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  • 1 Introduction
    • About This Guide
  • 2 Subject Areas
    • Overview
    • OTBI Performance Real Time
    • OTBI Usage Real Time
    • Project Billing - Bill Transactions Real Time
    • Project Billing - Event Real Time
    • Project Billing - Funding Real Time
    • Project Billing - Invoices Real Time
    • Project Billing - Revenue Real Time
    • Project Control - Budgets Real Time
    • Project Control - Financial Project Plans Real Time
    • Project Control - Forecasts Real Time
    • Project Control - Progress Real Time
    • Project Costing - Actual Costs Real Time
    • Project Costing - Assets Real Time
    • Project Costing - Commitments Real Time
    • Project Costing - Expenditure Item Performance - Real Time
    • Project Costing - Unprocessed Transactions Real Time
    • Project Management - Baseline Versions Real Time
    • Project Management - Change Management Real Time
    • Project Management - Opportunity Integration Real Time
    • Project Management - Planning Real Time
    • Project Management - Project Hierarchy Real Time
    • Project Management - Project Issues Real Time
    • Project Management - Project Resources Real Time
    • Project Management - Project Work Items Real Time
    • Project Management - Requirements Real Time
    • Project Management - Task Management Real Time
    • Project Resource Management - Resource Management Real Time
    • Project Resource Management - Resource Pool Real Time
    • Projects - Billing and Revenue Exceptions Real Time
    • Projects - Cross Subject Area Analysis - Real Time
    • Projects - Funding Pattern Analysis Real Time
    • Projects - Grants Management - Award Analysis Real Time
    • Projects - Grants Management - Award Funding Real Time
    • Projects - Labor Distribution Cost Analysis Real Time
    • Projects - Labor Schedule Analysis Real Time
    • Projects - Performance Reporting Real Time
    • Projects - Period Close Exceptions
    • Projects - Program Performance Reporting Real Time
    • Security - Audit Real Time
    • Security - Roles and Privileges Real Time
  • 3 Business Questions
    • Overview
    • Award / Projects with the most labor Schedules Active?
    • Can I view and edit a particular page? If yes, which functional security policy do I need to provide to a user who needs similar access?
    • How does my budgeted cost compare against my actual and forecast costs?
    • How does my budgeted revenue compare against my actual and forecast revenue?
    • How many OTBI SOAP web services have been run in the past month?
    • How many ad-hoc OTBI analyses have been run in the past month?
    • How many analyses and dashboards failed in the past month?
    • How many costs are being distribute to GL vs Projects over time?
    • How many custom OTBI analyses have been run in the past month?
    • How many predefined OTBI analyses have been run in the past month?
    • How many projects in the pipeline for each customer?
    • How many users run OTBI analyses?
    • How much did it cost to pursue this deal?
    • How much does each transaction source contribute to project costs?
    • How much effort is planned per resource role for my projects?
    • How much effort is remaining for my backlog items?
    • How much funding has been consumed by my contract?
    • How much has been invoiced for my contract?
    • How much of the contract line amount is invoiced and recognized for revenue?
    • How well did we plan for the program? (current and original baselines)
    • How's an expenditure item allocated across assets?
    • I haven't added a specific role to a user, but the user seem to have this job role. Can I trace how has this been inherited by the user?
    • In how many days are my project tasks due?
    • Is my project profitable?
    • Labor schedules ending in next 3 months?
    • What are all of the billing and revenue exceptions for a business unit?
    • What are all the data security privileges that a specific user added?
    • What are my Action Items?
    • What are my committed costs for a project?
    • What are my planning and actual cost amounts grouped by expenditure category and expenditure type?
    • What are my project tasks?
    • What are the actual costs for my EPS nodes?
    • What are the allocated hours for my project resources?
    • What are the awards for a specific keyword, for example, awards on diabetes research?
    • What are the backlog items for my projects in a sprint?
    • What are the billing and revenue details by project?
    • What are the common execution errors in the past month?
