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WebFOCUS Roadmap Copyright 20011, Information Builders. Slide 1 Dan Ortolani Vice President, Advanced Technology Services
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives Release Snapshot Industry Trends & Drivers for WebFOCUS Strategic Initiatives Mobile Increasing Influence of Business Users Renewed Disruption and Competition in the Data Warehouse Marketplace Demand for Simplified BI Development Increased Traction of SaaS & Cloud BI Solutions Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 2
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WebFOCUS Strategic Initiatives Release Plan Snapshot Release 7.7.03 – GA now! WebFOCUS Enable, RStat, and Performance Management Framework on flexible, independent release tracks Release 8 – Beta 2 now! Includes Business Intelligence Portal Expanded beta program will continue throughout the summer (Premium & Strategic Customers) High impact feedback still possible and encouraged GA 3Q Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 3
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Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 4 Strategic Initiatives for 2011
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Industry Trend: Mobile Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 5
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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 6 Source: Gartner (April, 2011) Proliferation of Mobile Devices is Accelerating Over 428 million mobile devices were sold in 1Q2011 - a 19% year-over-year increase. Growth is attributed to the continued spike in smartphone sales Gartner estimates 100.7 million for Q1, up 85% year-over- year. Android remained the leader with 36% of the market. 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%.
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Industry Trends Driving WebFOCUS Product Strategy Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 7 Tablet Market Dynamics Apple’s iOS will continue to own the majority of the worldwide media tablet through 2015 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. Android tablets will capture an estimated 39% of the market by 2015 Estimated market share for Windows-based tablets: 0% Ignores/dismisses touch screen laptops and roadmaps from Dell and others regarding both Windows 7 & Windows 8 Slate plans Source: Gartner (April, 2011)
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WebFOCUS Mobile Capabilities Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 8
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives “WebFOCUS to Go” Mobile Strategy 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 Device Awareness: WebFOCUS adapts so users and developers are not required to do so When appropriate, provide a Helper App to house above-mentioned content & provide useful integration points with the device. Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 9
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WebFOCUS Mobile Capabilities Release 7.7.03 Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 10
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives Active Technologies Web App Active Technologies dashboards & reports provide embedded analytics & visualization for Android, Apple, RIM & other devices Automatic device detection supports specific devices’ gesturing, touch technologies Over 30 HTML5/JavaScript charts with interactivity & animation properties available Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 11
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Business Intelligence Roadmap MobileFaves Native Helper App for the iPad & iPhone Download and install from Apple’s Appstore Connect directly to IB-hosted web site for HELP, live demos and other content 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) 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. Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 12
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WebFOCUS Mobile Capabilities Release 8 Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 13
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives Additional Mobile Capabilities in Release 8 Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 14 Data Visualization WebFOCUS charts converted into JavaScript/HTML5, featuring over 100 charts with interactivity, animation, properties All charts will be built in InfoAssist replaces Advanced Graph Assist) All charts available to Active Technologies Supported across all browsers, mobile devices Delivery of priority charts has already occurred Implementation of mobile JavaScript framework Enable automatic adherence to all mobile device form factors BI Portal, InfoAssist, Guided Ad-hoc forms, etc.
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Demonstration Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 15
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Industry Trend: Increasing Influence of Business Users Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 16
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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 17 Source: Dresner Advisory Services (May, 2011) – “Wisdom of the Crowds” BI market survey 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.”
