On Demand Recording: http://www.kpipartners.com/watch-support-for-oracle-discoverer-is-ending
Premier support for Oracle Discoverer is ending in June 2014 and if you're feeling the pressure to migrate to another solution, you're not alone. Moving to Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle BI Applications, Oracle's newest flagship platform for business intelligence and decision support, is a decision facing many Discoverer customers.
Team members from Oracle and KPI Partners explored the options available to Discoverer customers who wish to continue to get value from their existing investments.
Our panelists explored:
Premier support ending for Oracle Discoverer in June 2014
Options for Oracle Discoverer customers
Overview of OBIEE & Oracle BI Applications
Tools & processes for migrating Discoverer customers
How KPI Partners has helped others with migration
Guests:
Malini Saxena, Senior Technical Sales Consultant, Oracle
Kumar Krishnaswamy, General Manager, KPI Partners
3. What’s The Problem?
① What is Oracle Discoverer?
② Discoverer Support Is Ending
What Are My Options?
① Options For Current Discoverer Customers
② BI Tool Migration Methodology
③ Exploring The Migration Options
Agenda
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What Is Oracle Discoverer?
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A query, reporting, analysis
and Web publishing toolset.
Provides web based access
to data from relational and
multidimensional data
sources.
2 main web based products:
Oracle Discoverer Plus
Oracle Discoverer Viewer
7. Many acquired
Discoverer as part of
EBS applications
Custom reports built by
developers.
Reporting tool – No
Analytical features
Latest release came out
in 2009 (11.1.1.6)
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What Is Oracle Discoverer?
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9. Premier Support ending June 2014
No next release planned
Ensure certification with new 3rd party
products/versions
Ensure certification with new Oracle
products
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Discoverer Support Is Ending
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10. Simplify your BI Deployment
Reduce total number of reports
Map multiple data sources
Mobile BI
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Discoverer Support Is Ending
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Premier Support is Ending for
Oracle Discoverer in June 2014
Recommendation:
Develop A Plan For Migration
What’s The Problem?
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14. ① Do Nothing
② Migrate To Oracle BI EE
③ Deploy Enhanced Functionality w/ BI Apps
Options For Oracle Discoverer Customers
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15. What Are The Reporting
Scenarios?
Oracle E-Business Suite
Custom Transactional Application
Custom Data Warehouse
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16. Challenges
Lots of Redundant Reports
Development Team
Strictly Operational/Tactical Reporting
Usage: Data Download
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17. Opportunities
Report Consolidation
Serve Real Business Needs
Provide Insight, Not Just Reports
Enable Cross-Functional Analysis
Go Mobile
Options For Oracle Discoverer Customers
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Understand Your Org’s
Unique Situation
Use This As An Opportunity
To Consolidate & Enhance
Options For Oracle Discoverer Customers
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20. BI Tool Migration Methodology
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① Audit
② Analyze
③ Development
④ User Acceptance
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www.kpipartners.com/Migration
22. Exploring The Migration Options
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Migrate To Oracle BI EE
Discoverer-to-OBIEE Metadata Migration Assistant
KPI Partners Real-Time Discoverer Toolkit
Deploy Enhanced Functionality
Oracle BI Applications
KPI’s Real-Time Solution Extensions for Oracle BI Apps
24. 24Support For Oracle Discoverer Is Ending… What Are My Options? Quick Introduction To OBIEE
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Discoverer vs. OBIEE
OBIEE
Answers
Discoverer Plus
Viewer
Exploring The Migration Options
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Discoverer vs. OBIEE
OBIEE
Dashboards
Discoverer Portal
Provider
Exploring The Migration Options
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Discoverer vs. OBIEE
OBIEE
Admin Tool
Discoverer
Administrator
Exploring The Migration Options
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Discoverer vs. OBIEE
OBIEE
Repository (RPD)
End User Layer
(EUL)
Exploring The Migration Options
29. Exploring The Migration Options
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① Robust 3-Layer Metadata Support
② Scalable, Modern Architecture
③ Non-Oracle Database Support
④ Data Federation Capabilities
⑤ Enhanced Mobile Features
⑥ Robust Security Architecture
⑦ Improved Performance
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OBIEE Is Oracle’s Strategic
Direction For BI
Enhanced Functionality
Compared To Discoverer
Exploring The Migration Options: Migrate To
OBIEE
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31. Exploring The Migration Options
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What Is It?