    • What are the cost and schedule performance indexes on my project?
    • What are the dates of pool membership for a resource?
    • What are the different forecast versions for my project?
    • What are the exceptions for my backlog items?
    • What are the invoice line details for a particular invoice?
    • What are the least-used OTBI subject areas?
    • What are the long-running analyses in the past month?
    • What are the most commonly used OTBI subject areas?
    • What are the operating margins for my projects?
    • What are the outstanding commitments for my project?
    • What are the planned and actual costs for each task including resource as per the latest published progress?
    • What are the planned and actual costs for my projects?
    • What are the planned and actual margins and margin percentages for my projects?
    • What are the planned billing amounts for my projects?
    • What are the planned hours for each backlog item?
    • What are the planned periodic amounts for my resource assignments?
    • What are the program's capitalizable costs?
    • What are the proposal numbers for the awards?
    • What are the raw and burdened costs for a project?
    • What are the reasons for change orders?
    • What are the requisitions and purchase orders that still have commitment costs for my project?
    • What are the statuses of the resources currently working on my projects?
    • What are the top N most frequently-run OTBI analyses?
    • What are the total costs for my EPS nodes?
    • What are the transactions for an invoice line?
    • What are the various participant statuses for the change order?
    • What are the win probabilities for opportunities on a project?
    • What are the work item statuses that determine the completion of my project tasks?
    • What are the work items for my projects?
    • What awards have funding unallocated to projects?
    • What costs were potentially processed using a funding pattern?
    • What errors / exceptions exist and what types?
    • What funding patterns are ending with the next 30, 60, or 90 days that I will need to manage?
    • What funding patterns are likely to fail in the near future?
    • What funding patterns will not work because awards are ending or project award balance is getting low?
    • What is the OTBI execution time histogram in the past month?
    • What is the amount of pending transactions?
    • What is the database SQL execution time and row count?
    • What is the earned value analysis for the program and program projects?
    • What is the execution history of dashboard X in the past month?
    • What is the operating margin for my program?
    • What is the program earned value Schedule Variance and Cost Variance?
    • What is the weekly OTBI analysis usage trend?
    • What labor schedules are likely to fail in the near future? Labor schedules with Awards / Projects Ending Soon.
    • What patterns are apparent from historic performance on issues? What can we learn from analysis of issues that could help future project performance?
    • What payroll batches have loaded recently and where did they distribute too?
    • What the deal and weight labor bill amounts on a project?
    • What unprocessed transactions are waiting to be sent to Oracle Fusion Project Portfolio Management?
    • What unprocessed transactions received an error during the load process to Oracle Fusion Project Portfolio Management?
    • What was the expenditure incurred on a project in a prior week?
    • What's a resource's pool membership history since they were first hired?
    • What's forecasted revenue on a project?
    • What's my cost variance?
    • What's my margin on a project?
    • What's the actual revenue trend for accounting periods in the selected accounting year?
    • What's the allocated funding amount for each project of an active award?
    • What's the baseline history information for my projects?
    • What's the budgeted amount for a project for the various budget versions?
    • What's the current stage and status of the change order?
    • What's the estimated cost and revenue for the change order?
    • What's the forecasted revenue and margin for resource requests that are in Open or Resource Proposed status?
    • What's the latest published physical percent complete for all tasks?
    • What's the latest published physical percent complete for summary tasks?
    • What's the number of pending change orders grouped by various stages?
    • What's the planned effort and revenue amount for a project for the various budget versions?
    • What's the project expenditure for a specific task and resource?
    • What's the remaining funding?
    • What's the schedule, effort, and cost variance across multiple baselines for my tasks or projects?
    • What's the total amount or count of completed billing events which are not invoiced or recognized for revenue for a contract and contract line?
    • What's the total capitalized cost of my assets?
    • What's the total funding by department year over year?
    • What's the total number of backlog items by status for a product in a given sprint?
    • What's the total number of story points achieved in each sprint of a release?
    • What's the weighted (adjusted) revenue for all projects under this branch of the enterprise project structure?
