Are you struggling with Cross
Subject Area OTBI Reporting?
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Agenda
1
What is OTBI Reporting?
2
What is Subject Areas?
3
How to Create Reports in OTBI?
4
OTBI Challenges
5
How to overcome the OTBI Limitations?
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OTBI reports are standard out-of-the-box reports that Oracle provides when
you go live with the SaaS applications. There are several out of the box reports
across different areas, such as:
What is
OTBI?
HR Reports - This is a detailed report which shows all the details of employees in
the organization from an HR standpoint – their HR attributes, the location, job, etc.
Absence Breakdown - This provides visual reports, where you can select your
years and see how many hours of absence people have taken.
General Journals Report - GL journal reports is when you export one of the
standard OTBI reports to excel. It just shows you all the journal entries, and you
can look at what entries are made in a time Range and for what organizations.
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What is Subject Areas?
 All these reports that come out of the box are built on
something called subject areas. Oracle has provided these
pre-built subject areas, which are logical collections of similar
attributes.
 Let’s say all the financials or all the general Ledger attributes
are combined into one subject area and all the HR in another
subject area.
 You can use the Oracle out-of-the-box reports, or if it doesn’t
meet your needs, you can create your own reports using these
standardized subject areas.
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How to Create Reports in OTBI?
 Learn Subject Areas
 Create reports from Scratch
 Learn OTBI formatting/ How to add Prompts
 Learn how to do Pivots/Charts
 Learn changes in the OTBI Subject areas
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• Missing Data Sets in OTBI
• Cross-Subject Area Operational reports
OTBI
Challenges
• Cannot report off legacy/other applications
• No on-the-fly report modifications
• Payroll Reports must be run from payroll “flows”
• No multi-threaded reports
• 75,000 row limit
• Inability to add more subject areas
• No Excel Plug-in
• High Time-to-value
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So, What are your options?
 Use BI Publisher – more of a developer tool than an
adhoc reporting solution for the end users.
 Continue to use OTBI with its limitations
 Buy Oracle Analytics Cloud ($$$)
 Rely on an enterprise analytics solution - SplashOC
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What is SplashOC?
SplashOC powered by SplashBI comes with tons of pre-built reports. Starting from elementary reports to
extremely complicated cross-subject area reports.
 These reports don’t have 75,000-row limits.
 There’s also an Excel Plugin that does complete ad hoc changes in
Excel and still reports off your Oracle Cloud applications.
 There aren’t any RTF templates to be built.
 No extreme knowledge of Entity-Relationship is required.
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Conclusion
In conclusion, these are the available options
–
 Continue to use OTBI?
 Learn SQL and use BI Publisher.
 Buy Oracle Analytics Cloud ($$$)
 Oracle Cloud Reports with SplashOC ($)
 SplashOC fills and complements the gaps that
you’re experiencing right now with OTBI using
the SplashBI cloud reports.
 OTBI provides you the real-time analytical
capability of the current state of your business
based on the latest and greatest information
from the transactional system.
 However, it falls short when we start talking
about historical snapshots of the data, crosssubject reporting, trending off your KPIs
tracking changes over time.
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