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WebFOCUS Strategy for Delivering Advanced Capabilities to Business Users Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 18
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives WebFOCUS Strategy for Business Users Provide advanced development, data discovery and analytical capabilities to fit the wide range of customers’ development models Central IT model Development occurring in Business units (IT provides metadata, templates, admin) Shadow IT working within Business units Allow for flexibility in delimitation of users roles and associated entitlements Traditional “Power User” and Developer roles are blurring in many organizations Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 19
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Advanced Capabilities for Business Users Release 7.7.03 Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 20
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives New InfoAssist Capabilities Now Available InfoAssist: Advanced Development Tool End-user dashboards, sophisticated development capabilities Data automatically linked via cascading filter controls Many dashboard components share single cache Rich, interactive UI experience: Flash & HTML InfoMini expands potential deployment of IA UI can be customized for wide range of developers, power users, and information consumers Entire applications & gadgets built and automatically deployed to users’ portal environment Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 21
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Advanced Capabilities for Business Users Release 8 Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 23
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives InfoAssist in Release 8: Additional Advanced Features Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 24 Tools consolidation Close gap with legacy tools such as Report Assist & Graph Assist Extend cube support via new Browser mode for cube databases SAP/BW Essbase Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services Multi-step reports (HOLD file creation), Financial Reporting (inter-row calculations, account hierarchies, etc.) Enhanced prompting support
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Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities Adding an Expandable “Across”
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Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities Filters Tab Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 26
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Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities Context Menu Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 27
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives Visual Discovery : Integration with InfoAssist
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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 29 Next Generation of Business Intelligence Portal Built with Rich Internet Application approach Consistent ribbon-style navigation for both building new portal views and user-based personalization Open, component approach WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives New BI Portal Initiative: Release 8
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives Key Drivers for New WebFOCUS Enable Capabilities Adobe’s Flash development environment remains a strong industry force, with a huge development community Demand from strategic customers for Flash-based, specialized, highly visible applications Strong demand to deploy Flash-based dashboards rich in data visualization and custom components to large user constituencies
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives WebFOCUS Enable in 2011 Dashboard Builder Component (Q32011) Managed Reporting Components (Q32011) Dashboard framework component to provide customizable widgets to the end user (Q32011) Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 31
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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 32 ESRI Integration: Based on customer and field demand, WebFOCUS now integrates with ESRI’s Flash-based map viewer IB delivers value-add components for bi-directional integration with ArcGIS Server Google Maps Coming in Release 8: Bing Maps: Easily integrate Bing Maps with WebFOCUS via standard controls in Developer Studio’s HTML Composer WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives Location Intelligence
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Industry Trend: Renewed Disruption and Competition in the Data Warehouse Marketplace Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 33
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Industry Trend & Development Driver Disruption and Competition in the Data Warehouse Market Upstart Columnar and Big Data Database Vendors Challenge Established Leaders ParAccel, Sand, InfoBright, 1010, open source alternatives, others Enterprise Data Warehouse Vendors Respond Acquisition (Mega-Vendors) Hardware, specialized database vendors Appliance strategy More flexible market positioning allows for departmental deployments Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 34
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WebFOCUS Strategy for Addressing Dynamics of Database Market Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 35
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives Reporting Server & Adapter Enhancements Enhanced Adapters for Columnar Databases Integrated WebFOCUS/Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance Offering Specific innovations developed for this offering can also be leveraged by existing WebFOCUS Teradata implementations. Web-based Quick Copy Data Migrator option to load source data to targets without the need to create data flows. Data Migrator now supports the ability to exploit Teradata’s in-memory bulk load facilities. New Web-based Metadata Wizard Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 36
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WebFOCUS Strategy for Addressing Dynamics of Database Market Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 37
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives Reporting Server & Adapter Enhancements SQL Adapter Optimizations Performance improvements were implemented across SQL Adapters 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 New tracing separates RDBMS and WebFOCUS Reporting Server processing statistics Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 38
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives Reporting Server & Adapter Enhancements Nested Application Folders 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. Spreadsheet Upload and Mapping 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. Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 39
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Simplifying Development of BI Applications Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 40
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives Key Drivers for New Developer Studio Capabilities Customer Feedback: Make developing customer-facing guided adhoc applications faster and easier via improved workflow and templates Create UI consistent with InfoAssist and modern web development paradigm Maintainability of guided adhoc applications Lessen reliance on specialized FOCUS language skills Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 41
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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 42 WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives New Developer Studio Capabilities Now Available Developer Studio: Automatic Generation of Guided Ad-hoc Applications Goal is to reduce development time Pre-built templates provided as starting point New “Guided Report” development mode provides one-click parameterization of dimensions, measure, ranking and sort objects’ properties, report output choices, other options A full application with launch pages, reports, filters, dashboards, and other options is automatically generated and easily deployed Ideal for developers who are new to WebFOCUS
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InfoAssist-style Ribbon UI coming to Application Studio in Release 8.x later this year.
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Industry Trend: Increased Traction of SaaS BI Solutions Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 44
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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 45 *Source: Dresner Advisory Services (May, 2011) – “Wisdom of the Crowds” BI market survey Industry Trend & Development Driver Increased Traction of SaaS BI Solutions *Modest but significant growth in anticipated SaaS investment In WebFOCUS’ customer base, SaaS requirements are influencing new feature development in these areas: Security User Interface branding Specialized adapters, e.g., WebFOCUS integration with SalesForce Multi-tenancy features Strong demand for web-based administration and development model
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Thank you ! Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 46
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