A business users case study of seamless drillback from OBIEE/OBIA key metrics dashboards to transactional detail in eBusiness Suite

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From Dashboards to Transactional Detail -
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Prepared by:
Preet Shah, Humana
Linda Flood, Humana
John Fortado, Emtec Inc.
A business users case study of seamless
drillback from OBIEE/OBIA key metrics
dashboards to transactional detail in
eBusiness Suite
Session ID#: 14916

2. Pre-Integration/Aggregation
Can I get to the detail?
Can I go back to the item?
From Dashboards to Transactional Detail

3. What we are doing
Aggregate dashboard
to Detail dashboard
to EBS Invoice item
Source to Warehouse
E-Business Suite
JD Edwards
PeopleSoft
Fusion
SAP
Siebel
[OBIA Data Optimization and Performance
Enhancing Techniques]
What We Implemented
Financial Analytics
HR Analytics
Project Analytics
Procure & Spend Analytics
Marketing
Planning & Forecasting •CRM
Supply Chain
Profitability Management
Service Management
OBIA Overview

4. BI Challenges for Business and IT
■ Custom OBIEE 10g platform
■ Only GL Summary data to data warehouse
■ No sub-ledger data for Procurement, Projects, AP or AR
■ No drill back to source data for immediate results on issues
■ Volume growth in source data and external reporting requirements will not
be sustainable
■ Data mining was the way for analysis and reconciliation
■ IT was over whelmed with all ad-hoc report requirements
■ Rudimentary reporting tools like Excel, MS databases and silo reporting
tools like Hyperion and Discoverer are being used for dashboards and
KPI’s

5. Business Expectations
■ The ability to use OBIEE as a front end to connect directly to sub-ledger
detailed data
■ Produce reporting at a summary level on actual and budget information
that allows for the drill back to the transactional level detail for research
and reconciliation purposes
■ Able to replace disparate access databases and other places data is
extracted and stored for data
■ Provide insights into procurement and spends for the budget managers
■ Leverage data mining to OBIEE for analysis and reconciliation
■ Provide operational reporting to support the daily business process
■ Analyze accounting entries at the transactional level for accruals, invoice
and payments

6. The Business Case for Drill Back
■ Business Process before
OBIA implementation
■ Time Consuming
■ Validation issues/Human Error
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OBIEE10g
Balance Sheet
Custom JE Detail Report
Excel
Reconciliation / Validation
Issues
Oracle EBS
Validation

7. The Business Case for Drill Back
■ After Implementation Single
Source – goto knowledge
base
■ Efficiency
■ Less Risk
Drill back No Separate Login
OBIA
Balance Sheet
Trial Balance
Oracle EBS
Validation

8. What we implemented
▪ Financial Analytics
▪ HR Analytics
▪ Project Analytics
▪ Procure & Spend Analytics
▪ Marketing
▪ Planning & Forecasting •CRM
▪ Supply Chain
▪ Profitability Management
▪ Service Management

9. The Technical Aspects
■ Out of the Box Data Availability
■ Custom Reports for Drillback
▪ Aggregate dashboard to Detail dashboard to EBS Invoice item
▪ AP Transaction details report
▪ Trial Balance report drill down to transaction level

10. E-Business Suite
■ The EBS Target Form
▪ Identification
▪ Required Parameters
▪ Accepted Parameters
▪ Customization
■ ETL modifications
▪ Additional Fields
▪ Customization

11. EBS Security
■ EBS Responsibilities are Weblogic Roles
■ Responsibilities must exist in Weblogic as Roles
■ EBS Forms, Menu Exclusions, Functions, Profiles, URL’s
■ References:
Implementing Data Security for Oracle E-Business Suite 11i in Oracle Business
Intelligence Applications 7.9.3 (Doc ID 475387.1)
Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence Applications with Oracle E-Business Suite
(Doc ID 1343143.1)
Integrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
11g Release 1 (11.1.1) E16364-01

12. EBS Security

13. EBS Security

14. OBIEE Security
■ Access Security
■ Catalog Object Security
■ Identity Security
■ Role Level Data Security
■ References:
Implementing Data Security for Oracle E-Business Suite 11i in Oracle Business
Intelligence Applications 7.9.3 (Doc ID 475387.1)
Oracle Business Intelligence Application Security GUIDE Release 7.9.6.3 E19042-01 April
2011
Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence Applications with Oracle E-Business Suite
Saurabh Gautam 6/9/2011 (Oracle White Paper)

