Tektronix integrates Blitz Report™ into their worldwide EBS System

About Tektronix

Tektronix, Inc. is a global company, headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. They deliver innovative, precise and easy-to-operate test, measurement and monitoring solutions that solve problems, unlock insights and drive discovery. The company has been at the forefront of the digital age for over 70 years.

You can find out more about Tektronix, their products, and solutions at tek.com

They have deployed a worldwide implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) for their Order to Cash solution.

Tektronix and Blitz Report at a glance

A new reporting system required ability to scale and meet demands of global workforce
Blitz Report has enabled Tektronix to turn around many requests for reports in one day

The Challenge

Tektronix used many ad hoc SQL queries for unique reporting requirements and shared them with their superuser groups for execution through a mix of developer and direct database access tools.
Find a scalable, easy-to-use, cost-effective reporting solution that could support the unique statutory and operational reporting requirements of their legal entities throughout the world.

Why Blitz Report?

Easy conversion of Oracle Discoverer workbooks by simply copying the SQL and pasting into Blitz Report and the availability of the Discoverer migration utility
Ability to quickly create reports by copying and pasting existing SQLs into Blitz Report™, which automatically recognizes bind variables for parameter definitions
A unique approach to run-time parameters, including the ability to select multiple values from a LOV, or use a list of parameter values copied from a spreadsheet
The access to third-party and remote system objects via database links, with the ability to combine and merge with Oracle EBS data

The Results

Tektronix has realized the following benefits from deploying Blitz Report™:

A better-controlled report environment, including version control and change management, which allows sharing reports across users, teams and regions around the world.
The ability to schedule and distribute reports using the standard Oracle concurrent manager.
Faster report development, reducing the time from request to deployment, allowing delivery of most reporting requests on the same week.
The seamless integration with Oracle EBS means new users can learn Blitz Report very quickly.
Enthusiastic feedback from end users leading to multiple requests for new reports and analysis.
Exporting datasets was very fast – at the same performance of SQL execution, regardless of data volume, due to the Blitz Report’s highly optimized Excel generation routine

“I think that Blitz Report’s version of the AR Aging – 7 Buckets Report in Excel Format, using the “As of Date” parameter is even better than the standard Oracle version. This is what user have requested for the last 10+ years and we could never resolve due to the complex Oracle data model.”

Michael Schmucker, Senior Business Analyst, Tektronix

Tektronix employees’ reactions to Blitz Report

”YEAH! Having this report available to the Corp Accounting team for reconciliations will be a huge time saver, so it is very exciting to have this report.”

”Blitz Report has quickly become a very popular, efficient user tool with new report requests every week.”

”There is almost no learning period required. Blitz Report works exactly as you would expect.”