How Do I Get Financial Reports from the Cloud Session ID#: 10435 Prepared by: Lee Briggs Director, Oracle Financials Management BizTech @BTLeeBriggs REMINDER Check in on the COLLABORATE mobile app
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Agenda About Me About BizTech Reporting Tools Available in Cloud Financials BI Publisher Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence SmartView Financial Reporting Studio Summary Questions
Lee Briggs Director, Cloud Applications Professional Summary 15 years Oracle Experience as an end user and implementation consultant Oracle ACE, Apps & Apps Tech Over 50 full cycle implementations: 10.7 12.2 5 full cycle Oracle Cloud Financials Qualification Summary Oracle Cer)fied Specialist in General Ledger Oracle Cer)fied Specialist in Accounts Payable Masters Degree in Management Studies Bachelors (with Honors) in Accoun)ng & Finance Twitter: @BTLeeBriggs Blog: http://blog.biztech.com/author/lee-briggs Mobile: Email: Website: (215) 208-7909 LBriggs@BizTech.com www.biztech.com
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Reporting Tools Available in Cloud Financials This is a subtitle or bulleted list
Reporting Options in Cloud Financials
Installing Cloud Report Design Tools All Cloud Report Design tools are available to download directly from the Cloud instance: From the Navigator Under Tools, click on "Reports and Analytics A new page would be displayed, towards top left, under "Reports and Analytics", you will find a small icon in the shape of a book. Click on this book icon, then you will be diverted to Oracle BI in a New window. Click on Home tab (Available on the top right). Towards left, you will find a category "Get Started...
Installing Cloud Report Design Tools Recommended to ONLY download client design tools from the instance, unless explicitly told otherwise by Oracle Cloud Support This will ensure that the your client software will support the Cloud Financials version your enterprise is using
BI Publisher Originally introduced in EBS R12 Backported to 11i Suited for high-volume, highly formatted transaction-based reports Typically used to produce third-party documents Receivables Invoices 1099 and other Government forms EFT / EDI files Payables Checks Purchase Orders Correspondence
BI Publisher Documents can be delivered in a variety of formats HTML PDF Microsoft Word XML High volumes of documents can be delivered to multiple destinations: Printers Email Fax WebDAV FTP
BI Publisher Download and Install From the navigation discussed previously, select option : "Download BI Desktop Tools Drop down. Based on your system configuration, download 32 or 64 bit Oracle BI Client Installer
BI Publisher Add-in for Microsoft Word Provides the ability to: Import XML or SQL source Lay out a report template using standard Microsoft Word formatting Preview and run the report within Word
BI Publisher BI Publisher takes XML Output Combines it with a BI Publisher Template (typically RTF file) Generates output in PDF, Excel, RTF, PowerPoint, HTML
BI Publisher
BI Publisher Uploading the Template Uploaded through Reports and Analytics Typically uploaded to a Custom folder to try and reduce patching impacts
BI Publisher Uploading the Template Also use the same navigation to control default output format, although this can be changed at run-time
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Also known as OTBI Designed for Operational Users to create custom: Queries Reports Dashboards Charts Graphs Users can access, analyze and evaluate real-time transactional data Prepackaged content covering the major processes and transaction attributes plus financial reporting metrics
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Sample reports, such as Discounts Taken and Lost Report, and Sales Journal by Customer are out-of-the-box Comes with a large number of transactional attributes available, including predefined subject areas and prebuilt metrics available for financial reporting
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Transactional BI Subject Areas Receivables Adjustments Credit Memo Applications Credit Memo Requests Disputes Miscellaneous Receipts Payment Schedules Receipt Conversion Receipt History Revenue Adjustments Standard Receipts Transactions Payables Invoice Holds Invoice Installments Invoice Prepayments Invoice Transactions Invoice Trial Balance Invoice Withholdings Payment History Payment Disbursements
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Transactional BI Subject Areas General Ledger Journals Period Statuses Transactional Balances Intercompany Transactions Subledger Accounting Journals Subledger Accounting Supporting References Cash Management Fixed Assets Asset Assignments Asset Balances Asset Depreciation Asset Retirements Asset Source Lines Asset Transactions Asset Transfers Bank Statement Balances Bank Statement Line Charges Bank Statements External Cash Transactions
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence From the Navigator Under Tools, click on "Reports and Analytics Select Create, and select Report or Analysis Select a Subject Area to report on Cloud Customers: Only REAL TIME Subject Areas are available to you. On Premise Customers: All Subject Areas are available to you
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Once you ve selected a subject area, reportable attributes are grouped together Select each attribute you wish to include in your report, and move it to the right
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence As the attributes are added, you can select whether you can drill on an attribute, or navigate directly to the transaction You can select whether the analysis is a table, a graph, or a combination of both You can select how the data is sorted (multiple column sorts), as well as filtering out data (e.g. don t return AP Invoices less than $500)
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Once saved, the report is immediately available If saved in My Folders, only you can see it If saved in Shared Folders, it s available for everyone
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence
Smartview Excel-based analysis tool Ideal for financial analysts to quickly define financial reports and ad-hoc queries Directly integrated to Cloud General Ledger balances in real time Reports and queries can be saved offline, then automatically updated with the latest Real-Time GL data by reopening the spreadsheet
Smartview Excel-based analysis tool Ideal for financial analysts to quickly define financial reports and ad-hoc queries Directly integrated to Cloud General Ledger balances in real time Reports and queries can be saved offline, then automatically updated with the latest Real-Time GL data by reopening the spreadsheet Great Install document provided in Oracle Support Note 1371164.1
Smartview
Smartview Quick Ad-hoc Analysis
Smartview Real-Time Analysis using Financial Reports
Financial Reporting Center Delivers boardroom quality management reports based on Essbase balances and hierarchies Provides ability for tables, graphs and charts Supports details analysis within the report through slicing & dicing, expansions and drilldowns Based on Real-Time multi-dimensional account balances Three tools FR Studio for report definition Workspace for Report Administration and Distribution Financial Report Center for immediate self-service user access to reports
Financial Reporting Studio
Financial Reporting Studio
Financial Reporting Studio
Financial Reporting Studio Workspace
Financial Report Center
Financial Report Center
Reporting Options in Cloud Financials
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