Friday, April 18, 2008

Oracle E-Business Suite Corporate Performance Management and Daily Business Intelligence


FUSION INTELLIGENCE FOR E-BUSINESS SUITE

Fusion Intelligence for E-Business Suite gives you the power to extend your existing investments in Oracle Applications while putting you on the path to next generation technologies. By leveraging the robust dashboarding, ad-hoc reporting, and extensibility capabilities provided by Oracle’s market-leading BI platform, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), you benefit from a complete, end-to-end, integrated business intelligence and reporting solution.


Fusion Intelligence for E-Business Suite includes:
A unified logical model designed for business users of EBS Financials, Procurement, Human Resources, Supply Chain and CRM Intelligence modules.
Selected dashboard templates for each functional area which include guided analysis paths and prebuilt data mappings.
Delivered integration with the E-Business Suite transactional applications including single sign-on, security, Daily Business Intelligence materialized views and base summaries, and Oracle Portal.

Operational Analytics

In Fall of 2003, Siebel Systems conducted a test in which user of Siebel eBusiness Applications could drill down to an Analytics Dashboard. The test was a success. The ability to drill down from an operational system to an analytics application was first announced with release of Siebel Analytics application 7.7.
By mid 2004, the sells of Siebel Analytics applications surpassed the Sales of Siebel Analytics Platform ~ BI Suite of Tools. By the end of the same year, Siebel Analytics (application and tools) sales revenue was second to revenue in sales of Siebel eBusiness Application or CRM offering. At the time Siebel Systems was acquired by Oracle, it was considering the industry leader in CRM applications. Nevertheless, it was not known by its BI offering.
Last week Oracle announced Industry's First Enterprise Performance Management System which is the integration of Transactional Systems, Financial Performance Management and Operational BI Systems.

I am a Siebel Analytics Certified Master Consultant. I have clients who had integrated Siebel CRM and Analytics applications in order to provide true pervasive capability. Just asked any organization that is able to drill from a Siebel CRM application into Siebel Analytics application.

Oracle BI EE = Siebel Analytics Platform
Oracle BI Applications = Siebel Relationship Management Warehouse (RMW) and Customer Centric

Oracle's Vision for an EMP system


This is a demo of Oracle's vision for Industry First Enterprise Performance Management System, from the EMP view of the world.

Oracle BI Applications


"Oracle’s applications have given the company a large, heterogeneous applications and infrastructure installed base. These customers need an integrated way to access, analyze and deliver information and insight from multiple business applications," the trio notes. "[T]he newly branded Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition from the Siebel acquisition—which Gartner previously rated as visionary [in its magic quadrant]—has given Oracle a new opportunity to create a compelling BI platform strategy and become a significant BI platform and applications vendor in 2007 and beyond".

Pitney Bowes Improves TCO with Oracle BI

The Oracle at Delphi once provided valuable insights to those seeking its counsel. Today, Oracle’s BI solution provides similar services to insight-hungry businesspeople. Find out how Pitney Bowes got a handle on 2 million customer accounts by standardizing on the Oracle BI platform.

Oracle Business Intelligence Applications v7.9


Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications are complete, pre- built BI solutions that deliver intuitive, role-based intelligence for everyone in an organization—from front line employees to senior management—that enable better decisions, actions, and business processes. Designed for heterogeneous environments, these solutions enable organizations to gain insight from a range of data sources and applications including Siebel, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, and third party systems such as SAP.

Oracle BI Applications are built on the Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), a comprehensive, innovative, and leading BI platform. This enables organizations to realize the value of a packaged BI Application, such as rapid deployment, lower TCO, and built-in best practices, while also being able to very easily extend those solutions to meet their specific needs, or build completely custom BI applications—all on one common BI architecture.

Siebel 7 Certification Program

STUDY GUIDE FOR : SIEBEL 7 CONSULTANT CORE EXAM

Topic Coverage
The Siebel 7 Consultant Core Exam will include the topics listed below. The approximate
percentage of the exam that will be dedicated to each topic is indicated below. These topics
are drawn from the Siebel 7 Essentials Course, and the questions on the exam will test
knowledge and skills gained by completing and studying the course materials.

Topic % of Exam
1 Foundations 16%
2 Architecture and Installation 11%
3 Access Control & Organizational Setup 11%
4 Exploring Siebel Applications 8%
5 Configuration 28%
6 Data Loads 4%
7 Business Process Automation 9%
8 Deployment 13%

Exam Objectives
The Siebel 7 Consultant Core Exam will be based on the following objectives. These
objectives represent the knowledge and skills gained from the Siebel 7 Essentials Courses

Introduction & Foundations (FAQ:1)

