Production infor ln reporting after migration strategy. OTBI for self-service analytics, BI Publisher for pixel-perfect operational reports, Smart View for controllers, EPM for consolidation. Rebuilt in parallel with data migration so go-live includes the reporting layer.
Reports are the daily touch-point business users have with the ERP. If reporting doesn't work on day one, the migration doesn't work — regardless of how clean the data migration is.
Infor LN's reporting layer (printer reports, browser reports, Infor d/EPM dashboards, OS Portal extensions) is the daily touch-point for finance, manufacturing, projects, supply chain and FP&A users. Trial balances, AP aging, AR aging, production-order status, project WIP, inventory positions, sales order book — these are the reports that drive operational decisions every day. Migrate the data perfectly but leave reporting broken and business users perceive the migration as a failure.
Syntra ETL treats infor ln reporting after migration as a first-class workstream that runs in parallel with data migration, completing at go-live. The reporting workstream inventories every active LN report during the migration assessment, classifies by business value (retire / static archive / rebuild in Fusion), gathers rebuild requirements from business-domain owners, builds OTBI subject areas for ad-hoc analytics, builds BI Publisher templates for pixel-perfect operational reports, configures Smart View ad-hoc connections for FP&A, and validates against parallel-run data with business-owner sign-off.
The result is a reporting layer that lands on Fusion at the same instant the data lands — so business users open Fusion Monday morning post-cutover and immediately see the reports they relied on in LN. Trial balance by Financial Company. Production WIP by Logistical Company. Project status with EVM measures. Inventory positions by warehouse. Same reports, same numbers, native Fusion.
Not every LN report needs a Fusion equivalent. The classification exercise drives the rebuild scope.
Infor d/EPM dashboards → rebuilt as OTBI dashboards with dashboard composer for business-user customization. Real-time data from Fusion ERP/SCM/PPM.
Project invoices, GR/IR, production-order documents, customer/supplier correspondence → rebuilt as BI Publisher templates with email/print delivery.
Financial statements per Financial Company → OTBI subject area + BI Publisher template for printable statements with drill-down to journal line.
Controller and FP&A Excel workbooks → Smart View ad-hoc connections with shared workbook library for common queries.
Infor consolidation reporting → Fusion EPM FCCS with IFRS elimination, currency translation, consolidation adjustments preserved.
30–50% of LN reports typically duplicate native Fusion behavior or are no longer used — retired with static PDF snapshot for historical reference.
Typical 12–16 week reporting rebuild that completes at go-live alongside the data migration.
Every active LN report inventoried (printer/browser reports, Infor d/EPM dashboards, OS Portal extensions). Classified by business value: retire, static archive, rebuild in Fusion. Approved by business-domain owners.
Rebuild requirements gathered from finance/manufacturing/projects/supply chain business owners. OTBI subject-area design, BI Publisher template design, Smart View workbook design captured.
Typically 80–120 OTBI subject areas built covering finance (GL, AP, AR, FA), manufacturing (production orders, WIP, capacity), projects (project status, EVM, budgets) and supply chain (orders, inventory, planning).
Typically 40–80 pixel-perfect operational reports built: project invoices, GR/IR documents, production-order shop packets, customer/supplier correspondence, statutory financial statements.
Smart View ad-hoc connections configured, shared workbook library built for common controller queries, Fusion EPM (FCCS for consolidation, Planning Cloud for budgeting) configured per customer scope.
Reports validated against LN equivalents during parallel-run cycles, reconciled per company per period, signed off by business-domain owners. Reports go-live with the data.
The reports business users rely on every day — landing on Fusion at the cutover instant.
Trial balance per Financial Company per period in OTBI dashboard + BI Publisher printable — drillable to journal line and originating sub-ledger transaction.
AP aging per BU and AR aging per BU in OTBI + Smart View — vendor and customer drill-down, open-invoice traceability, payment forecast.
Production-order WIP per Logistical Company in OTBI dashboard — material issued, labor posted, overhead applied per operation.
Project status with EVM measures (BCWS, BCWP, ACWP) in OTBI + BI Publisher — drillable to task, expenditure, commitment, contract.
Inventory positions per warehouse, sales order book, purchase order status — OTBI for analytics, BI Publisher for pickslip/shipping documents.
Multi-company consolidation per IFRS with elimination entries, currency translation, consolidation adjustments — Fusion FCCS delivering same numbers as LN consolidation.
