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Improve Core Reporting in Oracle E-Business suite While Saving Time and Money

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Agenda

Introduction Common Requirements Business Challenges Introducing CS*Form

Features at a glance Examples/Screenshots Demonstration Benefits Q&A


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Introduction

Craig ONeill CTO, CaoSyso Leads the development team on product strategy and development

o Working in the software industry for over 24 years

o A certified IT architect; filled many roles from developer to technical consultant

o Vast experience and knowledge of software development and product delivery

o Specialising in complimentary productivity and GRC solutions for the Oracle E-

Business Suite


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Common Requirements

You need an embedded core reporting solution

o Internal reporting

o Day to day reporting

You have numerous mini-applications for additional functionality

o Capture additional industry/organization specific information

o Expose additional information

o Read-only and/or simplified Oracle forms

o Streamline application processes

o Often implemented as a spreadsheet, Access application, VB appetc

You wish to provide interactive on-screen versions of many existing printedreports


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Common Requirements

You want to reduce the number of traditionalcustomizations

You lack the resource, time and budget needed to satisfy many business andend-user requirements

You desire the ability to react quickly to ongoing user requirements

You want to reduce the burden on IT

You want to reduce your reliance on external resource

The business is cutting costs

many others


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Business Challenge #1 - Time

To implement anything new that is part of the Oracle E-Business Suite takestime

o Even relatively simple reporting extensions can take a long time to implement

o Having to resort to an out of Oracle reporting solution can take a long time to

implement (installation, training, developmentetc)

Most businesses do not have enough time to develop these kinds of solutions

o Reducing head count, reducing reliance on external resource (contract staff,implementation partners)

Excessive time is often needed to manage custom solutions, particularlythrough patching and upgrading


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Business Challenge #2 - Cost

To implement anything new that is part of the Oracle E-Business Suite isexpensive

o Any kind of reporting extension is going to be costly

Most businesses do not have the budget to develop these kinds of solutions

o The current economic climate

o Cost cutting

Excessive cost is often incurred when managing custom solutions, particularlythrough patching and upgrading


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Business Challenge #3 - Skills

To implement anything new that is part of the core Oracle E-Business Suiterequires a high level of technical ability

o Oracle E-Business Suite Development

o Oracle Forms

o Oracle Reports

o PL/SQL

o Other Oracle Development Tools

Many businesses do not have the skills in-house to develop custom solutions

External resource is often used which brings issues

o No accountability once the resource has gone

o Ongoing support presents a major problem

o Customisations can lead to a black-box solutions


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Business Challenge #4Functional Gaps

Oracle E-Business is a huge suite of enterprise applications, however...

o As with all large scale systems there are always going to be gaps in functionality

o Many gaps will need to be filled to meet the businesses needs

o Often gaps need to be filled to ensure compliance

o As end-user experience grows, more gaps and inefficiencies will be identified

o Business processes change and as a consequence your applications will needtailoring and extending


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Business Challenge #5 - Future

Strive to make better user of your existing investment in Oracle enterprisesoftware

Huge numbers of organizations using some version of 11i

R12 has a life span in its current form of at least 7 to 10 years (probably longer)

Applications Unlimited (Oracle EBS is here to stay)

Oracle has migrated a small % of professional forms to OAF for R12 andannounced there are no plans to migrate further forms

Dont be put off because of possible future trends/direction


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Business Challenges - Summary

Time, Cost and Skills

o Required to create custom solutions

o Ongoing support

Functional Gaps

o Stakeholders, sponsors and end-users often require extensions

Future Technologyo Dont be overly concerned


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Introducing CS*Form

CS*Form enables your organization to create powerful and embeddedreporting and transactional solutions for EBS with a native look and feel

CS*Form can be used by almost anyone with very little technical knowledge

CS*Form is of major benefit to any business area and almost any Oracle EBSmodule

User friendly and feature rich

Unrivalled power

Unique in the industry


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Who Can Create Solutions?

