Oracle Business Intelligence Visual Analyzer Cloud Service:
View and Analyze Your Data
Satish Rapolu
Sr. Architect, BI & EPM
27th October 2015
Madhu Pinninti
Practice Manager, BI & EPM
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Agenda
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About Speakers
Who is Apps Associates?
What is BICS & Visual Analyzer?
What are Accelerators?
Demo: Visual Analyzer
• Salesforce
• Spend Analysis
• Self-service data upload & Analysis
• Summary
• Q&A
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About Speakers
Madhu Pinninti
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Practice Manager, BI/EPM
Over 13 years of IT Consulting experience
Over 7 years of experience with OBI / BI Apps implementations
Over 10 years experience in EBS Upgrades/Implementations
Responsible for delivery and execution of new projects
Responsible for BICS initiatives
Satish Rapolu
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Sr. Principle, BI/EPM
Over 10 years of IT Consulting experience
Over 5 years of experience with OBI / BI Apps implementations
Over 8 years experience in EBS Upgrades/Implementations
Responsible for execution of new projects and support
Architect for OBIEE, OBI Applications and BICS
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Performance. Growth. Excellence.
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Global Reach for Global Customers
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Oracle BI Journey Started in 2007 – Represents 40%+ of Our Business
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Founded in 2002 – 650+ employees
HQ in Massachusetts
US (East, Central, West)
Europe, India, Middle East
BI Pillar Partner & Specialized
Oracle Platform Technology Solutions BI/EPM
Oracle BI Applications Leadership Board
Beta Program for ODI 12c
First Oracle Exalytics Certified Delivery Partner
Analytics in a Box (Co developed H/W S/W bundle offering with Oracle)
One of the first partners selected for BI Cloud Services (BICS)
AWS Certified for Oracle on AWS (one of the first two partners worldwide)
Exalytics Certified
Over 150 consultants (all employees) delivering BI services
Proprietary data lineage and migration tools
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What is BICS and Visual Analyzer?
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Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS)
• Based on proven BI technology
relied on by millions of users
• Integrated with Oracle Database
Cloud Service
• Built-in mobile
• Simple administration and data
integration
• Low-cost monthly subscription
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Easy Modelling
• Wizard-based Star Schema
design
• Auto Time dimension
• Rich hierarchy and time series
calculations, aggregations
• Advanced Analytics: Trending,
Binning, etc.
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What You Get
Pre-Production
Production
• Two independent environments:
separate database, BI service
• Easy T2P, P2T
• Oracle managed patching and upgrades
• Visual Analyzer
• DataSync
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Visual Analyzer(VA)
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Visual Analyzer
Visual Grammar
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Visualizations automatically
created and updated by
applying visual grammar to
data selections made by user
All visualization types share
foundation in visual grammar
Keyword Search
Pattern Brushing
• All relevant artifacts are
automatically indexed for search
• Sophisticated technique to
highlight correlations between
visualizations
• Unfamiliar data models can be
intuitively accessed using
keywords
• Patterns highlighted across any
components on the canvas
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Data Mashup – When pre-built data is not enough
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Extend Facts
Extend Dimensions
Standalone analysis
Smart blending extends curated
model to cover all
– Smart Joins
– Full outer join support
• Lose no data in analysis
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Apps Associates – BICS Accelerators
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Apps Associates’ BICS Accelerator
Each Accelerator Provides
Hire to
Retire
Financial
Close
Reports
Dashboards
Reportable Fields
Order to
Cash
BICS
Sales
force
Custom
App
Procure
to Pay
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100+
Data Model
Yes
Security
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Excel Upload
Yes
Training
Yes
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Apps Associates’ Accelerators
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Back Office Processes
Discoverer to BICS Migration
BRIO / IR to BICS Migration
PBCS / Essbase to BICS Integration
EBS Security Integration
Salesforce and BICS Integration
Taleo and BICS Integration
Under Development
 Workday and BICS Integration*
 Cloud ERP and BICS Integration*
 Industry Vertical Solutions*
*Under Development
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Demo: Visual Analyzer
• Salesforce
• Spend Analysis
• Self-service data upload & Analysis
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Lost Opportunities Analysis : Salesforce
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Visual Analyzer Based Dashboards
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Summary
Hire to
Retire
Financial
Close
Order to
Cash
Custom
App
BICS
Sales
force
BICS & VA
Accelerators
Demo: Visual Analyzer
• Salesforce
• Spend Analysis
• Self-service data upload
& Analysis
Procure
to Pay
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Connect with Us
Open World: Meet Us @ Booth 2025, Moscone South
Web: www.appsassociates.com
Email: madhu.pinninti@appsassociates.com
satish.rapolu@appsassociates.com
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Thank You!