Justin Makeig troove Inc. Booth 16

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Enterprise Search for Oracle Applications

• Justin Makeigtroove Inc.Booth 16

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Agenda

• Overview
• Drivers
• Current limitations
• Why troove?
• Demo
• Discussion

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About troove Inc.

• Spin-off of successful ERP consultancy to focus
  on product development
• Years of implementing Oracle and custom
  supporting applications
• Core team of Oracle Applications experts and
  experienced software architects

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Why cant finding information in Oracle
Applications be as fast, easy, and familiar as
web search?
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The Value of Effective Search

• Average knowledge worker spends 25 of her
  workday searching for information
• Cost of not finding the right information
  estimated at 6,000 per year per worker

Source Delphi Group
Source IDC
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Drivers

• Leaner organizationsfewer employees expected to
  do more
• Increased customer service expectations
• Continued data growth taxes inquiry
  infrastructure
• Changing expectations for the speed and quality
  of search tools

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Limitations of Current Tools

• Oracle Applications optimized for transactions,
  not search
• Inquiry forms can significantly impact
  application performance
• Complex interface requires specialized user
  skills and extensive training
• Understood and used effectively by a relatively
  small population

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Limitations of Current Tools

• Slow compared to search-specific tools
• Cant search other applications with native
  Oracle tools

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Query vs. Search
Query
Search

• Highly structured
• Entity-specific
• Limited to pre-defined fields
• Difficult to determine associations among data
• Limited ranges, Boolean logic

• Free-form, flexible
• Covers all entities
• Able to mix field-level and free text
• Automatically discovers related data
• Simple syntax for even complex logic

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What is troove?
A web-based search application that allows users
of all technical abilities to quickly and easily
search Oracle Applications data.
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Ease of Use

• Find complex data from simple, familiar web pages
• No expensive application training
• Easily customize the look and feel to present
  data in ways to best accommodate users

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Benefits for Everyday Users

• Speed up searches
• Access data unavailable from standard inquiry
  forms
• Quickly discover relationships among data by
  browsing and drilling
• No need to launch Oracle for routine inquiry

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Benefits for Casual Users

• Makes Oracle Applications data easily accessible
• Empowers users to discover data, allowing them to
  use it creatively
• Allows decision-makers to focus on using data,
  not gathering it

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Performance

• Searches are performed against its own internal
  data store, not production systems
• Offloads routine inquiry traffic from taxed
  application instances
• Read-only, always

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Security

• Enforces organizational security policy even
  while expanding data accessibility
• Leverages existing security infrastructure
  (ActiveDirectory, LDAP, etc.)
• Limits access to documents by groups of users
• Maintains encrypted data in its encrypted form
• Hide/mask sensitive data in document views

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Simple Installation

• Appliance bundles hardware and software
• No need to configure a machine or manage another
  database
• No expensive customization
• No expensive client deployments

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Maintenance

• Ability to grow with your Oracle implementation
  and other custom applications
• Version updates
• Patches
• Supports multiple versions of Oracle Applications
• Document views and data models can be extended
  when applications change

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Architecture
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Beyond Oracle
Centralized search and display for data from
multiple applications

• Core search technology works with virtually any
  type of data
• Oracle extensions and custom applications
• SAP (Q1 2006)
• PeopleSoft, Siebel (Q2 2006)
• Legacy systems (COBOL, I/VSAM)

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Lets see it, already!
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Summary

• Quickly and easily access Oracle data from a
  familiar web interface
• Empower users to use more Oracle data more
  creatively
• Leverage existing security infrastructure for
  group-level access
• Up and running in 30 minutes, but can grow with
  your organizations Oracle implementationand
  beyond

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For more information about how troove can give
you better access to your Oracle Applications
data or for a demo, please call [phone]
or visit http//troove.net/.
Justin Makeigjustin.makeig_at_troove.net