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Oracle Business Intelligence Visual Analyzer Cloud Service: View and Analyze Your Data

Satish RapoluSr. Architect, BI & EPM

Madhu PinnintiPractice Manager, BI & EPM

27th October 2015

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Agenda

• About Speakers• Who is Apps Associates?• What is BICS & Visual Analyzer?• What are Accelerators?• Demo: Visual Analyzer• Salesforce • Spend Analysis• Self-service data upload & Analysis

• Summary• Q & A

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About Speakers

Madhu Pinninti Practice Manager, BI/EPM Over 13 years of IT Consulting experience Over 7 years of experience with OBI / BI Apps implementations Over 10 years experience in EBS Upgrades/Implementations Responsible for delivery and execution of new projects Responsible for BICS initiatives

Satish Rapolu Sr. Principle, BI/EPM Over 10 years of IT Consulting experience Over 5 years of experience with OBI / BI Apps implementations Over 8 years experience in EBS Upgrades/Implementations Responsible for execution of new projects and support Architect for OBIEE, OBI Applications and BICS

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Performance. Growth. Excellence.• Global Reach for Global Customers

‒ Founded in 2002 – 650+ employees‒ HQ in Massachusetts‒ US (East, Central, West)‒ Europe, India, Middle East

• Oracle BI Journey Started in 2007 – Represents 40%+ of Our Business‒ BI Pillar Partner & Specialized‒ Oracle Platform Technology Solutions BI/EPM‒ Oracle BI Applications Leadership Board‒ Beta Program for ODI 12c‒ First Oracle Exalytics Certified Delivery Partner‒ Analytics in a Box (Co developed H/W S/W bundle offering with Oracle)‒ One of the first partners selected for BI Cloud Services (BICS)‒ AWS Certified for Oracle on AWS (one of the first two partners worldwide)

• Over 150 consultants (all employees) delivering BI services• Proprietary data lineage and migration tools

Exalytics Certified

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What is BICS and Visual Analyzer?

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Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS)

• Based on proven BI technology relied on by millions of users

• Integrated with Oracle Database Cloud Service

• Built-in mobile• Simple administration and data

integration • Low-cost monthly subscription

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Easy Modelling

• Wizard-based Star Schema design

• Auto Time dimension

• Rich hierarchy and time series calculations, aggregations

• Advanced Analytics: Trending, Binning, etc.

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Pre-Production Production

What You Get

• Two independent environments: separate database, BI service

• Easy T2P, P2T

• Oracle managed patching and upgrades

• Visual Analyzer

• DataSync

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Visual Analyzer(VA)

• Visualizations automatically created and updated by applying visual grammar to data selections made by user

• All visualization types share foundation in visual grammar

Visual Analyzer

Visual Grammar Keyword Search Pattern Brushing• All relevant artifacts are

automatically indexed for search

• Unfamiliar data models can be intuitively accessed using keywords

• Sophisticated technique to highlight correlations between visualizations

• Patterns highlighted across any components on the canvas

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Data Mashup – When pre-built data is not enough

• Extend Facts• Extend Dimensions• Standalone analysis• Smart blending extends curated

model to cover all– Smart Joins– Full outer join support

• Lose no data in analysis

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Apps Associates – BICS Accelerators

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Apps Associates’ BICS Accelerator

Hire to Retire

Financial Close

BICSOrder to

Cash

Procure to Pay

Sales force

Each Accelerator Provides

Reports 30

Dashboards 5

Reportable Fields 100+

Data Model Yes

Security Yes

Mobile Yes

Excel Upload Yes

Training Yes

Custom App

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Apps Associates’ Accelerators

1. Back Office Processes2. Discoverer to BICS Migration3. BRIO / IR to BICS Migration4. PBCS / Essbase to BICS

Integration5. EBS Security Integration6. Salesforce and BICS Integration7. Taleo and BICS Integration8. Under Development

Workday and BICS Integration*

Cloud ERP and BICS Integration*

Industry Vertical Solutions*

*Under Development

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Demo: Visual Analyzer• Salesforce • Spend Analysis• Self-service data upload & Analysis

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Lost Opportunities Analysis : Salesforce

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Visual Analyzer Based Dashboards

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Summary

Hire to Retire

Financial Close

BICSOrder to

Cash

Procure to Pay

Sales force

Custom App

BICS & VAAcceleratorsDemo: Visual Analyzer• Salesforce • Spend Analysis• Self-service data upload

& Analysis

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Connect with Us

Open World: Meet Us @ Booth 2025, Moscone South

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Email: madhu.pinninti@appsassociates.com

satish.rapolu@appsassociates.com

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