1. Because Everyone Makes Decisions
Jenny Lalik
Eastern Region Solutions Engineer
March 29, 2011

2. Business Intelligence Roadmap

3. WebFOCUS Key Mission
Expand the current reach of BI from under 20% to 100% and beyond
How…
Embracing the needs of each user constituency
Executives, analysts, frontline workers, mobile workers
Partners, customers, citizens
Making it
Easy to use
Cost effective
Scalable & portable
The main reason why organizations have not exceeded the limitations of 20/20 is due primarily to the sole focus on the traditional users of BI – the power users and analysts. Most BI vendors continue to focus their products on this important but very limited community (that most oftentimes access a data warehouse). Many organizations try to extend the use of these products to their non-technical business users, such as field sales, operational employees, administrators, etc. – but are unsuccessful. So, the non-technical business users are limited to static information, which is not what they need. In fact, these mass business users require much more real-time information about their customers, products and processes.
WebFOCUS can efficiently access all of your data and provide it dynamically to all of your users – whether those users are inside or outside your firewall. In fact, the most un-served community for BI are the people outside the firewall. Sadly, they are your most ‘high-value’ users – your business partners and your customers. When you serve them properly, you drive performance, efficiency and ROI. WebFOCUS addresses the security, scalability and licensing models to easily provide BI to your extended enterprise. We not only scale from a technology perspective, but from a licensing perspective as well (we don’t require a heavy per seat licensing structure).
It is our philosophy that business people need information, not tools. With WebFOCUS, you can easily deploy intuitive BI applications that are easy to use and require no training. (If you can use eBay, you can use WebFOCUS).
Chances are you are already using WebFOCUS and don’t even know it. (Ask them if they do business with US Bank, American Express, AT&T, Fidelity, Administaff, etc.).

4. WebFOCUS Industry Recognition
“Information Builders had the best forward progress in the leadership quadrant because of their commitment to leading innovation and their ability to listen and respond to their customers.”
James Richardson, Analyst, Gartner BI Conference
We are recognized as a leader by all of these independent, industry analysts. The quote from Gartner analyst, James Richardson, highlights the commitment to our core competencies of customer service and technology innovation.
This slide is meant to help you build credibility. We’ve received industry recognition for our customer service and support, our product quality and its ease of use, and its overall adoption.
We are on top with the Ventana…

5. WebFOCUS Core BI + Extended BI
Front office
Mobile
Applications
Visualization
& Mapping
App/Dev, Portals
& Mash-ups
Enterprise
Search
Predictive
Analytics
Extended BI
Performance
Management
MS Office &
e-Publishing
Query &
Analysis
Dashboards
Reporting
Information
Delivery
Core BI
Data Warehouse
& ETL
Business to
Business
This slide introduces each of the categories.
You want to emphasize on this slide that WebFOCUS is a platform that does much more than any other BI platform. Reaching into application types (e.g. predictive analytics, search, performance management, Mobile, data quality and more) that typically will require a company to make additional investments in software from other vendors which requires additional hardware, additional experience and additional training, etc.
Many vendors offer you core BI capabilities, but WebFOCUS is unique in its innovation to offer extended BI from the same, integrated platform (you may want to again reiterate our organic growth message – that we provide our customers all of these capabilities not by buying companies, but by developing these capabilities in-house so they all work well together.)
You can also reiterate that we not only focus on the pretty pictures, but take responsibility for what happens on the back end as well. WebFOCUS will cover all of your information systems needs from data inception (collection, quality, and movement) to information delivery (reporting, analysis, & distribution) from one common platform and architecture.
Data Quality
Business Activity
Monitoring
Master Data
Management
Extensions to the WebFOCUS platform allow you to build more application types at a lower cost
Back office

6. Business Intelligence Roadmap

7. Business Intelligence Roadmap Core Guiding Principles
Customer-driven development projects are highest priority and are most visible throughout Support, Development & Product Management areas
Maximize Utilization:
Offer robust set of tools and technologies for every need and employee skill level
ROI and Value Maximization:
Ease of use, deployment, and scaling
Integration of auxiliary tools and technologies
Unique model & architecture to leverage open source

8. Business Intelligence Roadmap Release Plan Snapshot
Release – GA now
Features formerly planned for Release 8 accelerated due to customer demand
Release – GA April, 2011
WebFOCUS Enable, RStat, and Performance Management Framework on flexible, independent release tracks
Release 8 – Beta now; Estimated GA Q3
Expanded beta program will continue throughout the first half of 2011
High impact feedback still possible and encouraged

