"Must Think" Discoverer Migration Challenges for APEX, OBIEE, SplashBI and Other tools

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1 "Must Think" Discoverer Migration Challenges for APEX, OBIEE, SplashBI and Other tools Presenter Prasad Renati Senior Principal EiS Technologies Inc.

2 Agenda Overview Oracle Discoverer Brief History De-Support Announced Customer Concerns What are Your Options and Challenges? Discoverer to OBIEE Discoverer to APEX Discoverer to SplashBI Q&A

3 Few Months To Go Oracle announced de-support of Discoverer

4 The Birth and Deaths of Discoverer 1997 Discoverer V2.0 released 1998 June V3.0 released not very good! 1998 July V3.1 released ah! That s better! 2002 December Disco 2000 de-supported 2003 September 3.x de-supported 2007 June 4.x stand alone de-supported 2008 July 9i de-supported 2009 October 4.x EBS de-supported 2009 December 10g R1 de-supported 2011 December 10g R2 de-supported 2014 June 11g Premier Support Ends 2017 June 11g Extended Support Ends Sources: Oracle SoDs Mike Durran Michael Armstrong-Smith Mark Rittman

5 Customer Concerns Investment in Discoverer Multiple Workbooks ranging from Multiple Business Areas Integrity of the converted reports and the user experience Is the solution robust? Data Access & Security High Costs, Time & Resources

6 What Are Your Options? 1. Do Nothing Continue to use your Discoverer tool i. Least amount of effort and cost ii. Only Sustaining Support Available from Oracle after June 2017 iii. No new licensing $$$ and No changes for users iv. No new features or enhancements will be made to Discoverer beyond Find a replacement tool and rebuild the Discoverer reports i. Oracle recommends migrating to Oracle Business Intelligence ii. Other Options iii. i. Transactional reporting tools: Third party tools ii. BI tools: BI Publisher/Tableau/Cognos/Business Objects, etc iii. APEX Significant cost and time to rebuild reports

7 Discoverer Migration Options/Challenges 1. Discoverer to OBIEE 2. Discoverer to APEX 3. Discoverer to SplashBI

8 Discoverer to OBIEE Migration 1. Discoverer Metadata Conversion Assistant i. Command Line Utility to convert EUL to Repository (RPD) ii. Item Classes Not Converted iii. Folder Conditions not Converted iv. Limited 2. Workbooks Not Converted 1. Columns 2. Conditions 3. Sort 4. Calculations 5. Page Items/Totals 6. Format (Date, Number, Font and more) 3. Major Challenges 1. Oracle Security Integration 2. Calculation Expressions 3. Sub Queries 4. Development time constraints

9 Discoverer to OBIEE Migration Oracle EBS Standard Security Integration with OBIEE Security Execution User logs into EBS. EBS Authenticates Sets cookie User accesses OBIEE with EBS user login Selects OBIEE responsibility in EBS EBS launches OBIEE Fetch cookie, use to authenticate and authorization Read Oracle EBS for user, responsibilities, etc. Solution Steps Define EBS setups for BI access: Responsibility, Profile, Function, Menu Create roles to match Oracle EBS Responsibilities. Set security privileges on Presentation catalog objects and subject area Setup session variables, Initialization blocks, Connect scripts

10 Discoverer to APEX What is APEX? Oracle Application Express is a free development environment that runs on an Oracle database APEX can be used for Reporting, Charting and Data Entry Forms Fully supported and comes with all Oracle Database editions Browser based for development, deployment and run time

11 Discoverer to APEX Discoverer to APEX Migration Process 1. Extract Discover Query 2. Create a DB View to Hold Query 3. Grant Select and Create Synonym for View 4. Create Views for LOV s for Non-Interactive Reports (optional) 5. Create APEX Page to Query View 6. Add APEX Security to Page 7. Create EBS Form Function for APEX Page 8. Add EBS Form Function to EBS Menu

12 Discoverer to APEX Challenges/Pros (Compare to Discoverer) 1. APEX does not allow the user to write an ad-hoc query 2. APEX Tables must be joined together in advance in a view 3. Create DB View for every report to Hold Query in APEX 4. After conversion to APEX, queries become reports and end users lose the ability to use Ad Hoc query tools 5. APEX is a declarative development platform not easily intuitive for a nontechnical user. 6. Functional users will need to be moderately versed in SQL and will need to invest time learning in order to become proficient

13 Discoverer to SplashBI Migration What is SplashBI? On Demand Business Intelligence & Reporting Dashboards Ad-hoc Reporting Any Data Source ONE Framework Any Device With In-Memory Browser Tablet Mobile Excel

14 What Should You Expect? High-Level Migration Utility Fast and Accurate Dashboards with Pre-Built Visualizations Merge EULs Scheduling, Distribution & Bursting Keeps Report Infrastructure Intact Multiple Output Formats Run Reports from Excel, Mobile In-Memory Analytics & Data Mashups Easy to Learn & more Features Ability to get EBS DFF/KFF EBS Responsibility Security & User Authentication Connect to Other Data Sources Built as Discoverer Replacement Drilldown Capability

15 Discoverer to SplashBI Migration

16 What Should You Expect? Detail Oracle Discoverer EUL Business Area Folder Joins Item Classes Workbook/Sheet Columns Conditions Sort Calculations Page Items/Totals Security New Tool Business Area Domain Table Joins LOVs Report Set/Reports Columns Filters/Parameters Sort Calculation Columns Pivots Share Format

17 How Simple Should it be?

18 Demo

19 Q & A

20 Contact Information Prasad Renati Contact Us Website

21 Thank You!