15. Connecting the Security Models
■ Responsibilities into Roles

16. Connecting the Security Models
■ Initblock Configuration
DATA SOURCE
SELECT
FND_GLOBAL.RESP_ID,
FND_GLOBAL.RESP_APPL_ID,
FND_GLOBAL.SECURITY_GROUP_ID,
FND_GLOBAL.RESP_NAME,
FND_GLOBAL.USER_ID,
FND_GLOBAL.EMPLOYEE_ID,
FND_GLOBAL.USER_NAME,
FND_GLOBAL.RESP_NAME
FROM DUAL
DATA TARGET ( Session Variables )
EBS_RESP_ID
EBS_RESP_APPL_ID
EBS_SEC_GROUP_ID
EBS_RESP_NAME
EBS_USER_ID
EBS_EMPLOYEE_ID
USER
ROLES

17. Connecting the Security Models
Connect to EBS for Roles
SELECT DISTINCT
'ROLES', RESPONSIBILITY_NAME
FROM
FND_USER,FND_USER_RESP_GROUPS, FND_RESPONSIBILITY_VL
WHERE
FND_USER.user_id=FND_USER_RESP_GROUPS.user_id
AND FND_USER_RESP_GROUPS.RESPONSIBILITY_ID = FND_RESPONSIBILITY_VL.RESPONSIBILITY_ID
AND FND_USER_RESP_GROUPS.RESPONSIBILITY_APPLICATION_ID =
FND_RESPONSIBILITY_VL.APPLICATION_ID
AND FND_USER_RESP_GROUPS.START_DATE < SYSDATE
AND (CASE WHEN FND_USER_RESP_GROUPS.END_DATE IS NULL THEN SYSDATE
ELSE TO_DATE(FND_USER_RESP_GROUPS.end_Date) END) >= SYSDATE
AND FND_USER.user_id = (SELECT USER_ID FROM FND_USER WHERE UPPER(USER_NAME) = '7421'
)
SELECT USER_ID FROM FND_USER WHERE UPPER(USER_NAME) = ‘AnEBSUSER'

18. Connecting the Security Models

19. Connecting the Security Models
■ Populate Roles with the Authorization Block
■ Catalog object permissions granted to Roles
■ Presentation layer permissions granted to Roles
■ Data security (at the row level) is controlled by Operating
Unit Organization and Company

20. Connecting the Security Models
■ Catalog object permissions granted to Roles

21. Connecting the Security Models
■ Presentation layer permissions granted to Roles

22. Connecting the Security Models
■ Data security (at the row level) is controlled by Operating
Unit Organization and Company

23. Configuring Weblogic
■ Single Sign On Config File Configuration
▪ AuthenticationSchemas.xml
<RequestVariable source="cookie" type="auth" nameInSource=“EBS SOURCE COOKIE"
biVariableName="NQ_SESSION.ICX_SESSION_COOKIE"/>
▪ InstanceConfig.xml
<EnabledSchemas>UidPwd,Impersonate,UidPwd-soap,Impersonate-soap,EBS-ICX</EnabledSchemas>
<SchemaExtensions>
<Schema name="EBS-ICX" logoffURL="https://louweblqs07.humana.com:9804/analytics/saw.dll?Logoff"/>
</SchemaExtensions>
▪ ActionFrameworkConfig.xml
<ebusinesssuiteconfig> <visible>true</visible> </ebusinesssuiteconfig>

24. Configuring Action Links
OBIEE Action Links To EBS (Doc ID 1457278.1)
OBIEE 11g: Link to Navigate to E-Business Suite is not
Visible Doc ID 1527849.1
Configuring an OBIEE 11g Navigation Action Link to E-
Business Suite 12 Fails With "Unable to execute function.
(RESP_ID=0/RESP_APPL_ID=0)" (Doc ID 1539742.1)

25. Configuring Action Links

26. Implementing the Action Link

27. Using Drillback

28. The EBS Result

29. OBIEE Architecture

30. Lesson Learned
■ Requirements can quickly expand the original project scope
■ Installing into fresh environments leads to tweaking the application and
the database
■ Additional time is required for load testing
■ Test strategy and test cases will change as complex calculations are
added
■ The folder structure in the EBS menu is critical for drillback:

31. What We Have
EBS X
OBIEE
OBIA

32. Contact Details
Preet Shah
Applications Consultant
Tel. 502.476.9149 | Cell. 2036457171
pshah3@humana.com
Linda Flood
Financial Reporting|Manager
Project Implementations
Tel. 502-580-2193 | Fax 502-508-2153
lflood1@humana.com
John Fortado
Consultant
210-867-2957
John.fortado@emtecinc.com

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