Customer Spotlight

Denise Sessa | Business Systems AnalystNevada Cancer Institute

About Nevada Cancer Institute

• Background info on the company

– NVCI has about 300 employees

– 10- 15 reporting power users

– Multiple Organizations/Cost Centers

– Single Set of Books

Reporting Challenges

• What business problems were we trying to solve?

– Reporting for Payroll , Finance and Grants

– Reporting for distribution

– Users were new to Oracle and Discoverer

– Users held manager-like positions

– Concerns with Security for development and viewing of reports

Options Considered

• What different options did we look at?

– Oracle BI

– Build our own EUL within Discoverer

– Standard Oracle Reports

Why Buy Noetix?

• Quick implementation time.

• Had 90% of the views/reports we needed out of the box.

– Employee Accrual Report

– Supplier Paid Invoice History

– Account Analysis Reports

• NVCI limited IT Resources for report development.– Users needed access to adhoc reporting

themselves.

The Implementation

• Implementation timeline – Installation took about 3 weeks – Training for IT & Business Users was 1 week– Up and running with reports within 4 weeks– Currently have 10 to 15 users

• Results and benefits – Reduced demand on IT resources for report

development.– Access to data unavailable previously.– No issues to views experienced during Oracle

upgrade and patching.

Tips & Tricks

• Some lessons learned & tips when considering a reporting solution

– Define requirements prior to implementation in order to better determine which views are needed.

– Including IT in End User training is critical to accomplishing the reporting goals.

– Use Noetix support. I have never had a issue go unresolved.

Questions?