E-Business Suite

Reporting in R12

Sue Maloney, Solutions Director

sue.maloney@eistech.com

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 Agenda
Introductions
What’s New in R12
What do these changes mean for me?
What are my choices for reporting in R12?
How EiS can address your reporting needs
Questions

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 EiS Overview
 Founded in 2001
Platinum Partner
 Privately owned
 Oracle Platinum Partner and ISV
 International presence – US, UK
and India
• Distribution partners globally
 Resources
• Atlanta with over 50
• Hyderabad with over 70
 Global customers – exceeding 100
 Partnerships – Oracle, Deloitte etc.

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EiS Customers – 100% Retention

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 What’s New in R12
 Simplified User Interface
 Centralized Architecture
 SLA
 Ledgers & Ledger Sets
 MOAC – Role based access
 E-Biz Tax
 Suppliers, Banks in TCA
 Payments
 R12 Reporting and Analytics
 Much, much more!

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 What do these changes
mean for me?
 Develop a complete list of custom reports and define why they

exist

 Run all custom reports in an R12 environment to confirm which

reports will break

 Begin converting custom reports to R12 format

 Apply EiS eXpress upgrade patch in test environment and test

custom built reports

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 Reporting Choices in R12
Discoverer
Oracle Standard Reports with BI Publisher formats
FSG’s
OBIEE
Third Party Solutions (EiS)
Microsoft Excel

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 Reporting Choices in R12
 Discoverer – Premier support ends June 2014
 Increased use of BI Publisher for standard Oracle reports
 Development time & skills
 Ad-hoc capability?
 End user access?
 New Oracle Report Manager
 Web based report management and distribution tool
 Used by report producers or report consumers
 Security simple to set – by responsibility or user
 Submit and publish Financial Statement Generator (FSG), Ad Hoc
FSG, Variable Format, and Standard reports to a central repository
 Single location to do extracts to Excel

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 Reporting Choices in R12
Where does OBIEE fit? (and REALLY fit?)
Strategic
 In the next 5 years
 High level – CEO, CFO etc.
Planned (in support of strategic)
 This year and next year
 Senior Mgmt – VPs etc.
Operational
 Today and yesterday
 Line level Mgmt – Directors etc.
 Reporting Choices in R12
Microsoft Excel
End users love it
No security
Manual reporting
 Reporting Choices in R12
 Standard reports (text output) run through BI Publisher with 12.1

11i output

R12.1 output

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 Reporting Choices in R12
 Allows multiple user defined options for output
 PDF
 Excel
 RTF
 HTML

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 EiS’ XL Connect

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 How can EiS help?!

 Provide an assessment into current and future needs of EBS R12

 Assist in performing technical R12 upgrade

 Assist in performing functional R12 upgrade

 Assist in training staff

 Convert custom 11i reports to R12 format

 Fill the Ad hoc transactional reporting GAP!

 Provide SLA reconciliation reports OOTB!

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 How EiS fills the GAP

Oracle EBS
Menus

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE EiS

Metadata
E-BUSINESS SUITE

End Users
eMail, Portal

Reporting Tool

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 How EiS fills the GAP
Addresses the ad hoc Creates OBIEE
reporting needs and Repository, ready to
provides configured use answers and
metadata (views) and dashboards for
ready to use reports for transactional
E-Business reporting for E-
Business

Enables you to run Enables GL users to

and refresh reports do finance/FSG
for E-Business in reporting from Excel
Excel with drill down to sub
ledgers

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 EiS/Oracle Integrated Architecture
Source Business Layer Report Layer Presentation Layer

eXpress

E-BUSINESS SUITE
11i/R12

Metadata
(Configured)
Configured
• DFF • Views
• Reports OBIEE
• KFF • Security EiS OBIEE
Metadata

• GL-COA • Datamarts G e n e r a t o r

• Analyses
Enterprise Edition

o GL
• EIT/SIT o Payroll • Dashboards
o Projects
Server
EBS Database (XXEIS)

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 Let’s take a closer look!

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 Questions

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 Thank you for your time!

Sue Maloney – Solutions Director

sue.maloney@eistech.com
@suedmaloney
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