WebFOCUS 8 Brian Carter May 2012

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.

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

Enabling Self Service for Business Users: BI Portal & InfoAssist

The Self Service Trend: Hype & Reality Self-Service is the new management fad: banking, retail, telecom, BI…. Self-Service Myths: Valid across all industries Self- Service is a foolproof way to reduce cost: Ad hoc tools are not the only self service options Only about 10% or less use tools for self-service Self-Service eliminates IT bottlenecks (customer interactions): It takes time to build guided ad hoc applications It takes ALSO time to prepare metadata for ad hoc, learn tools, and to build many reports Self-Service is a quick fix: It is often only a transfer of cost from IT to Business Unit This argument is often made by the most advanced business user In reality it frequently alienates business users One Self-Service method fits all customers and all their needs: Only some customers prefer self-service: Find out who Many BI customers do not know any better For IBI Self-Service is one aspect of a much broader enterprise information and decision support system

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

InfoAssist & New Portal 8.0 BIP & IA: Unified look 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

BI Portal: iGoogle Like User Experience

BI Portal: PowerPoint Like Ease of Customization

BI Portal: Stylesheet Inheritance

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 Rado, Matt: Feel free to reword this to suit your needs

InfoAssist: WebApps Development via AT & HTML5

InfoAssist: Multi-Page Documents

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

InfoAssist: Visual Discovery Like Analysis

InfoAssist: New Dimensional Combination Charts

InfoAssist: New Dimensional Pivot Charts

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

Enterprise Mobile Enablement

Design Once, Deploy on Any Device Smart Phone Tablet Monitor/TV Device Detection Media Query Gesture Support

Some Trends Most new interactions and developments will come from users phone Diversity in design drives innovation and adoption

Mobile Active Technologies Enhancements: 8.0 80 New HTML5 Charts Objective: Ongoing enhancements for designing state of the art applications for any device 8.0 Active Technologies Enhancements: 80 New HTML5 Charts New Modern Look and Feel: Google like style Incremental: layout and image rendering improvements and jQuery integration Building Device Aware Apps: Media Query initial support via templates jQuery integration for mobile application development InfoMini for mobile devices Implement CSS3 support and generation tools Mobile development via InfoAssist and Application Studio 8.x

Active Technologies UI Upgrade

Update Assist: Web Forms for Mobile Devices

InfoMini: Gadgets & Widgets

WebFOCUS 8 Security Enhancements Drive SaaS & Personalization

WebFOCUS 8 Security Objective: Provide a robust security model that facilitates SaaS & PaaS, Deep personalization, and simplified administrations 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

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

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

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