5 Ways in Which Orbit Analytics Compliments Oracle OTBI Reporting

Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) is one of the reporting tools available with Oracle Cloud ERP Applications (Fusion) and is built on the Oracle BI platform. Being a part of the Oracle Cloud Apps licenses, it is integral to the platform and does not need additional setup. OTBI along with BI Publisher features out-of-the-box reports and offers customizations. Its Application Composer tool enables the creation of custom fields with a simple drag and drop function and has real-time Oracle OTBI reporting capabilities.

OTBI Limitations

Despite its many advantages, Oracle OTBI also has certain limitations, compelling businesses to seek alternative solutions. Some of the key limitations of Oracle OTBI include:

• Being specifically created for Oracle Cloud Apps, it cannot easily pull out data from other sources.
• The analytics from OTBI is limited because it accesses only the Cloud Application database directly and neither has a data warehouse nor has access to historical data.
• OTBI RPD allows only minor customizations.
• The configuration parameter is possible only by submitting an SR to Oracle with a business justification.

Orbit Reporting and Analytics can complement advanced reporting with Oracle OTBI, filling the gaps and empowering business users to experience the benefits of greater customization, self-service and flexibility.

Orbit Web Life Advantages

Pre-Built OTBI Integrations: Single Source of Truth

Orbit Reporting and Analytics has been created for the multi-platform environments of modern times where a large volume of data is stored in distributed systems on-premises and in the cloud, such as ERP and business applications. Business users need a unified view of enterprise-wide and historical data for decision-making and identifying trends and patterns from the operational data. The Web Life feature of Orbit Analytics for Oracle OTBI lets users take advantage of its end-to-end functionality via the web without installing it on the desktop. Users can call Orbit with a simple click and benefit from its more than 200 integrators and database connectors. The key benefit here is that data can be pulled and combined from any system, creating a single source of truth. Orbit’s pre-built OTBI integrations include but are not limited to:

• Oracle Cloud ERP Applications (Fusion)
• Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)
• Microsoft Excel
• NetSuite
• PeopleSoft
• Taleo
• Salesforce & Pardot

Self-Service Reporting

Orbit’s self-service reporting empowers business users to build custom dashboards and reports instead of relying on IT resources. This helps avoid delays, reduces the pressure on the IT team, and speeds up analytics and the decision-making process. Being a flexible and customizable tool, Orbit offers an iterative process to analyze data and derive insights and intelligence from vast amounts of operational data.

Fusion: Authentication & Authority

Being well integrated with Oracle Cloud ERP, Orbit aligns with organizational data governance and data security policies by allowing access only based on authorization. Designed from the ground up, Orbit ensures that only by logging in can the business user access reports in Orbit and have a window into data stored in Fusion from within Orbit. With the same Oracle credentials, the user is able to take full advantage of all of Orbit’s features.

XLEdge: Links to Excel Seamlessly

Orbit empowers business users to pull data from multiple sources into Excel with XLEdge. This Excel add-in allows businesses to pull live data from multiple applications into Excel for real-time data analytics. Business users can schedule the reports and further benefit from the drill-down capabilities.

Oracle Cloud ERP Financial Reporting using Orbit

GLSense for Financial Reporting lets businesses quickly build financial statements within Microsoft Excel and perform ad-hoc general ledger account analysis with the transactions posted to the right GL accounts. To create new statements, GL Sense automatically populates with live data. It also lets the user drill down into Subledger Data stored on the cloud in real time. This is a simple yet powerful feature used by several of our customers across the globe.

Conclusion

Our customers use the full power of Orbit’s products for financial reporting and analysis. The finance teams can get quick answers to key business questions with hundreds of sub-ledger drill-down reports for modules like Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Inventory, Purchasing, and more. Orbit makes it seamless to create charts, apply filters and use conditional formatting to view journal activity for any balance. With Orbit, businesses can expedite the reconciliation and period-end close processes efficiently, accurately, and reliably. Orbit’s ability to pull data from various ERP systems for reporting and analytics and its pre-built integration capabilities, combined with self-service features, makes it an extremely powerful tool for business users across the globe, ranging from fast-growing startups to Fortune 500 companies. If you would like to schedule a demo.