You’ve Got Oracle BI (OBIEE).... Now What? Gary Williams Delexian Pty Ltd 21st April 2009
The following presentation and discussions are intended to outline Oracle’s current Business Intelligence strategic product direction. The information presented has been gathered through Delexian’s partnership agreement with Oracle and by my individual experiences and continued research through a number of media channels. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for either Oracle or Noetix products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle and Noetix respectively.
Why
did you attend today’s session? Own OBI EE & BI Apps Own OBI EE, considering BI Apps Considering OBI EE & BI Apps General curiosity
Specialist Oracle E-Business Suite and Technology Consulting
Applications Technology Implementation and Upgrades Support Apps+
Oracle Certified Advantage Partner Founded 2003 Australian based, East & West coast offices Average consultant has over 10 years Oracle experience
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
How Important is Business Intelligence? What do you really have and what does it do? How should you best use OBI EE? What does it take to get BI Apps working? Where does Discoverer fit in? With Oracle BI EE, is it all Data Warehousing? What’s the fastest way to get some value?
For the fourth year in a row, BI Applications have been ranked the top technology priority in the 2009 Gartner Executive Programs survey of more than 1,500 chief information officers (CIOs) around the world. Source: Gartner Press Release http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=888412
Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms, 2009 Source: Gartner (January 2009)
Practical consequence of an evolving IT infrastructure Reports, Reports, Reports: All Businesses need to create a wide range of documents. Many of these require specialised software and hardware. Data Here, There, and Everywhere: Multiple sources of data prevent a complete and consistent view of all information to assess overall business performance. What has your data done for you lately: Lots of data but lack insight that could help run the business more effectively.
Expensive, complicated software: Most Business Intelligence offerings are expensive and difficult to install, configure, and use.
Oracle Oracle Oracle Oracle Oracle Oracle
BI Standard Edition BI Standard Edition One BI Suite Enterprise Edition Plus BI Applications Hyperion Essbase
Oracle BI Solution Components OBI EE+ & OBI Standard Edition One
BI BI BI BI
Server Dashboards Answers Publisher (old XML Publisher)
OBI EE+ also includes
BI Delivers BI Disconnected Analytics BI Briefing Books Hyperion components
BI Applications
By functional area
Oracle BI Interactive Dashboard Interactive pure Web dashboards that display personalised information to help guide users in decision making
Oracle BI Answers A query and analysis tool that works against a logical view of information from multiple data sources in a pure Web environment
Oracle BI Publisher A reporting engine capable of generating reports from multiple data sources in multiple formats via multiple delivery channels
Oracle BI Server A query and analysis server that integrates data via query federation capabilities from multiple relational, unstructured, OLAP, and prepackaged application sources
Oracle BI EE does NOT include Oracle’s BI Applications. They are separate products, with separate pricing and associated additional implementation costs.
Collection of Answers Reports, BI Publishers Reports, Alerts, Folders and More
Oracle BI EE does NOT include Oracle’s BI Applications. They are separate products, with separate pricing and associated additional implementation costs.
© Oracle Corporation
1 Pre-built warehouse with 16 star-
schemas designed for analysis and reporting on Financial Analytics
3 Pre-mapped metadata, including
embedded best practice calculations and metrics for Financial, Executives and other Business Users.
Presentation Layer Logical Business Model Physical Sources 2 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.
4 A “best practice” library of over 360 prebuilt metrics, 30 Intelligent Dashboards, 200+ Reports and several alerts for CFO, Finance Controller, Financial Analyst, AR/AP Managers and Executives
Oracle BI Apps are not required to use OBI EE Oracle BI Apps will work only with OBI EE Could create inconsistencies in environments with multiple BI tools Could require a “big bang” transition from Oracle Discoverer to OBI EE
If it’s all “prebuilt”, why do I need to customise? Does not include all the data you’ll want
Key Flexfields and Descriptive Flexfields
New facts, dimensions, hierarchies
BAW model is generic
Partially created by Siebel for Siebel CRM
Financials, Supply Chain, HR analytics content acquired from Informatica
No ETL mappings for some EBS data
According to information on the Oracle website BI Apps will meet 70% of business needs The other 30% will need to be “custom”
What BI Query Tool(s) Do You Currently Have? Oracle BI / BI Apps Oracle Hyperion SAP BusinessObjects IBM Cognos MicroStratgey SAS Microsoft Other
OBI EE is Oracle’s strategic BI platform Oracle encourages migrating from Discoverer Oracle recommends OBI Apps (of course) Many customers considering other BI tools => Cognos, BusinessObjects, etc.