9. Business Intelligence Roadmap Key Product Initiatives
InfoAssist: Advanced Web Development Tool **
Active Technologies: New Visualization Enhancements Options**
New GUI facilities to speed Guided Adhoc Development **
WebFOCUS Mobile **
Simplified WebFOCUS Magnify (BI + Search)**
RStat Predictive Analytics**
Enhanced Metadata Capabilities
New Business Intelligence Portal
Enhanced GUI & Workflow for IT Developers
Business Analytics Initiatives ** Release 7.7 & Release 8

10. InfoAssist

11. Business Intelligence Roadmap Key Drivers for New InfoAssist Capabilities
Customers’ development models vary widely
Central IT model
Development occurring in Business units
Shadow IT working w/in Business units
Traditional Power User and Developer roles are blurring in many organizations
Strong demand for advanced Web-based development features
Expanding IA’s features and functionality

12. Business Intelligence Roadmap New InfoAssist Capabilities Now Available (7.7.02)
InfoAssist: Advanced Development Tool
End-user dashboards, sophisticated development capabilities, InfoMini (unique in the industry)
Dashboards easily created via IA (no need for Developer Studio)
InfoMini expands potential deployment of IA and balances “too many features for me”
UI can be customized by “developer” for wide range of consumption by power users and information consumers
Entire applications & gadgets built and automatically deployed

16. InfoAssist Plans for Release 8

17. Business Intelligence Roadmap InfoAssist: Additional Advanced Features
Cube Support
In :
IA provides reporting and analysis development against major cube data sources (SAP/BW, Essbase, MS Analysis Services)
Metadata maps to cube structures allowing IA users to view and navigate cube hierarchies
Compound documents and dashboards containing both cube and RDBMS sources can be created
In 8.0:
Extend cube support via new Browser mode for cube databases
Allow users to perform analysis, save results, promote analysis into Dashboards, highly-styled reports, Active Technologies, mobile access
Multi-step reports (HOLD file creation)
Financial Reporting (inter-row calculations, account hierarchies, etc.)
In the current WebFOCUS release (7.7.02), InfoAssist provides reporting and analysis development against the major cube data sources. WebFOCUS metadata maps to cube structures, allowing IA users to view and navigate hierarchies as they exist in the cubes. In addition, compound documents and dashboards containing both cube and RDBMS data sources can be created via IA’s Compose mode.
The attached screenshots from the latest Roadmap presentation (pp ) describe the cube browsing mode planned for Release 8:  
Accordion/explorer-style navigation and drill-down w/  multiple dimensions.
Accordion/explorer-style navigation and drill-across dimensions
Right-click context menus for filtering, calculations, etc. (similar to those found in Active Technologies)
Browser mode results can be promoted via single click operation into formatted reports, dashboards, compound documents, any output format, chart, etc.
We are building these browser capabilities not to match ProClarity (and other specialized tools like it) feature-for-feature nor to have IA be positioned in the market as the premier cube browsing solution. Rather, we are planning to provide enough functionality to establish even more credibility with cube integration and then to get a prospect or a customer to expand their vision of what can be done with our full product line. Central in this positioning, as always, is that we don’t recommend that large user populations be given a tool for do-it-yourself analysis against cubes that are expensive to create and maintain.  We would replace a product like ProClarity with a combination of a relatively small number of IA users (if appropriate) and a guided adhoc approach that would service most of a given user population.

18. Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities Expandable Navigation/Drill-Down for Multiple Dimensions
Accordion/explorer-style navigation and drill-down w/multiple dimensions.

19. Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities Expandable Navigation/Drill-Across Dimensions
Accordion/explorer-style navigation and drill-across dimensions

20. Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities Filters Tab

21. Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities Right-Click Context Menus for Filtering, Calculations…
Right-click context menus for filtering, calculations, etc. (similar to those found in Active Technologies)

22. Active Technologies

23. Business Intelligence Roadmap Key Drivers for New Active Technologies Capabilities
Growing market demand for end-user dashboards
Competition in the mobile market
Emergence of HTML5 as a market rival to Flash and critical in order to support Apple devices
Emergence of iPad as the current industry leader in the tablet market
Increasing market share of Android devices as challenger to Apple and Blackberry devices
Expectations in user community for ongoing visualization enhancements

24. Business Intelligence Roadmap New Active Technologies Capabilities Now Available
New controls allow for the creation of custom, portable Dashboards
Mobile support: Active content delivered to any mobile device’s browser
In :
Automatic device detection supports specific devices’ gesturing, touch technologies
Initial set of HTML5 charts with animation properties
All WebFOCUS charts (approximately 100 charts) will follow later this year

25. WebFOCUS Mobile Strategy & Offerings

26. Business Intelligence Roadmap WebFOCUS Mobile: Open Strategy
Today, WebFOCUS reports can be displayed on any mobile device
Mobile Favorites
Users can subscribe to reports and view them via any browser on any mobile device
Active Technology content provides embedded analytics for Android, Apple and other mobile devices with features mentioned earlier
Core Technology (guided adhoc applications, InfoAssist, etc.) will be available via Web apps for mobile browsers

27. WebFOCUS Mobile Faves
For iPad and iPhone 27

28. Mobile Faves for iPad and iPhone: Native App from App Store

29. Business Intelligence Roadmap Mobile Faves for iPad and iPhone: Native App from App Store
Core abilities of app:
Connect to your WebFOCUS Mobile Favorites server and run any online WebFOCUS reports, graphs and dashboards
Save, annotate and catalog WebFOCUS Mobile Favorites BI documents locally for offline analytic operations
Subscribe and receive pushed WebFOCUS Mobile Favorites BI documents automatically
Open and catalog WebFOCUS BI documents received as attachments
Use native Search abilities to find the BI document you want quickly
Combines values of native app and portable web content
Single tap access to portable WF BI content
Auto-login and local user settings
Value grows as WF BI is enhanced
Native Getting Started tutorials – including embedded videos

30. Open-in Email attachments

31. Watch List

32. Mobile Faves Online/Offline list of Content

33. WebFOCUS Enable

34. Business Intelligence Roadmap Key Drivers for New WebFOCUS Enable Capabilities
Adobe’s Flash development environment remains a strong industry force, with a huge development community
New version of Adobe’s Flash development released
Demand from customers for Flash-based, specialized, highly visible applications (customer-facing)
Competitive considerations: allow customers to build custom components

36. Business Intelligence Roadmap WebFOCUS Enable in 2011
Enable Engine for Flash Builder 4 (Q12011)
Google Maps SDK Update (Q12011)
Dashboard Builder Component (Q32011)
Managed Reporting Components (Q32011)
Dashboard framework component to provide customizable widgets to the end user (Q32011)

37. PMF, Rstat and Magnify

38. Gartner On improving business performance
“Just deploying BI systems and executive dashboards isn’t enough for companies looking to improve their business performance and gain a competitive edge on rivals.”
Gartner
In summary WebFOCUS is the most comprehensive BI solution.
That offers real-world scalability
Access to all enterprise data
With the lowest cost of ownership and maximum return.
The true “Standard For Enterprise Business Intelligence”

39. Business Intelligence Roadmap Challenges Organizations Face Today
Lack of accountability
Poor customer
value management
Frustrations in failing
to execute a strategy
Poor communication
and alignment
Unfulfilled ROI promises from IT
(lack of integration)
WebFOCUS can be used for applications on Intranets, extranets and even on the Internet. The next slide gives some hard-hitting examples
Rapid decision making
is just a dream

40. Business Intelligence Roadmap Performance Management Framework
Manage the performance of ANYTHING through metrics – people, systems & processes
Out-of-the-box framework and data model with strategy maps, scorecards, reports, charts, roles and hierarchies
Fully integrated with WebFOCUS
Easily combine operational reporting with performance metrics
Rapid implementation and time to market
WebFOCUS Performance management framework is a complete out-of-the-box solution for performance management – built with WebFOCUS. It includes a data model, alerting system, hundreds of reports including scorecards and strategy maps and over 10 different dashboards.
It helps you communicate strategy and track performance of your company, people and processes.
It can be up and running in a week compared with 6 months or longer with other solutions.
For corporate performance management, not just financial.
Business Value:
Communicate strategy and improve performance. Drive results to higher standards and identify opportunities for improvement.

