Easy Operational Reporting for R12 with OBI EE, Cognos, and Business Objects

1. Easy Operational Reporting for R12 with OBI EE, Cognos, and Business Objects Joe Dahl Product Specialist Noetix Corporation

2. Agenda • Release 12 Overview • Report Migration • Key Reporting Issues • Noetix Solution - The Alternative • Q & A

3. R12 Functional Enhancements • Enhanced User Interface • Release 12 still relies heavily on Oracle Forms, but the interface has been streamlined and given a cleaner look • Single Accounting Engine • Shared subledger accounting engine stores accounting entries in subledger tables that are standard across all products creating a single version of the truth • Global Financial Management • Users can be assigned to multiple operating units and processes, and transactions can span operating units

4. R12 Functional Enhancements (Cont) • Converged Inventory Module • The data model for process manufacturing and discrete manufacturing has been converged in a single model • Infrastructure Upgrade • Most Release 12 users will upgrade at least to Oracle Database 10g and some components of Oracle Fusion Middleware • Accelerated Implementation • Oracle accelerators can significantly reduce Release 12 implementation time

5. Overall Goal of Enhancements • The Goal • Real time, role-based information with a common data model as a foundation for a single source of truth across the enterprise • The Implications • Changes in the underlying data management infrastructure can have a significant impact on reporting

6. Key Reporting Issues • More than a dozen changes have an impact on reporting • The conversion from “sets of books” to “ledgers” • Funds disbursement processing moving from Payables to the new Payments application • Tax calculations centralized in the new E-Business Tax application • Check and letter processing information now in Oracle BI Publisher tables • Bank and supplier information now in the Trading Community Architecture (TCA) • Bank setup moving from Receivables to the Cash Management application

7. V11.5.10 R12 Reports Will Break Report integrity a constant, costly challenge

8. Re-implementing to address configuration imperfections Some data may not migrate Global consolidation Multi-instance environments no longer needed V11.5.10 R12 Reporting from Both 11i and Rel. 12

9. How big is the problem?

10. What did it take for Noetix to Upgrade? • Analyze the Oracle R12 documentation per module to identify any significant changes. • Functionally test all views in R12 to identify all affected views. • Design and implement required functional updates • Create new views • Obsolete views • add/modify columns • add/modify profile options

11. What did it take for Noetix to Upgrade? View Count 58 34 56 Modified 48 14 32 10 3 8 New General Ledger Accounts Payable Accounts Receivable 58 60 7 9 6 0 Fixed Assets Purchasing

12. Total Effort ~ 10 person years • Validated and modified nearly 750 views • Across 24 modules

13. V11.5.10 R12 R12 Upgrade Protection V11.5.10 [ reports written against database tables ] [ reports written against Noetix views ]

14. R12 R12 Upgrade Protection V11.5.10 [ reports written against database tables ] [ reports written against Noetix views ]

15. Subledger Accounting • All accounting performed before transfer to the GL • User-definable accounting rules • At the data level, it’s a big change for all the subledgers, though there is a first generation in 11i Payables “Accounting Events”

16. Tie It All Together • Data flows from distributions, thru distribution links and SLA tables, to GL • Three key stages • Distributions (before accounting applied) • SLA (in draft or final form) • GL • Three key views of the data • Distributions only • Tie distributions to SLA to GL • Tie GL back to distributions

17. Subledger Accounting – Report Migration Example • How do I reconcile my AP Invoices to the GL Journal Entries and distributions?

18. View Changes

19. The Impact? • Some 11i queries will easily migrate to Rel. 12 • Some with no changes at all • Some will need table name changes • Some 11i queries will need moderate attention • Data moved to TCA will require query re-writes • Customer correspondence will require re-writes • Basic reports can remain the same • Some 11i queries won’t migrate 1:1 to Rel. 12 • SLA may require new reports, queries & ETL routines

20. How does Noetix address the problem?

21. BI Content Generation Experts

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26. Noetix Provides a Reporting Application With Any Front End Tool NOETIX HELP FILE OBI EE COGNOS DISCOVERER

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35. Questions & Answers