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Oracle Financial Analytics
Oracle Financial Analytics helps front-line managers improve financial performance with complete, up-to-the-minute information on their department's expenses and revenue contributions. Hundreds of key performance indicators and more than 200 reports enable financial managers to improve cash flow, lower costs, and increase profitability while maintaining more accurate, timely, and transparent financial reporting that helps ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
- Benefits
- Payables: Assess cash management and monitor operational effectiveness of the payables department to ensure lowest transaction costs.
- Receivables: Monitor DSOs and cash cycles to manage working capital, manage collections, and control receivables risk.
- General Ledger: Manage financial performance across locations, customers, products, and territories, and receive real-time alerts on events that may impact financial condition.
- Profitability: Identify most profitable customers, products, and channels, and understand profitability drivers across regions, divisions, and profit centers.
Oracle Human Resources Analytics
Oracle Human Resources Analytics helps organizations improve overall workforce performance and managerial effectiveness while reducing costs. With numerous key performance indicators, more than 85 reports, and four dashboards, Oracle Human Resources Analytics provides your human resources professionals and front-line managers with the tools to gain up-to-the-minute insight into productivity levels across your organization. The resulting benefits help reduce workforce costs, increase employee productivity, effectively manage employee compensation, improve retention, and reduce voluntary turnover.
- Benefits
- Compensation: Understand how compensation impacts performance, ensure compensation is equitable and consistent across roles, and align incentive compensation with objectives and company goals.
- HR Performance: Assess HR performance against recruitment and retention goals, monitor and improve employee productivity, and assess compensation competitiveness to attract top talent.
- Retention: Understand drivers of employee turnover, proactively identify top performers who are likely being recruited by competitors, and reduce recruiting and involuntary termination costs.
- Workforce Profile and Compliance: Reduce time and cost of compliance reporting, increase employee satisfaction and retention, and manage overall profile and background of workforce.
Oracle Procurement & Spend Analytics
Oracle Procurement & Spend Analytics, part of the Oracle BI Applications product line, enables you to optimize supply-side performance by integrating data from across the enterprise value chain, thus enabling executives, managers, and front-line employees to make more informed decisions. Oracle Procurement & Spend Analytics increases visibility into the complete procure-to-pay process, including comprehensive spend and procurement analysis, supplier performance analysis, and supplier payables analysis. Through complete end-to-end insight into the factors that impact company performance, you can significantly reduce costs, enhance profitability, increase customer satisfaction, and gain competitive advantage.
- Benefits
- Improved Procurement and Spend: Gain detailed visibility into direct and indirect spending, and identify opportunities to consolidate spending and reduce costs.
- Better Supplier Performance: Monitor price, delivery, and product quality to determine best- and worst-performing suppliers.
Oracle Supply Chain & Order Management Analytics
Oracle Supply Chain and Order Management Analytics delivers deep customer insight into order and inventory data so you can make better decisions in each stage of the order lifecycle. Oracle Supply Chain and Order Management Analytics enables you to assess inventory levels, determine likely product fulfillment needs before the order has been booked, quickly identify potential order backlog issues, and stay on top of critical accounts receivable (A/R) and daily sales outstanding (DSO) issues. By leveraging actionable and fact-based insights, you can transform your current Supply Chain and Order Management processes to improve financial performance and customer satisfaction.
- Benefits
- Better Business Performance: Improve revenue recognition with faster order to booking conversion and fewer bottlenecks in the order to cash cycle.
- Better Order Fulfillment: Improve inventory management for those products that consistently fall into backlog due to a lack of appropriate stock levels.
- Better Inventory Management: Gain visibility into inventory activities to minimize unnecessary expenditures and optimize inventory to conserve working capital.
Oracle Sales Analytics
Oracle Sales Analytics provides hundreds of key performance indicators and more than 130 reports in five customizable dashboards. These analytics solutions dramatically improve the effectiveness of your sales people by providing real-time, actionable insight into every sales opportunity at the point of customer contact. With more accurate sales forecasts and enhanced identification of potential problems and opportunities, Oracle Sales Analytics helps close business faster and increase overall sales revenue.
