American Express & Information Builders A WebFOCUS

WebFOCUS Roadmap

Dan Ortolani

Vice President, Advanced Technology Services

Copyright 20011, Information Builders. Slide 1

WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives

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Release Snapshot

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Industry Trends & Drivers for WebFOCUS Strategic

Initiatives

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Mobile

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Increasing Influence of Business Users

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Renewed Disruption and Competition in the Data

Warehouse Marketplace

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Demand for Simplified BI Development

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Increased Traction of SaaS & Cloud BI Solutions


WebFOCUS Strategic Initiatives

Release Plan Snapshot

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Release 7.7.03 – GA now!

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WebFOCUS Enable, RStat, and Performance Management

Framework on flexible, independent release tracks

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Release 8 – Beta 2 now!

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Includes Business Intelligence Portal

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Expanded beta program will continue throughout the summer (Premium & Strategic Customers)

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High impact feedback still possible and encouraged

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GA 3Q


Strategic Initiatives for 2011


Industry Trend: Mobile


Proliferation of Mobile Devices is Accelerating

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Over 428 million mobile devices were sold in 1Q2011 a 19% year-over-year increase.

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Growth is attributed to the continued spike in smartphone sales

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Gartner estimates 100.7 million for Q1, up 85% year-overyear.

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Android remained the leader with 36% of the market.

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Nokia’s Symbian is in second place with 27.4%, followed by Apple’s iOS with 16.8%, RIM’s BlackBerry with 12.9% and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 with 3.6%.

Source: Gartner (April, 2011)


Industry Trends Driving WebFOCUS Product Strategy

Tablet Market Dynamics

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Apple’s iOS will continue to own the majority of the worldwide media tablet through 2015

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Due to the success of Apple’s iPad, iOS will account for 69% percent of media tablet market in 2011 and represent 47% in 2015.

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Android tablets will capture an estimated 39% of the market by 2015

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Estimated market share for Windows-based tablets: 0%

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Ignores/dismisses touch screen laptops and roadmaps from Dell and others regarding both Windows 7 &

Windows 8 Slate plans

Source: Gartner (April, 2011)


WebFOCUS Mobile Capabilities



“WebFOCUS to Go” Mobile Strategy

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Develop Once, Run Anywhere: A unique, Web-based low cost solution in which Dashboards, Active

Technologies content, and Guided Ad-hoc BI applications are developed via the appropriate WebFOCUS tools and then deployed to desktop & mobile devices

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Device Awareness: WebFOCUS adapts so users and developers are not required to do so

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When appropriate, provide a Helper App to house above-mentioned content & provide useful integration points with the device.



Release 7.7.03



Active Technologies Web App

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Active Technologies dashboards & reports provide embedded analytics & visualization for Android, Apple, RIM & other devices

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Automatic device detection supports specific devices’ gesturing, touch technologies

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Over 30 HTML5/JavaScript charts with interactivity & animation properties available


Business Intelligence Roadmap

MobileFaves Native Helper App for the iPad & iPhone

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Download and install from Apple’s Appstore

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Connect directly to IB-hosted web site for HELP, live demos and other content

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The WebFOCUS iPad MobileFaves helper app houses and organizes BI content by connecting to your WebFOCUS environment (note: Mobile Favorites or New Portal Pro license required)

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Provides additional capabilities such as the ability open

Active Technologies reports via email, exploitation of

Report Caster's Watch List feature (push content to the iPad directly) and the ability to save Active Technologies content locally on the iPad.



Release 8


WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives

Additional Mobile Capabilities in Release 8

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Data Visualization

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WebFOCUS charts converted into JavaScript/HTML5, featuring over 100 charts with interactivity, animation, properties

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All charts will be built in InfoAssist replaces Advanced

Graph Assist)

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All charts available to Active Technologies

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Supported across all browsers, mobile devices

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Delivery of priority charts has already occurred

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Implementation of mobile JavaScript framework

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Enable automatic adherence to all mobile device form factors

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BI Portal, InfoAssist, Guided Ad-hoc forms, etc.


Demonstration


Industry Trend: Increasing Influence of

Business Users


Industry Trend & Development Driver

Increasing Influence of Business Users

“Functional alignment within organizations for Business

Intelligence continues to shift. Most notably, in North America, business users appear to be increasingly driving BI adoption.

We believe that the trend towards business-dominated BI is a global trend, with other geographies lagging behind North

America by several years.”

Source: Dresner Advisory Services (May, 2011) – “Wisdom of the

Crowds” BI market survey


WebFOCUS Strategy for

Delivering Advanced Capabilities to Business Users



WebFOCUS Strategy for Business Users

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Provide advanced development, data discovery and analytical capabilities to fit the wide range of customers’ development models

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Central IT model

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Development occurring in Business units (IT provides metadata, templates, admin)

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Shadow IT working within Business units

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Allow for flexibility in delimitation of users roles and associated entitlements

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Traditional “Power User” and Developer roles are blurring in many organizations


Advanced Capabilities for Business Users

Release 7.7.03



New InfoAssist Capabilities Now Available

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InfoAssist: Advanced Development Tool

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End-user dashboards, sophisticated development capabilities

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Data automatically linked via cascading filter controls

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Many dashboard components share single cache

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Rich, interactive UI experience: Flash & HTML

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InfoMini expands potential deployment of IA

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UI can be customized for wide range of developers, power users, and information consumers

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Entire applications & gadgets built and automatically deployed to users’ portal environment



Advanced Capabilities for Business Users

Release 8



InfoAssist in Release 8: Additional Advanced Features

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Tools consolidation

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Close gap with legacy tools such as Report Assist & Graph

Assist

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Extend cube support via new Browser mode for cube databases

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SAP/BW

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Essbase

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Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services

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Multi-step reports (HOLD file creation), Financial Reporting

(inter-row calculations, account hierarchies, etc.)

