Why Teams call analytics are critical to your entire business
Crafting a Winning Reporting Strategy with Cloud
1. Crafting a Winning Reporting
Strategy with Oracle Cloud
Mike Killeen, Sr. VP Technology & Strategy
Martin Veillette, Oracle Practice Director
2. AGENDA
> Introductions
> Integrated Business Analytics Overview
> Oracle Cloud Tools for Reporting & Analytics
> Crafting a Reporting Strategy
> Closing and Q&A
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20+ Years
1000+ Clients
2000+ Projects
3. TODAY’S PRESENTER – MIKE KILLEEN
> Sr. Vice President, Oracle Ace
> 21+ Years EPM & BI Experience
▪ 6 Years – Strategic Initiatives & Advisory
▪ 2 Years – VP, UK Division
▪ 6 Years – Planning & Analytics Practice Director
▪ 8 Years – Implementation Consultant
> Expertise across Multiple Domains
▪ Business Intelligence & OLAP
▪ Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting
▪ Financial Consolidation & Reporting
▪ Cost Allocations & Profitability Analysis
▪ Master Data Management
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4. TODAY’S PRESENTER – MARTIN VEILLETTE
> Oracle Practice Director
> 18+ Years Finance and ERP Systems
▪ 8+ Years – Manufacturing and Finances
▪ 10 Years – ERP Implementation
▪ 7 Years – Major Financial Institution / Banking
▪ CPA and MBA certification
> Expertise across Multiple Domains
▪ Finances
▪ Manufacturing
▪ Human Capital Management
▪ Project Portfolio Management
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5. AGENDA
> Introductions
> Integrated Business Analytics Overview
> Oracle Cloud Tools for Reporting & Analytics
> Crafting a Reporting Strategy
> Closing and Q&A
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20+ Years
1000+ Clients
2000+ Projects
6. CHALLENGES IN REPORTING & ANALYTICS
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The main issues facing our clients:
Difficult to link strategy to real World facts, scenario modeling is
manual and time intensive.
Traditional financial analytics are no longer enough. Rigorous
analysis of customer, market, product, supplier and HR are required
for break through performance.
Common Challenges:
• Too many reports, not enough insight
• Multiple BI tools impact analytical productivity
• Resources focused on the “routine” vs. what if / what should we
do about closing the gaps
• Investment in the “people” aspect (training, etc.) is not a priority
7. ANALYTICS IMPACT: FINANCE TRANSFORMATION
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Drive Efficiencies, Cost Savings, Better Insight & Value
Source: PWC Finance Effectiveness Benchmarking Report 2017
https://www.pwc.com/us/en/increasing-finance-function-effectiveness/assets/pwc-finance-effectiveness-benchmark-report-2017.pdf
Top performers are able to
run finance departments at
36% lower cost than the
median.36%
Even among top quartile
companies, analysts
spend 40% time
gathering data, not
analyzing it.
40%20%
Top performers spend 20%
more time on analysis &
value-added activities than
data gathering vs. the
median
Across many key finance
areas, automation and
process improvement can
reduce costs by 46%
46%
8. Operational
Reporting
“Operate the
Business”
Alert & Analyze
Strategic Analytics
“Transform the
Business”
Explore & Change
Performance
Management
“Manage the
Business”
Define & Measure
THE GOAL: INTEGRATED BUSINESS ANALYTICS
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Common tools & processes link applications & data to drive insight
Where are we going?
Will we meet our goals?
What was the final outcome?
Did we meet our goals?
Why did it occur?
What if we did things
differently?
When did an event occur?
Is some action required?
Which action should I take?
Can I see the impact?
How can we change our business?
What would be the benefit?
Business Analytics answers the questions that drive business performance.
OAC
OTBI
EPM
ERP
12. 20+ Years
1000+ Clients
2000+ Projects
AGENDA
> Introductions
> Integrated Business Analytics Overview
> Oracle Cloud Tools for Reporting & Analytics
> Crafting a Reporting Strategy
> Closing and Q&A
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13. TECHNOLOGY - ORACLE REPORTING TOOLS
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Shared Tools Map to User Roles By Oracle Cloud Module
Product/Tool Description
Smart View for
Office
An MS Office Add-in which provides users the ability to quickly perform LIVE, ad hoc queries with
multi-dimensional analysis, pivoting and drill down to analyze data within a familiar spreadsheet
environment.
Financial
Reporting Studio
Produce professional quality financial statements and view results with live drilldowns to source
transactions. Distribution to authorized users efficient.
BI Publisher Quickly modify pre-defined, high volume operational reports without IT assistance. End users can
author, manage and deliver a range of highly formatted documents in familiar desktop tools like
WORD and PDF.
Dashboards Dashboards provide a visual display of the most critical and meaningful information that an
individual or role requires to perform their function effectively. Dashboards are interactive, allowing
the user to select prompts, change views and drill down to details.