- Benefits
- Analyze pipeline opportunities to determine actions required to meet sales targets.
- Determine which products and customer segments generate the most revenue.
- Understand which competitors are faced most often and how to win against them.
- Identify up-sell and cross-sell opportunities within existing accounts.
Oracle Service Analytics
To compete more effectively, organizations are compelled to provide better customer service while keeping service costs low. Oracle Service Analytics provides a comprehensive customer service solution for your entire organization, with hundreds of key performance indicators and more than 102 reports delivered in eight interactive dashboards. This consolidated view of your customer service effectiveness leads to improved service levels while lowering service costs, and increased customer satisfaction that translates into higher revenue per customer.
- Benefits
- Service Effectiveness: Monitor, analyze, and manage the service center based on key performance metrics such as service request aging and average resolution time, increasing customer satisfaction and reducing costs.
- Employee Effectiveness: Understand Customer Service Rep (CSR) performance to enable improvements in employee productivity, effectiveness, training programs, and retention.
- Customer Insight: Provide CSRs a more complete view of a customer's account, potential value, and propensity to buy more products, enabling faster resolution of issues and increased cross-selling rates.
Oracle Contact Center Telephony Analytics
Oracle Contact Center Telephony Analytics helps companies run contact centers with more satisfied customers, lower operating costs, and higher revenue per customer. Oracle Contact Center Telephony Analytics provides organizations with powerful insight that enables them to analyze all aspects of contact center performance. The solution provides more than 72 reports in five interactive dashboards with hundreds of best-practice metrics, alerts, and key performance indicators (KPIs), enabling companies to take targeted action to improve employee productivity, reduce costs, and increase customer satisfaction.
- Benefits
- Customer Service: Optimize performance across multiple service channels to achieve greater process efficiency and maximize service effectiveness and customer satisfaction.
- Agent Performance: Increase service effectiveness while minimizing costs; optimize staffing levels for anticipated call volumes and service request types; and gain insight into how training, tenure, and rewards impact agent performance.
- Service and Delivery Cost: Track and measure initial incident-to-issue resolution rates; measure service costs by customer, channel, and product type to reduce overall service costs; and maximize customer satisfaction.
- Contact Center Sales: Increase revenue per agent; maximize cross-sell and up-sell rates; and maximize revenue performance across customer, product, service, and regions.
Oracle Marketing Analytics
Oracle Marketing Analytics allows your organization to obtain maximum results from your marketing investments by providing your entire marketing team with a complete, up-to-the-minute picture of customer preferences, buying behavior, and profitability. Oracle Marketing Analytics helps you to develop closer, more valuable customer and prospect relationships and improve marketing effectiveness.
- Benefits
- Marketing Planning: Achieve better campaign response rates, profile customers for more effective event-based promotion, and allocate resources more effectively by identifying what drives campaign results.
- Campaign Performance: Track and measure campaign effectiveness in real time, understand factors that drive campaign results and lead conversion rates, and compare individual campaign results to target metrics.
- Customer Insight: Understand product affinity for targeted promotions, profile customers' buying behavior for more effective promotions, and gain better insight into segmentation characteristics.
Oracle Business Indicators
Oracle Business Indicators is the first in a series of business applications for delivering Oracle business information to the Apple iPhone. The application provides mobile business users with real-time, secure access to business performance information on one of the industry's most exciting and engaging mobile devices - Apple iPhone.
Oracle Business Indicators allows users to view and interact with Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications that include financial, human resources, supply chain, and customer relationship management analytics, as well as analytical alerts generated by Oracle Delivers, an integrated component of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE). Leveraging full advantage of the Apple iPhone mobile platform, Oracle Business Indicators is built as a native application to offer highly intuitive and flexible features including browse, search, and favorites for a superior overall end user experience.
