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You’ve Got Oracle BI (OBIEE).... Now What?
Gary WilliamsDelexian Pty Ltd21st 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 Suiteand 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)
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.
Practical consequence of an evolving IT infrastructure
Oracle BI Standard Edition
Oracle BI Standard Edition One
Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Plus
Oracle BI Applications
Oracle Hyperion
Oracle Essbase
Oracle BI Solution Components
OBI EE+ & OBI Standard Edition One BI Server BI Dashboards BI Answers BI 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 ServerA query and analysis server that
integrates data via query federation capabilities from multiple relational,
unstructured, OLAP, and pre-packaged application sources
Oracle BI AnswersA query and analysis tool that works against a logical view of information from multiple data
sources in a pure Web environment
Oracle BI Interactive DashboardInteractive pure Web dashboards
that display personalisedinformation to help guide users in
decision making
Oracle BI PublisherA reporting engine capable of
generating reports from multiple data sources in
multiple formats via multiple delivery channels
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.
Pre-mapped metadata, including embedded best practice calculations and metrics for Financial, Executives and other Business Users.
Presentation Layer
Logical Business Model
Physical Sources
3
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
4
Pre-built warehouse with 16 star-schemas designed for analysis and reporting on Financial Analytics
1
© Oracle Corporation
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
Ad-hoc Analysis
ProactiveDetectionand Alerts
MS OfficePlug-in
Reporting & Publishing
Interactive Dashboards
DisconnectedAnalytics
Oracle
BI Server Multidimensional Calculation and Integration Engine
Intelligent Caching Services
Enterprise Business Model and Abstraction Layer
Intelligent Request Generation and Optimized Data Access Services
OLTP & ODSSystems
Data WarehouseData Mart
SAP, OraclePeopleSoft, Siebel,
Custom Apps
FilesExcelXML
BusinessProcess
WebServices
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
Federated Data Sources
OBIEEDashboards
Answers
BI Publisher
Direct
Access
to
Source
Data
Data Warehouse
ETL
EDWPeople
SoftOracle Siebel SAP
Other
Direct
Access
to
Source
Data
Oracle EBS
NoetixViews
for Oracle
Operational
and Analytic
reporting
Analytic and Strategic
reporting
KEY POINT: You don’t have to wait until you build a
data warehouse to get reporting value from OBI EE
MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS
HZ_CUSTOMERS
OE_ORDER_LINES_ALL
OE_ORDER_HEADERS_ALL
MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS_TL
PA_PROJECTS_ALL
PA_TASKS
Oracle database tables Noetix view of the database
Order Lines
ATO Flag
Booked Date
Customer
Customer No.
Item
Item Desc.
Line Status
Open Quant.
Order No.
Order Quant.
Project
Quantity
Organization
[remaps view] [doesn’t break][Oracle EBS upgrade]
Cust. Status
ATTRIBUTE1: “Customer Status”
Flexfield column in the table
Your report
Customer
Selling Org.
Cust. Status
Open Quant.
Order Quant.
Booked Date
Order No.
Orders
Customer No.
Flexfield column in the view
HZ_CUST_ACCOUNTS
OE_ORDER_LINES_ALL
HZ_PARTIES
PA_TASKS
Oracle E-Business Suite 10.7, 11i, 12.0
Financials Discrete Manufacturing Asset Lifecycle Management
General Ledger Bill of Materials Enterprise Asset Management
Payables Work in Process
Receivables Inventory Service
Assets Master Scheduling/MRP TeleService
Financials Interface Tables Cost Management Install Base
Depot Repair
Procurement Process Manufacturing Field Service
Purchasing Product Development
Product Planning Projects
Order Management Product Execution Project Costing
Order Management OPM Financials Project Billing
OPM Inventory
Human Resources Grants
Human Resources Project Manufacturing Grants Proposal
Advanced Benefits Project Manufacturing Grants Accounting
Payroll - US Legislation
Payroll - Canadian Legislation Advanced Planning and Scheduling EBS Administration
Payroll - Australian Legislation Advanced Supply Chain Planning Application Object Library
Payroll - UK Legislation
PeopleSoft Enterprise 8.9 Siebel CRM 6.0 - 8.0
Human Capital Management Customer Releationship Management
Human Resources Sales
Base Benefits Service
Base Compensation Call Center
Labor Administration Marketing
Payroll North America Horizontal Applications
Workforce Administration Vertical Applications
Oracle E-Business Suite
NoetixViews
Oracle
BI Server
Generate object definitions
Export UDML
Convert UDML to RPD
UDML
RPD
(Repository
Model)
Generate Oracle BI Answers
Generate Interactive
Dashboard “wrappers”
NoetixAnswers
Administrators
Automatically creates Enterprise
Information Model – all 3 layers
Automatically populates &
publishes NoetixViews details into
the model
Automatically creates facts and
dimensions from relational model
Automatically generates a library of
hundreds of reports as BI Answers
End Users
Descriptive NoetixViews content
Intuitive organization of
subject areas
Predefined joins and view relationships
Report templates are immediately
available for execution or customization
Cognos
8 BI
Business
Objects
Web
Intelligence
Oracle E-Business Suite
PeopleSoft Enterprise
NoetixViews
Noetix
WebQuery
Noetix
Dashboard
Other
Third-party
BI Tools
Oracle
Discoverer
Oracle
BI Suite EE
Common Data Access Layer
Virtual
tablesModels /
PackagesUniverse
Other data
models
Business areas
Business models
Noetix
Generator
for
Noetix Platform
Virtual
tables
Noetix
Generator
for Oracle
Discoverer
Noetix
Generator for
Business
Objects
Noetix
Generator for
Cognos BI
Noetix
Generator
for
Oracle BI
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
Data points 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.”
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
