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WebFOCUS 8

WebFOCUS 8. May 2012. Brian Carter. Core Mission & Philosophy. Core Mission : Dedicated to provide the best platform and tools for creating and delivering large enterprise information systems Maintain and expand a wide range of capabilities – from data access to application development

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WebFOCUS 8

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  1. WebFOCUS 8 May 2012 Brian Carter

  2. Core Mission & Philosophy • Core Mission: Dedicated to provide the best platform and tools for creating and delivering large enterprise information systems • Maintain and expand a wide range of capabilities – from data access to application development • Continuous improvements in development efficiencies to reduce the cost and time to deliver enterprise information systems • Strategic Goals: Use the platform’s core strengths to power an ecosystem BI related technologies to allow customers to expand their information systems in new areas such as predictive analytics, search, etc.

  3. WebFOCUS 8 Architecture Web Browsers Excel Mobile Portals Web Services IDE Printer Email FTP Web Server Developer Studio Application Server Security ReportCaster RStat BI Portal InfoAssist Application Studio Content Maintain Magnify Search Reporting Server ETL DataMigrator Data Web Services Unstructured Applications Relational

  4. Enabling Self Service for Business Users:BI Portal & InfoAssist

  5. InfoAssist & New Portal Objective: Become highly competitive in the self-service market with enterprise level query, analysis & portal tools BIP • BI Portal: Focus on engaging the BI consumer • Customizable: Let the users define how they consume content • Collaborative: Let the users define how they want to publish and share content • Componentized: Let the users define what widgets they want to add to their content pages. • InfoAssist: Single tool and single workflow to make the tool as easy and ubiquitous as Excel for the analytic BI user • Enhanced analytic capabilities • Enhanced interactive design capabilities IA

  6. InfoAssist & New Portal 8.0 • BIP & IA: Unifiedlook and feel and workflow • BIP: Targeted for designers, business and end users • WYSIWYG designer with robust layout options • Themes & dynamic report styling • Chart autofit within any screen/device size • InfoAssist: • New HTML 5 chart engine integration & multi-drill • Full AR styling and enhanced conditional styling • Relative Positioning • Tools consolidation –Advanced GA in IA • New: Multipage layouts, Sub-query support, more analytic functions, 508 output. • Integration of BIP with Social Media Sites • Mobile development in IA or Application Studio 8.x

  7. BI Portal: iGoogle Like User Experience

  8. BI Portal: PowerPoint Like Ease of Customization

  9. BI Portal: Stylesheet Inheritance

  10. The New Visualization Engine: Benefits • An entirely new unified visualization technology that is now being rolled out across our entire product line • The benefits: • WebFOCUS is the only platform that offers unified charting experience: • Single engine generates: HTML5, Flash, JPEG, PNG • The exact same chart experience in all output formats: Active Technologies, HTML5, Flex, PDF • The same set of properties and syntax for all IBI products • A high level of visual sophistication: • Gradients • Animations • Works in all browsers including mobile • Easily expandable and customizable: • Allows IBI consultants and BI developers to quickly meet customer requirements by adding custom properties and features

  11. InfoAssist: WebApps Development via AT & HTML5

  12. InfoAssist: Multi-Page Documents

  13. Advanced Data Visualization: Going Forward Plan Objective: Create an IA module for advanced visualization (AV) to address raising self-service needs, customer requirements & competitive pressure 8.0 • Foundation is set via HTML5 chart engine • All new development: First release targeted for Q3 • Differentiators: • New Module of InfoAssist: • Single tool for reports, documents, dashboards, and AV • Unified UI and design work flow to minimize training • Simple workflow that is already very similar to QlikView • Dimensional interactions like in Visual Discovery • New pivot and combination charts that increase drastically the dimensional analysis • Work against any data source 8.x

  14. InfoAssist: Visual Discovery Like Analysis

  15. InfoAssist: New Dimensional Combination Charts

  16. InfoAssist: New Dimensional Pivot Charts

  17. Next Generation Graphs Under Consideration Lexical Diversity Re-Posting Paths Social Connectedness Lexical Frequencies Streaming Frequencies

  18. WebFOCUS 8 Security Enhancements Drive SaaS & Personalization

  19. WebFOCUS8 Security • New DBMS-based repository for WebFOCUS, ReportCaster, and Managed Reporting: • New hierarchical object-based repository called Information Builders File System (IBFS) • Frees customers from fixed folders, folder depth, file names • Simplifies administration and system backup over previous version • Key features and benefits of IBFS • Fine-grained control over role definition and permission assignments • Security policies can be applied on any IBFS object including users, groups, folders, reports, portals, report server nodes, etc. • Supports inheritance • Supports Multi-tenancy and group administration • New auditing captures user logon activity and administrative actions Objective: Provide a robust security model that facilitates SaaS & PaaS, Deep personalization, and simplified administrations

  20. WebFOCUS 8 Security • Benefits for the Administrator: • User authorization integration with LDAP groups • Automatic account creation & log-in synchronization • Group administration: • Create groups to manage ReportCaster and BI Portal resources • Resource Templates: • Predefined templates for groups, content folders, roles and policies • Simplify the onboarding of new customers in multi-tenant SaaS environments • Simplify extending BI to new departments • Benefits to End Users: • Advanced content sharing enables users to pick individuals whom they wish to share content with • Security subsystem makes it possible for tenant users to securely share content created in a common domain with their colleagues

  21. WebFOCUS 8 Security: Built-in Domain Templates • WebFOCUS creates the required groups, resources, and security policy

  22. Thank You!

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