Sample Exam Questions
Question 1
Siebel eConfigurator, ePricer, and eAdvisor are collectively known as what?
A. Siebel MidMarket Edition
B. Interactive Selling Suite
C. Siebel Employee Applications
D. Siebel Sales
The correct answer is B.
Interactive Selling Suite is a collection of Siebel eBusiness Applications. eConfigurator,
ePricer, eSales, eAdvisor, and eAuction are all components of the Siebel Interactive Selling
Suite (ISS).
References:
Siebel 7 Essentials, “Introducing Siebel eBusiness Applications”
Siebel 7 Bookshelf, “Siebel Interactive Suite Upgrade Guide”

Question 2
Which entity represents a person external to your company?
A. Customer
B. Party
C. Contact
D. Person
The correct answer is C.
A Contact is a person with whom you do business, and is external to your company.
Reference:
Siebel 7 Essentials, “Introducing Siebel eBusiness Applications”

Question 3
Which entities always belong to a team? Choose three.
A. Activity
B. Opportunity
C. Contact
D. Account
E. Service Request
The correct answer is B, C & D.
Activities and Service Requests are assigned to specific employees. Opportunities,
Contacts, and Accounts are assigned to teams.
Reference:
Siebel 7 Essentials, “Introducing Siebel eBusiness Applications”

Question 4
Which type of product is an internal application used by employees and partners?
A. Employee Application
B. Partner Application
C. Customer Application
D. Employee Partner Application
The correct answer is A.
Employee applications, such as Siebel Sales, Siebel Call Center, and eFinance are internal
applications used by employees and partners.
Reference:
Siebel 7 Essentials, “Introducing Siebel eBusiness Applications”

Question 5
An Employee Application has the following characteristics? Choose two.
A. Used by employees only
B. Used by employees and partners
C. Internal application
D. Used by employees and customers
The correct answer is B & C.
Employee applications, such as Siebel Sales, Siebel Call Center, and eFinance are internal
applications used by employees and partners.
Reference:
Siebel 7 Essentials, “Introducing Siebel eBusiness Applications”

Question 6
Marcel found out the area code of his contact, Céline, has changed from 912 to 440. Which
of the following is the easiest way for him to change Céline’s area code?
A. Find Céline’s record in the My Contacts View, delete it, and create a new record
B. Find Céline’s record in the My Contacts View, go to the detail applet, change the
area code
C. Find Céline’s record in the All Contacts Across Organizations View, delete her
phone number from a primary list, and input the new one
D. Find Céline’s record in the My Contacts View, delete her phone number from a
primary list, and then input the new number
The correct answer is B.
To modify and save data, select the record field in the list or form and change it. The change
is saved when you click off of the record.
Reference:
Siebel 7 Essentials, “Using the Siebel Client”

Question 7
Which of the following objects is used to retrieve data from the database?
A. View
B. Business Object
C. Business Component
D. Database table
The correct answer is C.
Business Components are collections of data pulled from the database that reflect the user’s
business. A view is a collection of related lists and forms representing a business area. A
Business Object organizes business components in relationship to each other so related
data can be displayed in a view. A database table stores data in the database.
Reference:
Siebel 7 Essentials, “Organizing Data Behind the User Interface”

Question 8
How many Business Components can a single list or form Applet reference?
A. Two (if using a toggle)
B. One
C. Unlimited
D. Eight
The correct answer is B.
Each Applet is based on a single Business Component.
References:
Siebel 7 Essentials, “Organizing Data Behind the User Interface”
Siebel 7 Bookshelf, “Siebel Tools Reference, Volume 1 of 2”

Question 9
Complete this statement: A business object contains information about the _________
between business components.
A. Differences
B. Similarities
C. Shared properties
D. Relationships
The correct answer is D.
A business object contains information about the relationships between business
components. Business objects represent a collection of business components and the
relationship between them.
Reference:
Siebel 7 Essentials, “Organizing Data Behind the User Interface”

Question 10
Which of the following statements is true?
A. Form applet data comes from only one table
B. Form applet data may come from many tables and columns
C. Form applet data may come from many columns in a single table
D. Form applet data comes from only one column in a table
The correct answer is B.
Data presented in a form applet may come from multiple tables and columns as an applet is
based on a single business component, which is a collection of data from tables and
columns.
References:
Siebel 7 Essentials, “Organizing Data Behind the User Interface”
Siebel 7 Bookshelf, “Siebel Tools Reference, Volume 1 of 2”

Question 11
Complete the following statement. A set of related applets may be displayed in a
__________.
A. Business object
B. View
C. Screen
D. Business component
The correct answer is B.
A view is a collection of related lists and forms representing a functional business area.
References:
Siebel 7 Essentials, “Organizing Data Behind the User Interface”
Siebel 7 Bookshelf, “Siebel Tools Reference, Volume 1 of 2”

Question 12
Which applet type may simultaneously display more than one record?
A. List
B. Form
C. Child
D. Detail
The correct answer is A.
A list is able to display multiple records. A form shows detail of a single record.
References:
Siebel 7 Essentials, “Organizing Data Behind the User Interface”
Siebel 7 Bookshelf, “Siebel Tools Reference, Volume 1 of 2”