapts to your EDW
Role-based dashboards and thousands of
pre-defined metrics
Easy to use, easy to adapt
Weeks or Months
Back-end
ETL and
Mapping
DW Design
Define Metrics
& Dashboards
Back-end
ETL and
Mapping
DW Design
Define Metrics
& Dashboards
Training / Roll-out
Training / Rollout
Months or Years
Oracle BI Applications
solutions approach:
• Faster time to value
• Lower TCO
• Assured business value
Source: Patricia Seybold Research, Gartner, Merrill Lynch, Oracle Analysis

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