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Exalytics: Engineered Systems for Business Analytics

Jerry Jorgensen – Senior Sales Consultant

Enterprise Performance Management

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any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or

functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing


functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing

decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or

functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole

discretion of Oracle.

Agenda

� Business Challenges & Market Drivers

� Oracle’s Engineered Systems Strategy

� Exalytics Overview

� Exalytics Value Proposition


� Exalytics Value Proposition

Business Challenges & Market Drivers


Business ChallengesTechnology Constraints Can Impede Timely Decision Making

Reduce Complexity

Accelerate Deployments

Simplify Management

Grow Revenue

Product Innovation

Risk Reduction


Service Levels

Reduce Costs

Unplanned Events

Time to Market

Market Drivers and Technology Enablers

• Better decisions

• Productivity

• Better decisions

• Productivity

Market DriversUsers Demanding

Flexible DeliveryEmbedded

Intelligence


• Productivity

• Efficiency

• Simplicity

• BI Adoption

• Productivity

• Efficiency

• Simplicity

• BI Adoption

Technology

Enablers

In-Memory

Analytics

Engineered

Systems

Oracle’s Engineered Systems Strategy


Simplify IT With Engineered Systems

Highest Risk Lowest Risk


× Multiple Vendors

× Delivered in Pieces

× Assembled on Site

× One-Off Configuration

× Tested By You

× Painful Maintenance Cycles

Highest Risk Lowest Risk

� One Vendor

� Delivered Intact

� Factory Assembled

� Standard Configuration

� Tested Together by Oracle

� Simpler Maintenance Cycles

Benefits of This Approach

PROFITSSHIFT COSTS TO PROFITS IMPROVE TIME TO VALUE REDUCE RISK


Faster Time to Value Reduce Risk

• Slash project costs

• Focus on innovation

• Shift budget to new projects

• Support more business users

• Process more transactions

• Accelerate projects

• Consolidate

• Beat your “Go Live” date by months not days

• Add new businesses, anytime

• Add new capabilities, when you need them

• Offer new products & services before the competition

• Shrink number of IT vendors

• Avoid H/W scheduling delays

• Minimize H/W integration

• Get rid of “finger pointing”

• Avoid “all nighters”

• Ensure system availability

General Purpose

Engineered Systems & Appliances Portfolio

Purpose Built

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SPARC

SuperCluster

Database Appliance Exalytics

Big Data ApplianceExalogicExadata

Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine

Delivers

• Lower TCO, easing IT Support Burden

• Faster, Quicker Analytic Applications

• Scalability to thousands of users

Oracle Exalytics is the industry's first in-memory BI machine that delivers the fastestperformance for business intelligence and planning applications

Oracle Exalytics is the industry's first in-memory BI machine that delivers the fastestperformance for business intelligence and planning applications


• Scalability to thousands of users

Unique Features

• In-memory Analytics

• Runs BI and Planning Apps

• Fits with existing data sources, infrastructure

• Optimized with Exa* – InfiniBand

• Optimized BI Foundation Suite

The Engineered Advantage

• Tested together• Certified together• Packaged together


• Packaged together• Deployed together• Upgraded together• Managed together• Supported together

Exalytics Overview


Exalytics Engineered System – So What is It??

• Engineered Hardware based on Open Systems• Operating SystemELinux• Memory: 1 Terabyte DRAM• Processors: 40 Intel Cores• Storage: 3.6TB HDD

• Engineered Software Optimization• Adaptive In-Memory Caching


1 TB DRAM

40 Processing Cores

High Speed Networking

In-Memory Analytics Hardware

For information purposes only, not a commitment to the development,

release, and timing of any features or functionality.