- Benefits
- Pre-defined business indicators: Pre-built metrics and reports include financial, human resources, supply chain, and customer relationship management analytics.
- Timely alerts on exception conditions: Enables the mobile user to review alerts generated by conditions pre-defined in Oracle Delivers. A user can select an alert entry and immediately review an associated analytic report.
- Superior user experience: Offers a highly intuitive user interface for browsing, searching, and locating business performance metrics.
- Robust security: Based on the same user security model as Oracle BI Applications. Also supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology.
Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation
Oracle Business Intelligence foundation, part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family, provides the most comprehensive business intelligence (BI) and analytic capabilities available today based on category-leading products for OLAP interactive dashboards, ad hoc analysis, proactive detection and alerts, advanced reporting and publishing, mobile analytics, desktop gadgets, and more.
- Benefits
- Pervasive: Deliver intuitive, role-based intelligence for everyone in an organization — from front-line employees to senior management — that enables better decisions, actions, and business processes.
- Comprehensive: Integrate information from your financial performance management, operational intelligence, and transactional applications.
- Hot-Pluggable: Use your existing data sources and systems. Oracle BI products are hot-pluggable with Oracle and non-Oracle environments.
Oracle BI Suite - Enterprise Edition Plus
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus (Oracle BI EE Plus) is a comprehensive suite of enterprise BI products that delivers a full range of analysis and reporting capabilities. Featuring a unified, highly scalable, modern architecture, Oracle BI EE Plus provides intelligence and analytics from data spanning enterprise sources and applications — empowering the largest communities with complete and relevant insight.
Oracle BI EE Plus also bundles key Oracle Hyperion reporting products for integrated reporting with Oracle Hyperion financial applications.
- Benefits
- Comprehensive BI functionality built on a unified infrastructure: Includes interactive dashboards, full ad hoc queries and analysis, proactive intelligence delivery and alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP) analysis and presentation, high-volume production reporting, real-time predictive intelligence, disconnected analytics, as well as integration with Microsoft Office.
- Pervasive insight to everyone, everywhere: Provides relevant insight to everyone, not just analysts. All levels of the organization can see information optimized for their role.
- Unified business model: Built on an enterprise information model that unifies metadata across the Oracle BI tools and analytical applications for the lowest TCO.
- Hot-Pluggable BI infrastructure: Integrates with any data source, extraction, transformation and load (ETL) tool, major business application, application server, security infrastructure, portal technology, other front-end and analytical tools, and databases including IBM DB/2, Teradata, Microsoft SQL Server; SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW), Microsoft Analysis Services; flat files; XML data; and unstructured data.
Oracle BI Standard Edition
Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One (SE One) is a complete, integrated BI system designed for deployments from 5 to 50 users. It includes proven, leading BI and data warehousing technology, including Oracle Interactive Dashboards, Oracle BI Publisher for highly formatted reporting, Oracle Answers for ad hoc reporting and analysis, Oracle Warehouse Builder for ETL, and Oracle Database — all in one
- Benefits
- Proven, leading BI technology: Based on Oracle BI Enterprise Edition technology; priced, packaged and pre-configured for smaller deployments.
- Ready to grow with your business: Seamless upgrades to enterprise BI products and flexible deployment options enable organizations to "start small but think big".
- Empowers end users: Designed with business users in mind, featuring simple yet powerful interfaces that empower end users instead of overwhelming your IT department with simple report-building tasks.
Oracle Essbase
Oracle Essbase is the industry-leading OLAP (online analytical processing) server. The newest release of Oracle's Hyperion Essbase product, Oracle Essbase provides an environment for rapidly developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications. With a rapid application development environment that is managed by the business, Oracle Essbase enables the business to quickly model complex business scenarios. For example, Oracle Essbase makes it easy for line-of-business personnel to develop and manage analytic applications that model complex scenarios, forecast the business and perform "what-if" analyses in order to look into the future. Oracle Essbase supports extremely fast query response times for vast numbers of users, for large data sets, and for complex business models. It is hot-pluggable across any data source.