You can have multiple tools that co-exist Gradual migration from Discoverer Different tools for different user communities
As a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle’s support policy for Discoverer is covered under the support policy for Oracle Fusion Middleware
Migrate Discoverer EUL to OBIEE Metadata OBI EE includes a utility to accelerate the migration of Discoverer metadata (an EEX file) to Oracle BI EE metadata (an RPD file) There is additional manual work to be expected within the OBI EE layers
Migrate Discoverer Workbooks to BI Answers Oracle has announced plans to deliver a utility in 2009
Is a Data Warehouse a part of your BI strategy? Yes, the BAW * Yes, one that isn’t the BAW * Yes, but we haven’t decided what it will be No Not sure * BAW = Oracle’s Business Application Warehouse (this is the warehouse that comes with Oracle BI Applications)
No, it isn’t all about a Data Warehouse Customers can rapidly realise value from their investment in OBI EE without implementing a Data Warehouse Deliver reports through direct access to transactional systems Faster time to data access
Solve urgent user needs first – Operational Reports
Deliver Data Warehouse in a later phase
Prioritise what data elements are needed in the DW
Interactive Dashboards
Reporting & Publishing
Ad-hoc Analysis
Proactive Detection and Alerts
Disconnected Analytics
MS Office Plug-in
Web Services
Enterprise Business Model and Abstraction Layer
Oracle BI Server
Intelligent Caching Services Multidimensional Calculation and Integration Engine Intelligent Request Generation and Optimized Data Access Services
OLTP & ODS Systems
Data Warehouse Data Mart
SAP, Oracle PeopleSoft, Siebel, Custom Apps
Files Excel XML
Business Process
Direct Connections to OLTP Oracle BI Server can connect directly to an OLTP database or to an Operational Data Store (possibly a mirror of the OLTP system)
Eventually, it’s very likely that you will Data Warehouses: Offer long term strategic value Solve reporting requirements that can’t be addressed through reporting against the OLTP database
Historical trending
Data aggregation
Performance optimisation
Require extra time and money
Operational and Analytic reporting
Analytic and Strategic reporting Direct Access to Source Data
OBIEE
Dashboards Answers BI Publisher Data Warehouse Direct Access to Source Data
ETL
NoetixViews for Oracle
Oracle EBS
Oracle
Siebel
SAP
EDW
People Soft
Federated Data Sources
KEY POINT: You don’t have to wait until you build a data warehouse to get reporting value from OBI EE
Other
Oracle database tables
Flexfield column in the table
[Oracle EBS upgrade] HZ_PARTIES
[remaps view] HZ_CUSTOMERS HZ_CUST_ACCOUNTS ATTRIBUTE1:
“Customer Status”
OE_ORDER_HEADERS_ALL
PA_PROJECTS_ALL
PA_TASKS
Noetix view of the database
OE_ORDER_LINES_ALL
MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS
MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS_TL
Order Lines ATO Flag Booked Date Customer Customer No. Cust. Status Item Item Desc. Line Status Open Quant. Order No. Order Quant. Project Quantity Organization
Your report [doesn’t break] Orders Flexfield column in Order No. the view Customer Customer No. Cust. Status Booked Date Order Quant. Open Quant. Selling Org.
Oracle E-Business Suite 10.7, 11i, 12.0 Financials General Ledger Payables Receivables Assets Financials Interface Tables Procurement Purchasing Order Management Order Management Human Resources Human Resources Advanced Benefits Payroll - US Legislation Payroll - Canadian Legislation Payroll - Australian Legislation Payroll - UK Legislation
PeopleSoft Enterprise 8.9 Human Capital Management Human Resources Base Benefits Base Compensation Labor Administration Payroll North America Workforce Administration
Discrete Manufacturing Bill of Materials Work in Process Inventory Master Scheduling/MRP Cost Management Process Manufacturing Product Development Product Planning Product Execution OPM Financials OPM Inventory
Asset Lifecycle Management Enterprise Asset Management Service TeleService Install Base Depot Repair Field Service Projects Project Costing Project Billing
Project Manufacturing Project Manufacturing
Grants Grants Proposal Grants Accounting
Advanced Planning and Scheduling Advanced Supply Chain Planning
EBS Administration Application Object Library
Siebel CRM 6.0 - 8.0 Customer Releationship Management Sales Service Call Center Marketing Horizontal Applications Vertical Applications
Generate object definitions Oracle E-Business Suite
UDML
Export UDML Convert UDML to RPD
NoetixViews NoetixAnswers
RPD (Repository Model)
Oracle BI Server
Generate Oracle BI Answers Generate Interactive Dashboard “wrappers”
Administrators
End Users
Automatically creates Enterprise Information Model – all 3 layers
Descriptive NoetixViews content
Automatically populates & publishes NoetixViews details into the model
Intuitive organization of subject areas
Automatically creates facts and dimensions from relational model
Predefined joins and view relationships
Automatically generates a library of hundreds of reports as BI Answers
Report templates are immediately available for execution or customization
Noetix WebQuery
Oracle Discoverer
Noetix Dashboard
Oracle BI Suite EE
Virtual tables
Business areas Business models
Cognos 8 BI
Business Objects Web Intelligence
Models / Packages
Universe
Common Data Access Layer Noetix Generator for Noetix Platform
Noetix Generator for Oracle Discoverer
Noetix Generator for Oracle BI
Noetix Generator for Cognos BI
Oracle E-Business Suite PeopleSoft Enterprise
NoetixViews
Noetix Generator for Business Objects
Other Third-party BI Tools
Other data models
Oracle BI Apps
Noetix
Subjects Areas
3-4
8
Reports
50
200
Weeks to Implement
17
1.8
Person Days
290
9
Full-time Consultant(s)
3.4
1
All Oracle BI Apps implementations require customisations to address Key and Descriptive Flexfields. No Oracle customisations are upgrade protected.
83% of NoetixViews customers get 100% of all needed custom content “out-of-the-box.”
Data points
Source
White paper (Oracle Web site)
~100 Noetix implementations (Average customer)
DASHBOARDS& REPORTS • Prebuilt best
practice library
• “One
size does NOT fit all”
SUBJECT AREAS • Many metrics and dimensional
attributes not surfaced by prebuilt dashboards and reports • Possibilities are endless • Incremental work to build much more content from this foundation
Gary Williams Delexian Pty Ltd
[email protected] http://www.delexian.com
