ACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES Providing Business Intelligence on any device from anywhere Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 1 Presented by: Adam Lotrowski Strategic Product Management November, 5 th, 2008

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 2 Strategic Trends & Technologies for 2008  More laptops than desktops in 2008 (IDC Research) vs. 1-of-5 in 2000  40% of enterprise employees are mobile, spending 20% or more away from their primary workspaces (Yankee Group Survey)

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 3 Active Report Technology: Benefits & Differentiators  Truly Portable  Connected and disconnected  No additional software or browser plug-ins  High compression  Really Simple to Develop and Use  95% of most commonly used Excel functions  “Single Click” UI paradigm – no training required  Slice, dice and share  Robust  Reports, Storyboards, Dashboards  New: 256bit encryption, Caching, API Access and Flex Format

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 4 Self-contained Analytic Platform in single HTML file

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 5 Active Technology Features  Export to Microsoft Office: Excel, PowerPoint and Word  Save User Interactions: Customization  Pivot: Data Transformations  Collaboration: Shared Comments

Active Caching Features  On the Reporting Server  No code in the WebFOCUS Client  Utilizes Reporting Server FOCCACHE feature  Applies the concept of On Demand Paging  Offline versus connected mode

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 7 Active Dashboard Features  All Active Report functionality  Schedule with ReportCaster  Provide a complete view of the business  Globally filter across all report components

New format type merging Flex and Active Technology

Live Demonstration: Building an Active Dashboard

Easily convert reports into Active Reports

Hide columns for run-time use only

Present Active Reports as charts or tables

Turn coordinate on and output type to Active Report

Add images and text

Import/Reference multiple Active Reports

Add new dashboard pages

Assign business view names to each dashboard panel

Add additional Active Report components

Panels and Drop down control automatically created

Filter individual Active Dashboard parts

On-the-fly charting

Export to Microsoft Office

Pass data being used

Easily create Pivot tables with 2 clicks of the mouse

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Save for collaboration or offline analytics

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