Analytic Strategy for

Oracle Cloud Applications

An analytics guide for business leaders
Table of contents

Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Chapter 3

Introduction Ready to use Connected and
page 3 Page 5 continuous innovation
page 9

Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6

Power of the platform Best of both worlds Bottom line
page 11 page 14 page 15
Chapter 1
Introduction

Successful transformation requires a tightly coupled analytic

strategy. Whether you’re focused on growing profitability,
diversifying your workforce, optimizing your supply chain or
Fusion Analytics
improving your customer experience – analytics is key to your
is the natural choice for Oracle Cloud
Applications customers who want insights
success and speed matters.
without delay. With Fusion Analytics, your
finance, HR, procurement, sales and
Research shows that analytic leaders outpace their competitors
marketing teams can finally collaborate
by investing in their data so that it can be used in daily around a single trusted view of performance
decisions and trusted to predict what happens next. They focus and put more data into decisions.
on making data easy to access, simple to understand and
efficient for everyone to use.

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Chapter 1
Introduction Oracle Fusion Analytics

Fusion Analytics is a SaaS application that’s designed to deliver

personalized insights for all your Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications.

ERP HCM
Analytics Analytics
Library of ready to use metrics and dashboards for faster collaboration

Oracle managed data platform with prebuilt pipelines and data models Shared
Data Model
Oracle Analytics Cloud SCM CX
Analytics Analytics
Two dozen use cases out of the box for ERP, HCM, SCM, and CX
External Autonomous Data
Continuous innovation that’s connected to your Oracle Cloud Applications Sources Warehouse

A cloud platform for extending the application with non-Fusion data

We believe that every Oracle

Cloud Applications
Cloud Applications customer ERP SCM HCM CX

should start their analytic

journey with Fusion Analytics.”
—TK Anand, Executive Vice President, Oracle

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Chapter 2
Ready to use
When your decisions depend on data and you can’t wait for a

Prebuilt Metrics long deployment, you need Fusion Analytics. With a library of
over 2,300 metrics and 70 connected data models you can turn
it on tomorrow and let Oracle do the heavy lifting for you.
1,034
681
ERP HCM
Analytics Analytics

Fusion
Analytics
Turn it on
681
SCM
Analytics
CX
Analytics
309
tomorrow
Extend with
more data
sources

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Chapter 2
Ready to use
Two dozen use cases come out of the box

Fusion Analytics gives you a head start with over two dozen use cases
for finance, HR, supply chain, sales, and marketing.

Fusion ERP Analytics Fusion HCM Analytics Fusion SCM Analytics Fusion CX Analytics

• Manage Supplier Risk • Analyze Team Effectiveness • Identify Demand Trends • Margin & Profitability Analysis

• Enhance Procure-to-Pay • Examine Unplanned Absences • Discover Order-to-Cash • Acquisition Cost vs Lifetime
Bottlenecks Value
• Monitor Project Costs • Track Diversity Indicators
• Uncover Cost Savings • Loyal
• Improve Payment Performance • Compare Compensation Plans Opportunities Customers/Renewals/Churn

• Improve Days Sales • Monitor Internal Mobility • Enhance Procurement • Predictable Revenue
Outstanding Effectiveness
• Analyze Employee Engagement • White-Space Analysis
• Identify Top Profitability Drivers • Align Inventory with Demand
• Discounts by Product
• Evaluate Order Fulfillment

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Chapter 2
Ready to use
Dashboards that are made for you

Fusion Analytics offers role-based dashboards for all your core

business processes and reduces cross-departmental analysis
complexity with a common data model and dozens of subject
areas mapped to your core processes for:

Record to Report

Procure to Pay

Plan to Produce

Hire to Retire

Lead to Revenue

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Chapter 2
Ready to use
It’s easy to explore all the metrics

Click here to see more than 2,300 prebuilt metrics for ERP, HCM, SCM, and CX. These metrics are organized into more than 70
analytic subject areas as shown below.