Data Visualizer Data visualization describes the presentation of abstract information in graphical form. Data
visualization allows us to spot patterns, trends, and correlations that otherwise might go unnoticed
in traditional reports, tables, or spreadsheets.
Narrative
Reporting
Streamline the report document production process with collaborative workflow, approvals,
commentary, and analysis, while linking to multiple data sources.
14. WHAT ORACLE TOOLS ARE AVAILABLE?
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Tools are optimized based on technology & data source
Category
Software/Data
Source
System
Reports
Smart View
for Office
Financial
Reports
BI
Publisher
Dashboard
Data
Visualizer
Narrative
Reports
Software-
as-a-Service
(SaaS)
Oracle EPM Cloud
Limited
EPRCS
Module
Oracle ERP Cloud
/ OTBI
Platform-as-
a-Service
(PaaS)
Oracle Analytic
Cloud (OAC)
Data Source
Essbase
Relational
Big Data OAC Only
Application
15. STRATEGIC ANALYTICS WITH OAC
> Essbase
> Allow users to interact with the data using
Excel
> Ingests and harmonizes spreadsheets,
collates and manage disparate inputs
> Provide coherence, consistency and sharing
> Enables and manages the iterative
information cycle
> Data Visualization
> Visually research and discover
> Review and visualize personal data
> Review and visualize group data and in the
context of wider corporate data
> Provides insights into key stages of the
iterative information cycle
> Automatically creates an Essbase cube when
needed
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Custom Dashboards, OLAP & Visualizations
- Data from any source
- Exports from other systems
- Hand crafted spreadsheets
- Interact with the data and model using Excel
with a strong server side data consolidation
and integrity (multi-user read/write access)
- Visual discovery
- Share analysis and results
- Track and monitor progress
EXCEL & BI SOURCES ESSBASE DATA VISUALIZATION
16. ORACLE DATA VISUALIZER DESKTOP
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Bottoms Up Data Exploration & Visualizations
Prepare Data Visually Research & Discover
EXCEL & BI SOURCES ESSBASE DATA VISUALIZATION
17. EPM DASHBOARDS & SYSTEM REPORTS
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Embedded Analytics for EPM Processes
18. SMART VIEW
> Drag & Drop just like Pivot Tables in
Excel
> Multi-dimensions and drill capabilities
> Drill-down from Account balances to GL
entries to Auxiliary book
> Excel functions available (calculation,
graphs, etc.)
> Reports can be saved and data updated
later (e.g. for month-end purpose)
Ad-hoc analysis, fully integrated with MS Office
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19. NARRATIVE REPORTING WITH EPRCS
> Purpose-built solution in the Cloud for management and
narrative reporting. It provides a secure, collaborative,
process-driven approach for defining, authoring,
reviewing, and publishing financial and management
report packages for internal and external stakeholders.
> Combine management, narrative and statutory reporting
needs in one solution
> Advanced mobile, self-service and collaboration capabilities
> Instant visibility to the status of a Reporting Lifecycle
> Easily combine system of record data into reporting
> Direct integration into Oracle EPM, BI and ERP data sources
> Role-based document and content access
> Hierarchical and dimensional analysis capabilities for
financial data
> Secure at all levels to handle sensitive content, from
network to storage
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20. FINANCIAL REPORTING STUDIO
> Advanced Statement Generator
> Object-based Reporting
> object reusable from one report to
the others
> « Drag & Drop » components
> Object Insertions capabilities
(Text, pictures, charts, etc)
> Advanced calculations and
mathematical functions available
Published Reports for Information Consumers
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21. ORACLE ERP CLOUD
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ERP Analytics & Operational Reporting
› ERP Cloud supports multiple output format, such as
MS Office, PDF, HTML
› Native Subject Area provided.
From Transactional details to
aggregated Dashboard,
reporting will help to identify
any potential risk and
improvement
› Drill-down capabilities from general ledger
to auxiliary book.
› Essbase cube gives the opportunity to run
online reports and analysis.
