Agenda

• Introduction
• About EBS Analyzers
• EBS Functional Analyzer
– Financials
• Value Proposition
– Recommendation
About EBS Analyzer
What is EBS Analyzer?
• Diagnostic Tool provided by Oracle EBS Support

• Proactive tool to review & analyze a particular area within EBS

environment

• Performs health checks via reviewing –

– Configurations
– Setups
– Data

• Compare them against best practices and provide recommendations

• Identify & provide solutions for known issues

Features of EBS Financial Functional Analyzer
• Analyzer is Non-invasive (Query/ Read only) tool

• Analyzer can be run on demand or scheduled and result can be

emailed to user

• Act as a Data Collector (Diagnostic Tool)

• Execution modes
– Stand-alone script
– Concurrent Request

• Analyzer provides solutions, recommendations, and alerts about

functional & technical areas of EBS environment
Categories of Analyzers
• E-Business Suite Core Analyzers

• Financials Analyzers

• Manufacturing Analyzers

• Human Capital Management Analyzers

• Customer Relationship Management Analyzers

Deployment
Deployment Options
• Execute self-service script (SQL/ pearl) manually

• Command line execution

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• Apps credential are required

• Execute health-check script as Concurrent program

• Execution via Concurrent Request

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• Apps credential are not required
EBS Financial Functional
Analyzers

Available Functional Analyzers

• Financials
– General Ledger Health Analyzer
– AP Master GDF Diagnostic Analyzer
Overall 70+ analyzers
General Ledger Health Analyzer
Purpose
• Reviews General Ledger related data, analyzes current
configurations & settings
• Provides solution for known issues, feedback & recommendations

Benefits
• Provides details including, Diagnostic Apps Check, Misclassified
Accounts, Overlapping Child A/C, Duplicate Rows, Period Closing,
Calendar Overlapping periods or Gaps data & Budgetary Control

Specific
• Provides immediate health check analysis, Proactive & Preventive
Recommendations on best practices
AP Master GDF Diagnostic Analyzer

• Validates Data Related to Invoices, Payments, Accounting,

Suppliers & EB Tax
• Scans a date range or a single transaction for known data integrity
issues
Benefits
• Report on what corruption exists & points to the notes/ patches that
will allow you to fix the data
• Can be run to validate data on invoices, payments or suppliers,
including related accounting & tax data
Specific
• Use the tool in date range mode through the month & stay ahead of
last minute issues when closing the period
Value Proposition
EBS Analyzer Advantages
• Helps identify and resolve issues swiftly
– Even before problems become apparent

• Enable a proactive approach to preventing problems

– Provides early warnings of items that should be reviewed & corrected

• Thorough Analysis
– Maps known issues to solution documents
– Provides targeted recommendations

• Easy to use interface and reports

• Help ensure faster resolution of issues faced

Business Value

Availability • Helps in improving EBS application availability

Reliability • Improves reliability of EBS application

Business • Ensures critical business processes execute seamlessly

Processes • eg. Health check for period close

• Ability to identify data issues, helps ensure overall

performance of business operations
Data Integrity
• eg. Timely identification of data issues, help avoid time spent for
validation

• Business (super) users can run the health check

Empowered Users themselves
IT Benefits
• Stability
– Ability to proactively identify issues, helps avoid/ minimize impact

• Supportability
– Find & resolve potential issues in TechStack as well as Functional domain
– Provides instant solution to a known problem

• Value-Add
– Enable (super) users to run Functional Analyzers themselves

• Comprehensive Data Collection

– Enable thorough analysis of the health of the application

• User Interface
– Enhanced user interface helps with productivity
Recommendation

• Do not place Analyzer Bundle Menu Tool under APPL_TOP or PROD_TOP

– Preferred location - $COMMON_TOP/ or $HOME/

• Analyzers, can be scheduled to run periodically, with reports being emailed

• Use Analyzer Bundle Menu Tool & create a monthly maintenance cycle to get
the latest update

• Setup & Run Analyzers as Concurrent Programs

– Allow super-users to run Analyzers without needing the APPS password

• Ability to minimize downtime

– Proactive use to Analyzers help with resolving potential issues quickly