- Benefits
- Richest business user experience: Delivers "speed-of-thought" query response time so users can quickly understand the metrics that influence business performance, ask questions, and make informed decisions. With its outstanding Microsoft Office integration, Oracle Essbase resonates with business and financial analysts alike. In addition, a suite of reporting tools satisfies the diverse needs of users across the enterprise. Whether inside a spreadsheet, through formatted reports, via a powerful ad hoc graphical interface, or a data visualization paradigm, business users can easily and intuitively understand what drives the business.
- Highly advanced calculation engine: At its core, Oracle Essbase is the most advanced, high performance calculation engine on the market. It ships with over 350 pre-built, out-of-the-box functions, accelerating the development of complex business models. A single point of maintenance makes it easy for an administrator to manage business rules. From straightforward aggregations to complex cross-dimensional allocations; from comprehensive time series intelligence to financial sophistication; the Oracle Essbase calculator delivers premium performance and breadth of functionality.
- Best custom analytic environment: Oracle Essbase enables line-of-business personnel to drive application design and rapid iterations. The highly graphical "outline" technology makes it easy to build dimensions, hierarchies, metrics, and scenarios. Oracle Essbase's unique multi-user read/write technology allows the creation of forward-looking applications such as trending, forecasting and scenario analysis. It is the Oracle Essbase engine that powers the Hyperion Planning suite of applications. Performance is optimized via a range of data storage and compression methods best suited for the type of application being built. Oracle Essbase supports both 32- and 64-bit computing across both Windows and Unix operating environments, and is capable of massive scalability for enterprise-wide deployments.
Oracle BI Publisher
Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher (formerly XML Publisher) is an enterprise reporting solution for authoring, managing, and delivering all your highly formatted documents, such as operational reports, electronic funds transfer documents, government PDF forms, shipping labels, checks, sales and marketing letters, and more. Built on open standards, Oracle BI Publisher also allows IT Staff and developers to create data models against practically any data source and build custom reporting applications that leverage existing infrastructure. Oracle BI Publisher can generate tens of thousands of documents per hour with minimal impact to transactional systems. Reports can be designed using familiar desktop products and viewed online or scheduled for delivery to a wide range of destinations.
- Benefits
- Reduce complexity and lower costs: Eliminate costly point solutions and simplify your reporting architecture with a singe reporting environment for all your documents.
- Uses data from anywhere: Create reports from virtually any data source that provides a JDBC connection, including web services, HTTP XML feeds, file data sources, and more.
- Uses the tools you know: Use familiar desktop products or developer tools to create and maintain report layouts.
- Hot-Pluggable: Oracle BI Publisher integrates with your IT Infrastructure by supporting a wide range of security models and integrating with custom applications via Web services or Java APIs.
- Pre-integrated with Oracle: Works seamlessly with Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards Enterprise One, Hyperion Planning, Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Oracle BI Discoverer.
Oracle Real-Time Decisions
Oracle's Real-Time Decisions (RTD) platform combines both rules and predictive analytics to power solutions for real-time enterprise decision management. It enables real-time intelligence to be instilled into any type of business process or customer interaction. A high-performance transactional server delivers real-time decisions and recommendations. This server automatically renders decisions within a business process and reveals insights, creating actionable intelligence from data flowing through the process in real time.
- Features
- Self-Learning Predictive Analytics: Automatically learns from each interaction by autonomously updating its predictive models in real time.
- Multi-Channel Support: Provides partitioned learning models that support multi-channel decision applications using a common set of decision logic and metadata.
- Time-Aware Learning: Manages competing business goals, such as increasing revenue while decreasing servicing costs.
- Balanced Rules - Driven and Model-Driven Decision-Making: Enables a balance between user-defined business logic and predictive models based on empirical data.
- Service-Oriented J2EE Architecture: Built on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) using industry-standard J2EE application servers (such as Oracle Application Server, BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere).
Real-Time Decisions Fact Sheet
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