    • Which analyses have high data row count?
    • Which analyses have low usage because of poor performance?
    • Which analyses have low usage in the past month?
    • Which analyses have the longest response time?
    • Which analyses reached OTBI max row limit?
    • Which are the billing events for a project or contract and contract line?
    • Which are the certifications awarded for various projects?
    • Which are the contract lines for a contract?
    • Which are the projects for this opportunity?
    • Which assets are assigned to a task?
    • Which award certifications expire in the next 30 days?
    • Which awards are currently active?
    • Which awards are past their end dates but weren't closed?
    • Which billing events are on an invoice or revenue hold?
    • Which billing events are potentially missing an event completion date?
    • Which capitalizable costs are not yet capitalized?
    • Which commitments are associated with my capital projects?
    • Which contracts have actual revenue in the current accounting year?
    • Which contracts have the lowest actual revenue in the current accounting period?
    • Which contracts, contract lines and bill plans do unbilled transactions relate to?
    • Which cost distributions are included in an asset line?
    • Which data security policy would provide access to the data I need to see?
    • Which events could not be invoiced due to funding limit issues?
    • Which expenditure items are associated with my capital projects?
    • Which invoices need attention?
    • Which invoices were rejected during the transfer to Oracle Fusion Receivables?
    • Which issues are open for an individual owner?
    • Which issues are open for my projects along with their details?
    • Which of my backlog items have exceptions?
    • Which of my project deliverables are due soon?
    • Which of my project deliverables are overdue?
    • Which of my project deliverables are yet to start?
    • Which planned resources are working on my tasks?
    • Which project contracts are active for a business unit?
    • Which project generates the most revenue for my organization?
    • Which project tasks are due in 7 days?
    • Which project tasks are incomplete?
    • Which project tasks, milestones, and action items are due?
    • Which projects are linked to contracts?
    • Which projects are under a business unit and what are the statuses of these projects?
    • Which projects have missing labor rate exceptions for revenue or invoicing?
    • Which projects have pending transactions?
    • Which requests are in Open or Resource Proposed status?
    • Which resources belong to a resource pool?
    • Which roles were added with a specific functional security policy, and who added them?
    • Which subject areas have large data volume?
    • Which subject areas have slow performance?
    • Which task and resource have the highest costs? What's my budgeted profit and actual profit?
    • Which tasks and resources don't have correct expense estimates?
    • Which transactions are unbilled and what is the expected bill amount?
    • Which transactions contribute to the total cost of my projects?
    • Which transactions prevent project period closure?
    • Who are the contracted customers for a business unit?
    • Who are the placeholder resources assigned to my projects?
    • Who are the top N OTBI users?
    • Who has a labor schedule with no costs associated?
    • Why am I not able to view certain subject areas with my login credentials?
  • 4 Job Roles
    • Overview
    • Application Implementation Consultant
    • Grants Accountant
    • Grants Administrator
    • Grants Department Administrator
    • IT Security Manager
    • Labor Distribution Accountant
    • Labor Distribution Administrator
    • Principal Investigator
    • Program Manager
    • Project Accountant
    • Project Administrator
    • Project Billing Specialist
    • Project Execution
    • Project Executive
    • Project Manager
    • Resource Manager
    • Team Collaborator
  • 5 Duty Roles
    • Overview
    • Grants Management Funding Analysis Duty
    • Grants Management Transaction Analysis Duty
    • OTBI Report Performance Transactional Analysis Duty
    • OTBI Report Usage Transactional Analysis Duty
    • Project Billing Revenue Exceptions Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Budget Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Change Management Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Contract Bill Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Contract Billing Event Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Contract Invoice Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Contract Revenue Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Costing Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Foundation Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Hierarchy Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Issues Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Journals Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Labor Distributions Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Labor Schedules Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Performance Reporting Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Planning Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Program Analysis Duty
    • Project Progress Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Requirements Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Resource Management Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Project Work Items Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Security Transaction Analysis Duty
    • Task Management Transaction Analysis Duty