Command-Line Utility
What Does It Do?
Reads Discoverer EUL
What Does It Produce?
OBIEE Repository (RPD)
32. 1 • Export Discoverer Metadata (EEX File)
2 • Configure & Run Discoverer Migration Assistant
3 • Upgrade RPD from OBIEE 10g to 11g
4 • Build OBI Answers Requests & Dashboards
5 • Deploy OBIEE 11g
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33. Exploring The Migration Options
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What Is It?
Command-Line Utility
What Does It Do?
Converts Workbook Queries
to Views & Auto Generates
OBIEE Metadata for Views
What Does It Produce?
OBIEE Repository (RPD)
34. 1 • Create DB Views from Workbook Queries
2 • Run KPI RPD Generator
3 • Build OBI Answers Requests & Dashboards
4 • Deploy OBIEE 11g
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35. Exploring The Migration Options
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Automated E-Business
Suite Key Flexfield Support
Automated E-Business
Suite Descriptive Flexfield
Support
Automated View Change
Detection & Metadata
Generation
Smart Retention of Manual
Metadata Changes
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Use KPI’s Real-Time Toolkit
To Generate OBIEE RPD
Use Automation Features To
Maintain Your Metadata
Exploring The Migration Options: Migrate To
OBIEE
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38. ANALYTICS
Oracle BI Gazette
Pre-Built Analytic Content
Plugs into ERP
Leverages OBIEE
Classic BI Model
Functional Area Focus
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Exploring Migration Options
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“Oracle BI Apps is like the pre-built
content for your daily newspaper”
Financial Analytics
Human Resources Analytics
Procurement and Spend Analytics
Sales Analytics
Service Analytics
Contact Center Analytics
Marketing Analytics
Price Analytics
Project Analytics
Loyalty Analytics
Supply Chain & Order Mgmt Analytics
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Pre-built warehouse
Designed for Analysis & Reporting
Pre-built ETL
Extract Data From Popular ERP
Pre-Built Dashboards
Role Based, Business Process Workflows
Pre-built Metadata
Calculations & Metrics
Oracle
EBS
PeopleSoft
JD Edwards
Universal
SAP
Oracle BI
Applications
Warehouse
ETL
4
2
3
1
Presentation layer
Logical business model
Physical sources
Quick Introduction To Oracle BI Applications
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Exploring Migration Options
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Extension to OBIA
Supports Oracle EBS
Real-Time Analysis
Ad-hoc Capability
Pre-built Dashboards
Pre-built reports
Real-Time Views
Pre-built Repository
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Usually narrowly focused
• Last week of the Month (Orders / Shipments / Invoices)
• First week of Month (GL Posting, Trial Balances)
But Business Critical
• Are any of my customer orders on hold?
• Are any of my customer orders on backorder?
• Have all my sub-ledger transactions posted to GL?
• VP of Sales needs updates every 2 hrs during last week of month
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Exploring Migration Options
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OBIA Is Recommended For
EBS & Multi-Source
Environments
Combine OBIA w/ KPI’s Real-
Time Extensions
Exploring The Migration Options: Deploy
Enhanced Functionality
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Migration
Assistant
KPI Real-
Time
OBIA
ERP (E-Business Suite & Other)
ERP Real-Time Needs
Custom Transactional Schema
Custom Data Warehouse
Migration Options for Discoverer
Final Summary
44. Final Takeaways
Oracle Discoverer Premier
Support Is Ending
Oracle’s Strategic BI Platform Is
OBIEE Foundation Suite
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45. Final Takeaways
Multiple Options Are Available
For Customers To Adopt OBIEE
Most Customers Will Choose A
Combination Of Options
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OverviewMany organizations are converting their existing Oracle Discoverer deployments and reports to OBIEE & Oracle BI Applications. KPI has a proven methodology for Discoverer to Oracle BI migration based on experience with the largest and most complex migration projects in the world.ProcessThe migration process from Discoverer to Oracle Business Intelligence has 4 distinct phases:1. Audit Phase 2. Analyze Phase3. Development Phase4. User Acceptance PhaseAuditThe Audit Phase is one of the most important in any report conversion process. The Audit Phase determines the initial scope of the project. The final deliverable of the Audit Phase is a comprehensive listof all reports identified for conversion.AnalyzeAfter the list of reports identified for conversion is prepared in the Audit Phase, the team determines the best way to migrate each existing report within the functional capabilities of each application. The goal here is to design an application that will answer real business questions and generate insight… not just another bunch of reports. A high-level design for conversion is then constructed. DevelopmentThe Development Phase is the phase during which the organization wants to minimize costs and maximize the benefits of the conversion process. Reports are converted using a proven proprietary strategy. All reports are unit tested. Staging and production environments are prepared.User AcceptanceThe User Acceptance Phase focuses on the end user. Users are trained to understand the features of Oracle BI and how these features map to features within Oracle Discoverer. All critical issues are resolved and the Oracle BI application is deployed into the production environment.
