Presenting CD Group’s Accelerate: The quickest and easiest way to add the power and efficiency of Oracle® Business Intelligence analysis and reporting to your JD Edwards application.

Your business has questions, CD Group Accelerate delivers answers.

Are you fully leveraging your investment in back-end systems? Do your decision makers have the right information at the right time? Can you compare actual operating results to budgets real-time? If you answered no to any of the questions above, your business will benefit by implementing Oracle Business Intelligence.

• Pre-Configured templates for fast results: Accelerate is pre-mapped to the primary Sales, Inventory and General Ledger tables in JD Edwards, considerably reducing the amount of time required to complete the project.
   
• User Friendly Interfaces: Ability to create interactive dashboards and ad hoc reports on the web, as well as author “pixel perfect” professional reports.
   
• Multiple Reporting Options: Reports and queries can be viewed on the web, or exported to other applications such as Word, Excel, and PDF. Content can also be burst to users via email or mobile devices.
   
• Quick Deployment: Accelerate was developed with quick deployment in mind. Users should be able to create dashboards and reports within two to three weeks from project start date.
   
• Analyze: Intuitive drill-through hierarchies allow you to dive into your data starting from a high level of detail all the way down to the lowest level of detail. Examples would include: drilling from country, into region, into state, down to the city. Or from product line, into product category, down to product item detail.
   
• Documentation and Training: High level training and documentation on the functionality of Oracle BI tools and security.

Why CD Group

CD Group delivers Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) solutions using our Accelerate project approach to help you gain insight into your business while helping you gain self-sufficiency and keeping budget and scope control highly predictable.

We have been delivering BI solutions since 1999 and also offer a full range of Oracle software and services. CD Group seeks to understand your company's needs and will provide fast, cost effective, and high quality solutions in order to achieve a fast return on your investment.

To request additional information please email bi@cdgroup.com.

CD Group Accelerate For Oracle Business Intelligence
Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is CD Group Accelerate for Oracle Business Intelligence (BI)?
CD Group Accelerate for Oracle® BI is a solution that leverages pre-defined data relationships and templates in various subject areas such as Sales, Inventory and General Ledger analysis. These frameworks connect to your JD Edwards environment using the OBIEE platform, providing a quick implementation and deployment approach, while keeping the necessary flexibility to fit your business requirements.

2. What are the Software and Hardware requirements to implement CD Group’s Accelerate models successfully?
The Accelerate models run on Windows 2003 server. For Hardware, see the bullets below. These are just recommendations, as specifications can vary.

• Processor: Quad Core Xeon E5420 Processor2x6MB Cache, 2.5GHz, 1333MHz FSB
• Memory: 8GB 667 MHz (4x2GB), Dual Ranked Fully Buffered DIMMs
• Hard Drive: 250 GB 7.2K RPM Serial ATA 2Gbps 3.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive – Quantity 3

3. Who performs the installations?
All hardware and network environments need to be in place before the beginning of the project. CD Group will perform the installation of the OBIEE tools and Accelerate model. The customer is encouraged to be involved in this process, but that is not a requirement.

4. What am I actually paying for when I buy Accelerate?
The Accelerate repository contains the primary Sales, General Ledger and Inventory tables and their various relationships, and connects directly to JD Edwards environments. It also contains “Business User” views of the data with folders such as Business Unit, Customer, Material and Time, rather than technical tables/folders such as F4211, F4102, F0006…etc. Starting this process from scratch would require hundreds of hours to accomplish.

5. How will Accelerate understand my user-defined JDE settings, such as category codes and date patterns?
Prior to the project start date, the customer will complete the Accelerate Repository Variables document / questionnaire. This document provides CD Group with all the needed information to properly configure the system to fit your JDE parameters.

6. What databases are supported by Accelerate?
This offer is a database independent solution. It is supported with any version of MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, and others.

7. How long does it take for data to be available for reporting using Accelerate?
Accelerate was developed with quick deployment in mind. Users should be able to create dashboards and reports in 2 to 3 weeks from project start date.

8. Is Accelerate customizable? Can I bring data from additional sources into the model? Absolutely. Accelerate can be customized to fit your needs beyond the original model. These customizations, however, fall outside of the “Phase 1” portion of the project, and need to be discussed and scoped on a per case basis.

9. Can Data Security be Implemented using Accelerate?
Accelerate can be configured to support group, job function and user level security

10. Is any training involved in this offer?
Yes. Our consultants will perform high level training on the functionality of OBIEE tools as well as security. The client should be able to perform daily operations and administration after completing the training. A turnover document describing the main steps in the implementation process is also provided. It is important to keep in mind, however, that our knowledge transfer training is not a replacement for the training course offered by Oracle, especially if the resources involved are completely new to business intelligence development processes.

11. Will CD Group consultants perform the work on-site or remotely?
That’s your call. We should be able to perform all the work remotely, but we are available to work on-site if necessary.

12. How do I learn more or get in contact with CD Group?
To request a personal demonstration or to learn more about any of CD Group’s offerings, email bi@cdgroup.com.

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