Infor ln reporting after migration covers the post-cutover reporting strategy that replaces LN's reporting layer (printer reports, browser reports, Infor d/EPM dashboards, OS Portal extensions) with native Fusion equivalents. Three reporting tiers: ad-hoc analytics via Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) for finance/manufacturing/projects/supply chain self-service queries, pixel-perfect operational reports via BI Publisher for project invoices, GR/IR, production-order reports, customer/supplier correspondence, and Excel-tethered analysis via Oracle Smart View for controllers and FP&A teams. Syntra ETL's migration includes a reporting-rebuild workstream that runs in parallel with data load so go-live includes the reporting layer.
LN reports (Baan-script printer/browser reports, Infor d/EPM dashboards, OS Portal extensions) are tightly coupled to the LN data model and runtime — they query Baan-convention tables directly, use LN session contexts and rely on OS Portal infrastructure that retires at cutover. They don't run against Fusion data. Two paths: rebuild critical reports natively in Fusion (OTBI, BI Publisher, Smart View) for ongoing operational use, or preserve LN reports as static archive (PDF snapshots) for historical reference. Syntra ETL's reporting workstream inventories every active LN report during the migration assessment, classifies by business value, and rebuilds the critical ones in parallel with data migration.
The Syntra ETL reporting workstream runs as a parallel track to the data-migration workstream — typically starting at week 4 and completing at week 18 of a 16–24 week programme. Steps: inventory every active LN report during the migration assessment (printer reports, browser reports, Infor d/EPM dashboards), classify by business value (retire / static archive / rebuild in Fusion), gather rebuild requirements from finance/manufacturing/projects/supply chain business owners, build OTBI subject areas for ad-hoc analytics, build BI Publisher templates for pixel-perfect operational reports, configure Smart View ad-hoc connections for FP&A, and validate against parallel-run data with business-owner sign-off.
Infor d/EPM dashboards typically replace with two Fusion components: Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) for embedded operational dashboards (real-time data from Fusion ERP/SCM/PPM with dashboard composer for business-user customization), and Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) for advanced analytics with AI/ML capabilities including embedded forecasting, anomaly detection and natural-language query. Customers running Infor BIRT dashboards typically rebuild as OTBI; customers running Infor d/EPM for planning and consolidation typically migrate to Oracle EPM (Planning Cloud, Account Reconciliation Cloud, Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud). Syntra ETL's reporting workstream covers both rebuild paths.
Historical LN reports (pre-cutover reports that auditors or business users need for reference) are preserved through two mechanisms: static PDF snapshots of every critical recurring report at cutover (month-end trial balances, year-end financial statements, production-order history, project status reports) stored alongside the retention archive with cryptographic signing, and the underlying retention data accessible through the search-and-produce workflow so any historical report can be regenerated from source data. Auditors get the original PDF for the period they're reviewing plus the underlying data on demand — eliminating 'we can't get to that report anymore' answers.
Yes — Oracle Smart View is the native Excel-tethered analysis tool for Fusion ERP and EPM, and most controllers transitioning from Infor LN to Fusion find Smart View functionally equivalent (or superior) to LN's Excel-integration capabilities. Syntra ETL's reporting workstream includes Smart View setup: configuring Smart View ad-hoc connections to Fusion ERP and EPM, building shared workbooks for common controller queries (trial balance by company, AP/AR aging by BU, project WIP by project, production WIP by Logistical Company), and training controllers on Smart View patterns. Customers report 1–2 week adoption with measurable productivity gains over LN Excel integration.
Multi-company LN customers have consolidation reporting obligations (IFRS, US GAAP) that need to continue under Fusion. Three options: Fusion EPM Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud (FCCS) for full consolidation with IFRS elimination, currency translation and consolidation adjustments — typically the choice for customers with complex multi-currency multi-jurisdiction consolidation; Fusion ERP native consolidation features for simpler structures; or third-party consolidation tools (HFM successor products) integrated via OIC. Syntra ETL's reporting workstream covers FCCS rebuild with elimination-entry preservation from LN and consolidation-policy documentation handed over to the FP&A team.
Reporting rebuild typically runs 12–16 weeks in parallel with the data-migration workstream, completing at go-live. Breakdown: report inventory and classification (weeks 1–3), OTBI subject-area build (weeks 3–8 — typically 80–120 OTBI subject areas covering finance/manufacturing/projects/supply chain), BI Publisher template build (weeks 4–12 — typically 40–80 pixel-perfect operational reports), Smart View configuration (weeks 8–12), parallel-run validation (weeks 12–18 — reports reconciled to source LN equivalents), and business-owner sign-off (weeks 16–18). Customers running EPM rebuild (FCCS or Planning) add 4–8 weeks to total reporting timeline.
30-minute call. Walk through your LN report inventory, business-user reporting cadence, FP&A and consolidation footprint — leave with a concrete reporting rebuild plan that lands at go-live.