How Do I Get Financial

Reports from the Cloud

Session ID#: 10435

Presented by: Tom Simkiss

Date: 5/15/15
Office: 215.990.9001
Email: tsimkiss@biztech.com

Agenda
About Me
About BizTech
Reporting Tools Available in Cloud Financials
BI Publisher
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence
SmartView
Financial Reporting Studio
Summary
Questions

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Reporting Tools Available in Cloud Financials

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Reporting Options in Cloud Financials

Installing Cloud Report Design Tools

All Cloud Report Design tools are available to download directly from the
Cloud instance:
From the Navigator

Under Tools, click on "Reports and Analytics

A new page would be displayed, towards top left, under "Reports and Analytics", you
will find a small icon in the shape of a book.

Click on this book icon, then you will be diverted to Oracle BI in a New window.
Click on Home tab (Available on the top right).
Towards left, you will find a category "Get Started...

Installing Cloud Report Design Tools

Recommended to ONLY download client design tools from the instance,
unless explicitly told otherwise by Oracle Cloud Support
This will ensure that the your client software will support the Cloud
Financials version your enterprise is using

BI Publisher
Originally introduced in EBS R12
Backported to 11i

Suited for high-volume, highly formatted transaction-based reports

Typically used to produce third-party documents

Receivables Invoices
1099 and other Government forms
EFT / EDI files
Payables Checks
Purchase Orders
Correspondence

BI Publisher
Documents can be delivered in a variety of formats
HTML
PDF
Microsoft Word
XML
High volumes of documents can be delivered to multiple destinations:
Printers
Email
Fax
WebDAV
FTP

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BI Publisher
Download and Install
From the navigation discussed previously, select option :
"Download BI Desktop Tools Drop down.
Based on your system configuration, download 32 or 64 bit
Oracle BI Client Installer

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BI Publisher
Add-in for Microsoft Word
Provides the ability to:
Import XML or SQL source
Lay out a report template using standard Microsoft Word formatting
Preview and run the report within Word

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BI Publisher
BI Publisher takes XML Output
Combines it with a BI Publisher Template (typically RTF file)

Generates output in PDF, Excel, RTF, PowerPoint, HTML

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BI Publisher

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BI Publisher
Uploading the Template
Uploaded through Reports and
Analytics

Typically uploaded to a Custom

folder to try and reduce patching
impacts

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BI Publisher
Uploading the Template
Also use the same navigation to control default output format, although
this can be changed at run-time

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Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

Also known as OTBI

Designed for Operational Users to create custom:

Queries
Reports
Dashboards
Charts
Graphs
Users can access, analyze and evaluate real-time transactional data
Prepackaged content covering the major processes and transaction attributes plus
financial reporting metrics

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Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

Sample reports, such as Discounts Taken and Lost Report, and Sales Journal
by Customer are out-of-the-box
Comes with a large number of transactional attributes available, including
predefined subject areas and prebuilt metrics available for financial
reporting

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Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

Transactional BI Subject Areas
Payables

Adjustments
Credit Memo Applications
Credit Memo Requests
Disputes
Miscellaneous Receipts
Payment Schedules
Receipt Conversion
Receipt History
Revenue Adjustments
Standard Receipts
Transactions

Receivables
Invoice Holds
Invoice Installments
Invoice Prepayments
Invoice Transactions
Invoice Trial Balance
Invoice Withholdings
Payment History
Payment Disbursements
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Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

Transactional BI Subject Areas
Fixed Assets

Journals
Period Statuses
Transactional Balances
Intercompany Transactions
Subledger Accounting Journals
Subledger Accounting Supporting
References

Cash Management

Bank Statement Balances

Bank Statement Line Charges
Bank Statements
External Cash Transactions

General Ledger
Asset Assignments
Asset Balances
Asset Depreciation
Asset Retirements
Asset Source Lines

Asset Transactions
Asset Transfers

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Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

From the Navigator

Under Tools, click on "Reports and

Analytics
Select Create, and select Report
or Analysis
Select a Subject Area to report on
Cloud Customers: Only REAL TIME
Subject Areas are available to you.
On Premise Customers: All Subject
Areas are available to you

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Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

Once youve selected a subject
area, reportable attributes are
grouped together
Select each attribute you wish to
include in your report, and move
it to the right

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Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

As the attributes are added, you can select whether you can drill on an
attribute, or navigate directly to the transaction

You can select whether the analysis is a table, a graph, or a combination of both
You can select how the data is sorted (multiple column sorts), as well as filtering out
data (e.g. dont return AP Invoices less than $500)

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Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

Once saved, the report is
immediately available
If saved in My Folders, only you can
see it
If saved in Shared Folders, its
available for everyone

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Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

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Smartview
Excel-based analysis tool
Ideal for financial analysts to quickly define financial reports and ad-hoc queries
Directly integrated to Cloud General Ledger balances in real time

Reports and queries can be saved offline, then automatically updated with the latest
Real-Time GL data by reopening the spreadsheet

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Smartview
Excel-based analysis tool
Ideal for financial analysts to quickly define financial reports and ad-hoc queries
Directly integrated to Cloud General Ledger balances in real time

Reports and queries can be saved offline, then automatically updated with the latest
Real-Time GL data by reopening the spreadsheet
Great Install document provided in Oracle Support Note 1371164.1

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Smartview

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Smartview
Quick Ad-hoc Analysis

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Smartview
Real-Time Analysis using Financial Reports

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Financial Reporting Center

Delivers boardroom quality management reports based on Essbase balances and
hierarchies
Provides ability for tables, graphs and charts

Supports details analysis within the report through slicing & dicing, expansions
and drilldowns
Based on Real-Time multi-dimensional account balances

Three tools
FR Studio for report definition
Workspace for Report Administration and Distribution
Financial Report Center for immediate self-service user access to reports

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Financial Reporting Studio

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Financial Reporting Studio

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Financial Reporting Studio

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Financial Reporting Studio

Workspace

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Financial Report Center

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Financial Report Center

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Summary

Reporting Options in Cloud Financials

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Contact Information

Tom Simkiss
Practice Director
215.990.9001
tsimkiss@biztech.com

5/28/2015

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