Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition

Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking

Release 11.4.0
[January] [2012]
 Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition

Table of Contents
1. AD-HOC REPORTING USING ORACLE BI SUITE ................................................................................ 1-1
1.1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................... 1-1
1.2 WHAT IS AN ANSWER? ............................................................................................................................... 1-2
1.3 HOW TO CREATE ANSWERS? ...................................................................................................................... 1-2
1.4 WHAT IS A DASHBOARD? ........................................................................................................................... 1-2
1.5 HOW TO CREATE DASHBOARDS? ................................................................................................................ 1-2
1.6 GENERATING REPORTS FOR FCUBS MODULES .......................................................................................... 1-3
 1. Ad-hoc Reporting using Oracle BI Suite
1.1 Introduction
This document details the usage of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)
for adhoc reporting of FLEXCUBE Universal Banking Solution (FCUBS).

The OBIEE implementation for adhoc reports of FCUBS provides metadata repositories for the
following subject areas:

FCUBS Module Code Subject Area

GL GL
MI MIS
AC Accounting

CL Loans

FT Funds Transfer

PC Payments & Collections

BC Bills

LC Letters of Credit

LD Loans & Deposits

MM Money Market

SE Securities

FX Foreign Exchange

SI Standing Instructions

CF ICCF

CO,CS Core & Core Services

RE Reconciliation

GW Integrated Gateway

SW Switch

SS Sub System

LS Loan Syndication

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 FCUBS Module Code Subject Area

CD Corporate Deposit

TD Term Deposit

CASA Current Acc & Saving Acc

BR Branch

IC Interest & Charges

ILM Liquidity Management

SF Structured Deposit

LE Leasing

1.2 What is an Answer?

Answer serves as an adhoc tool to define a query in order to retrieve information for answering
business questions. It is also the tool used to build reports and dashboards.

1.3 How to create Answers?

You can create answers by logging into the OBIEE system and then specifying the criteria for
generating reports under the desired subject areas (corresponding to the modules in FCUBS).

1.4 What is a Dashboard?

Dashboards in OBIEE provide personalized views of information. An OBIEE dashboard can
include one or more pages, which appear as tabs across the top of the dashboard.

1.5 How to create Dashboards?

You can create dashboards for the answers that your have created in OBIEE.

Refer the tutorial titled ‘Creating Interactive Dashboards and Using Oracle Business Intelligence
Answers’ in ‘BI Answers Dashboard.pdf’ for details about creation and usage of answers and
dashboards.

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1.6 Generating Reports for FCUBS Modules
The following stages describe the process of generating a report:

Step 1. Logging into OBIEE

The following screen will be displayed.

At the top of the screen adjoining ‘My Dashboard’, a list of subject areas (FCUBS modules) is
displayed. You can create an answer and dashboard view for any/all of these subject areas by
clicking on ‘Answers’.

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Step 2. Creating an Answer

Click on ‘Answers’. The following screen will be displayed.

Click on the subject area under which you wish to create an answer – for instance BC. The
following screen will be displayed.

Click the plus sign in the left-hand pane to view all columns under the subject area. Click on the
desired ones to add them to the selection pane. For instance, you can choose the following
columns under Contract Details > Contract General Parameters as shown in the screenshot
below the column listing:

Contract Ref No

Book Date

Serial No

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 Latest Event Seq No

User Ref No

You can change the order of the columns by dragging and dropping them as desired.

2.1. Adding a Filter

If required you can add filters to the selected columns. The query will look like this.

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Step 3. Viewing the Answer

Click on the ‘Results’ tab to view the records that satisfy the selection criteria – columns and
filters. The screen will appear as under.

3.1. Formatting the Answer

You can alter the look and feel of the query result/answer by clicking on the ‘Format View’ icon
wherever required.

Refer the section titled ‘Creating Query and a Chart’ in ‘BI Answers Dashboard.pdf’ for details
about creation and formatting of answers.

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Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition
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