Leveraging NoetixAnswers
NoetixAnswers provides customizable, configuration-specific out-of-the-box reports for Oracle E-Business Suite that help business users to find instant answers to common business questions. After the generation of these prebuilt reports in Noetix Views (NoetixViews), they can be readily made available to report authors and query users for use in their business intelligence (BI) tool, such as Noetix WebQuery, IBM Cognos Report Studio, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, Oracle BI Answers, or Oracle Interactive Dashboards. This chapter provides information about how business users can efficiently use the prebuilt reports to achieve their reporting requirements.
Address Challenges in Period-end Reporting
NoetixViews provides views and answers that are designed to help business users overcome the reporting challenges in the period close process. They provide effective ways to accomplish reconciliation and greater flexibility in addressing ad-hoc reporting needs and speed up the period close process resulting in better operational efficiency. For information on how to address challenges in period-end reporting through NoetixViews, seeArticle No. 000014651(INFO: How do I leverage NoetixViews to address reporting challenges to close the period?).
Effective Use of Answers in Reporting
NoetixAnswers includes several commonly used prebuilt reports with high-business value, such as Accounts Payable Trial Balance, Receivables Aging, Account Analysis, and Asset Additions, that provide insight into your specific business processes. You can leverage some of these reports to obtain similar output of Oracle E-Business Suite seeded reports. For information about the most commonly used and valuable reports, seeArticle No. 000014652 (INFO: Most commonly used, valuable reports).