Oracle Daily Business Intelligence

Overview of Daily Business Intelligence

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Daily Business Intelligence is an integrated out-of-the-box reporting and analysis
application that enables senior managers and executives to see relevant, accurate, and
timely information using self-service dashboards. The data is refreshed in these dashboards based on incremental nightly loads from Oracle E-Business suite applications.




Intelligence Areas

The following intelligence areas leverage the Daily Business Intelligence reporting and analysis framework:

• Customer Support
• Depot Repair
• Field Service
• Financials
• Human Resources
• Interaction Center
• iStore
• Maintenance
• Marketing
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Projects
• Procurement
• Quoting
• Sales
• Service Contracts
• Supply Chain

Perform the common Daily Business Intelligence setup steps before you set up the
dashboards provided by each intelligence area. Current DBI is supported on both 11i and R12 release versions of Oracle Applications.

Architecture Overview



Pre-Packaged DBI Content


Oracle BI Strategy



Daily Business Intelligence provides the ability to drill down directly to the transaction detail from the dashboards

Discoverer Vs DBI

Advantages of DBI

• Easy and simple reporting
• Over 40 Overview pages and 900 pre-canned reports available
• Complete cross-module visibility from Oracle single sign-on.
• Drill features Integrated with the ERP modules into Order Management, Procurement, Purchasing etc.
• Easy to maintain and refresh objects
• All reports Web enabled and user friendly.
• No Additional software or end-user training is needed to use it. (Html reports)
• Very efficient and reports render in a very short time. (no performance issues!)
• Use Apps security model and integrated with Apps.
• Users can customize pages and reports based on other existing DBI content.


Advantages of BIS Discoverer

• Ad-Hoc Query capability, to create custom workbooks based on needs.
• More than a 1000 folder items and 200 reports.
• Folders based on the Transactional tables available, so data is current.