Allow for timezone shifting for Global Reporting.

Hi Everyone,
I would like to enable end users to be able to dynamically shift the timezone that data is being reported on. Before I go into the technical details, let me outline the business case.
Our Setup:
-- We are a global company and we have OBIEE users in many different timezones around the world.
-- But our Order Management system (Oracle EBS) processes every order in EST.
-- We pull the data into a warehouse and store the dates and times in EST.
The Issue:
-- Because of the timezone differences, it is difficult to understand Sales per day and especially per hour.
-- For example, Japan users are 14 hours ahead of us on EST right now, so their Saturday noon sales would show up as 10PM EST on Friday which is an odd hour to see a spike in a sales report.
I want to have a way to shift the timestamp, and date if necessary, dynamically based on a user selected prompt. This way the sales make sense for the local reporting team.
One of the ideas I came up with was having the warehouse loaded with multiple timestamp and date columns, but that seems like a brute force method because we'd need to add and maintain a bunch of columns for each date we want to do this to.
I'd prefer something more elegant than that method.
Does OBIEE 10g or 11g have features that will shift times and dates like this? Does anyone have any tricks for this?
Thanks!
-=Joe
Edited by: user9208525 on Oct 20, 2011 1:06 PM

Hi
The Personnel Area and Subarea are defined by country specific. If there is a same Personnel Subarea name for the different countries, from my point of view we have to present the personnal area for corresponding personnel Subarea which you need to address it.
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