ERP CX SCM HCM

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 Chapter 3
Connected and continuous

Connected System of Insight. Keeping your applications and Continuous Innovation. As your transformation journey evolves so too will your
analytics in sync is crucial so there’s no disruption in operational analytic needs. Your users will expect more connected insights, faster access to new
insights. Fusion Analytics certifies each new release of Oracle Cloud data, new innovations, and better models to predict what's next. Fusion Analytics
Applications so when new data is added or schemas change, you can is continuously updated with new metrics and the data platform is
trust that the data is always up to date. All this without the complexity natively connected to Oracle Cloud Applications. To keep ahead of the growing
of rewriting code as the underlying data changes. In addition, Fusion demand for insights, our quarterly releases include hundreds of new metrics, new
Analytics security framework is shared by Oracle Cloud Applications platform capabilities (e.g. natural language, mobile, visualizations), new connectors,
to keep your data safe and secure. as well as improvements to the existing business content.

Our continuous innovation keeps your insights and applications connected

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 Chapter 3
Connected and continuous
New metrics mean new use cases

Fusion Analytics was first

introduced in 2020. Since
that time, we have delivered
delivered 13 releases and
expanded the metric library
to address new and
emerging use cases.

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Chapter 4
Power of the platform
Open to build on any data in any location

The platform that powers Fusion Analytics is

Oracle Analytics Cloud, which is embedded
and included in your SaaS subscription. It’s a
cloud native analytic platform that provides
all the capabilities you need to build
advanced analytic applications on any data
in any location.

Oracle recognizes that analytics is never a

one-size-fits-all technology, and many
customers need to build applications that
are unrelated to Oracle Cloud Applications
and tailored to their industry. Using Oracle
Analytics Cloud, our customers have built
dozens of innovative and unique
applications.

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Chapter 4
Power of the platform
Advanced analytic use cases for Oracle Analytics Cloud

Agriculture Consumer Goods Communications Energy

• Precision farming • Network analysis • Consumer demand
• Yield analysis • Trade promotion response • ARPU analysis • Predictive maintenance

Financial Services Government Healthcare Higher Education

• Loan to value • Public health • Fraud detection on medical claims • Predicting enrollment yield
• Customer lifetime value • Infrastructure aging analysis • Hospital utilization and patient flow • Improving student outcomes

Manufacturing Retail Transportation Oil & Gas

• Warranty analysis • Reverse supply chain logistics • Crew scheduling • Predictive maintenance
• Customer segmentation • Daily store reporting • Route profitability • Drilling optimization

Retail Travel & Transportation Healthcare

Sustainable Sourcing Loyalty Marketing Hospital Wait-Time

Oracle Analytics is used to track the proportion of sustainable Oracle Analytics is used to target promotions and travel Oracle Analytics is used to monitor hospital wait-times, apply
materials used in their fashion products, and to demand opportunities to customers based on historic behaviors, ML models to identify reasons for delays,
forecasting to adjust production to customer need. improving retention and furthering expansion. and run AI on X-ray scans to prioritize at-risk patients.

Yamamay, Italy Classic Travel, Sri Lanka Hapvida Saude, Brazil

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Chapter 4 Data visualization to tell more compelling stories

Power of the platform

Embedded machine learning to build no-code predictive models
Unlike piecemeal alternatives, Oracle Analytics to uncover hidden patterns
Cloud connects all your analytic processes into a
single cloud service.
Open data source connectivity to more than 35 out-of-the-box
native connectors

Data preparation and enrichment to ingest, repair, extend

and combine data using self-service dataflows

Enterprise semantic modeling tools to define a consistent set of

curated definitions and secure all your data

Mobile experience so you can stay connected with automated

delivery of relevant insights

Flexible deployment so you can start on-premises or in the cloud –

its your choice

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Chapter 5
Best of both worlds Tailor made for both business people and developers
Why compromise when you can have the best of both worlds. With
Oracle, business people can benefit from the speed of innovation
and ready to use SaaS application of Fusion Analytics and Fusion Analytics Oracle Analytics Cloud
developers can build analytic applications using the power of Ready to use Open to build
Oracle Analytics Cloud.
Both business people and developers need six key capabilities to be Prebuilt dashboards by role Visualization Over 50 types out-of-the-box
successful and Oracle provides best fit solutions for both worlds.
The six areas include:

• Visualization – Both Fusion Analytics and Oracle Analytics Cloud

Over 2,000 out-of-the box Metrics Design and publish your own

provide innovative ways to help business people tell better data

stories.
76 subject areas for Data virtualization tools
• Metrics – Fusion Analytics provides pre-built metrics out of the ERP, HCM, SCM, and CX Semantic Model to build custom applications
box, while Oracle Analytics Cloud provides you the ability to
design your own.
Auto-scaled and optimized for Supports multiple data
• Semantic Model – both use the prebuilt subject areas in Fusion Data Platform
Autonomous Data Warehouse management systems
Analytics and build your own.
• Data Platform – Fusion Analytics is optimized for Oracle
Autonomous Data Warehouse whereas Oracle Analytics Cloud is Automated data pipelines
Data Ingest
Connectors for dozens
for Oracle Cloud Applications of data sources
open to non-Oracle data management systems.
• Data Ingest – Oracle automates all your data pipelines for Oracle
Cloud Applications and Oracle Analytics Cloud has connectors for SaaS service pre-configured on Oracle Cloud service, hosted on
dozens of data sources and 3rd party applications. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Deployment 3rd party clouds or in your data center

• Deployment – Fusion Analytics comes preconfigured on the

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure whereas Oracle Analytics Cloud can
be deployed on-premises, in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or
hosted in 3rd party clouds.

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Chapter 6
Bottom line
Fusion Analytics is the best place to start your analytics journey because it comes preconfigured and ready to use. Custom solutions have higher development
costs and are more complex to maintain, improve and keep connected with your Oracle Cloud Applications. Below are the nine reasons why buying a prebuilt SaaS
application is better than building it yourself.

1 2 3 4 5
No need to define, No need to test and re- We connect the data,
Why No custom schema and Open to extend with
develop and enhance test as new cloud maintain the data no custom ETL to non-Oracle data – so no
Fusion your metrics – we put applications are model and tune design, build and need to duplicate data
Analytics best practices in the box released – we handle it performance – so you maintain
for you so there is no don’t have to
disruption in your
analysis

Because More than 2,300 ready A cloud-native data High performant, Rapid implementation Data augmentation
to use KPIs, metrics, platform that is prebuilt data model with easy to use tools and an advanced
it delivers
dashboards, and reports continuously connected to configuration tools analytics cloud platform
your Oracle Cloud to integrate external
Applications data such as Salesforce,
SAP, and others

6 7 8 9
Why Inherits users and job Eliminates data No code to write or No knobs to push or
roles from Oracle Cloud redundancy and data maintain. Oracle dials to turn. Fusion
Fusion Applications – so you replication for cross- automates and Analytics auto-scales to
Analytics don’t have to maintain departmental analysis – manages the end-to- meet the growing data
separate security so there is a common end data processes – so volumes in your Oracle
profiles view of performance you don’t have to Cloud Applications

Because Role-based security Single shared data Pre-built ETL and A SaaS analytic
synchronized with your model that connects automated data application that’s built
it delivers Oracle Cloud over 70 departmental pipelines for Oracle to scale
Applications subject areas Cloud Applications

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Stay connected

Join the Oracle Analytics Leaders program to learn from your peers,
share best practices, promote your success and shape our products.

Participate in the Cloud Customer Connect to meet the experts, share

your product ideas, pose questions and engage in the community

Read the Oracle ACE blogs on analytics to get deep dive product info

Join a user group such as the Analytics and Data Oracle User Community

Follow Oracle Analytics on LinkedIn.

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 About the Author Rich Clayton is VP of Product Strategy for Oracle Analytics and is
responsible for the global adoption of Oracle’s analytic products.
He has a passion for data and coaches customers on how to
succeed in analytics. He is a featured speaker at analytics forums
around the world on the future of analytics, machine learning,
and artificial intelligence.
Before joining the technology industry, Rich held various corporate
finance roles and was a CPA with McGladery in Chicago. Rich
teaches analytics at University of Oregon, is the board chair for the
analytics program at Cal Poly, and led the development of the first
Business Analytics MBA program in Iowa. He earned his bachelor's
degree in accounting at Loras College and attended University of
Chicago’s Executive Leadership program.

Rich Clayton
Contributing Authors
Vice President of Product Strategy
Emily Cikovsky, Duncan Fitter, Joey Fitts, Gabby Rubin, Stefan Schmitz,
Oracle Analytics
Madeleine Groeger-Wilson

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