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Heterogeneous Data Sources and Their Integration Leveraging Oracle BI Apps / OBIEE

Vinay Dhingra

BI Practice Manager, Apps Associates

Date: 24-09-2011

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Agenda

Introduction

Challenges faced in Successful Implementation of BI

BI Products Levels of Maturity

Oracle BI Application Architecture

Our Company: Apps Associates

Q&A

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Introduction

12+ years of experience as BI Architect, Tech lead, PM, etc. Practice Manager with Apps Associates managing 50+ consultants Lead Consultant/Architect in Core Engineering group at Oracle for

Financial and HR Analytics Consultant in US with KPI Partners and started the BI GDC for them Holds Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering Vinay has participated in over 20 Business Intelligence implementation

/ upgrades Lead the first Oracle BI Financial Analytics implementation in 2008

Vinay Dhingra

BI Practice Manager, Apps Associates

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Today’s Discussion

Business Intelligence (BI) is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions.

BI Applications includes the activities of decision support system, query and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting and data mining.

Heterogeneous Data Sources and Their Integration Leveraging Oracle BI Apps / OBIEE

What is BI ?

Build Robust Data Warehouse Architecture

Integration of Heterogeneous Data Source System

Performance

Scalability

Key challenges faced by

organization in Implementation

What is involved in BI ?

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Heterogeneous Data Sources

Transactional data stored in multiple applications such as Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards, SAP or home grown custom applications…..

Multiple Applications

Data is stored in multiple databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Teradata, MySQL, Access, Excel ....

Multiple Databases/Files

Financials, HRMS, Order, Management, Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing, Inventory Control, CRM…etc.Multiple Domains

Data Flow across Multiple

Applications

Flow of data across multiple applications

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BI Solutions – Level of Maturity

Level 1 : Limited technology to extract relevant data

Time consuming & lot of manual effort required

Ex: Discoverer/Oracle DWH

Level 2 : Automated tools created domain based

intelligent reporting sets ex. Purchasing Intelligence

Ex: Daily Business Intelligence

Level 3 : Plug and play technology

More efficient & fasterEx: Oracle BI Apps/OBIEE

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Level of Sophistication

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1st Level of Maturity: Ex. Oracle Discoverer 1

EBS OLTP Data

Challenges:

•Oracle DB only

•Challenging to configure

•Difficult to use

Adhoc

Reporting

Discoverer

Source: Oracle 7

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EBS OLTP Data

MVs

DBI

EBS Apps

• Utilizes EBS Instance

• Created via Concurrent job extracts

• Drill to Transactional data

Challenges:

• Contention with OLTP users (limited scalability)

• Limited configurability

• No Adhoc capability

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Source: Oracle

2nd Level of Maturity: Ex. Oracle DBI

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3rd Level of Maturity: Ex. Oracle BI Apps 3

EBS OLTP Data

MVs

DBI

EBS Apps

DiscovererOracle buys Siebel, introduces new set of BI

Tools – Oracle Business Intelligence Suite

Enterprise Edition

Source: Oracle

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Oracle BI Applications - DetailedSingle- and multi-source Analytic Apps Built on BI Suite EE

Oracle BI Suite EE

Ad-hoc Analysis

ProactiveDetectionand Alerts

MS OfficePlug-in

Reporting & Publishing

Interactive Dashboards

DisconnectedAnalytics

WebServices

Oracle BI Applications

SalesService &Contact Center

Marketing

Order Management& Fulfillment

Supply Chain

FinancialsHuman

Resources

PackagedETL Maps

UniversalAdapters

IVR, ACD, CTIHyperionMS Excel

Other Data SourcesBAW Schema

Source: Oracle 10

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Oracle BI Apps Core Proposition –Fin. Analytics

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Heterogeneous Data Extraction and Loading

Business Analytics Warehouse

Source Independent Load

Staging Tables

Source Dependent Extract

Siebel OLTP

Oracle Other

Power Connect

Power Connect

SQ

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AB

AP

SQ

L

SQ

L

SQ

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PeopleSoft SAP

Load

Extract

Is source-specific and supports universal business adaptors

Exposes simplified business entities from complex source systems

Converts source-specific data to universal staging table format

Is lightweight and designed for performance and parallelism

Is extensible

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Heterogeneous Data Extraction and Loading

Business Analytics Warehouse

Source Independent Load

Staging Tables

Source Dependent Extract

Siebel OLTP

Oracle Other

Power Connect

Power Connect

SQ

L

AB

AP

SQ

L

SQ

L

SQ

L

PeopleSoft SAP

Load

Extract

Encapsulates warehouse load

logic Handles:

– Slowly changing dimensions

– Key lookup resolution / surrogate key generation

– Insert/update strategies

– Currency conversion

– Data consolidation Uses bulk loaders on all database

platforms

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Oracle Data Warehouse Administration Console

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About Apps Associates

In operation since 2002 with consistent year-over-year growth, privately held

− 2011 Inc 500/5000 list of fastest growing U.S. companies

Offices in USA – MA (HQ), New York, Atlanta, Germany and India

− Over 400 employees with strong local presence

Core Specializations: E-Business Suite, Oracle Business Intelligence, Microsoft Applications, Hyperion, Integration & Fusion Middleware, Infrastructure Services

Founded by former Oracle Consulting Service employees

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Service Offering (All)E-Business Suite Consulting Release 12 Upgrades and

Implementation

EBS Managed Services

Remote DBA Service

Business Intelligence/EPM* OBI-EE, BI Applications

Hyperion

Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)

BI Publisher*BI Pillar Partner

Fusion Middleware SOA, Process Management

Web Services

E-Business Suite Integrated Product** ShipConsole

**Product is Oracle Validated

Technical Services Remote DBA Services

Microsoft Development & Support

Contact Information:Pavan Kanugo:(M) +91 770 265 5583Practice Director Pavan.Kanugo@AppsAssociates.comwww.AppsAssociates.com

Locations:Boston I New York I Germany I India

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BI Engagement Type Experience

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BI Solution Footprint Experience

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Questions?