Transcript Essbase Overview
Jim Kubik Senior Sales Consultant
Agenda
• What is Essbase?
• Essbase Key Features/Benefits/Use Cases • User Experience • Demonstration © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Jim’s Hotel
• How would you “view” the business??
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Spreadmart Hell?
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Most Modeling is Done Here!
It is the right tool, but…
• Disconnected • Data Security Risks • Error-prone • Doesn’t scale • No controls / audit trails • Multiple calculations • Spreadsheets are inefficient for more than two dimensions © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Business is more than “2D”
Product Time Market • • • • We typically look at more than two dimensions (multi dimensional) So what do we do?
• Add more column headers!
In our example: • “Total” Market BY “Total” Product, Actual Sales for Qtr1 = 95,820 Creates HEADACHES!
Scenario Measures © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Multi-Dimensional = Multi Sheet…
• Add a sheet for each brand • 4 brands + Total = 5 Sheets • The problem exacerbates… Market(s) © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Multi-Sheet = Nightmare
• • How about by Brand and by Market?
• 5 Brands BY 500 Properties = 2500 Sheets!
What about by Location too?
• Welcome to “Spreadsheet Hell” © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Solution?????
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Essbase
• OLAP Database • • • • Dimensional “cube” of information The “By’s” of the company, How you “see” the Business Ability to “slice n dice” the data • Essbase is commonly used to • • • • • • Combine multiple sources of disparate data Analyze summarized data Provide an intuitive data model “What If” and predictive analysis “Speed of thought” Satisfy the needs of a variety of users • Executives, managers, analysts & other business users • From power users to novices © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Essbase Provides the Best of Both Worlds Oracle Essbase
• • • Use the same familiar tools, Excel, Word, PowerPoint Achieve Speed of Thought response time Benefit from a centralized enterprise-scale solution © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Dimension Hierarchies
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Dimensions are typically hierarchical in nature
• Allows user to “drill down” on values for greater detail Year Quarter 1 January February March Quarter 2 April Brands Upperscale Pointview JK3 Middle scale Hotel 13 Properties West CA East CT NY © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Database Outline
• • • • Tree structure for dimension hierarchies Consolidations and mathematical relationships between members Alternate & Ragged Hierarchies support Time and Financial intelligence © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
BI Tools Are Designed for Reporting Essbase is Tuned for Analysis
Reporting Analysis
Which customers spend the most?
Which customers are most profitable?
What did this customer buy?
What is the customer likely to buy next?
What is the Q4 revenue forecast?
What if demand falls short of forecast?
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Agenda
• What is Essbase?
• Essbase Key Features/Benefits/Use Cases • User Experience © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Key Features
• • • • One Version of the Truth • One Place to create and maintain business rules and calculations • Get away from spreadsheet chaos.
Speed-of-thought analysis for thousands of concurrent users Premium Performance & Optimized Storage Write Back capability • Time and Financial intelligence • Mission-critical applications • Powerful Querying and Complex Calculations • Enterprise scale Forward Looking Applications • Robust Write-back & Security • Ease of development, deployment and maintenance © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
No More Spreadsheet Chaos
Improved Performance Visibility and Service Quality
Third largest pizza chain in the US 3000 locations worldwide More than $1 billion in sales
Before
Excel – cumbersome, manually maintained (store managers phoned in results) Data discrepancies, low confidence in the numbers No standard set of performance measures, lack of detail for analysis Operators and managers spent a lot of time gathering data, less on running the business
After
Improved availability of data (from hours to 30 minutes) Standard set of measures Improved quality of service (order completeness improved, “out the door“ time reduced 10%, higher customer satisfaction scores) Faster identification and reaction to theft issues 20
Write Back provides an “Analytic “Sandbox”
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Choose the intersection Type the updated data value Click submit © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Forward Looking Applications
“Predictive Analytics … is where Business Intelligence is going.” •
A spectrum of analyses
• • • • • • • • Trending Forecasting Scenario modeling What if testing Goal seeking OLAP mining Hyperion Planning HPCM © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Analytic Scalability Enterprise-wide
Sales & Marketing Development & Delivery Human Resources Finance Executive Management © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Essbase @ Merchandise Planning
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Widely Deployed
• • • • • International Finance Merchandise Real Estate Daily Sales Reporting Human Resources •
Supplier Collaboration
• Buyers, Suppliers, Etc. •
Merchandise Details
• • • Model to SKU 0.5TB Input Values 30 Billion Values @ Sub-second © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Key Enabler for the Oracle EPM System
Ad-hoc Analysis Interactive Dashboards Reporting & Publishing Detect & Alert Disconnected Analytics Office Integration
STRATEGIC PLANNING FINANCIAL CLOSE PERVASIVE INFORMATION ACCESS PLANNING & BUDGETING ERP ANALYTICS CRM ANALYTICS PROFITABILITY MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY ANALYTICS COMMON ANALYTIC FOUNDATION
• • • • Forward-Looking Analytic Engine Multi-user Write-back Financial Intelligence Enterprise Dimension Management • • • • Single Enterprise Information Model Conformed Dimensions Federated Query Intelligent Caching
OLTP & ODS Systems Data Warehouse Data Mart OLAP Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft JD Edwards, SAP, Custom Excel XML Business Process
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Agenda
• What is Essbase?
• Essbase Key Features/Benefits/Use Cases • User Experience © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Dashboard Consumption
• • • • • 100% thin client Ad-hoc report creation Packaged and customized dashboards Combining relational and OLAP data Consistent semantic definition across reports © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Reporting
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Oracle EPM Smart View
Advanced Office Integration
• • • • • • • Capabilities across: • • • • Excel Word PowerPoint Outlook Ad-hoc and free form analysis Function-based grids Dynamic data points Multi-source reporting Application forms EPM content import
Visualize and Explore - Moving from Data to Insight
In a single click see patterns that are not apparent by just looking at numbers: © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
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Demonstration
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Essbase Sweet Spots
• Spreadsheet Hell • Modeling / Looking into the Future • Ad hoc Financial Analysis • Profitability Analysis
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You are invited to a complimentary Oracle Essbase hands on workshop
• • • • • Drive 'what-if' scenarios to analyze alternatives
Identify exceptions, trends and outliers with advanced presentation and visualization tools Slice and dice through data at the speed of thought Understand why thousands of organizations depend on the power of Essbase Assess how your organization could benefit from using Essbase © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Questions
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Accolades along the way ……
Top Ten Most Influential Technology Innovations
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Essbase:
The multi-dimensional database technology that put online analytical processing (OLAP) on the business intelligence map. Developed by Arbor Software, it spurred the creation of scores of rival OLAP products - and billions of OLAP cubes ”
Information Age Magazine August 2005 © 2009 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential