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Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Three Case
Studies
David Fuston Director, Business
Intelligence Linium, LLC Cell
816.729.1033 Email david.fuston_at_linium.com
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About David Fuston

• Technical and functional consultant since 1989
  with experience in applications development, IT
  management, and financial controller positions
  for Fortune 500 and World 200 companies.
• Oracle Beta Tester and Early Adopter since 1997
  for numerous programs, such as Applications 11i
  (OFA, DBI, EPF EPB), 9iAS Discoverer and Drake
  10g, Warehouse Builder 3i/9i, and 9i/10g OLAP.
  Beta tester and early adopter since 1999 for
  Microsoft Plato, OLAP Services, and SQL Server
  Analysis Services.
• Officer, speaker, or sponsor in OAUG, BI/DW SIG,
  OracleWorld, AppsWorld, OpenWorld, IOUG, ODTUG,
  Collaborate, HEUG Alliance, NCOAUG, RMOUG, SCOUG,
  KCOUG, OOUG, PASS, NorCalOAUG, and Microsoft For
  Developers Only conferences and seminars.
• Teaching and training role started in 1984 as a
  manufacturing plant zero defects trainer
  utilizing the Phillip Crosby Quality College
  methods.
• Board member and Treasurer for Oracle Development
  and Tools User Group (ODTUG). Member of Oracle
  Business Intelligence Customer Advisory Board (BI
  CAB), and International Oracle User Council
  (IOUC) Product Development Committee and Fusion
  channel.

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About Linium

• Linium is a certified consulting firm, with
  practices in Business Intelligence and Oracle
  Applications, and Service Asset Management.
• Linium combines Best-of-Breed products and
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  certified IT consultants. Every Linium engagement
  is managed by our PMI, ITIL, or PRINCE2 certified
  project managers.
• With offices in New York, Connecticut, and
  Virginia, we are celebrating 8 years, still
  privately held, with steady growth year over
  year, currently 200 employees nationwide.
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Agenda

• What is Enterprise Planning and Budgeting
• EPB evolution from early adopter to version 2
• Three mini-case studies
• US Air Force FIRST
• Guthy-Renker
• BAE
• Future Product Direction
• Questions
• Summary and Questions

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Enterprise Planning and Budgeting (EPB)

• Type 4 Application--Delivered as module of Oracle
  Applications, but can be run standalone
• Delivered as a patch to Oracle Applications
  11.5.9 -- Included as part of the rapid install
  for 11.5.10
• Backports of EPB to 11.5.8 or earlier are not
  technically feasible
• Requires Oracle9i Database 9.2.0.7 plus OLAP
  Option or above
• If a customer has 10.7 or 11.0.x or no Oracle
  Applications, then the product can be a
  standalone solution
• More Planned Sources
• Projects
• Fixed Assets
• Human Resources
• Grants
• Supports consolidated views and scenarios of
  Oracle and non-Oracle data via API(s) in FEM
  Schema, same as Enterprise Performance Foundation
  used by DBI modules, BSC, and PM

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Oracle EPB vs Oracle OFA
Feature OFA (Tool) EPB (App)
Installation/maintenance Express Server Oracle9i/10g DatabaseOLAP option and E-Business Suite 11i
Client VB, Java HTML
Graphics Good Outstanding
Text commentary Text FDI Cell-level annotations
Workflow None Built in feature
Process management None Built in feature
Exception alerts None Built in feature
Data processing set up Manual Automated
End user calculations Express expressions Business calculation templates
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EPB definition

• Oracle Module starting with Oracle Apps 11.5.9,
  targeted as replacement for OFA.
• Does not use OFA data loader, but rather is built
  on top of Enterprise Performance Foundation (EPF,
  a.k.a. FEM relational schema). Load batch data
  via Oracle GL Link or via EPF interface tables.
• Unlike Oracle Financial Analyzer (OFA) task
  processor, EPB uses standard Oracle Apps workflow
  and concurrent manager controls.
• Unlike Discoverer 4i, EPB utilizes JDeveloper
  BIBeans for calculations and presentation layer,
  same technology stack as Drake (Discoverer
  10gR2), Daily Business Intelligence (DBI), and
  Profitability Manager (PM, formerly known as
  Performance Analyzer and Activity Based
  Management)

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EPB definition

• Unlike OFA which uses a Visual Basic client for
  Windows and a Java client for the web, EPB uses
  only an HTML client
• Unlike OFA tiered structure with Super
  Administrator, EPB uses 3 different un-scoped
  Oracle Applications responsibilities
• Unlike OFA, EPB has audit trail for each and
  every change made to the data, from the original
  worksheet entry thru each change until final
  approval via views
• Like OFA, EPB can be installed in standalone mode
  or, unlike OFA, as part of the rapid install of
  11.5.10.2

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EPB definition

• EPB stores all data in the Analytic Workspace
• Shared AW
• Personal AWs
• EPB, unlike OFA, has a built-in allocation
  engine. Uses undocumented FROM clause to
  AGGREGATE
• Like OFA, EPB has solves and models
• In EPB, data in AW exposed through relational
  views
• In EPB, during process run, calculate as much as
  possible dynamically. After process run, persist
  certain levels in RAM to optimize access
  performance

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FEM Schema
HierarchyTables
InterfaceTables
GL Link
AnalyticWorkspacefor EPB
AttributeTables
LevelTables
Simple DimensionTables
20 DataTables
BalancesTable
FixedDimensionTables
10 UserDimensionTables
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FEM Schema Data Tables

• Balances Table
• Dimensioned by all hierarchical dimensions
• Target for GL integration
• Target for balance data
• Used by other applications directly
• Numeric, date, text measures

• 20 Data Tables
• Administrator defines the primary key
• Effectively 20 tables for storing uniquely
  dimensioned data
• Numeric, date, text measures
• Specifically for EPB but can also be used for
  other CPM applications

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FEM Schema Data Tables
Data Management SOURCE SYSTEM LEDGER DATASET CURRE
NCY Financial Characteristics FINANCIAL ELEMENT
NATURAL ACCOUNT LINE ITEM Financial
Consolidation INTERCOMPANY ENTITY User-Defined
Dimensions USER DIM 1-10

• Analytic Dimensions
• ORGANIZATION (COMPANY COST CENTER)
• PRODUCT
• CHANNEL
• PROJECT
• CUSTOMER
• GEOGRAPHY
• TASK
• ACTIVITY
• COST OBJECT
• TIME (CALENDAR PERIOD)

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Analytic Workspace

• OLAP in the Oracle9i or 10g Database
• Container for collections of multidimensional
  data types
• Contains one or many cubes, data, formulas,
  stored procedures
• Stored in Oracle data files
• AW tables have 2 columns
• Index
• BLOB with data stored using Express algorithm
  (Each record is like an Express extension file)
• Fast and sophisticated multidimensional modeling
  and querying

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Middle Tier

• Applications Framework 5.10
• Set of common standards and components for UI and
  middle tier (self-service UI)
• HTML user interface
• Concurrent Manager Workflow (equivalent to Task
  Processor in OFA)
• Used to automate business processes handle
  multi-thread processes
• Process run creates Workflow tasks, which are
  queued in concurrent mgr
• Executed through concurrent manager
• Integration with Collaboration Suite through
  email
• Supports simultaneous execution of programs in
  background. CM runs the tasks in the correct
  sequence for that business process (e.g. Load
  before Solve)
• BI Beans 3.1
• Multidimensional query API against CwM metadata
• Java OLAP API Writes SQL queries
• Used against relational views on top of AWs
  (Discoverer, BO, Cognos Query)

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BIBeans 3.1

• Java components that developers use to build
  applications
• Can be deployed as Java applets or as HTML
• Crosstab and graph bean within EPB documents
• Query builder bean within EPB documents,
  security, and some task set up
• Calc builder bean UI only for insertion of
  calculations and solves
• Persistence bean (BI catalog) for storing EPB
  document, saved selection, calculation objects

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Client Tier

• HTML browser interface
• Portal
• Export to HTML, PDF, Excel, Oracle Reports. XML
  Publisher
• Briefing books

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Business Processes Batch Data Load
Business Intelligence Beans
Java OLAP API
Relational Views with SQL Table Functions
OLAP Catalog
ApplicationCatalog
Shared AW
Personal AW
Personal AW
Controller Load data task in business process
pulls the data into the shared AW
FEM Tables
Schema administrator triggers data move to FEM
tables
FEM Interface Tables
Load data into FEM interface tables
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Manual Data Collection

• Metadata for worksheet copied from shared AW to
  personal AW
• BUT only the data for the data collection
  business process is copied
• Formula used to reference shared AW data
• When user makes changes to data, it is written
  to personal AW and can be saved
• When user submits, a formula is created in
  receivers personal AW
• When they are approved, then and only then, is
  data written to the shared AW

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Data Entry Manual Data Load
Business Intelligence Beans
Data Flow When Budget is Distributed
Java OLAP API
Relational Views with SQL Table Functions
OLAP Catalog
ApplicationCatalog
Shared AW
ApproversPersonal AW
SubmittersPersonal AW
Data for the Budget view is copied to the
submitters personal AW. This is the data that
he/she will change when formulating the budget.
FEM Tables
FEM Interface Tables
KEY Data is moved or copied Data is referenced by
formula
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Manual Data Entry
Business Intelligence Beans
The worksheet uses a formula to pull all other
data in the worksheet from the shared AW
Java OLAP API
Relational Views with SQL Table Functions
OLAP Catalog
ApplicationCatalog
Shared AW
ApproversPersonal AW
SubmittersPersonal AW
Data for the Budget view is copied to the
submitters personal AW. This is the data that
he/she will change when formulating the budget.
FEM Tables
FEM Interface Tables
KEY Data is moved or copied Data is referenced by
formula
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Manual Data Entry
Business Intelligence Beans
The approvers worksheet uses a formula to pull
all other data in the worksheet from the shared AW
Java OLAP API
Relational Views with SQL Table Functions
OLAP Catalog
ApplicationCatalog
Shared AW
ApproversPersonal AW
SubmittersPersonal AW
The approvers worksheet uses a formula to pull
the data for the business process from the
submitters personal AW
FEM Tables
FEM Interface Tables
KEY Data is moved or copied Data is referenced by
formula
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Manual Data Entry
Business Intelligence Beans
Java OLAP API
Relational Views with SQL Table Functions
OLAP Catalog
ApplicationCatalog
Shared AW
ApproversPersonal AW
SubmittersPersonal AW
When the approver approves the budget, the data
from the submitters personal AW is moved into
the shared AW
FEM Tables
FEM Interface Tables
KEY Data is moved or copied Data is referenced by
formula
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Agenda

• What is Enterprise Planning and Budgeting
• EPB evolution from early adopter to version 2
• Three mini-case studies
• US Air Force FIRST
• Guthy-Renker
• BAE
• Future Product Direction
• Questions
• Summary and Questions

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Enterprise Planning and Budgeting v1

• Version 1 (ZPB.A) September 2004
• See TechNote258249.1 About Oracle Enterprise
  Planning and Budgeting Mini-pack 11i.ZPB.A for
  all pre-requisites
• In version 1 of EPB, reuse the OFA General Ledger
  link, but it will only bring data from GL into
  the FEM schema it will not allow you to write
  data back to GL this will be a future
  enhancement.
• In the FEM schema, it is not a star schema it is
  optimized for other processing. There are open
  interface tables to all of these metadata and
  data tables, and some hidden tables.
• New Migration technote published as EPB OFA
  Migration Tech Note.pdf dated March, 2005
• Single chart of accounts and single USD currency
  supported
• Delivered on top of Oracle Applications 11.5.9,
  but Included as part of the rapid install for
  11.5.10 applications, but can be run standalone
  If a customer has 10.7 or 11.0.x or no Oracle
  Applications
• Backports of EPB to 11.5.8 or earlier are not
  technically feasible

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Enterprise Planning and Budgeting v2

• Version 2 (ZPB.B) September 2005
• Requires either 9.2.0.7 or 10.1.0.4 database
  plus patches, Apps CU2 (11.5.10.2), EPF FEM.D.1,
  and EPB ZPB.B patchset G
• License
• OFA/OSA licenses can migrate to either
• Full user EPB licenses or Oracle BI licenses
  (Discoverer)
• Express licenses migrate to Database Enterprise
  Edition plus OLAP Option run time only licenses

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EPBv2 Features

• Enhancements for Enterprise-wide rollout
• Budgeting in multiple currencies
• Additional calculation templates (If-Then-Else)
• Improved security management (via Security API)
• Business areas (Multiple SoB/charts of accounts)
• Improved business process management (Solve
  Options for multiple hierarchies whether
  value-based or level-based)
• SQL access to shared data (SQL access layer on
  top of EPB metadata)
• Support for XML Publisher
• Import from MS Excel

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Agenda

• What is Enterprise Planning and Budgeting
• EPB evolution from early adopter to version 2
• Three mini-case studies
• US Air Force FIRST
• Guthy-Renker
• BAE
• Future Product Direction
• Questions
• Summary and Questions

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USAF FIRST BF Program

• Goal -- Develop and install the first fully
  integrated, real-time financial information
  system for the USAF. The resulting Financial
  Information Resource System (FIRST) will collect
  all accounting data into a single integrated
  system and provide an enterprise-wide view of
  financial activity.
• Goal -- Replace existing three disparate
  financial systems which includes isolated
  historical budget data. FIRST will integrate,
  consolidate, and aggregate budgeting data across
  all levels of organization to streamline the
  budgeting process, increase efficiency and better
  support decision-making.

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USAF FIRST BF Program

• Budget Formulation includes the entire Oracle
  Technology stack
• Oracle Designer metadata repository for Legacy
  Data Warehouse
• Oracle Warehouse Builder -- transform all legacy
  systems data into a single unified architecture
• Single Sign-On using Oracle Application Server
  authentication
• Oracle Discoverer (aka Drake) ad hoc and
  standardized reporting from the Data Warehouse
• Oracle Applications 11.5.10 Enterprise Planning
  and Budgeting (EPB) in controlled release
  standard and custom business process workflows
• Original design utilized OFA, but then switched
  to an EPB focused design as an early adopter.
  There were ninety-seven separate
  features/functions as determining factors in
  comparison to switch.

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USAF FIRST BF Program Metrics

• EPB Configuration Specifications
• Source custom DW 6 TB (est) containing up to
  40 years of data from 10 heterogeneous sources
• Stand-alone EPB instance technology stack
• BIBeans 3.1
• Drake (aka Discoverer 10gR2)
• Database 10.1.0.4 plus OLAP option
• Oracle Workflow 2.6
• EPB 11.5.10 CU2 with EPB patchset F (controlled
  Release)
• FEM Schema patchset D.1
• 500 users via USAF portal in phase 1, potential
  3000 in phase 4
• 11 hierarchical dimensions, no simple dimensions
• 90 custom attributes

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USAF EPB v2 Problems, Issues, Concerns

• Team has logged over 61 TAR(s) from March 15,2005
  to February 17, 2006
• Team has identified 8 workarounds, 3 bugs, and 2
  enhancement requests
• Sub-BPA, sub-controllers, sub-schema
  administrators, like had in OFA, not yet
  available
• Backup and archive strategy designed but not yet
  implemented
• Documentation -- user versus admin
• Data Scrubbing and Staging still 60-70 of
  effort
• Agreement among diverse operations for a
  consistent business process flow

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Company Background

• Established in 1988, Guthy-Renker is today one of
  the world's direct response television companies
  with sales of more than 1.3 Billion per year and
  an average annual growth rate of 25 over the
  last 10 years.
• The company has become vertically-integrated, now
  covering every area of electronic retailing.
  Channels have expanded from the original
  television broadcast into cable and satellite, as
  well as telemarketing, direct mail, and retail
  channels.
• For those unfamiliar with the company, you will
  definitely know them by their spokespersons and
  brands
• Proactiv Solution ? Vanessa Williams
• Principal Secret ? Victoria Principal
• Winsor Pilates ? Daisy Fuentes
• Meaningful Beauty ? Cindy Crawford
• Get the Edge ? Anthony Robbins
• Natural Advantage ? Jane Seymour

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Environment

• With the tremendous growth in vertical
  integration and the expansion of product lines,
  the need to organize the planning, forecasting,
  and budgeting processes became more acute in the
  back office.
• Each product manager historically operated
  autonomously from the other brand managers,
  including marketing staff, channel management,
  customer service, IT, and accounting
  policies,etc.
• New CFO is breaking down internal barriers
• common measurements for determining go or no-go
  decision on new product launches
• upgrading the Oracle Applications to single
  11.5.10 2 instance

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Environment

• Current annual budgeting process is current year
  detail plus five year summary forecast.
• Current process uses an incredible 190
  interlocking MS Excel spreadsheets, which are
  maintained by two people. Some MS Excel formulas
  were traced back to be 14 levels deep. Other
  spreadsheet data is being re-keyed from scratch
  up to five times.
• Recognizing the need for a more stable platform
  that could be accessed by more stakeholders, the
  search began for software to meet their needs.

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Alternatives and Actions

• As part of the search a team was sent to Oracle
  User Group Collaborate06 conference to research
  possible solutions, which identified Oracle
  Enterprise Planning and Budgeting.
• Granular external sales and cost data is held by
  outsourced manufacturing and distribution
  operations at EDS and other fulfillment houses.
  This data is sent weekly to GRC, pre-sorted by
  FoxPro at GRC, and loaded via flat files into a
  sales data mart, which then feeds the GL only
  using top level consolidated numbers.
• An internal study was launched to compare what
  requirements from original failed custom software
  project could or could not be met by the EPB
  module. Once Finance team deemed EPB possible,
  then analysis began in earnest. Redundant,
  overlapping, missing, misstated, and inconsistent
  business requirements were identified. Gaps,
  workarounds, standard functionality, possible
  extensions, and future requirements were
  compiled. A Kepnor-Tregoe methodology to the
  requirements analysis to enable an overall team
  decision.

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Alternatives and Actions

• Major factors in decision to move forward with
  EPB were
• Minimum manual intervention and data re-keying
  required versus current MS Excel method
• Ability to run various planning models multiple
  times in any one day
• Facility to centralize data collection for both
  annual budget and monthly forecasting
• Ability for multiple users to access/update
  forecasts for specific items based on established
  security levels.
• Ability for individual users to create their own
  reports and analysis ad hoc from one central data
  repository
• Ability for individual users to create their own
  what-if scenarios in their own workspace,
  without affecting master repository
• Capability to download and upload data into and
  out of MS Excel
• Capability to control pixel level formatting for
  certain key reports via .pdf or .xml formats
  (i.e., BI Publisher)
• Single central store of data with an audit trail
  for analysis as the final version of the truth

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EPB Results

• Direct integration via GL Link for data feeds.
  Not enough detailed data, so pursuing granular
  data feeds from fulfillment houses.
• Integration of budget/forecast/actuals into one
  report without manual re-keying of data
• Accountability for results on existing products,
  new product rollouts, and entire product lines is
  at an all-time high
• Oracle OLAP database option is running both
  Oracle Demand Planning module and Enterprise
  Planning and Budgeting module in same instance on
  a large Sun box.
• Parallel system run for a complete overlap from
  old MS Excel and new EPB systems is currently in
  process, matching on multiple key financial
  reports and multiple ad hoc reports

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EPB Results Continued

• FY2007 Budget process is utilizing MS Excel
  spreadsheets download from EPB worksheets for
  individual manual input and documentation
  purposes
• Complete System Testing included
• EPB module
• 11i Integration
• Data integrity
• Administrative hands-on training with consultants
  in addition to administrative documentation
  available from Oracle
• Scope increased from original estimate to include
  building reports and graphs using XML Publisher
  and multiple reporting currencies inside EPB
  budget based on new international entities

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Lessons Learned

• EPB will not produce certain reports if the data
  is outside of GRC today
• EPB and ODP use the same OLAP technology stack,
  but are designed for different purposes (GL
  versus OM/PO/INV data sources)
• EPB has capability to reduce the monthly closing
  timeline, but is not an instantaneous reporting
  tool.
• Detail level Operational KPIs are not included in
  EPB, but are included in the BI data mart
  (separate project).

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• Aerospace Defense company based in U.K. with US
  subsidiaries
• Platform Solutions line of business headquartered
  in Johnson City NY
• Military and Commercial customers
• Using Oracle since 2002
• e-Business suite Financials, Manufacturing,
  Service.
• Apps version - 11.5.10 Cumulative Update 2

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Oracle Financial Analyzer environment

• OFA Live in 2002
• GL-Link for Overhead Accounting group
• One set of books/one currency
• Programmatic reporting and budgeting capability
  added in 2003
• Captures actual program costs from various Oracle
  modules
• Consolidated reporting and budgeting tool for our
  line of business
• Approx. 100 users across six US sites.
• Weekly refresh of actuals from Oracle apps.
• Quarterly planning cycle.

