HOW TO

CONNECT EBS

TO OBIEE/OAC

IN WEEKS

Nicholas Padgett, Product Manager

03.27.18

Nicholas Padgett, Product Manager

03.06.18

1 OPTIMIZE OBIEE

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2 COLLABORATE IN OBIEE

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3 UNIFY OBIEE & TABLEAU

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4 CONNECT EBS TO OBIEE/OAC

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About US-Analytics

Driving business transformation with Oracle EPM and BI for over 15 years

▪ Full-service consulting firm, from advisory to implementations to support services

▪ 500+ clients and 1,000+ successful engagements

▪ Over 80 professionals with seasoned business acumen and Oracle EPM/BI certifications

▪ Active leaders in the Oracle community

Founder of Hyperion Professional Women's Forum, advisory board leadership, conference

presentations, webinars, EPM Speaker of the Year at Kaleidoscope

US-Analytics acquired Rittman Mead America in 2017

▪ A leader and stellar reputation in the BI space

▪ Together we help customers tap into the synergy between EPM and BI

▪ Offer the expert training and innovative BI products developed by RMA

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US-Analytics helps hundreds of the nation’s largest and brightest companies

bridge the gap between business goals and IT deliverables.

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AGENDA

Nicholas Padgett

Product Manager

Rittman Mead America

Reporting from EBS Data1

Challenges2

AccelerateBI3

Success Story4

Demo5

Technical Details & Licensing6

Questions7

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Reporting from EBS Data

▪ Discoverer is now outside the Oracle Extended Support window.

▪ Don’t expect Discoverer to continue working with new releases of EBS or

Oracle Database.

▪ Discoverer objects can’t be directly ”imported” into other tools.

▪ Reporting directly from EBS often requires Database Views, additional

users, etc.

▪ Queries against EBS tables impact EBS users.

▪ Building a Data Warehouse on EBS data source is intimidating.

▪ Building BI artifacts on EBS data source is intimidating.

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Suggestions and Tips

▪ Find a replacement for Discoverer sooner rather than later.

▪ Discoverer Workbook SQL can be exported through command line or through

Administration interface.

▪ Don’t prioritize migrating Discoverer visualizations.

▪ Don’t expect a perfect RPD from DOMA.

▪ Data Warehouse is highly suggested.

▪ Replicated source is highly suggested.

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Problem Statement

BI implementation is significant effort Tools do not support Discoverer imports

▪ Development of Data Warehouse, RPD,

and Web Catalog

▪ Could take months, if not years, to

complete

▪ Discoverer can export objects, but not

much can be done with said exports

▪ Throwing away all existing materials is

a waste of resources

Reporting directly from EBS data source

▪ Normalized tables create complicated

and slow queries

▪ Requires additional layers of

abstraction to be fully useful

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▪ Rebuild all visuals from scratch

▪ Visualizations have made powerful

advancements in recent years

Potential Solutions

Oracle BIApps Migrate Discoverer Workbook SQL

▪ Delivered ETL processes, Data

Warehouse, RPD, and Web Catalog

▪ Oracle’s recommended replacement

▪ Discoverer SQL can be copied into

other platforms, such as Data

Visualizer, Tableau, etc.

▪ Can be moved to OAC/OBIEE (through

Direct Database Queries)

Discoverer to OBIEE Migration Assistant

▪ DOMA generates an RPD from

Discoverer

▪ Facilitates RPD development from

Discoverer source

Visual Redesign Process

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Delivered Artifacts Customizable and Extensible

▪ Includes BI Web Catalog artifacts (Dashboards, Reports, Prompts, Agents, etc.)

▪ Includes Database Views for source EBS system

▪ Includes RPD for delivered database views

▪ Configurable for Flex-field customizations

in EBS

▪ Delivered alongside consultant expertise

and input

Expedited Delivery

▪ Instead of months or years of

development, can be delivered quickly

▪ Expert knowledge of source tables and

best practice models

OAC Migration

▪ AccelerateBI can get you to OAC faster

▪ Works with Cloud and Hybrid deployments

▪ Expedited migration to DV

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Delivered Artifacts

• Out-of-the-Box BI

artifacts and Database

views

• All database objects

contained under

dedicated schema

• Everything needed to go

from source to

OAC/OBIEE

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Expedited Delivery

• Most time-consuming

portion of project is

delivered

• Designed to be flexible to

cater to multiple EBS

installations and

configurations

• Project time fully

dedicated to

customizations and

extensions

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SERVICE

SOLUTION

INDUSTRY

Business ChallengeCASE STUDY

Discoverer to OBIEE Migration

Credit Reporting

• Multiple OBIEE installations across the

organization, using disparate data sources

• Discoverer was tool of choice to obtain data

from EBS, but Oracle ended support for

Discoverer

• Discoverer queries were not performant

enough to sustain global reporting

requirements

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SERVICE

SOLUTION

INDUSTRY

SolutionCASE STUDY

Discoverer to OBIEE Migration

Credit Reporting

• AccelerateBI implements best-practice

models in both the database and the RPD

• RMA experience with global organizations

allowed for effective customizations to meet

requirements

• AccelerateBI delivered a complete RPD and

set of source Database Views, more than 200

financial reports and 15 Data Visualization

projects, as well as Migration Assistant

Scripts for gap analysis and discovery

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SERVICE

SOLUTION

INDUSTRY

ResultsCASE STUDY

Discoverer to OBIEE Migration

Credit Reporting

• The organization is now able to pull data

from EBS using OBIEE, giving offices across

the globe not only a view of their region, but

of the entire company

• The organization no longer has to spend time

on or worry about data consistency issues

• Rittman Mead America was also able to train

the organization’s users, leading to increased

user adoption and a better understanding of

OBIEE

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DEMO

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Technical Details

Architecture Supported Versions

▪ Integrates with existing architecture.

▪ No new environments or technologies

required.

▪ Database views installed on replicated

source.

▪ Oracle Analytics Cloud

▪ OBIEE 11.1.1.7, 11.1.1.9, 12.2.1.0+

▪ Oracle 11g and 12c database

▪ OBIEE host OS independent

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OAC Compatibility

▪ Committed to empowering cloud customers

▪ OAC consulting and product company

▪ AccelerateBI supports OAC as a target in both cloud and hybrid

architectures

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Licensing

▪ Time & Materials

▪ Initiates with an estimate for performing customizations, defining

environment restrictions, etc.

▪ Typically includes OAC or OBIEE Bootcamp

▪ Typically includes support for further integrations, customizations, and

extensions

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Questions?

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