Generate Insight from Oracle Applications

Agenda

• Review Proudfoot Consulting’s Reporting Issues

• The Noetix Solution

• About Noetix

• Product Demonstration

• Q&A

• Proudfoot’s current reporting issues and goals– Present process for reporting is inefficient

– Need to integrate multiple data sources

– Will be upgrading Oracle next year

– Users are dispersed throughout the world

– Empower end users to answer their own business questions

The Noetix Solution

Reporting Challenges

NOETIX SOLUTION CHALLENGE

Fully DocumentedDescriptions of Views/ColumnsPre-Built Reports (Starting Point)

Difficult to Understand Meaning and Context of the Data

Automatically Picks Up Configuration InformationSecurityExtensions

Configuration Work Not Reflected

Views – Tuned by NoetixQuery – Index Columns Identified for UserData Access – OLTP, Copy, Cache

Performance

Re-Generate for New Application VersionsBreaks When Upgraded

Views/Columns in User (Screen) TerminologyInformation Not Reflected in Business Terms

Automatically Generate Business ViewsInformation Pre-JoinedOrganized by Functional Area

Data FragmentationThousands of Transaction TablesDesigned for OLTPMultiple Data Sources

Noetix Solution for Oracle Applications

• Reflects your unique Oracle Applications configuration

• Promotes user independence

– Minimal training

– Easily modify and share reports

– Customize reports without IT resources

• Works with popular reporting tools, including Microsoft Excel

Reporting Gap – Manual Mapping

Oracle Applications

Packaged Business Intelligence Tools

Custom Application ConfigurationCustom Application Configuration

Generic Reporting TemplatesTailored TemplatesTailored Templates

Changes to Application Configuration

Tailored Templates

Noetix MetaBuilderNoetix MetaBuilder™™Noetix MetaBuilder™

Application Security

• Oracle security metadata imported into Noetix during setup

• Oracle responsibilities become Noetix roles

• Users log in with Oracle credentials

• Application security enforced by security rules

Noetix Architecture

Siebel Oracle

ETL

Query Managemen

t Services

Data Source

s

Query & Reporting

Tools

Portals/Dashboards/

KPIsWeb Services

PeopleSoft Legacy Custom DM/DW

Generated Reporting Objects- Oracle- Siebel

Noetix Platform – The Metadata Repository

Custom Reporting Objects

Pre-Built Reports- Oracle- Siebel

ClientApplications

Noetix Solution—Components

• Noetix AnswerPoint™

Delivers hundreds of click-on, customizable answers to business questions.

• NoetixViews®

Provided hundreds views of the underlying data structures organized by functional area.

• Noetix WebQuery®

Empowers decision makers to create and modify reports without IT involvement.

• Noetix QueryServer®

Integrates disparate data sources into a secure query routing and management platform.

A Confident Choice

• Information access experts since 1994

• Offices in North America and Europe

• Certified Oracle Partner

• 1200 customers worldwide

Noetix Customer List

Product Demonstration

Why Noetix?

• Rapid Implementation

• Open Solution

• Eases Information Access Challenges

• Cost Effective/High ROI

• A Confident Choice