Because Everyone Makes Decisions
Jenny Lalik
Eastern Region Solutions Engineer
March 29, 2011
Business Intelligence Roadmap
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WebFOCUS
Key Mission
 Expand the current reach of BI from under 20% to 100% and beyond
How…
 Embracing the needs of each user constituency
 Executives, analysts, frontline workers, mobile workers
 Partners, customers, citizens
 Making it
 Easy to use
 Cost effective
 Scalable & portable
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WebFOCUS
Industry Recognition
“Information Builders had the best forward progress in the leadership quadrant because
of their commitment to leading innovation and their ability to listen and respond to
their customers.”
James Richardson, Analyst, Gartner BI Conference
WebFOCUS
Core BI + Extended BI
Front office
Visualization
& Mapping
Mobile
Applications
App/Dev, Portals
& Mash-ups
Enterprise
Search
Performance
Management
Reporting
Predictive
Analytics
Query &
Analysis
MS Office &
e-Publishing
Dashboards
Information
Delivery
Data Warehouse
& ETL
Business to
Business
Data Quality
Back office
Master Data
Management
Business Activity
Monitoring
Extensions to the
WebFOCUS platform
allow you to build more
application types at a
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lower cost
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Core Guiding Principles
Customer-driven development projects are
highest priority and are most visible throughout
Support, Development & Product Management
areas
Maximize Utilization:
• Offer robust set of tools and technologies
for every need and employee skill level
 ROI and Value Maximization:
• Ease of use, deployment, and scaling
• Integration of auxiliary tools and
technologies
• Unique model & architecture to leverage
open source
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Release Plan Snapshot
 Release 7.7.02 – GA now
 Features formerly planned for Release 8 accelerated
due to customer demand
 Release 7.7.03 – GA April, 2011
 WebFOCUS Enable, RStat, and Performance Management
Framework on flexible, independent release tracks
 Release 8 – Beta now; Estimated GA Q3
 Expanded beta program will continue throughout the
first half of 2011
 High impact feedback still possible and encouraged
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Key Product Initiatives
 InfoAssist: Advanced Web Development Tool **
 Active Technologies: New Visualization Enhancements Options**
 New GUI facilities to speed Guided Adhoc Development **
 WebFOCUS Mobile **
 Simplified WebFOCUS Magnify (BI + Search)**
 RStat Predictive Analytics**
 Enhanced Metadata Capabilities
 New Business Intelligence Portal
 Enhanced GUI & Workflow for IT Developers
 Business Analytics Initiatives
** Release 7.7 & Release 8
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InfoAssist
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Key Drivers for New InfoAssist Capabilities
 Customers’ development models vary widely
 Central IT model
 Development occurring in Business units
 Shadow IT working w/in Business units
 Traditional Power User and Developer roles are blurring in
many organizations
 Strong demand for advanced Web-based development
features
 Expanding IA’s features and functionality
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New InfoAssist Capabilities Now Available (7.7.02)
 InfoAssist: Advanced Development Tool
 End-user dashboards, sophisticated development
capabilities, InfoMini (unique in the industry)
 Dashboards easily created via IA (no need for Developer
Studio)
 InfoMini expands potential deployment of IA and balances
“too many features for me”
 UI can be customized by “developer” for wide range
of consumption by power users and information
consumers
 Entire applications & gadgets built and
automatically deployed
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InfoAssist Plans for Release 8
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InfoAssist: Additional Advanced Features
 Cube Support
 In 7.7.02:
 IA provides reporting and analysis development against major
cube data sources (SAP/BW, Essbase, MS Analysis Services)
 Metadata maps to cube structures allowing IA users to view
and navigate cube hierarchies
 Compound documents and dashboards containing both cube
and RDBMS sources can be created
 In 8.0:
 Extend cube support via new Browser mode for cube databases
 Allow users to perform analysis, save results, promote analysis
into Dashboards, highly-styled reports, Active Technologies,
mobile access
 Multi-step reports (HOLD file creation)
 Financial Reporting (inter-row calculations, account hierarchies, etc.)
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Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities
Expandable Navigation/Drill-Down for Multiple Dimensions
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Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities
Expandable Navigation/Drill-Across Dimensions
Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities
Filters Tab
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Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities
Right-Click Context Menus for Filtering, Calculations…
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Active Technologies
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Key Drivers for New Active Technologies Capabilities
 Growing market demand for end-user dashboards
 Competition in the mobile market
 Emergence of HTML5 as a market rival to Flash and
critical in order to support Apple devices
 Emergence of iPad as the current industry leader in the
tablet market
 Increasing market share of Android devices as
challenger to Apple and Blackberry devices
 Expectations in user community for ongoing visualization
enhancements
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New Active Technologies Capabilities Now Available
 New controls allow for the creation of custom, portable
Dashboards
 Mobile support: Active content delivered to any mobile
device’s browser
 In 7.7.03:
 Automatic device detection supports specific devices’
gesturing, touch technologies
 Initial set of HTML5 charts with animation properties
 All WebFOCUS charts (approximately 100 charts) will
follow later this year
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WebFOCUS Mobile Strategy & Offerings
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WebFOCUS Mobile: Open Strategy
 Today, WebFOCUS reports can be displayed on any mobile
device
 Mobile Favorites
 Users can subscribe to reports and view them via any
browser on any mobile device
 Active Technology content provides embedded analytics for
Android, Apple and other mobile devices with features
mentioned earlier
 Core Technology (guided adhoc applications, InfoAssist, etc.)
will be available via Web apps for mobile browsers
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WebFOCUS Mobile Faves
For iPad and iPhone
Mobile Faves for iPad and iPhone: Native App from App Store
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Key Drivers for New WebFOCUS Enable Capabilities
 Adobe’s Flash development environment remains a
strong industry force, with a huge development
community
 New version of Adobe’s Flash development released
 Demand from customers for Flash-based, specialized,
highly visible applications (customer-facing)
 Competitive considerations: allow customers to build
custom components
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PMF, Rstat and Magnify
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Gartner
On improving business performance
“Just deploying BI systems and executive
dashboards isn’t enough for companies
looking to improve their business performance
and gain a competitive edge on rivals.”