Functional Consultants

Technical Consultants

Developers/Programmers

Power/Super Users

Database Administrations

System Administrators

Business Analysts

Systems Analysts


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Who Can Benefit?

Almost Everyone!


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Features at a Glance

Online interactive reporting

Dynamic screen development

Several template screen styles

Multiple screen/drill down capability

Transactional solutions for full featured extensions

Pre-compute functionality for instant results

Hardcopy option with CS*Report

Base View for use in other solutions/tools

Stored procedure creation and invocation

Simple Events Tag scripting for additional interactivity

Custom Code Interface

Application Builder for instant deployment

Conditional formatting and access

Simple installation (less than 1 hour)


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Features at a Glance

Version Control built-in

SQL Builder

XML support for transporting solutions

Complex validation rules and list of values

Powerful default value functionality

Dynamic Data References

Predefined Placeholder Values

Snapshot data with CS*Snapshot

Simple, Fast Deployment of solutions

Powerful yet simple IDE

Fully embedded into Oracle E-Business Suite

Fully integrated with CS*Applications


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Solution Examples


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Solution ExampleReplaced External Reporting Solution

Here we have replaced an external mini-application originally developed usingOracle EBS interfaces and MS Excel; it is used to as a catalog reporting andpurchasing analysis solution


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Solution ExampleCapture Industry/Organization Specific Information

This example solution is used to capture additional payroll budgetinformation; this is then used to compare against actual payroll values postedto the General Ledger


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Solution ExampleExpose Additional Information

Here we have created a new screen that is used to provide the user withinformation they dont currently have easy access too This solution is used to find which Request Groupsa particular Concurrent Programis

assigned to


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Solution ExampleRead-only/Simplified Standard Forms

Here we have created a solution that is to be deployed to using who onlyrequire read-only access to some sensitive information within EBSo This solution is a simplified and read-only version of the standard Oracle Form

used to view and maintain Bank details


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Solution ExampleStreamline Application Process/Interactive Reporting

This solution was created as a replacementfor several hard to use and very in-efficientstandard forms within the Oracle Projectsmodule; it addressed several issues found instandard functionality and streamlined theway users work


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Solution ExampleReplace Printed Report

Here we have a couple of example CS*Form solutions that are replacementsfor standard reports


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Solution ExampleReplace External Mini-Application

Here we have replaced an external mini-application originally developed usingMS Access. It is now fully embedded into Oracle ERBS with a native lookand feelo This solution is a simple Issue Trackingsystem that users of EBS can use to raise

issues, bugs or just ask questions


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Demonstration


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Key Benefits/Value Proposition

Considerable reduction in time and resource required to develop solutions forOracle E-Business Suite.

o The sheer speed of development has to be seen to be believed.

Enormous direct cost savings

Numerous indirect cost savings...

o Reduced developer training costso Reduced support costs

o Reduced software management costs

o More productive use of your own in-house teams and/or implementationpartners

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More efficient /optimised use of your enterprise applications Centralized control and development.

No major technical skills are required for development or support


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Key Benefits/Value Proposition

Delivers consistent, high quality solutions

Gain the ability to respond rapidly to ongoing user demands

Risks are minimised

o Application stability

o Re-work after patching/upgrades

o Lack of resources for on-going support

o Built entirely on Oracle EBS technology stack

All solutions reside within the underlying database and so there are no issues with codemanagement and deployment

Maintain a native look and feel so end-users feel right at home

Deliver solutions often sidelined due to time and/or budgetary constraints Bottom lineimprove reporting and use of Oracle EBS while saving time and money

Rapid return on investment

o Often realised in weeks, not quarters or years


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Multiple Capabilities


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CaoSys Solution Suite

A comprehensive suite of solutions...o Improving efficiency with productivity solutionso Delivering assurance through compliance


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Q&A

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AcceleratedProof of Concept...o Available for any of our solutionso Very focused to ensure effective very quickly

o Accelerate your decision making processo Complete POC in as little as 2 weeks

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