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Oracle Consulting Assessment for
OPTIMIZE YOUR ORACLE BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS WITH
KEY FEATURES
• Proven methodology for rapid and
effective application assessments
• Immediate benefits for your
organization
• Executable roadmap for application
optimization
KEY BENEFITS
• Identify solutions to your most
pressing issues with your Oracle
Business Intelligence Applications(s)
• Effectively leverage new and existing
application functionality
• Optimize your existing Oracle
Business Intelligence infrastructure to
ensure performance and reliability
• Derive the highest level of business
value from your solutions
• Develop a roadmap for continuous
improvement
Oracle
Oracle Business
ConsultingIntelligence
Applications
Your Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA) are a key
part of the success of your organization. Naturally, you want to
ensure that your organization realizes the highest value from your
investment, now and in the future. Over time, organizations change
with new demands for information, tighter time frames, an
expanding numbers of people seeking information and changes in
underlying technology requirements. As these changes and
requirements accumulate, applications that were designed to meet
your business requirements may no longer be aligned with your
current or future requirements. Derive the highest level of business
value and maximize the return on your investment by ensuring that
your Oracle Business Intelligence Applications evolve with your
business.
The Solution – Oracle BI Applications Assessment
Oracle Consulting Assessment for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications can help
you streamline your optimization efforts by providing a realistic assessment of the
current state of your applications. Utilizing our functional, integration and infrastructure
expertise, Oracle Consulting Assessment for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
evaluates the major functional and technical aspects of your OBIA infrastructure and
business processes. Oracle focuses on indentifying the gaps between your current and
future requirements and your current application deployments. We follow a proven
assessment methodology:
 Scope Definition: To ensure the most cost-effective approach, we work
with you to determine exactly which application(s) and processes will be
reviewed as part of the assessment. We provide your team with the
appropriate assessment check-list(s) based on the modules to be
reviewed including, Oracle Business Intelligence Applications and the
underlying technical parts of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise
Edition. A typical assessment takes two (2) weeks but is ultimately driven
by the number and complexity of the solutions to be reviewed.
 Customer Questionnaires and Workshops: Based on the scope of the
assessment, we leverage our proprietary questionnaires in conjunction
with our onsite workshops to assess your solution’s current state. This is
a “triage” exercise designed to identify and prioritize any perceived or

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industry standards, high quality results
across complex projects.
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solutions such as Expert Services and
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RELATED PRODUCTS
Business Intelligence Applications
Assessment can also be leveraged with
other Oracle Analytics modules including:
• Oracle Financial Analytics
• Oracle Financial Management Analytics
• Human Resources Analytics
• Procure and Spend Analytics
RELATED SERVICES
• Oracle Consulting Architecture Blueprint
and Roadmap for Information
Architecture and Oracle Big Data
• Oracle Consulting Advisory for Oracle
Business Analytics
• Oracle Consulting Upgrade for Oracle
Business Intelligence Suite
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existing solution challenges. The completed questionnaires in conjunction
with the workshop output provide Oracle Consulting with the information
Oracleneeded to develop an effective recommendation.
Consulting
 Assessment Report: Based on the information gathered, Oracle
Consulting will produce an Assessment Report which details our findings,
including any current challenges, gaps and configuration elements that
may prevent you from realizing the full value of your Oracle Business
Intelligence Applications. We identify high-impact areas and provide
recommendations to effectively address any application, integration or
infrastructure changes that could be deployed. The assessment and
resulting recommendations will help you effectively unlock the value of
your Oracle Business Intelligence Applications.
Service Benefits
Oracle Consulting Assessment for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Service
can help your organization:
 Identify your most pressing issues: Pinpoint the changes which will yield
the greatest impact.
 Reduce your cost of ownership: Improve application integration and
application management to improve manageability, reliability and
ultimately reduce your application management efforts.
 Leverage new functionality: Provide awareness of existing or new
functionality which can improve the functionality, efficiency and value of
your solution.
 Quickly adapt to change: Optimize your existing solution so that you can
more easily adapt to your organization’s ongoing changes.
 Increase end-user and administrative effectiveness: Identify any existing
knowledge gaps amongst the user and/or administrators to improve their
skills and to eliminate their frustration.
Requirements
Your organization will need to identify and engage key resources who have intimate
familiarity and knowledge regarding your Oracle Business Intelligence Applications.
Oracle Consulting provides you with a methodology, approach and experts that will
guide your team through the Oracle Consulting Assessment for Oracle Business
Intelligence Applications Service process.
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