There are number of
options for reporting in Fusion Applications. The most commonly used reporting
technique in the implementation project is to leverage on BI Publisher. There
are various tools and techniques supported by Fusion Application to generate
reports for analytical and transactional reporting.
Fusion Application uses
OBIEE foundation which offers tools to support ad hoc query/analysis, interactive
dashboard and proactive intelligence/alters. The pre-packaged Essbase allows
Financial Reporting Studio and Smart View to be used for reporting. The idea is
that implementer should able to write reports with negligible programming
efforts. This reporting is possible on data that resides either inside Fusion
Applications Transactional Database or in an external source via Web
service/methods.
These techniques for
developing BI contents are applicable to SaaS (Software as a Service) and On
Premise implementations of Fusion Applications.
This blog is an attempt to
list down the tools which one can use for reporting in Fusion Applications.
Oracle Answers
It is a subcomponent of
OBIEE and is also known as BI Answers. It lets you explore and interact with
data by presenting data in tables, graphs, pivot tables, and so on.
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) A predefined set of OBIEE
repository (.rpd) and Web catalog are supplied with Fusion Applications. These
reports are typically based on the ADF view objects. These reports are designed
to report on operational data from the Fusion transaction database in real
time.
Oracle Business Intelligence Application (OBIA) A predefined set of OBIEE
repository (.rpd) and Web catalog are supplied with Fusion Applications. These
reports are typically based on the BAW (Business Analytics Warehouse) tables
which are populated by ODI by using ADF view objects to source data from Fusion
transactional source tables. These reports are designed to report on analytical
data extracted from the Fusion transaction database
BI Publisher – It is the reporting solution to author, manage and deliver all
reports and documents easier and faster than Oracle Report or any other
traditional reporting. BI Publisher report creation process is quite different
in Fusion Applications as compared with Oracle E-Business Suite. Oracle Business Intelligence
Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) which has also BI Publisher as one of the component comes
integrated with Oracle Fusion Applications.
BI Composer BI Composer is a wizard-based tool to generate analyses based on
subject areas. It allows users to modify the embedded analytics in Fusion
Applications, such as adding content from the BI Catalog, as well as extending
existing content such as adding new analysis columns, creating alternative
views of data, sorting and filtering the data, and applying conditional
formatting.
Mobile BI Reports can be made available to the mobile platform using Application
Composer in Fusion Applications. To develop reports for mobile platform a link
Application Composer is provided, by selecting application from drop down list,
link for manage report can be used to create a new report using predefined
analytics.
Financial Reporting Studio This is an Oracle Hyperion tool installed on
your desktop and it allows you to develop reports primarily on Essbase
database.
Smart View tool – It is an Oracle Hyperion tool. Smart View is visible in
Microsoft Excel once it is installed. This Excel plug in allows users to connect
Excel to Essbase Server and Analytics Server to report data. Smart View also
allows data to be entered into Essbase using the Excel front end.
In
short numbers of option are provided by Oracle for reporting for Fusion
Application. I would suggest choosing the right option to support your use
case. There is an overlap between features and functions which is always a case
when company’s BI portfolio is enhanced by acquisitions and mergers.