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Enhanced prompting support


Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities

Adding an Expandable “Across”


Filters Tab



Context Menu



Visual Discovery : Integration with InfoAssist


New BI Portal Initiative: Release 8

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Next Generation of

Business Intelligence

Portal

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Built with Rich Internet

Application approach

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Consistent ribbon-style navigation for both building new portal views and user-based personalization

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Open, component approach



Key Drivers for New WebFOCUS Enable Capabilities

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Adobe’s Flash development environment remains a strong industry force, with a huge development community

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Demand from strategic customers for Flash-based, specialized, highly visible applications

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Strong demand to deploy Flash-based dashboards rich in data visualization and custom components to large user constituencies


WebFOCUS Enable in 2011

 Dashboard Builder Component (Q32011)

 Managed Reporting Components (Q32011)

 Dashboard framework component to provide customizable widgets to the end user (Q32011)



Location Intelligence

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ESRI Integration: Based on customer and field demand, WebFOCUS now integrates with ESRI’s Flash-based map viewer

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IB delivers value-add components for bi-directional integration with

ArcGIS Server

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Google Maps

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Coming in Release 8:

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Bing Maps: Easily integrate

Bing Maps with WebFOCUS via standard controls in Developer Studio’s

HTML Composer


Industry Trend: Renewed Disruption and

Competition in the Data Warehouse

Marketplace



Disruption and Competition in the Data Warehouse Market

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Upstart Columnar and Big Data Database Vendors Challenge

Established Leaders

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ParAccel, Sand, InfoBright, 1010, open source alternatives, others

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Enterprise Data Warehouse Vendors Respond

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Acquisition (Mega-Vendors)

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Hardware, specialized database vendors

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Appliance strategy

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More flexible market positioning allows for departmental deployments


WebFOCUS Strategy for Addressing

Dynamics of Database Market



Reporting Server & Adapter Enhancements

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Enhanced Adapters for Columnar Databases

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Integrated WebFOCUS/Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance

Offering

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Specific innovations developed for this offering can also be leveraged by existing WebFOCUS Teradata implementations.

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Web-based Quick Copy Data Migrator option to load source data to targets without the need to create data flows.

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Data Migrator now supports the ability to exploit

Teradata’s in-memory bulk load facilities .

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New Web-based Metadata Wizard


WebFOCUS Strategy for Addressing

Dynamics of Database Market




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SQL Adapter Optimizations

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Performance improvements were implemented across

SQL Adapters

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The SQL Server adapter now features new default data access mapping strategies and settings that have been modified to yield very significant performance improvements for many SQL Server/WebFOCUS implementations

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New tracing separates RDBMS and WebFOCUS

Reporting Server processing statistics




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Nested Application Folders

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The ability to easily categorize server-based application components is now the default behavior in this release.

Application folders will be nested allowing for easy navigation via standard hierarchical directory structures.

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Spreadsheet Upload and Mapping

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A new option had been added allowing users to quickly upload spreadsheets to the Reporting Server, create metadata via standard tools, associate the metadata in a secured application folder and make it available as a data source for reporting, filtering, etc.


Simplifying Development of BI

Applications



Key Drivers for New Developer Studio Capabilities

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Customer Feedback:

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Make developing customer-facing guided adhoc applications faster and easier via improved workflow and templates

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Create UI consistent with InfoAssist and modern web development paradigm

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Maintainability of guided adhoc applications

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Lessen reliance on specialized FOCUS language skills



New Developer Studio Capabilities Now Available

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Developer Studio: Automatic Generation of Guided Ad-hoc

Applications

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Goal is to reduce development time

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Pre-built templates provided as starting point

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New “Guided Report” development mode provides one-click parameterization of dimensions, measure, ranking and sort objects’ properties, report output choices, other options

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A full application with launch pages, reports, filters, dashboards, and other options is automatically generated and easily deployed

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Ideal for developers who are new to WebFOCUS


InfoAssist-style

Ribbon UI coming to Application

Studio in Release

8.x later this year.

Industry Trend:

Increased Traction of SaaS BI Solutions



Increased Traction of SaaS BI Solutions

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*Modest but significant growth in anticipated SaaS investment

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In WebFOCUS’ customer base, SaaS requirements are influencing new feature development in these areas:

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Security

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User Interface branding

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Specialized adapters, e.g., WebFOCUS integration with SalesForce

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Multi-tenancy features

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Strong demand for web-based administration and development model

* Source: Dresner Advisory Services (May, 2011) – “Wisdom of the

Crowds” BI market survey


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