An Oracle BI and EPM Development Roadmap Mark Rittman, Director, Rittman Mead UKOUG Financials SIG, September 2009 1
Who Am I? Oracle BI&W Architecture and Development Specialist Co-Founder of Rittman Mead Consulting Oracle BI&W Project Delivery Specialists 10+ years with Discoverer, OWB etc Oracle ACE Director, ACE of the Year 2005 Writer for OTN and Oracle Magazine Longest-running Oracle blog http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog Ex-Chair of UKOUG BIRT SIG Co-Chair of ODTUG BI&DW SIG Speaker at IOUG and BIWA events 2
Rittman Mead Consulting Oracle BI&DW Project Specialists providing consulting, training and support Clients in the UK, USA, Europe, Middle-East Voted UKOUG BI Partner of the Year 2008 A team of top specialists in the Oracle BI, DW and EPM space 3
Oracle s Historic Business Intelligence Offerings Oracle Daily Business Intelligence Pre-built analysis over Oracle E-Business Suite Fast to deploy, integrated with E-Business Suite 4
Oracle s Historic Business Intelligence Offerings Oracle Discoverer Ad-hoc analysis against E-Business Suite and other data Drill, rotate, graph, analyze 5
Oracle s Historic Business Intelligence Offerings Oracle Financial Analyzer, Oracle Enterprise Planning & Budgeting Based off of Oracle Express Server technology A toolkit for planning and budgeting applications EPB is (was) the stated replacement, a more workflow-based solution based off of Oracle OLAP 6
Oracle s New BI Product Line : Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Plus 7
Part of an Enterprise Performance Management Solution Business intelligence has evolved Organizations now wish to deliver pervasive Enterprise Performance Management across all of their data and processes Oracle has evolved to meet that challenge Acquisition of Siebel (Siebel Analytics) Acquisition of Hyperion (Hyperion Financial Management, Essbase) Continual development of Oracle Database, OWB Incorporation into Fusion Middleware Oracle s new BI product line covers the full set of operational and financial BI applications 8
Combined BI and EPM Product Architecture 9
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus Dashboards, Ad-hoc Reporting, Alerts, Microsoft Office Integration Complete set of web-based query, reporting and analysis tools Now comes with Hyperion front-end tools (OBIEE+) Based on Siebel Analytics Heterogeneous database access Logical Business Model Data integration capabilities 10
Common Enterprise Information Model Enables consistency, security, reuse, flexibility Role-based views of the organization Single metadata model of the business Consistent definition of business measures, metrics, calculations Drill paths, summaries, security Model once, deploy anywhere Across any data source 11
Oracle Interactive Dashboards One-stop shop for reporting and analysis All your reports in one place Fully interactive Graphs, reports, links Delivered through your browser Download to Excel Print & Save your favorite reports 12
Oracle Answers Used for creating and amending reports Point-and-click interactive environment Tables, pivot-tables Graphs Gauges Commentary text Answers reports are then published to dashboard 13
Sense and Respond Delivers/Analytic Agents provides true real-time in context sense and respond capabilities across systems tailored for any user on any device. 14
Microsoft Office BI Integration Combine BI data with Office formating Insert BI views as native Office charts Select from all available views Insert BI views as refreshable images 15
Demonstration Oracle BI Enterprise Edition 16
Extending Oracle Business Intelligence Oracle s BI tools can be extended through data warehousing, and EPM Oracle Warehouse Builder and Oracle Data Integrator Oracle Database 11g Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Suite Oracle BI Applications 17
Oracle Warehouse Builder Used for data integration and modeling in an Oracle environment Dimensional and OLAP modeling Integration with Discoverer Optimized for building, populating and maintaining Oracle data warehouses 18
Oracle Data Integration Suite Oracle Data Integrator Oracle Data Distribution and Delivery (ESB, J2EE, BPEL etc) ODI Data Quality & Data Profiling Hyperion Data Relationship Manager 19
New : Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition New packaging for ODI and OWB Includes OWB and OWB Enterprise ETL Option First step to convergence of the products Single product for Oracle data integration 20
Oracle Database for Data Warehousing Oracle Database has many features to support BI and data warehousing, including Partitioning Parallel Query & DML Segment Compression Bitmap Indexes Materialized Views Star Transformations OLAP Option Data Mining Option Oracle Warehouse Builder Oracle Warehouse Builder Core Functionality 21
Oracle Database Machine and Oracle Exadata Storage Server New hardware initiative in association with HP Dedicated storage server, filters data at disk level Balanced disk and network capacity New enhancements delivered through 11.1.0.7 patchset Exadata Storage Server available standalone, or as part of HP Oracle Database Machine appliance Aimed at DW Appliance market 22
Oracle BI Applications An option when building the data warehouse is to leverage pre-build models Useful for providing the core elements of your DW Fast deployment, also puts in place design standards Ideal scenario is that the pre-built model covers the generic parts of your business This is then extended out by the customer to cover the unique parts of the business 23
Oracle Business Intelligence Modules 24
Oracle BI Applications 7.9.6 Adds Project Analytics to Analytics Modules Track financial performance of projects in EBS or Peoplesoft Budgets, Forecasts, Costs, Revenue, Billing etc Loyalty Analytics for Siebel Loyalty Management Support for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Financials Analytics in this release Enhancements to HR and Procurement and Spend Analytics 25
Oracle BI Applications 7.9.5.2 New release of the Oracle BI Applications, uses ODI instead of Informatica Designed for customers who wish to use an all-oracle solution Initially only supports EBS 11.5.10 as a source, and only four of the apps modules Target database has to be Oracle 10gR2 Objectives of the release are Faster, more performant set-based ETL Closer product integration Faster deployment 26
Oracle BI and Enterprise Performance Management Following the Hyperion acquisition, Oracle s BI vision now encompasses financial business intelligence as well as operational BI Financial planning and budgeting top and tail the BI lifecycle 27
Oracle Hyperion Planning Planning tool, uses Essbase and Relational database Works with multidimensional model Migration path for OSA and EPB Excel and Web-Based Integrates financial and operational planning Improves business predictability Comes with limited use ODI license Reporting through Smartview, Web Analysis, Financial Reporting 28
Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Financial Consolidation, Reporting and Analysis Improve closing and reporting process Reduce internal risk controls Analyze KPIs and metrics Combine financial and nonfinancial data Scenario Management 29
Oracle Essbase Standalone OLAP server now owned by Oracle Acquired as part of the Hyperion Acquisition Adds a fully-featured OLAP server, separate to the database, as part of the Fusion Middleware family of products Similar capabilities to Oracle OLAP Supports MDX and XML/A rather than SQL access Engine behind the Hyperion OLAP applications 30
BI and EPM Toolset Integration Strategy (as of 2008) 31
Current Integration of EPM and BI Data and Data Flows 32
Self-Service BI and EPM Through Oracle EPM Workspace EPM and BI applications in one user environment Access to BI dashboards, ad-hoc reports against ERP and relational data Planning, Financial Management Ad-hoc analysis against Essbase data Single Sign-on across all applications 33
Demonstration EPM Workspace and Integrated EPM and BI Reporting 34
Conclusions Oracle now have an integrated BI, DW and EPM Product Suite Rittman Mead are experts in the implementation of all of these products Work with you to define KPIs, reports, analytical requirements Deliver rapid initial prototype Optional consolidation of data into data mart or data warehouse Subsequent Delivery of analytical subject areas Training, mentoring, implementation, business consultancy License management and relationship with Oracle Ongoing support 35
An Oracle BI and EPM Development Roadmap Mark Rittman, Director, Rittman Mead September 2009 36