As companies migrate from Oracle E-Business Suite (Oracle EBS) to Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications like Oracle Cloud ERP, Oracle Cloud HCM or Oracle Cloud SCM , an important decision that comes into question is – How do we handle legacy data residing in applications like Oracle EBS?

While it makes sense to not migrate all historical data, it is important to retain this data not only for legal and compliance purposes but also for business purposes. An ideal solution would be to migrate legacy data to a data warehouse for reporting in the future.

Orbit’s Legacy Data Reporting Solution makes it easy for business users to do self-service operational and financial reporting from legacy data residing in Oracle EBS.

Factors to consider for Legacy Data Archival and Reporting Strategy

  • The archival/legacy database should be cost friendly and easy to maintain and support
  • Ability to migrate reports from legacy applications easily and store legacy data on-premise or private cloud or on SAAS
  • Pre-built reports and data models on legacy and new applications
  • Secured and user or role-based access to the data and reports
  • Ability to build ad hoc reports and run the reports with combined legacy applications data like E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft with new cloud applications like Oracle Cloud ERP, Oracle Cloud HCM, Oracle Cloud HCM, Workday, etc

Why Orbit for Legacy Data Reporting for EBS

Orbit offers a next-generation reporting tool that is ideal for operational reporting, financial reporting, ad-hoc reporting, and analytics. Today, CIOs, CFOs, and operational leaders are looking for a reporting solution that is truly self-service. They want to reduce the burden on IT teams, so they can drive agility into the process of generating reports.

Orbit seamlessly integrates with multiple data sources. This makes it easy to access real-time and current data in, say, Oracle Fusion, and compare it with legacy data that is in Oracle EBS. Orbit comes with a complete set of features allowing IT to model and govern a seamless single source of truth while empowering users to be self reliant – thanks to no-code to low-code self-service features.

Several customers around the world – from Fortune 500 companies to fast-growing startups – choose Orbit for Legacy Data Reporting even as they migrate to Cloud ERP solutions like Oracle Fusion Applications.

Benefits of using Orbit for Legacy Data Reporting

  • Reduces complexity associated with legacy data reporting for finance, HR, supply chain, and operations teams 
  • Data governance and data security 
  • User authentication for various types of users – end users, managers, admins, developers, etc. 
  • Orbit’s DataJump solution for ETL (extract, transform, and load) and ELT (extract, load, and transform) brings in the capability to blend data from multiple sources into one single source 
  • Orbit can ensure data stewardship – for creating and maintaining trusted, reliable and consistent data across both historical data and current data

Key Features of Orbit for Legacy Data Reporting from EBS Data

  • Both pre-built reports and ad-hoc reporting from legacy data can be done with Orbit
  • With Orbit’s XLEdge Plugin business users can access legacy data with ease and generate reports within Excel
  • Orbit is designed for data governance and data security, a key requirement for legacy or archived data
  • With Orbit’s SQL DirectQuery it becomes easy to extract legacy data and create reports
  • Orbit offers a single platform for operation reporting, financial reporting, BI and data management
  • Orbit offers an ideal solution that can not only access real-time data available in Fusion but also historical data from EBS or any other ERP.

Client Story

Dish Network, based in Englewood, Colorado, is a pay-TV service provider employing 16,000 people in the U.S. Publicly traded on NASDAQ, it has 12 million subscribers and annual revenue of approximately $13 billion. A Fortune 250 company, it is known for its innovations in the industry and its award-winning technologies include Hopper with Sling Whole-Home HD DVR enabling customers to watch live and recorded TV programming from smartphones, tablets, and computers. Orbit provided a solution that could talk to different data sources and integrate relevant data to provide a unified view. Orbit is a platform-agnostic tool that can read and pull out data from on-premise and cloud systems. It could work on top of Oracle ERPs -both cloud and on-prem, Amazon Athena and Redshift and Teradata, one of the key requirements for Dish. Read more

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