Gartner
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Challenges Organizations Face Today
Poor customer
value management
Lack of accountability
Frustrations in failing
to execute a strategy
Poor communication
and alignment
Unfulfilled ROI promises from IT
(lack of integration)
Rapid decision making
is just a dream
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Performance Management Framework
Performance
Management
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Manage the performance of ANYTHING
through metrics – people, systems &
processes
Out-of-the-box framework and data
model with strategy maps, scorecards,
reports, charts, roles and hierarchies
Fully integrated with WebFOCUS
Easily combine operational reporting
with performance metrics
Rapid implementation and time to
market
Business Value:
Communicate strategy and improve performance. Drive results to
higher standards and identify opportunities for improvement.
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PMF = Operational Performance Management
 Operational Performance Management (OPM) is about
translating the strategy into operational goals & initiatives
 Linking the initiative back to any metric in your
organization
 Leading Indicators of performance – not a Rear View Mirror
 Based on customer facing and operational processes
 Addresses Any Key Enablers
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Human Capital
Information Capital
Organization Capital
Everyone Makes Decisions
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PMF is the “How”
 Analytics
 Communication
 Guided ad hoc and OLAP
 Dashboards
 Trending & predictive analytics
 Robust alerting
 Visual analytics and GIS
 Collaboration
 Correlation tools
 Publishing
 Alignment
 Operational and strategic
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closed loops
Visual cause/effect tools
Aligned projects/initiatives
Aligned Processes
Feedback loops
Cascaded scorecards
Pooled metrics
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PMF – Strategy Map
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Strategy
Risks
Where are
we going?
What risks
may effect
the outcome?
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Map out your path to
success
Understand the risks
you face that may
inhibit you
Transform goals into
measurable
objectives
Communicate to
everyone
Everyone is
accountable
Win, Place or No-show?
The 4 Critical Elements to Smarter Decisions
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PMF + WF Solution Approach
 Validated solution paradigm
 PMF for Metrics Management (and Strategy)
 Business Analytics: Forecasting, Correlation, Cause/Effect
 WF for Operational Details (Drill-down to BI)
 Business Analytics: VizDiz, Rstat
 WF 7.7 provides enhanced integration
 InfoAssist is PMF “aware”
 Automatic Slicers and PMF Gadget creation with non-PMF
reports
 PMF 5.2 works with 7.7 or 7.6. All production, all high performance
 Combines pre-built Metric knowledge (over 400 out-of-the-box)
and BI custom flexibility
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Predictive Analytics – RStat – “Next-Gen BI”
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RStat in 2011
 Expanding the library of scoring routines:
 Market Basket Scoring Routine
 Survival Analysis – used extensively in warranty
applications
 Language Support: Japanese, French, German, Spanish
 Packaging 64-bit version of R for use with larger data sets
 Extending in-database scoring
 Embed models as RDBMS functions
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Magnify Quick Feed: Create Magnify Applications Easily
 Challenge: Building Search Based Applications (SBA)
required specialized skills and often cumbersome (creating
the indexes)
 Realization: Building Search Based Applications is no
different than building reports
 New Feature (7.7.02): FORMAT MAGNIFY for quick feeds
 Create a report in Dev Studio
 Magnify category fields equal BY fields in WebFOCUS
 Searchable content equal PRINT fields in WebFOCUS
 Change format to Magnify...Indexes are dynamically
created and you’re done!
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Magnify
WebFOCUS Developer Studio
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Key Drivers for New Developer Studio Capabilities
 Customer Feedback:
 Make developing customer-facing, guided adhoc
applications faster and easier via improved workflow
and templates
 Create UI consistent with InfoAssist and modern Web
development paradigm
 Maintainability of guided adhoc applications
 Lessen reliance on specialized FOCUS language skills
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New Developer Studio Capabilities Now Available
 Developer Studio (7.7.02): 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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Developer Studio Guided Adhoc Application Templates
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InfoAssist-style
Ribbon UI coming
to Developer
Studio in Release
8.x later this year!
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Next Generation of Security Integration
OWASP-Certified: Release is hardened against hacker attacks
Open Web Application Security Project (open source standard)
Personalized approach
GUI responds & displays options based on roles
Set of permissions mapped to which objects and tools a user or
group of users can access
Can be highly customized, flexible
List, Create, Delete an object
Read, Update
Execute (report, report template, etc.)
New model will be RDBMS-based and provide single repository for
the entire product (including Report Caster)
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ESRI Integration
Innovation
Iitiative
 ArcGIS Server Support:
Available in today’s 7.6.10
product release
 Based on customer and field
demand, new product strategy
is to integrate with ESRI’s Flexbased map viewer
 IB to deliver value-add
components for bi-directional
integration with ArcGIS Server
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New Business Intelligence Portal
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New BI Portal Initiative: Release 8
 Next Generation of
Business Intelligence
Portal
 Built with Rich Internet
Application approach
 Consistent ribbon-style
navigation for both
building new portal
views and user-based
personalization
 Open, component
approach
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BI Portal New Feature Snapshot
Developer Created Custom Portal Views
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BI Portal New Feature Snapshot
End User Portal Content Customization
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Thank You!
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