OTBI Reports for Business Users
HRDC Claimable
About this course
Build, schedule, and share Oracle reports without a BI developer.
Build, customise, and schedule Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence reports in Oracle Fusion — without SQL or a BI developer. For finance and operations business users. 6 hrs · 2 sessions.
Overview
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence — OTBI — is Oracle Fusion's built-in reporting tool. It sits directly on the live transaction data and gives business users the ability to build reports that answer real questions without waiting for IT, without writing SQL, and without exporting to Excel. Used well, it eliminates weeks of manual reporting work per month.
This course teaches OTBI from a business user's perspective: how to navigate the subject areas, how to build an analysis from scratch, how to add filters and prompts, how to create dashboards that combine multiple reports, and how to schedule reports to arrive in your inbox. We focus on Finance subject areas — GL, AP, AR, and project accounting — with additional coverage of SCM and HCM reporting.
We deliberately do not teach OTBI as a technical tool. No data modelling, no expression language, no ETL configuration. The target participant is a finance controller, operations manager, or senior analyst who needs to produce their own management information in Fusion — accurately, consistently, and without depending on anyone else.
Learning outcomes
• Navigate OTBI subject areas and identify which contains the data for any given business question
• Build a complete OTBI analysis from scratch including column selection, filters, prompts, and conditional formatting
• Create a management dashboard combining multiple analyses with shared prompts and consistent formatting
• Schedule a report to run automatically and distribute results by email in the required format
• Add calculated columns to derive ratios, variances, and totals without technical assistance
• Report on AP aging, AR outstanding, GL account balances, and cost centre spend directly from Fusion
Prerequisites
• Comfort navigating Oracle Fusion — any module
• Basic understanding of what data you want to report on (GL, AP, AR, inventory, HR)
• No SQL or technical background required
Modules
1. Building your first OTBI analysis — subject areas, columns, filters, and views (3 hours)
OTBI subject areas and how they connect to the Oracle Fusion data model. Building three analyses from scratch: GL account balances by cost centre and period, AP invoice aging by supplier and due date, AR outstanding balance by customer and invoice date. Adding filters to limit data, prompts to make the report interactive, and conditional formatting to highlight exceptions. Analysis views — table, pivot, graph, and gauge — and when to use each.
Topics: OTBI subject areas; Column selection and labelling; Filter and prompt design; Conditional formatting; Analysis views: table, pivot, graph; Saving and sharing an analysis
2. Dashboards, scheduling, and advanced techniques (3 hours)
Building a finance dashboard combining four analyses — P&L summary, AP aging, AR aging, cash balance — with cross-report filters. Dashboard prompts, section layouts, and refresh control. Scheduling: setting up a report to run automatically and email results as Excel, PDF, or data file. Three advanced techniques: calculated columns, percentage and ranking functions, and reporting across multiple subject areas using a common linking dimension.
Topics: Dashboard design and layout; Cross-report dashboard prompts; Email scheduling and formats; Calculated columns; Percentage and ranking; Multi-subject-area reporting
Delivery
Most effective when delivered with access to a real or representative Fusion environment so participants build on actual data. If the team has been live for a few months, we build reports during the session that they take home and use immediately. Available virtually or on-site.
Certification
Certificate of completion
Price
USD 500 · per participant
per person · indicative · group pricing available
HRDC eligibility
Up to 75% refundable
Mauritius-registered employers may claim this training via the HRDC levy. We provide full documentation to support your claim.
Languages
English
Provider reference
SIMPLIT-070-OTBI_REPORTS_FOR_BUSINESS_USERS
Who is this for?
• Finance controllers and accountants who need to build their own reports and dashboards
• Operations managers who want to monitor KPIs directly from Fusion data
• Senior analysts who currently re-create Fusion data in Excel and want to stop
• Finance managers who want to understand what reporting is possible before requesting a developer
• Any Fusion user who has OTBI access and has not used it confidently yet
Course Details
- Date
- To be announced
- Duration
- 6 hours (2 × 3 hrs)
- Price
- Rs 500
- Location
- Virtual (live, online) / On-site at client / Individual coaching
- Status
- Active
- Presenter
- Simpl'IT Cloud
CategoriesTechnology, Finance, Data & Analytics
Tags
Oracle FusionIntermediateOnline AvailableCorporate TrainingIndividual CoachingData AnalyticsFinance