• Adaptive In-Memory Caching• In-Memory Columnar Compression• Optimized Storage Block Access• Free Form Data Exploration & High Density Visualizations

• Super Fast Financial & Operational Planning with

Reporting and Analytics

• Higher Performance to Total Cost Ratio

Oracle Exalytics

� Speed-of-Thought Analysis at Enterprise Scale

– 20x better response times

– Sub-second performance enables speed-of-thought analytics

– Grow to 50,000 enterprise users on one appliance

� What-if Analysis and Forecasting


Extreme Performance for Enterprise Analytics



– More accurate – use more detail, include more scope, evaluate wider operations

– More scale – more users and higher volumes at busy periods

– Greater agility – do daily instead of monthly

� Enterprise Planning

– Reduce planning cycle times with 5x better response time and 6x better throughput

– Run more planning models with finer grained operational detail to improve accuracy

– Extend beyond Finance to every LOB, with 10,000 Planning users on one appliance

BI and EPM Applications Run Better with Exalytics No application changes required

• Financials

• HR

• Procure & Spend

• Projects

• Supply Chain

• Sales

• Marketing

• Service

• Contact Center

• Price


• Order Management

• Logistics

• Loyalty

• Hyperion Planning

• Essbase

• Profitability Management*

• Financial Services

• Communications

• Healthcare

• Retail

*Certification in progress

Exalytics – Runs Hyperion Planning Software

• Hyperion Planning Plus on Exalytics

• Hyperion Essbase

• Hyperion Planning

• Hyperion Profitability & Cost Management

• Hyperion Financial Reporting

• Hyperion Foundation Services

• SmartView for MS Office (Excel)

• for Ad Hoc Analysis


Oracle Hyperion Planning Plus



• for Ad Hoc Analysis

• for Planning Forms

•Existing Investment is Protected

• No Redevelopment Required of existing

Hyperion Planning Applications to run on

Oracle Exalytics Platform

• Certification requires upgrade to Hyperion

Planning v11.1.2.2 PSU 300+

Exalytics – Runs Foundation Suite Software

• Business Analytics Foundation Suite

• Hyperion Essbase

• Essbase Analytics Link for HFM

• OBIEE+ Bundles the Hyperion Tools

• Hyperion Financial Reporting

• Web Analysis

• OBIEE for Essbase, Hyperion

Planning & HFM Visualization


Oracle Business Analytics Foundation Suite



Planning & HFM Visualization

• Oracle Mobile BI

• Scorecard and Strategy Mgmt

Immersive Mobile ExperienceFastest Time to Mobile Value. No Additional Development

In-Memory In-Memory


• Exalytics user experience extended to iPad, iPhone

• All BI content instantly available to mobile users with zero extra development

• Speed-of-thought analysis available anywhere

Optimized Oracle BI

Foundation Suite

In-Memory

Analytics

Software

In-Memory

Analytics

Hardware

Oracle Exalytics – So What’s the Difference??

TimesTen for Exalytics

� In-Memory Databases

– Parallel Essbase

– Parallel TimesTen Database

– Advanced Columnar

Compression

In-Memory Analytic Functions


In-Memory Analytics Software

Essbase

Adaptive In-Memory Tools

1 TB DRAM

40 Processing Cores


In-Memory Analytics Hardware



– In-Memory Analytic Functions

� Heuristic Adaptive In-Memory

Cache

– Decides what gets stored in-

memory

– Adapts to changes in analytic

workload

• Smart Storage Manager stores frequently

Oracle Exalytics for HyperionHigh Performance Essbase and Planning Applications


• Smart Storage Manager stores frequently

accessed blocks in-memory

• In-Memory Cache optimizes block access

• Lock Manager improves parallelism

• 80x Faster Reads; 20x Faster Writes

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development, release, and timing of any features or functionality.

