7 Scenario Tuning

The Scenario Tuning utility leverages decisions made by analysts on past alerts to help tune the scenarios and their thresholds going forward.

This chapter introduces you to the Scenario Tuning utility and describes how you can view and operate the source business and Scenario Tuning data. It also explains how the user interface is organized, how the application uses the data, and how to view reports as per your setting.

The Scenario Tuning utility leverages decisions made by analysts on past alerts to help tune the scenarios andtheir thresholds going forward. The goal is to reduce the number of false positive alerts. Past alerts are analyzed and categorized to identify the quality of the alert. This utility helps to identify correlations between alert attributes and alert quality.

Oracle Financial Services application scenarios calculate bindingvalues as part of behavior detection. Many of these can be used to simulate thresholds. The Scenario Tuning allows users to plot the actual values of those bindings for alerts on a graph relative to the determined quality of those alerts. For example, analysis of the graph might reveal that when the binding value for the Total Transaction Amount associated with an alert was below a certain level, most alerts were considered to be non-productive or representing a false positive. This would suggest that raising thresholds based on the Total Transaction Amount for the selected scenario could eliminate some false positives.

The Scenario Tuning utility is a component that utilizes Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition(OBIEE) software. This utility operates as a standalone utility meaning that, while it falls within the category of administrative tools, it is not actually accessible via the Oracle Financial Services Administration Tools user interface. The Scenario Tuning utility is accessed via a separate URL. Contact your System Administrator for the exact Web address to be used.