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E-Business Suite
Reporting in R12
Sue Maloney, Solutions Director
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Agenda
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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
EiS Overview
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Founded in 2001
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.
Platinum Partner
EiS Customers – 100% Retention
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What’s New in R12
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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!
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
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Discoverer
Oracle Standard Reports with BI Publisher formats
FSG’s
OBIEE
Third Party Solutions (EiS)
Microsoft Excel
Reporting Choices in R12
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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
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
Reporting Choices in R12
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Standard reports (text output) run through BI Publisher with 12.1
11i output
R12.1 output
Reporting Choices in R12
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Allows multiple user defined options for output
Excel
RTF
HTML
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
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Reporting Tool
End Users
E-BUSINESS SUITE
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Oracle EBS
Menus
eMail, Portal
EiS
Metadata
How EiS fills the GAP
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Enables you to run
and refresh reports
for E-Business in
Excel
Creates OBIEE
Repository, ready to
use answers and
dashboards for
transactional
reporting for E-
Business
Enables GL users to
do finance/FSG
reporting from Excel
with drill down to sub
ledgers
Addresses the ad hoc
reporting needs and
provides configured
metadata (views) and
ready to use reports for
E-Business
EiS/Oracle Integrated Architecture
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Configured
• DFF
• KFF
• GL-COA
• EIT/SIT
• Views
• Reports
• Security
• Datamarts
o GL
o Payroll
o Projects
EBS Database (XXEIS)
Source Business Layer Report Layer Presentation Layer
• Analyses
• Dashboards
11i/R12
Enterprise Edition
Server
eXpress
OBIEE
Metadata EiS OBIEE
G e n e r a t o r
Metadata
(Configured)
E-BUSINESS SUITE
Let’s take a closer look!
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Questions
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Thank you for your time!
Sue Maloney – Solutions Director
@suedmaloney
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