Just what are the advantages of implementing packaged analytics (OBIA) with your ERP upgrade? Significant advantages and cost savings are available when these two key initiatives are combined. BI Opportunities add value to the upgrade!

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OBIA with ERP Upgrade
Jon Given
Saad Syed
September 4th, 2014

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Agenda
ERP Upgrade Process
Reporting Pain Points and Mitigation
Why Now, not Later?
The Emtec Advantage
Closing
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Introductions
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Saad Syed Functional Practice Manager, Emtec
•7+ years of BI experience
•3+ Years as Solution Consultant & Manager with Emtec
•Background in operational & financial reporting and analytics, with focus on revenue recognition, cost control, process improvement, and change management.
•(312) 216-6958
•Saad.Syed@emtecinc.com
Jon Given Director – Oracle Financial Applications
•13 years of ERP and Reporting experience
•Solution Architect and Engagement Manager across PeopleSoft, EBS and Oracle Cloud ERP applications
•Background across Order to Cash, Procure to Pay and Record to Report business processes
•(312) 216-6905
•Jon.Given@emtecinc.com

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ERP Upgrade Project
•ERP Upgrades occur for a variety of reasons
– Application enhancements
– Technology enhancements
– Support expiration
– Retire customizations
– Implement new modules or functionality
•ERP Upgrades should be treated as formal projects:
– Involves many resources from multiple functional and IT areas
– Depending on size and complexity of your organization, upgrade can last anywhere from 4 months to 12 months+
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ERP Upgrade Timeline Factors
•Upgrade Approach – Transactional vs Transformational
–Changing Business Processes
–Adding new modules or functionality
–Configuration updates
•Customizations
•Integrations
•Resource availability
•Competing projects or business-driven timings
•User readiness and training approach
•Testing approach
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Project Timeline and Tasks
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Project Phases
Month 1
Month 2
Month 3
Month 4
Month 5
Month 6
Month 7
Project Initiation Phase
Initiation & Planning
Analysis/Design Phase
Fit/Gap Analysis
Initial Upgrade Pass (IUP)
Future State Design
Develop Phase
Configure/Validate IUP
Retrofit Customization
Unit Testing
Test Phase
Move To Production 1
System Test 1
System test 2
Move To Production 2
User Acceptance Testing
End-User Training
Implementation Phase
Go-Live Plan
Final Move to Production
Go/No Decision
Go-Live
Post Implementation Phase
Post Production Support

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BI Opportunities to add value to the upgrade
How do I provide metrics that span functional and data silos?
How do I prepare for Fusion now?
How do I decrease the load on my ERP system?
How can I lower my ongoing maintenance costs?
Functional
IT
How do I increase my organization’s agility?
How can I foster cross functional collaboration?
How do I push adoption of best practice KPI’s?
How do I increase the organization’s resilience?
•An ERP upgrade allows these value adds at low additional cost, making the ROI easier to justify
•Oracle BI Applications enable these cost-effectively

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Issues with Typical ERP Reporting
•Reliance on ERP reporting tools creates burden on ERP performance
•Multiple reports for similar data set
• Lot of IT involvement
•No real BI capabilities
•External data silos are used for analysis
•High maintenance
•Upgrades are costly and time consuming
REPORTS
DAYS
Most Real-time Analysis limited to:
• A few days
• A few users
• A few reports
Real-Time
Only ~2%!
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What Should Happen
Implement Oracle Business Intelligence Applications along with your ERP upgrade
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•Differentiate between Real-Time vs. Snapshot reporting
•Provide true BI capabilities for your ERP system
•Enable end-users to get to their data on their own
•Provide end-users with cross functional reporting capabilities
•Establish a single version of truth
•Reduce the burden on IT
Take advantage of your upgrade project to:

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Maximizing the Value from Oracle BI Applications
nVision
PS Queries
BI Publisher
Discover
Others
~2% Real-time
Oracle BI Apps
REPORTS
DAYS
External BI Reporting
Oracle Transactional BI (OTBI)
Oracle BI Applications
This upgrade
FUSION
Custom or 3rd party DW
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Customization Fit- Gap Analysis
Why Now?
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Installation & People Tools Upgrade
Apply Customizations
Manual Setup
Test and Deploy
Report and External Silo Fit-Gap Analysis
Report Customizations
Upgrade External Reporting/Data Silos
Configure ETL
DW adjustments
Tweak Dashboards
Rollout
Fit-Gap Analysis
ERP Upgrade
ERP Upgrade
With BI Applications
BI Applications
BI Apps only adds a small incremental cost with a lot of Value-Add
Customization Fit- Gap Analysis
Installation & People Tools Upgrade
Apply Customizations
Manual Setup
Test and Deploy
Report and External Silo Fit-Gap Analysis
Report Customizations
Configure ETL
DW adjustments
Tweak Dashboards
Rollout
Rollout
Next ERP Upgrade or Upgrade to Fusion
Customization Fit- Gap Analysis
Installation & People Tools Upgrade
Test and Deploy
Report, Analytics Fit- Gap Analysis
Upgrade BI Applications
Rollout
Apply Customizations
Manual Setup

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2013. For Internal Use Only
Reduced Maintenance Costs
Without OBI Applications
With OBI Applications
Cost Savings
Support Labor Costs
Time
Next ERP upgrade
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Cross functional reporting enables collaboration and agility
How do I proactively manage risks of my receivables portfolio?
How does supplier performance impact customer satisfaction and revenue?
Service
Customers
Sales
Marketing
Distribution
Finance
HR/Workforce
Operations
Procurement
Customers
Customers
Suppliers
Suppliers
Suppliers
How does call center agent tenure, training, & compensation affect efficiency and cross-selling performance?
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Oracle BI Applications enable this and your ERP
upgrade is the ideal time to implement

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Additional Benefits
•Validates the upgrade
•Extremely helpful during data validation and UAT of ERP upgrade
•Built for Oracle ERP
–Provides SSO between ERP and Oracle BI
–Leverages ERP Security
–Drill back from OBIA dashboards to ERP transactional screens
•For customers who also have Essbase
–OBIEE integrates seamlessly with Essbase
–Merge your budget and planning data with actuals from ERP system
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Emtec Advantage
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Functional and IT Expertise
Data Model
Fit-Gap Analysis
Reporting (nVision, etc.)
DAC and Informatica; ODI; GoldenGate
Data Warehousing and Data Modeling
OBIEE+
Dashboard Design
Essbase and Planning
Multidimensional Cube on PeopleSoft data
2-way Integration between Essbase and OBIEE (OECB)
ADVANTAGES
•Single cross-functional team for end-to-end solution
•Fast implementation resulting in quick ROI
•Low cost
•Reduced client resource investment
•Reduced risk
ORACLE BI
EXPERTISE
Oracle ERP
EXPERTISE
EPM
EXPERTISE
20 Consultant OBIA team
Several OBIA Implementations
BIFS Expertise
OECB Launch Partner
More than 30 consultants
Elite Midwest Oracle Partner
 More than 300 Customers
More than 40 consultants
More than 300 customers
Strong Midwest presence
Cross Functional OBIA Team

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Q & A