Oracle provides multiple ways of reporting from Oracle Cloud (Fusion) Apps, one of them is Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI). While, OTBI is built on the OBIEE platform there are few limitations as compared to the on premise OBIEE features. This blog will give a high level understanding of the OTBI capabilities and limitations on cloud, which will especially be helpful during the requirements gathering to see if the requirements are suited for OTBI capabilities, and during the design sessions to fit the requirements with the many tools that OTBI provides.
WHAT IS OTBI AND WHY IS IT POPULAR
OTBI is included as part of the Oracle Cloud Apps licenses and does not need any additional setup. This includes out of the box reports, subject areas which are built to work with the Fusion view objects (VOs). In addition, there are tools for customizations namely, OBIEE Answers, BI Publisher. Also, fusion allows to create custom subject areas using the Application Composer tool.
Thus, OTBI aims to make reporting easier for Managers and Analysts by providing tools to simply drag and drop fields from subject areas, while also providing tools for complex customizations when required.
OTBI is attractive for customers for the following reasons:
· All setup, including the security makes use of the fusion architecture. Hence, setup time is low.
· Provides real time reporting capabilities.
· Report customizations are possible with the OBIEE platform at no extra costs. Translates to huge value for money.