In-Memory CacheIn-Memory Cache

Essbase Planning EngineEssbase Planning Engine

Smart Storage

Manager

Smart Storage

Manager

Lock

Manager

Lock

Manager

Oracle Exalytics – Solution Summary

TimesTen for Exalytics

Oracle Hyperion Planning Plus


In-Memory Analytics Software

Essbase

Adaptive In-Memory Tools

1 TB DRAM

40 Processing Cores


In-Memory Analytics HardwareOracle Business Analytics Foundation Suite



Exalytics Value Proposition


Oracle Exalytics In-Memory MachineKey Enabling Technology for EPM Innovation

Hardware & Software Engineered Together

• Adaptive In-Memory Caching

• In-Memory Columnar Compression

• Optimized Storage Block Access

Impact on EPM

• Extreme Performance

• More Users

• Simplified Administration


Better Decisions

New Insights

ReduceCosts

Improved Results

• Optimized Storage Block Access

• Free Form Data Exploration

• High Density VisualizationsEnterprise

Impact

Deriving Value from ExalyticsImproving Results

1 Better Decisions

2 New Insights


3 Reduce Cost of Ownership

2 New Insights


1 Better Decisions

2 New Insights



2 New Insights

Drive Better DecisionsExalytics as an Enabling Technology

Improve Accuracy

• Engage More People

• Forecast More Frequently

• Reduce Cycle Times

• Incorporate Driver-based and Other Sophisticated Calculations


• Incorporate Driver-based and Other Sophisticated Calculations

More Scenarios

• Understand Alternatives

• Better Understand Risk

Engage More People

• Leverage the Wisdom Outside of Finance

• Through Involvement in the Process You Drive Accountability

Best Practices for Improving Forecast AccuracyLarger sample, cross functional involvement drives Alignment

Sales / Product Managers

Cost Center Managers

100’s

1000’s

Involve all people who have an impact on

income/expenditure lines, not just

departmental heads – getting the input

from the front-line people who actually

know what is happening.


LOB Execs.

Finance 10’s

100’s

�� Turn Forecasting into a Competitive Advantage

� Planning process maturity

– Moving beyond Annual Budgeting to rolling forecasts and

dynamic planning

– Adoption of driver based planning and scenario modeling

for agility and forecast accuracy

Planning maturity drives

No

of

use

rs

Exalytics: Planning Without Constraints


� Planning maturity drives

– More users participating in planning process

– More complex models and calculations

– More interactive scenarios

�� Need for significantly higher throughput

� Sweet spot for Exalytics

No

of

use

rs

Model Complexity


1 Better Decisions

2 New Insights



2 New Insights

Uncover New InsightsExalytics as an Enabling Technology

Drive Deeper Analysis

• Operational Details

• Expand Analysis Across More Dimensions


• Expand Analysis Across More Dimensions

Better Visualizations

• Highly Interactive Analysis


• High Density Visualizations

Oracle Exalytics In-Memory MachineKey Enabling Technology for EPM Innovation

Financial Planning @Speed of Business

• Reduce planning cycle times with huge gains in response time

• Run more complex planning models with finer grained detail


• Bring more users into the planning process and improve accuracy

LOB Planning with Oracle Essbase

• Extend beyond Finance into every LOB

• Scale to more users and run more complex planning models

• Improve agility – move from monthly to intra-day analysis

End-user Experience with ExalyticsSpeed of Thought Interactive Analysis

• Highly Interactive Analysis


• High Density Visualizations

• View Auto Suggestions

• Contextual Actions

• All on Mobile

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1 Better Decisions

2 New Insights



2 New Insights

Reduce Cost of OwnershipExalytics as an Enabling Technology

Better Cost Performance

• Entire stack optimized together

• Expand to more users with same hardware

• More analytics for the same hardware

Reduced Total Cost of Ownership


Reduced Total Cost of Ownership

• Server consolidation

• Unified patching, management

Reduce Risk

• Device Monitoring

• Phone Home

Exalytics Delivers Lower Cost of OwnershipCOMPLEX SIMPLE

Multiple Platforms & Many Servers

High Cost of Administration

One Platform & One Server

Lower Cost of Administration


Key Takeaway’s

Benefits• Best possible cost performance

• Reduces Risk

• Lowers TCO

Unique Features

Oracle Exalytics is the industry's first in-memory BI machine that delivers the fastest

performance for business intelligence and OLAP applications


Unique Features• In-memory Analytics

• Runs BI and EPM Apps

• Fits with existing data sources, infrastructure

• Optimized with Exadata – InfiniBand

• Optimized BI Foundation Suite – OBIEE and

Essbase

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