WebFOCUS 8 Update
Chuck Wolff
October 30, 2014
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WebFOCUS 2014 Release Snapshot
WebFOCUS 8.0.07
Maintenance release
with new ESRI
embedded Maps
2/2014
InfoDiscovery
Release 8.1;
Release 8.0.09
Release 8 .0.08
Maintenance release
4/2014
WebFOCUS AppStudio
Release 8.0.07
5/2014
7/2014
WebFOCUS
InfoDiscovery
Release 8.1 –
Customer
Evaluation
Q3/2014
WebFOCUS
Release 8.2
Q4/2014
Q1/2015
WebFOCUS Release
8.0.10
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WebFOCUS Version 8
There have been major enhancements across WebFOCUS 8 since
its initial release in 2012
 Improved Reporting
 Advanced Charting
 Business Analytics
 WebFOCUS Mobile Enablement
 Developing Applications
 ReportCaster Scheduling and Distributing Information
 Administering and Securing the Environment
 Server Enhancements
 Adapter Enhancements
Fundamental Differences: WebFOCUS 7 vs. WebFOCUS 8
 Changes to the architecture
 New Security Model
 New BI Portal (to replace the BI Dashboard product)
 Consistent ribbon user interfaces across all products
 HTML5 Charting and Visualizations
 Release of Application Studio (to replace WebFOCUS
Developer Studio)
InfoAssist
Major New features
 InfoAssist has added many new features in WebFOCUS 8
 Hold Files
 HTML 5 Charting engine
 Multi page Documents and Dashboards
 Relative positioning between components
 Active Reports styling
 Support for Powerpoint 2007 (pptx)
 Subquery Filters using a HOLD file
 Lightweight Mapping
 Drill down filtering and Portal refresh
Refresh BI Portal
 Allows one report or chart to filter another report or chart in the BI Portal
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Active Technologies Sample
HTML5 output Sample
What’s ahead for InfoAssist 8.2
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Dynamic Groups
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Dynamic Groups
 Create a cluster of dimension values that make higher level categories
 Grouping items of an existing field
 Useful to re-organize data or to highlight ranges of values
 Example: Combine sub-regions into higher level regions
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Charting – Lightweight Mapping
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Interactive Chart Options
Select Map
Select Type
and Location
Interactive Chart Options
Add Geo
Location
Set Location
Type
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Interactive Chart Options
Charting – Treemap
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Treemap
 Display hierarchical (tree-structured) data as a set of nested rectangles.
 Each branch of the tree is given a rectangle, which is then tiled with smaller
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rectangles representing sub-branches.
A leaf node's rectangle has an area proportional to a specified dimension
on the data.
Leaf nodes are colored to show a separate dimension -optional
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Hidden Gems
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Field Search
Field Search
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Clipboard
Options
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Re-designed
Chart Picker
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Summary and Releases
Feature
8008
8200
Refresh BI Portal
Dynamic Groups
PowerPoint PPTX output format
Lightweight Mapping
Treemap
Two-part File name
Field Search
Control User Override preferences
Cut/Copy/Paste in Document Mode
Extended Functions
New chart Picker
Animate Once
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ReportCaster
ReportCaster User Interfaces
 ReportCaster content is accessible from the BIP tree
 New Scheduling tools with ribbon implementation
 New Distribution and Access List tools
 Each tool has a security privilege
Creating a Scheduled Task
 Right-click on a procedure in the BIP tree and select Schedule and
then choose the Distribution method
Schedule is placed in a folder in the tree
 Schedule right-click options are available from the tree
Library output stored in the WF Repository
 Library item is placed in the specified folder
 Right-click to View versions, Subscribe, Delete etc
WebFOCUS 8 Mobile Features
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WebFOCUS Content and Mobile Strategy
 Responsive web design (RWD) is a web design
approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an
optimal viewing experience—easy reading and
navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and
scrolling—across a wide range of devices.
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WebFOCUS Content and Mobile Strategy
 Auto-sizing Content – Content automatically takes the size of its container.
Object are built with relative/proportional size.
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WebFOCUS Content and Mobile Strategy
 Auto-Adjusting Content – Content moves and adjusts to the form factor to
improve experience. Smaller form factors will work by user swiping
through components while larger form factors will see all at once.
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WebFOCUS Application Studio
WebFOCUS App Studio is the most robust BI application development
platform on the market today.
 Expanded Charts and visualizations
 Easily create Dashboards that draw data from one source, or multiple
disparate systems
 Will eventually replace Developers Studio
Upgrading to WebFOCUS 8
The Migration process
Release 8 Migration Update
Current Migration Workflow
InfoApps
Forms
Reports
Dashboards
Security
profiles
WebFOCUS 7
Migration tools move all
Release 7 applications and
their associated security
profiles to Release 8
Change Management tools
used to selectively migrate
objects from Release 8
staging environment to
Release 8 Dev and/or Test
environments
WebFOCUS 8
Staging Environment
WebFOCUS 8
Dev, Test
Release 8 Migration Update
New Migration Workflow
Migration tools will now
allow for selective,
incremental migration
directly from Release 7
environments to Release 8
WebFOCUS 7
All: performs a full migration
Domain List: includes content
and associated Groups and Users
Group List: Users and Domains
WebFOCUS 8
Dev, Test
Release 8 Migration Update
New Migration Workflow
Migration can be phased in over time based on business priorities
Hardware and administration costs associated with staging
environments eliminated
Supported with Release 8.0.02 and later
WebFOCUS 7
WebFOCUS 8
Dev, Test
Release 8 Migration Update
Migration Assessment Tool
 Now available via field Technical Account Managers
 Utilized to provide key data points as a step in determining scope
of migration efforts
 Scanning of both Reporting Server and Managed Reporting
environments
 Features detected
 Remediation candidates (forms, reports, etc.)
 Estimated level of effort and suggested approach
 Additional important steps:
 Usage Monitoring via Resource Analyzer
 Reporting Server activity
 Release 8-level Portal and data visualization
 Real-time view of entire Reporting Server usage
 Migration Assessment and Modernization service via IB
Professional Services
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Release 8 Migration Update
Migration Assessment Tool: Sample Output
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Release 8 Migration Update
Migration Assessment Tool: Sample Output
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Questions ?
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