As Oracle’s premier implementer of Oracle BI Applications, ENNVEE has also written, and continues to perfect, the methodology to successfully implement the BI Applications. We call it Methodology for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications or MOBI Applications.

For customers who use Oracle EBS, Siebel, or PeopleSoft applications, we have broken the implementation of the BI Applications into three steps. When designing a business intelligence solution, you want to start with the end in mind – except when you have the BI Applications where the end has been started for you. ENNVEE will implement the BI Applications ‘out of the box’ first and then help develop a roadmap for configuring and deploying the BI Applications. Implementing the BI Applications first allows you to actually see your data and more effectively determine the configuration necessary to make the BI Applications work for the way you run and analyze your business.

Step 1

Every project must be properly initiated. Step 1 starts with agreement on success criteria, scope, resources, and costs and a common focus.

Almost immediately, it’s time to install the BI Applications and perform the initial configuration and data load. ENNVEE will have already worked with your team to ensure your environment is ready using our BI Applications Readiness Assessment document.

At this point you will see your data in the prebuilt Dashboards and Reports and you can build ad hoc reports using Answers. ENNVEE will work with your team to review the data that was loaded and determine the ‘goodness of fit’ of each Subject Area. This leads to a high level assessment of the complexity to configure the Subject Areas for your needs. This information, combined with an understanding of the priority of the business requirements will be used to develop a roadmap for configuring and implementing the BI Applications and their subject areas. Before moving on to Step 2, a scope needs to be refined.ennVee finds that the most successful projects deploy a subset of subject areas in a number of iterative phases. This ensures business value is delivered quickly increasing your ROI and garnering support from key stakeholders.

Step 2

This step is about the details of your business. ENNVEE will use our business and technical knowledge to understand: your analytical requirements that drive the reports, dashboards, and ad hoc reporting out of your data warehouse; your business processes and ERP application usage that drive the components that move and store your data. ENNVEE will determine the detailed configurations that will make the BI Applications work for you. ENNVEE will then design those configurations – we know exactly what needs to be changed and how to change it whether it is ETL, metadata, reports, etc.

Step 3

This step involves configure, test, and deploy. Configuration is a breeze when you know exactly what needs to be done. On completing configuration and successful unit testing, the data is reloaded followed by Data Validation and User Acceptance Testing. ENNVEE can provide a Test Lead to develop and manage test cases. ENNVEE will aid diagnose and estimate changes that the UAT users may request.

Deployment is the final crucial step. ENNVEE will help develop a training plan to ensure all resources from executives, to power users, to tool administrators have the knowledge to effectively use and administer the solution. ENNVEE understands the challenges present with user adoption and can offer strategies that will ensure users make the switch.

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