Product Directions
BI
Jenny Lalik
Sr Solutions Engineer
Eastern Region
Product Update
Agenda
 WebFOCUS 7
 Launching of WebFOCUS 8
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Our Mission
Four Critical Elements For Smarter Decisions
 Data Integrity
 WebFOCUS incorporates data integration for all information
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latency requirements and unique data integrity solutions.
Performance Management
 The new PMF allows organizations to increase strategic use of
information and analytics to meet critical business objectives drive
all levels of performance and manage risk.
Business Intelligence
 The core feature enhancements expand our lead in enterprise user
adoption and large-scale customer-facing deployments.
Advanced Analytics
 The use of visualization and predictive
analytics to shorten and simplify
decision cycles.
7.7
Overview of New Features/Capabilities
Product Update
Current Release WebFOCUS 7
 WebFOCUS 7.7.03
 Enhancements in Data Quality, Performance Management,
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Real-time BI, Advanced Analytics
Reporting Server console, performance, metadata & new
adaptor areas, e.g., 1010 Data adapter
Mobile Delivery
Active Technologies
XBRL Financial Reporting
Exchange
zIIP support
Info Assist for Power Users
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WebFOCUS Developer Studio
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Product Update
Developer Studio
 Developer Studio: Automatic Generation of Guided Ad-hoc
Applications
 Goal is to reduce development time
 Pre-built templates provided as starting point
 New “Guided Report” development mode provides one-click
parameterization of dimensions, measure, ranking and sort
objects’ properties, report output choices, other options
 A full application with launch pages, reports, filters,
dashboards, and other options is automatically generated
and easily deployed
 Ideal for developers who are new to WebFOCUS
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Product Update
Developer Studio 7.7.2
 Pre-built Guided Adhoc Application Templates
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Product Update
XBRL & Financial Reporting: Highlights
 Becoming a standard
means of
communicating
financial data between
businesses
government agencies
 WebFOCUS provides
completely integrated
financial reporting
capabilities +
automatic creation,
validation & publishing
of XBRL documents
Product Update
Magnify New Features in 7.7.2
 Search Based Application
 facet category counts and spell
checking
 available in various languages
 query score percentage
 updated tabular feature set
 Development
 file type auto-detection
 open office and archives
 expose file properties
 Security and Administration
 optimize memory usage and
performance
 content analysis and organization
 collection security
Product Update
ON TABLE HOLD FORMAT MAGNIFY
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Product Update
Magnify Search Portal
Active Technologies
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Product Update
Key Drivers for New Active Technologies Capabilities
 Growing market demand for end-user dashboards
 Mobile Devices
 HTML5 compatibility to support Apple devices
 Tablets
 Android devices as challenger to Apple and
Blackberry devices
 Portable solutions
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Product Update
Active Technologies
 New controls allow for the creation of custom, portable
Dashboards
 Mobile support (Release 7.7.03): Active content delivered to
any mobile device’s browser
 Automatic device detection supports specific devices’
gesturing, touch technologies
 Initial set of HTML5 charts with animation properties will
be available in 7.7.03 release; All WebFOCUS charts
(approximately 100 charts) will follow later this year
 Active Technologies API automatically converts any content
to Active format
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Product Update
Release 7.7
 InfoAssist: Advanced Development Tool
 End-user dashboards, sophisticated development
capabilities
 InfoMini
 UI can be customized for wide range of developers,
power users, and information consumers
 Entire applications & gadgets built and automatically
deployed
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Demo
Info Assist
Enterprise Mobile Enablement
WebFOCUS To Go
WebFOCUS To Go
Any Device, Any Form Factor, Any OS Platform
 WebFOCUS To Go Strategy:
 Offer device independent BI
solutions
 Offer develop once, deploy
anywhere environment
 Offer highly interactive, device
exploitive Web Apps with built in
analytic capabilities
 Make it easy to embed BI Web
Apps in custom applications
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WebFOCUS To Go Components:
 Active Technologies
 Mobile Faqvorites
 Mobile Faves
 WebFOCUS Maintain
 ..and forthcoming extensions
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WebFOCUS To Go
Active Technologies for Mobile Web Apps
 Ease of Use
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Single-tap UI paradigm
Full gesture & screen rotation support
Embedded data analysis and visualization
Full offline data interactivity
 Ease of Development
 Dynamic device detection
 Build once, fit in any device
 Industry Standard
 Web Apps technology
 iPhone App-like UI
 Available in HTML or Flash
Active Technologies for Mobile Web Apps: Benefits
 Ease of Use
 Single Tap UI Paradigm
 95% of Most Commonly Used Excel Functions
 Ease of Development
 Client-side Dynamic Device Detection
 Build Once, Fit in Any Devices
 Industry Standard
 iPhone App-like UI
 Available in HTML or Flash
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WebFOCUS To Go
Maintain for User Input Mobile Applications
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WebFOCUS To Go
Mobile Favorites for Any Mobile Device
 Simple and intuitive
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access of WebFOCUS
content on any device
Administrator or user
driven content assignment
One click content
designation for access on
mobile devices
Leverage WebFOCUS
secured access
Deliver Guided Ad Hoc
Deliver AHTML, HTML,
PDF, Excel, etc.
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Mobile Faves App
What is it good for?
