Data Lineage & Impact Analysis for OBIEE

Abdul Hafeez Shaik Julian Troake

Practice Manager, BI/EPM Marketing Director
Apps Associates LLC Apps Associates LLC

June 25, 2014

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 Performance. Growth. Excellence.
 Global provider of business and technology consulting services

 Founded in 2002 and achieved consistent growth

– 650+ employees
– Boston, New York, Chicago, Atlanta
– Germany, Netherlands, India, Oman, UAE

 Recognized as one of the fastest growing private US companies by

Inc. 500|5000 for four consecutive years

 Strategic Partnerships and Certifications

– Oracle Platinum Partner
– Oracle Specializations (EBS, BI, SOA, EM12c & Database)
– AWS Advanced Consulting Partner
– CMMI Level 3 Appraised
– SSAE 16/SAS70 Type II

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 Agenda
• What is BI-Illustrator
• Features
• Demonstration
• Benefits
• Value Proposition

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 Does This Sound Familiar?
• Where do I have to go to get the source information for a OBIEE/OBIA metric? BI-Illustrator

• How do I know what gets impacted in OBIEE/OBIA if I make changes to ERP? BI-Illustrator

• How do I know the dependencies between two OBIA modules? BI-Illustrator

• How can I reduce the time taken to investigate when I don’t know where to start with this huge list
of ETL’s? BI-Illustrator

• How can I provide self-service ability to business to answer the question, “Where is this data
coming from?” BI-Illustrator

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 Why BI-Illustrator
• Limited data lineage available in Oracle
• Limited functionality to keep lineage updated
• Not adaptive to OBI Applications ‘style’ of metadata
• Show one lineage of one mapping at a time
• Impact analysis limited to RPD
• Most of the development / support time is spent on analysis rather than design
and development
• Typically BI solutions involve multiple tools and technologies

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 Features
• Complete Data Lineage for OBIEE/BI Apps
- Dashboard / Report column to D/W to EBS source details
- RPD / Metadata model
- DAC and Informatica details
- SQL used for extracting data
• Impact Analysis
– Impact to BI Apps objects (ETL, RPD and reports) based on a change to EBS, D/W or RPD
• Supports all BI Apps modules
• No additional software (runs on existing BI Apps environment)
• Captures the customizations
• Analyze the dependencies across BI Apps modules

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 Demonstration
Lineage Presentation Column Explore
• How to find the source to “Invoiced • How to search for a column with “Cash”
Amount” metric in few clicks word defined in presentation column
• How to understand logic, without across the Subject Areas
worrying specific tools and technologies Module Dependency
• How to do the Focused ETL Analysis • How to find the dependency between to
Impact Analysis “Financial Analytics” and “Supply Chain
and Order Management Analytics” OBIA
• How to understand impact of Modules
“AP_INVOICES_ALL” on OBIEE/OBIA
Objects

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 Benefits
• Business Users
– Find the source data information
– Find the source to report logic
– Find the definition of the report field *
• IT Users / Developers / Implementation team
– See impact of change at any level of D/W
– Get detailed mapping and source information
– Access data lineage dashboard
– Create custom data lineage reports e.g. what reports are build on GL source tables
– Accurately plan the project – customizations etc.

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 Value Proposition
• Serves as documentation and data dictionary for OBEE/BI Apps
• Helps speed up the development by providing the insight into pre built
code in mater of minutes
• Helps change management (list of objects to be migrated from one
instance to other)
• Continue using after the project finishes – a must to support the OBIEE
solution

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BI-Illustrator – Data Lineage

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Reports on a Dashboard

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 Objects in a Report

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Presentation to Source Overview

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Informatica – ETL Lineage

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Informatica – SQL Statement

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Data Warehouse Model

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BI-Illustrator – Impact Analysis

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PSFT Table – Impacted Objects

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Impacted Objects – Presentation Layer

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Impacted Objects – Logical Layer (RPD)

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Impacted Objects – Informatica ETL

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BI-Illustrator – Other Features

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Impacted Objects – Informatica ETL

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Thank You!