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Business Pains Needs

• Why replace OFA?
• Increasing Cycle times for data refreshes
• Business demands
• 4 hour update for solves actuals and planning
• End of life for OFA no future enhancements
• Administrative OH is burdensome manual
  processes no workflow email notifications.

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Why Enterprise Planning Budgeting?

• Oracle suite is strategic choice for our Line Of
  Business and our parent Operating Group (US BAE)
• Analysis showed that EPB is capable of meeting
  the requirements of our business.
• No additional software cost - We had already
  purchased the software as part of our Oracle
  suite.

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EPB Implementation Details

• Opportunity to improve our design
• Is there a better way to do it? i.e. Build a
  better mousetrap?
• Addition of customer enhancements (thankfully,
  not many!)
• Simplification elimination of many attributes,
  hierarchies, dimensionsReduce our 200 FDI(s)
  currently in place in OFA
• Utilize process driven aspects of EPB and Oracle
  Workflow
• Reduced administrative OH burden
• Access tied to Oracle login, not unique UNIX/OFA
  login
• Less babysitting required (OFA) - ability to
  schedule repeatable jobs via Oracle Conc. Mgr.
• No more Express/SPL requirements rely on generic
  Oracle DBA expertise.
• 100 web
• One login for Oracle

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EPB Implementation Details (continued)

• Development complete now in UAT instance
• Reduced OFA structures which need to go to EPF
  tables
• Dimensions, Attributes, Hierarchies
• Tighter integration with Oracle GL
• Entire Trial Balance in EPB Only expenses from
  chart of Accounts in OFA
• Consolidation of OFA FDIs
• Shared dimensionality same Analytic Workspace.
• Developer modifying the data extracts. Over 80
  of our data loaded in OFA is custom extracts
  outside of GL Link, and most of this 80 is
  Oracle Project Accounting data
• Opportunity to clean house for increased
  efficiencies, such as pulling hierarchies
  directly from GL Link in lieu of separately
  maintaining hierarchies in OFA.

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Lessons Learned

• Need to work very closely with Oracle DBA and
  Developer
• Run STATS often on FEM, OLAPSYS, ZPB, SYS, SYSTEM
  for performance
• EPB enforces a higher level of data consistency
  than OFA
• Dimensions with required attributes.
• Level-based Hierarchy must have members be
  consistent not a requirement in OFA.
• Important to get setup of EPF right.
• Still need to run OFA through parallel transition
• US GAAP and UK GAAP make for some interesting
  discussions, dimension member parents,
  hierarchies, attributes, and report formats to
  satisfy both groups
• Pioneering the projects accounting data in same
  business area with OGL data will require design
  assistance from Oracle

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Success Metrics Results

• Anticipate reduced cycle times through
• Reduction of number of dimension values
• Improvements in underlying OLAP engine
• Potential Issues
• EPB is shared with other Oracle Apps. Cant
  optimize EPF/EPB at the expense of other apps.
• Historical data how much?
• Analysis or Audit requirement

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Looking Forward

• Oracle Data Warehouse
• Addition of one of our UK business areas that is
  part of our line of business.
• Use EPB built-in multi-currency option.

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Agenda

• What is Enterprise Planning and Budgeting
• EPB evolution from early adopter to version 2
• Three mini-case studies
• US Air Force FIRST
• Guthy-Renker
• BAE
• Future Product Direction
• Summary and Questions

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Oracle CPM Roadmap to Fusion

• Enterprise Performance Foundation
• Unified analytic and CPM semantic model,
  including integrations to support CPM functions
  for all customers (Oracle, PSFT, JDE, Siebel,
  other)
• Integration with PSFT GL
• Integration with Oracle HR and PSFT HCM
• -- Integration with OBIEE (formerly Siebel)
• Enterprise Planning and Budgeting
• Write-back to Oracle GL,
• Integration with PSFT GL for expense budgeting
  encumbrance accounting
• Integration with Oracle HR and PSFT HCM for
  salary planning position budgeting
• Simplification of setup processes business
  process, metadata management, security

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Customizations/ Extensions

• Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting is fully
  configurable by the customer
• There are no customization hooks within the
  application. All non-OGL data must conform to
  EPF requirements
• Customizations to Oracle Workflow can be done
  using the standard Oracle Workflow APIs

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More Questions?
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Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Three Case
Studies
David Fuston Director, Business
Intelligence Linium, LLC Cell
816.729.1033 Email david.fuston_at_linium.com