22. ERP CLOUD TOOL SUMMARY
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Data Sources and Reporting Options
Tools User Interface Data Sources Targeted End-Users Authors
Smart View
(Common to EPM)
Excel Add-in GL Balances
General Accounting
Manager,
Financial Analyst
General Accountant,
Financial Analyst
Financial Reporting
(Common to EPM)
Financial Reporting
Center
GL Balances
External Shareholders,
C-level managers
General Accounting
Manager,
General Accountant
BI Publisher
Financial Reporting
Center
Scheduled Processes
All Cloud Apps
data
All roles Developers
OTBI (Dashboards) Reports & Analytics
All Cloud Apps
data
All roles Business Analysts
System Report -
Account Monitor
Financial Reporting
Center
General Accounting
Dashboard
GL Balances
General Accounting
Manager,
General Accountant
General Accounting
Manager,
General Accountant
System Report -
Account Inspector
Financial Reporting
Center
GL Balances
General Accounting
Manager,
General Accountant
General Accounting
Manager,
General Accountant
23. ERP CLOUD HOME PAGE
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Portal for OTBI and ERP System Reports
24. ORACLE BI PUBLISHER
> Suitable for
> High volume
> Standard reports
> Statements
> High definition capabilities
(pixel)
> Multiples output formats
available: Excel, PDF, doc, html
> Developers skills required
Create, Manage and Publish documents
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25. ORACLE TRANSACTIONAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (OTBI)
> Online reporting tools on ERP
data
> Transactional data driven tools
> AR Invoices
> AP Invoices
> Payments, etc
> Self-service
> Simple interface allowing report
creation for end-users
> Dashboard and reports available
> Sets of « out of the box » reports
included
Custom Dashboards on ERP Data
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26. PRE-BUILT SYSTEM REPORT – ACCOUNT MONITOR
> Manage by exception
> Proactive monitoring of critical
account balances
> Configurable rules and thresholds
> Alerts sent when required
> Easily compare
> Y2Y
> Actuals vs budgets
> Drill-down capabilities from
parent values
General Accounting Dashboard
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27. PRE-BUILT SYSTEM REPORT – ACCOUNT INSPECTOR
> Ad hoc inquiry and analysis
> Expand or Summarize easily the
information directly on screen
> Excel pivot table style
Inquire and Analyze Balances
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29. AGENDA
> Introductions
> Integrated Business Analytics Overview
> Oracle Cloud Tools for Reporting & Analytics
> Crafting a Reporting Strategy
> Closing and Q&A
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20+ Years
1000+ Clients
2000+ Projects
30. DO YOU HAVE A REPORTING STRATEGY?
> Technology & Data
> In which capability do we create the reports? (e.g. Transactional vs. BI vs. EPM )
> What tools do we use to create the reports? (e.g. Excel vs. Dashboards vs. Pixel Perfect Reports)
> What are the data sources of the reports? ( e.g. Financials vs. Custom)
> What is the level of detail I need? ( e.g. Balances, Transaction Details)
> People
> Who defines/owns the reports, and what skills are
required?
> Who produces/develops the reports, and what skills are
required?
> Who migrates the reports, and what skills are required?
> Who secures/distributes the reports, and what skills are
required?
> Who executes/interacts/runs the reports, and what skills
are required?
> Who consumes the reports, and what skills are required?
> Process
> Which business processes are we supporting,
and what are their nature?
> When are the reports run, and where do they fit in the
business process?
> When should we do this, and how should it be delivered?
> How do we govern our reporting environment ?
You know you do if you can answer the questions below
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31. SO WHERE DO I DO MY MANAGEMENT REPORTING?
> Cloud ERP has Essbase “under the covers” and Smart View – the Tools I need, right?
> Although historically Essbase has become synonymous with “Management Reporting” – it is constrained to Transactional
Reporting within Cloud ERP due to the structure of ERP. Additionally customers need to consider “Thin” vs. “Thick” Ledger
considerations.
> Management Reporting and Analytics require the following capabilities:
> Integration of Multiple Data Sources
▪ Examples: Sales, Claims, Investments
> Forward Looking Views in addition to Historical Views
▪ Persistency
> Calculation Logic/Scenario Modelling Capabilities
▪ Examples: VOBA, Policies in Force, Surrender/Renewal Ratio
> The intended Oracle tools to enable these capabilities are:
> EPM – PBCS/EPBCS – Financial Reports, Smart View, and Dashboards
> OAC – Essbase and BICS – Smart View, Data Visualizer, BI Publisher & Dashboards
> EPRCS – Management Reports
A Reporting Strategy helps to answer ERP or EPM or BI
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33. AGENDA
> Introductions
> Integrated Business Analytics Overview
> Oracle Cloud Tools for Reporting & Analytics
> Crafting a Reporting Strategy
> Closing and Q&A
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20+ Years
1000+ Clients
2000+ Projects
34. CALL TO ACTION
> Understand purpose and usage of strategic reporting tools
from Oracle
> Understand migration paths and constraints in migrating from
legacy tools
> Define how to achieve the envisioned Future State
> Understand influencing factors such as business priorities,
risks/constraints, and architectural considerations
> Identification of key reporting & system attributes as inputs to
the framework
> Creation of a simplified decision tree to assist in determining
what to do where
> Identification of next steps to finalize overall strategy such as
governance, training and risks/constraints
Reporting Assessment
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35. CLOSING AND Q&A
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Mike Killeen
SVP, Technology & Strategy
mike.Killeen@alithya.com
Martin Veillette
Director, Oracle Practice
martin.veillette@alithya.com