OverviewMany organizations are converting their existing Oracle Discoverer deployments and reports to OBIEE & Oracle BI Applications. KPI has a proven methodology for Discoverer to Oracle BI migration based on experience with the largest and most complex migration projects in the world.ProcessThe migration process from Discoverer to Oracle Business Intelligence has 4 distinct phases:1. Audit Phase 2. Analyze Phase3. Development Phase4. User Acceptance PhaseAuditThe Audit Phase is one of the most important in any report conversion process. The Audit Phase determines the initial scope of the project. The final deliverable of the Audit Phase is a comprehensive listof all reports identified for conversion.AnalyzeAfter the list of reports identified for conversion is prepared in the Audit Phase, the team determines the best way to migrate each existing report within the functional capabilities of each application. The goal here is to design an application that will answer real business questions and generate insight… not just another bunch of reports. A high-level design for conversion is then constructed. DevelopmentThe Development Phase is the phase during which the organization wants to minimize costs and maximize the benefits of the conversion process. Reports are converted using a proven proprietary strategy. All reports are unit tested. Staging and production environments are prepared.User AcceptanceThe User Acceptance Phase focuses on the end user. Users are trained to understand the features of Oracle BI and how these features map to features within Oracle Discoverer. All critical issues are resolved and the Oracle BI application is deployed into the production environment.
What are the BI Applications and what is new in the latest releaseThe BI Applications are a set of pre-built analytics and reporting modules delivered by Oracle to meet a wide range of analytic and operational reporting needs.Some example analytic modules are Financial Analytics, Procurement and Spend Analytics, HR Analytics and CRM Analytics.All of these Applications use Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (or OBIEE) as the base metadata definition and reporting platform.There are more than than a 100 star schemas that come with these applications. Also as part of these applications you get, pre-built ETL to populate these star schemas from all the popular ERP Packages such as Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft, Siebel, JDE and even SAP.The application also contains a library of 100s of industry best-practice based metrics and calculations in each of the functional subject areas and hundreds of role-based and business process based dashboards and reports.The BI Applications have over 4000 successful customers worldwide and have been proven to provide accelerated time to value and low TCO.Add insight to CRM and ERP applicationsEasy to adapt and extendTight integration with OLTP systemsWorks with existing IT environment Fast time to value; Low TCOOver 4,000 customers worldwidePre-built warehouse with 16 star-schemas designed for analysis and reporting on financial analyticsPre-built ETL to extract data from a large number of operational tables and load it into the DW, sourced from PSFT, Oracle EBS, JD Edwards,Pre-mapped metadata, including embedded best practice calculations and metrics for financial analysts, executives and other business usersA “best practice” library of over 488 pre-built metrics, 36 intelligent dashboards, 250+ reports and several alerts for CFO, Finance Controller, Financial Analyst, AR/AP Managers and Executives
KPI partners has developed a number of Real Time reports that can be deployed along with the traditional BI applications.Each is based on Oracle’s E-business Suite applications, and provides a view into real-time operational data from a BI reporting platformEach provides ad-hoc reporting capability, and can be incorporated with traditional reports on standard OBIEE dashboardsLet’s take a look at each of these Real Time Apps