using obiee without breaking the bank

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Oracle E-Business reportingsolution using OBIEE withoutbreaking the bank


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Agenda

Introduction

Company Background

Alternate and cost effective approach to implement reporting with EBS

Todays Market

Expensive Solutions

Architecture

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Roles and Responsibilities

Reporting

Project Monies Cost and Time

Best Practices

Questions


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Introduction

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About us

Pramod Ramprasad, Associate, has over 12 years of consulting experience in providing simplesolutions to complex business challenges on software development projects. Strongbackground in Oracle technologies - Data warehouse, OBIEE, E-business suite (ERP) and

Portal

Anunaya Shrivastava, Associate, has fifteen years of experience delivering high technology

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corporations in implementing and sustaining Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system


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Company Background

Key Facts

Founded 1914

Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, USA

NYSE: BAH

Overview

Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of

strategy and technology consulting for nearly acentury. Today, Booz Allen is a leading providerof management and technology consultingservices to the US government in the defense,intelligence, and civil markets, and also serves

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Employees: 25,000

Revenue: More than $5 billion

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer: RalphW. Shrader, Ph.D.

Web site: www.boozallen.com

corporations, institutions, and not-for-profitorganizations. The firm is a well-known, trusted,and long-term partner to our clients, who seekour expertise and objective advice to addresstheir most important and complex problems.


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Todays Market

Market conditions are erratic and leaders are costconscious

Unemployment is hovering over 9% and

businesses are reluctant to spend monies onsoftware projects although sitting on capitalreserves

IT is a cost center and management is cutting back

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better decisions

Employees are working harder with less and needsmarter and intelligent solutions


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Alternate Approach To Reporting With EBS

Why are these expensive for a medium sizecompanies?

BI Apps and DBI costs approximately about$0.5 million to a $0.75 million plus additionalwork to maintain and configure

ETL - Informatica, Business Objects costapproximately half a million for one prodlicense

Expensive Servers Netezza, Exadata cost

Netezza,Exadata,

BW, Martsetc

$$$$$

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aroun a 1 m on to 2 m on or eac

server

Maintenance of Data warehouse schemascan be translate to multiple server and highercost

Synchronization between apps db and datawarehouse leads to additional cost

BI APPS/DBI

ETL(Informatica

,Businessobject)


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Alternate Approach - Development Lifecycle

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Source: An Organizational Community Building Process at Booz Allen


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Alternate Architecture

Extract seeded Discoverer metadata and businessareas into OBIEE

FTP the .dbc file from $FND_TOP/secure directory

on the R12 instance

Open Discoverer Administrator, with OracleApplications User checked

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Extract seeded Discoverer metadata and business areas intoOBIEE

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Extract Rice object views from discoverer business areas

Migrate the discoverer metadata file to OBIEE .rpd file


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Discoverer Content - RPD & Answers

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Alternate Architecture

Extend and customize Discoverer seeded viewsand objects into separate OBIEE schema

Use of materialized views to enhance reporting

performance

Configure Nightly Refresh of OBIEE MaterializedView via EBS

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Alternate Architecture - Use EBS to manage materialized viewrefresh program

Add OBIEE Materialized View Refresh ConcurrentProgram to Custom Application Request Group

Submit refresh request to run periodically per

business requirement

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Alternate Architecture Traditional Star Schema

Develop custom views on top of Discoverer views

Use of Dimensional modeling to mimic header andline level detail of EBS content

Maintain transactions data in a fact for example,warehouse inventory transactions, invoice receipts,purchase order and etc

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example, vendors, employees, supplier, customers,descriptive flex fields, and chart of accountdescription

Map the objects based on the codes exposed in thefact and derive the report


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EBS Authentication within OBIEE

Create an EBS Integration Layer connection pooland the connection pool should be kept solely forthe EBS integration authentication, that way it canbe secured off.

Create an initialization block to authenticate againstE-Business Suite

Create Session variables and check required for

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EBS Authentication within OBIEE

Propagate the EBS usernames and responsibilitiesto BI Analytical repository such that EBS row levelsecurity is maintained across reports.

Compile PLSQL package provided by Oracle(EBS_BIEE_INTEGRATION) script file in EBS appsschema

Initialize and populate the ACF session variable in

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InstanceConfig.xml

Setup Profile Option value in EBS to enablesecurity through E-Business Suite


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EBS Authorization with Roles and Responsibilities

Setup an EBS applications users responsibility inOracle OBIEE

Setup Reporting Request Groups in EBS for use in

the OBIEE security

Setup OBIEE custom Request Groups within EBS

Create OBIEE custom responsibilities with Oracle

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Attach OBIEE custom responsibilities with OBIEERequest groups

Configure Base URL for the custom responsibilitywith FND: Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EEbase URL

Assign Responsibilities to EBS user


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BI Dashboard and Reports

Expose Reporting, Dashboard, BI Publisher andMicrosoft Integration to user community based onEBS roles and responsibility

Provide Dashboard menu to navigate to multiplelifecycles

Organize Dashboard by Lifecycle for example,Asset Management, Core Accounting, Procure to

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BI Dashboard and Reports

Sample Report - Aging bucket report, DelinquentAccounts Receivable by customer

Sample Report Asset Management report output

Users are able to view reports based on OBIEEresponsibility assigned to in EBS

All users and responsibilities are maintained within

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catalog or the RPD in the event new user accountsare created or deleted


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Financial Statement Generator (FSG) and OBIEE

Leverage the sophistication of Financial StatementGenerator in Oracle E-Business suite to buildReport (Rowset, Columnset, Contentset, DisplayOptions, Row Order)

Use BI Publisher and attach templates to the output

Create concurrent programs to transpose FSG intoOBIEE compatible output

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Trigger and display FSG reports from OBIEEDashboard with BI Publisher templates


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Best Practices

Data Model:

Organized data model by Rice objects and provide content by lifecycle

Grant access to business users based on roles and responsibilities

Document and provide glossary of contents within the model

Answers:

Follow consistent naming conventions across the data model, use of prefix and suffixes

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Simplify and distinguish between fact and dimension making it easier for reports writes

Dashboard:

Organize and provide standard menus to navigate to the reports within 3 clicks

Provide summary and drill down details of content


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Project Monies Cost and Time?

Project Cost depends upon the architecture, scalability requirements for future, number ofreports to be developed

The time line depends upon the complexity of the requirements and solution, the number ofresources involved and the maturity of the processes available

Unless there is a need for very big datawarehousing solution ETL tools turn out to beexpensive to procure and implement

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Although one would like to get the pre-fab RPDs for each module in Oracle application thesilver bullet does not exist and it requires effort to make an RPD that fits your needs

A sincere effort in firming up the requirements upfront and finding common elements in themand developing a design based on them can save money and time for the later phases


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Questions & Answers

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Contact Information

Pramod Ramprasad [email protected]

Anunaya Shrivastava [email protected]

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