Packaged Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Help SAP
Customers Optimize Procurement and Supply Chain
Performance; Applications Available for Oracle Exalytics
In-Memory Machine
Oracle OpenWorld, Tokyo and Redwood Shores, Calif. - April
4, 2012
News Facts
To further help organizations gain greater business insight
from their SAP systems, Oracle today introduced two new
applications - Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics for
SAP and Oracle Supply Chain and Order Management Analytics
for SAP, in addition to enhancing the previously released
Oracle Financial Analytics for SAP.
Now available as part of
Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications Release
7.9.7.1, the applications help to extend intelligence to
SAP Materials and Management and SAP Sales & Distribution
to reduce procurement and spend costs and to improve
supplier performance and supply chain efficiency.
Oracle BI Applications for SAP are among the 80-plus Oracle
BI and enterprise performance management applications
available today for Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine
without any application changes.
Oracle BI Applications, implemented at over 4,000
organizations globally, are comprehensive, prebuilt
analytic applications for Oracle and third-party
applications that enable customers to make informed,
actionable decisions and drive toward optimized performance
across the enterprise.
Enhancing Supply Side, Supply Chain and Financial
Performance through Visibility and Insight into SAP Data
With Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics, organizations
can optimize their supply side performance by integrating
data from across the enterprise value chain, enabling
executives, managers and front-line employees to improve
cash flow and profitability to make better informed and
actionable decisions.
Oracle Supply Chain and Order Management Analytics enables
organizations to enhance their supply chain and order
management processes to improve financial performance and
customer satisfaction through fact-based insight into order
and inventory data.
Introduced in 2010 and updated in this release,
Oracle Financial Analytics for
SAP integrates with SAP Financial Accounting and
assists front-line managers in improving financial
performance and decision-making with comprehensive, timely
and role-based information on their departments'
expenses and revenue contributions.
Customers with additional third-party data sources can
federate information into Oracle BI Applications to help
deliver deeper and more complete analytics to stakeholders
across their organization.
Organizations can also take advantage of Oracle BI
platform's enhanced user experience, systems management,
performance, scalability, and mobile features including
support for iPad and iPhone.
ERP, CRM and Industry-Specific Intelligence for Oracle and
Third-Party Applications
Oracle BI Applications feature prebuilt integration,
metadata mapping, metrics and an analytic data model
enabling organizations to speed deployment time and help
reduce overall total cost of ownership.
In addition to covering Financial, Procurement and Spend,
and Supply Chain and Order Management, Oracle BI
Applications span Human Resources, Projects, Contact Center
Telephony, Loyalty, Marketing, Price, Sales, Service and a
growing range of vertical industries.
Supporting Quote
"These new applications from Oracle give SAP customers the
ease of use, performance and relevant content they have
been asking for to make faster, smarter decisions," said
Paul Rodwick, vice president of Product Management, Oracle
Business Intelligence. "Oracle is pleased to deliver the
first packaged analytic applications specifically built for
SAP customers that run on an engineered system for
analytics, and are fully enabled for mobile deployment."
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