 Blurring native->web transition - Hybrid
 Keeping all your BI content together and organized
 One-tap to content library, two-taps to content viewing
 Easing our customers from Web to Mobile
 Supports most legacy apps
 Server folder access and inline graphics in WF 7703
 IBI presence in Apple store
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Across Mixed Devices: BI Portals
BB OS6
BB Older
Android
iPhone
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Business Value Proposition
Information Builders
Role of Business Intelligence
 Pervasive deployment
 All users: “Everyone Makes Decisions”
 Embed intelligence in business processes
 Critical component to the customer relationship
 Strategic adoption and deployment
 BI begins with data
 Leverage advanced technology to boost intelligence
 Automate decision making
Everyone
 Drive analytical awareness
 “Everyone Makes ^ Decisions”
Makes
Decisions
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Overview of New Features/Capabilities
WebFOCUS 8 Overview
Data Integrity – Latency and Performance
 WebFOCUS supports three levels of data access:
 Staged data (Data Warehouse)
 Near real-time (Operational data or trickle-fed DW)
 True real-time (Business Activity Monitoring, CEP)
 Expanding market-leading data reach
 adds support for new high performance data
warehouse engines:
 Netezza
 Sybase IQ
 1010 Data
 HP NeoView
 Hyperstage
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WebFOCUS 8
iWay Data Profiler
Gathers statistics about
enterprise data
Provides key reports and
analysis on general data
health
Helps Identify and prioritize
issues that need attention
Data Integrity
iWay Data Quality Center
Real-time Online or Batch
Data Cleansing, Profiling,
and Enrichment
Ready to use Data,
Business, and Technology
Modules
High Performance
(5,000,000 records / hour)
Data Quality Reporting,
Monitoring, and Firewall
Data Integrity
iWay Master Data Center
Master Data Management
with Data Quality Services
Real-time and Batch Support
Single View of Customer
Data “Out of the Box”
Support for Complex
Business Rules
WebFOCUS 8 Overview
Performance Management
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Compelling Dashboards/Scorecards
 Role personalization
 Dashboard animation
 Full analytics and social tools
Performance and Risk
 Aligns impact of performance
and associated risks
Broad and Open world view
 Web 2.0 mashups, Industry
Metrics Catalog
Vertical and Horizontal Starter Kits
 Commercial, Public, Finance
WebFOCUS 8
Performance Management – 3 Ways to Manage Performance
Dashboard Management
Metrics Management
Strategy Management
Dashboard Platform
-Dashboard Designer
-Gadget Creation
WebFOCUS Gadgets
Web 2.0 Gadgets
iWay Real Time Gadgets
Portal Independence
Metrics Platform
-Metrics Designer
-Catalog of Metric Gadgets
-Catalog of Industry Metrics
-Portfolio of Metric Analytics
-Metric Guided Ad Hoc
-Consume any Metric data
-Drill to any Metric source
Strategy Platform
-Strategy Designer
-Scorecard Wizard
-Risk Management
-Catalog of Strategy Gadgets
-Portfolio of Strategy Analytics
-Executive Briefing Books
Use Dimensions and get
-Gadget Broadcast
-Time Animation
Collaboration
-Metric Blogging
Business Sciences
-Project Management
-Process Management
-Planning
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Core Business Intelligence Enhancements
Enhanced Security & Usability Compliance
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Hacker-proofing software applications
Only Business Intelligence company
Level 3 Certification
Application Security Verification Standards
3rd party audit
508 Compliance for US federal government
Many WebFOCUS deployments are customerfacing, B2B, or public internet applications
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Core Business Intelligence
Enhanced RIA Development
 Adding AJAX and Flex
controls to Developer Studio
 Implementation of RIA-based
widgets
 Create rich internet
application without the need
for 3rd party tools
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WebFOCUS 8 Overview
New BI Portal
 Highly flexible BI Portal
 User and Role based
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deployment
Completely customizable by
end users
Consistent UI Ribbon “look
and feel” with InfoAssist
Core Business Intelligence
InfoAssist Enhancements
 UI Customization for InfoAssist
 Customizable Application
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Ribbon (InfoMini)
 Select specific IA options
on a per report basis
Cube browsing within report
output
Tool & data in any language
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WebFOCUS 8 Overview
Advanced Visualization – “In-memory Visual Analytics”
 New 64-bit visualization
components
 Tested with over 25 million
rows in-memory
 Easily find outliers and
relationships in large data sets
WebFOCUS 8 Overview
Predictive Analytics - RStat
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Based on R-System
 Open Source Predictive modeling
and statistics
Embed predictions into operational BI
applications
Provides..
 Data Preparation
 Data Exploration
 Hypothesis Testing
 Model Building
 Model Evaluation
 Model Deployment/ Application
Creation
WebFOCUS 8
4 Critical Elements For Smarter Decisions
WebFOCUS 8
Product Rollout Plan
 WebFOCUS 8
 Phase I: Release 8.0 Beta (19 customers enlisted)
 Program will continue thru EOY 2011
 Includes all of Release 7.7 plus phased availability of…
 New BI Portal (Dashboard)
 Upgraded InfoAssist
 New Security system
 Repository based MRE
 Phase 2: Identify customers committed to upgrading
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WebFOCUS 8
Product Rollout Plan
 Current Status
 Active customer testing
 Includes all of previously mentioned key features plus
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customization and personalization & Migration/Change
Management tools
Migrate existing customers
 Conversion tools
 Migration support services
Documentation online
at our tech support site
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