Demystifying the Cloud - BI Cloud Webinar
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The document compares five Oracle Business Intelligence tools: OTBI, OTBI-E, BICS, BIFS, and OBIA, highlighting their functionalities, deployment models, and target users. OTBI is designed for real-time operational reporting within Fusion applications, while OTBI-E offers enterprise visibility with pre-built reports. BICS provides cloud-based analytics with advanced features, whereas OBIA delivers a comprehensive BI solution with extensive data integration capabilities.
Demystifying the Cloud - BI Cloud Webinar
- 1. Demystifying the Cloud OTBI vs. OTBIE vs. BICS Saad Syed 04/19/16
- 2. Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. For Internal Use Only Oracle Enterprise Analytics Components • There are five analytics tools available in Oracle Business Intelligence products set (not including EPM) 2 OBIA Pre-packaged on premise analytical application with enterprise wide BI capabilities Reporting Options BIFS With OBIEE & Essbase OTBI Real-time operational reporting against only Fusion application transactional data OTBI-E Fusion analytical application with data warehouse for dimensionalized reporting capabilities. BICS Cloud based analytics tool
- 3. Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. For Internal Use Only OTBI • Reporting tool with Fusion • Provides customers a robust BI tool to analyze real-time transactional data in Fusion applications • Is embedded in Fusion Cloud applications (e.g. HCM Cloud, Sales Cloud, etc.) • Can report all data captured in the Fusion transactional data model including history • Supports simple reporting that does not require further data enrichment outside the transactional data model • Data Model can not be customized for reporting needs 3
- 4. Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. For Internal Use Only OTBI-E • Provides pre-built reports and dashboards designed against views, providing immediate enterprise wide visibility • Data sourced from Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse (OBAW): Pre-built data model that is designed to support analytical requirements of OTBIE • OBAW loaded via pre-built ETL scripts in ODI that are fed by source-specific (Fusion) data files • Data Model can not be customized for reporting needs 4
- 5. Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. For Internal Use Only Business Intelligence Foundation Suite (BIFS) BIFS is a comprehensive set of enterprise business intelligence tools and infrastructure that includes: • On premise environment • Scalable and efficient query and analysis server • Ad hoc query and analysis tool • Tools to allow users to create and manage interactive dashboards • Tools to allow users to create and manage proactive intelligence and alerts • Enterprise reporting engine which includes Essbase & BI Publisher 5
- 6. Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. For Internal Use Only BICS BICS is the Software As A Service (SAAS) Model for BIFS. Some of it’s feature specifics are: • Cloud based analytics platform with advanced calculations and analytic functions • Self-serve data load • Comprised of BI Server service and single-schema Oracle database (DBAAS) • Advanced visualizations via Visual Analyzer • Some limitations compared to BIFS: o No connectivity to Essbase o Can only source data from DBAAS. No support for connecting to on premise source(s) o Limited functionality in Online RPD o Does not support integration with LDAP or MSAD 6
- 7. Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. For Internal Use Only OBIA • OBIA is a complete prebuilt BI solution that delivers intuitive, role-based intelligence throughout an organization • OBIA has prebuilt packages for HCM Cloud, EBS, PeopleSoft, JDE, along with universal adaptor for 3rd party applications • OBIA provides an insight to o Gain visibility and insight into business performance, process, and customers o Better decisions, actions, control at all levels o Respond faster to opportunities and threats o Gain a single, consistent view of enterprise information across functions & data sources • Easy to adapt and extend 7
- 8. Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. For Internal Use Only OTBIE and OBIA Feature Comparison 8 OTBIE OBIA Embedded in Oracle Cloud Application* Deployment Model On Premise Application Operational reporting Business Process Reporting Strategic analysis Fusion Application Operational Users Users Executives and SMEs Pre- Defined Business Analytics Warehouse Data Sources Heterogeneous – Fusion Application, PeopleSoft, EBS, 3rd Party systems ETL, Source-specific load files. Data Preparation Data Warehouse with Transactional Details, ETL Updated via Data Sync Data Availability Updated periodically via ETL Yes (limited) Cross Function Analysis Yes No Multiple Data Sources Yes * OTBIE licenses are note packaged with Fusion and are sold separately
- 9. Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. For Internal Use Only OTBIE & OBIA Similarities • User roles and security profiles are inherited from Fusion/On Premise Applications • Role based security is leveraged to control catalog & subject area access • Additional role based security can be applied in OTBI & OBIA • Additional data filters can be applied in OTBI (via answers administration) 9
- 10. Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. For Internal Use Only OBIA Reporting advantages over OTBIE • OBIA supports data enrichment that requires complex algorithms (not supported in OTBIE) o Headcount movement (historical snapshot, event interpretation, hierarchy lookup) o Frozen snapshot (as-is vs as-was) o Time for a new hire to become top performer (cycle time calculation) o Organizational skill gap (complex calculation) • OBIA allows for multi-source data integration (not supported in OTBIE) o Integrate multiple Oracle cloud data sources (HCM Cloud, Talent Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud) o Integrate on-premises Oracle applications (PeopleSoft, EBS, Siebel) o Integrate 3rd party data 10
- 11. Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. For Internal Use Only BICS and BIFS Feature Comparison 11 BICS BIFS Oracle Cloud Application Deployment Model On Premise Application Strategic Analysis Business Process Reporting Strategic Analysis Executives and SMEs Users Executives and SMEs Data Base in Cloud (DBAAS) Data Sources Heterogeneous Data Sync Data Preparation Data Warehouse, Transactional Systems, XML, Other file systems Updated periodically Data Availability Updated periodically Yes Cross Function Analysis Yes No Multiple Data Sources Yes
- 12. Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. For Internal Use Only Comparison of Reporting Tools 12 Feature OTBI OTBI-E BICS BIFS OBIA Target Users Managers and Analysts Managers and Analysts Analysts Analysts Managers and Analysts Ease of Use Simple Simple Moderate Moderate Simple Number of Features High High High High High Real Time Yes No No No No Cloud Yes Yes Yes No No
- 13. Emtec, Inc. Proprietary & Confidential. All rights reserved 2013. For Internal Use Only Use Cases • OTBI For organizations implementing cloud Fusion platform and seeking a replacement for transactional system reports provided by Nvision, Discover, etc. • OTBIE For organizations with OTBI environment who wish to extend reporting capabilities to include analytical reports, restricted to the data in their Fusion environments • BIFS For organizations who wish to implement enterprise-wide reporting and analytics in an on premise model. These organizations seek a highly customizable and controllable BI environment fed from multiple disparate data sources • BICS For organizations seeking to deploy a BI environment in the cloud, while avoiding high capital costs. These organizations seek a customized BI environment, which can work with both Oracle and non-Oracle data sources, with the purchase of DBAAS • OBIA For organizations looking to extend analytical reporting beyond their ERP/HCM environments and leverage also Oracle’s packaged application analytics content 13
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