Dynamic Dashboard Reporting
With WebFOCUS and Adobe Flex
Steve Cords and Robert Jones
© 2010 Travel and Transport, Inc.
Personal and Confidential
September 23, 2010
About Travel and Transport
• Founded in 1946
• One of the largest travel management companies in the U.S.
• 100% employee-owned
• Over $1 billion total sales
• 92 locations in 35 states
• Strong business mix
• 90% corporate
• Financially stable – no debt
Our Technology
• eTTek Solutions
– Our suite of advanced technology
products & comprehensive services that
provide clients with innovative solutions,
minimizing travel expenses while
maximizing efficiency
Our Applications Using WebFocus
eTTek Review
• Client Reporting – 160 standard reports, 3,000 non-standard reports
• Push reporting / Burst reporting
• Ad-Hoc reporting
• Internal Travel and Transport reporting – 60 standard reports
eTTek Review Dashboard
• Graphical view of travel data – 8 standard dashboards
• Push reporting
eTTek Review Global
• Data entry application allowing external agencies to enter spend for
partner companies
• Company can run reports including consolidated data
eTTek Review Hour Tracking
• Internal application allowing IT to enter programming hours for specific
projects/tasks – 6 standard reports can be run by Executives
eTTek Review Benchmarking Dashboard
What is Benchmarking?
•
Travel and Transport has over 700 clients active in our eTTek Review
self-service application
•
Our clients wanted to be able to see how they are doing compared to
other clients
–
–
–
–
•
Based on same type of industry
Based on similar size – travel volume
Based on region – where headquartered
Based on corporate structure within their own organization
• Department vs. Department
Within our eTTek Review reporting system we have developed our
“Dynamic Dashboard Reporting” self-service application
Technology Being Used
•
IBI WebFOCUS 7.6.10
•
WebFOCUS Enable for Adobe Flex 3.0
•
Eclipse IDE
•
Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional Edition – Eclipse Plug-in
– Includes the Flex charting components.
– Purchase from Adobe ($699)
•
Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher
•
Google Maps API Premier ($10,000/year)
•
AlivePDF – ActionScript 3 Open-Source PDF Library
– http://alivepdf.bytearray.org
– 100% client side PDF generation
Background on the Application
•
Self-Service Application
•
Started in June 2009
•
Production Release 1 – March 2010
•
Started before WebFOCUS Release 7.6.10
– 7.6.10 contains some new functionality to build Flex applications with Document
Composer. This is not being used for this application.
•
Main development was with Flex Builder
•
Focexecs are created to return XML
Live Demo
•
Demo of the Travel and Transport
Benchmarking Dashboard
Return on Investment
• Leading industry consultants rate our WebFocus applications
high among competitor applications
• Prospective clients look at Travel and Transport due to our
Technology
• First quarter 2009 we signed two clients ($40 million in Travel) due to
our Technology
• Existing clients stay with Travel and Transport due to our
Technology
• We re-sign existing business over 95% of the time
• Our applications save thousands of hours of manual work each
year
• Quarterly Review (70+ page report) completely automated
•
Benchmarking ROI – to early to determine
Future Objectives
eTTek Review Benchmarking Dashboard
• Allow for interactive PDF reports to be setup and pushed (via e-mail)
on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis
• Additional Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Cost per mile
eTTek Review Dashboard
• Convert existing dashboard application to be “flex enabled”
• Convert existing dashboard PDF reports to be “flex enabled”
Questions?
Thank You
Sample Screen Shots
Sample Screen Shots
Sample Screen Shots
Sample Screen Shots
Sample Screen Shots
Sample Screen Shots
Sample Screen Shots
Sample Screen Shots
Sample Screen Shots
Export to PDF