41. Everyone Makes Decisions
Business Intelligence Roadmap PMF = Operational Performance Management
Operational Performance Management (OPM) is about translating the strategy into operational goals & initiatives
Linking the initiative back to any metric in your organization
Leading Indicators of performance – not a Rear View Mirror
Based on customer facing and operational processes
Addresses Any Key Enablers
Human Capital
Information Capital
Organization Capital
What we need is a whole new paradigm and we call this Operational Performance Management. We are ideally suited for this endeavor because of our 32 year history of delivering information systems that leverage disparate operational systems and turning into actionable information. What OPM does is it provides the necessary context for people to know what is expected and how to use the information.
OPM provides tools and methods to translates strategy in to operational goals and initiatives
Which enables you to focus on Leading (causal) indicators of performance
The focus is where it needs to be on customer and operational processes
Plus it addressed the key enablers to performance, innovation and sustainability Human, Information and Organization Capital
Everyone Makes Decisions

42. Business Intelligence Roadmap PMF is the “How”
Communication
Dashboards
Robust alerting
Collaboration
Publishing
Alignment
Operational and strategic closed loops
Visual cause/effect tools
Aligned projects/initiatives
Aligned Processes
Feedback loops
Cascaded scorecards
Pooled metrics
Analytics
Guided ad hoc and OLAP
Trending & predictive analytics
Visual analytics and GIS
Correlation tools
Once the basic strategies and goals have been established tools are needed to motivate and empower everyone in the enterprise to execute on the organizational plans. First powerful tools for communicating performance information via easy to use (no training required) dashboards that include alerts, collaboration and robust publishing capabilities. The Dashboard should provide comprehensive analytical tools that enable users to drill anywhere, evaluate trends to gain real insight. To achieve alignment a rich framework is needed for creating strategies and maintaining metrics and dimensions to propagate strategies and goals throughout the organization. With superior Communication, Analytics and Alignment the foundation for continuous performance improvement is in place.

43. Business Intelligence Roadmap PMF – Strategy Map
Map out your path to success
Understand the risks you face that may inhibit you
Transform goals into measurable objectives
Communicate to everyone
Everyone is accountable
Strategy
Risks
What risks may effect the outcome?
Where are we going?

44. Win, Place or No-show? The 4 Critical Elements to Smarter Decisions
Need screenshots for PMF (black ones)
So why are we (and our customers) successful?
End user adoption is one key measure of success. We have the widest known deployments and WebFOCUS is used by information workers at every level of an enterprise. Ease of use drives adoption and adoption drives return on your investment. The more people that use it, the higher your return.
We have proven scalability - some applications reaching into millions of named users. (Pershing mentioned here is a portal used by 100,000 investment professionals. Patrick Yip of Pershing said “One of the main reasons our BI environment [WebFOCUS] has been adopted so widely is because it does not require any special experience or sophistication…”
With our breadth of data access we can create more systems than other vendors including those that reach into real-time operational systems – those applications that reach frontline workers at the bottom of the org chart and partners and customers outside your organization.
With all of this our customers experience high yield with low costs in:
Software – flexible pricing including server based options that do not go up for each named user
Hardware –because our software scales you need less hardware to service more users
Training – very few WebFOCUS applications require training at all
Development – since you can do so many things with WebFOCUS your developer needs to know less tools but can create more applications
Support – Without (“how-to”) questions overloading you internal support lines you don’t require as many support personnel

45. Win, Place or No-show? The 4 Critical Elements to Smarter Decisions
Need screenshots for PMF (black ones)
So why are we (and our customers) successful?
End user adoption is one key measure of success. We have the widest known deployments and WebFOCUS is used by information workers at every level of an enterprise. Ease of use drives adoption and adoption drives return on your investment. The more people that use it, the higher your return.
We have proven scalability - some applications reaching into millions of named users. (Pershing mentioned here is a portal used by 100,000 investment professionals. Patrick Yip of Pershing said “One of the main reasons our BI environment [WebFOCUS] has been adopted so widely is because it does not require any special experience or sophistication…”
With our breadth of data access we can create more systems than other vendors including those that reach into real-time operational systems – those applications that reach frontline workers at the bottom of the org chart and partners and customers outside your organization.
With all of this our customers experience high yield with low costs in:
Software – flexible pricing including server based options that do not go up for each named user
Hardware –because our software scales you need less hardware to service more users
Training – very few WebFOCUS applications require training at all
Development – since you can do so many things with WebFOCUS your developer needs to know less tools but can create more applications
Support – Without (“how-to”) questions overloading you internal support lines you don’t require as many support personnel

46. Win, Place or No-show? The 4 Critical Elements to Smarter Decisions
Need screenshots for PMF (black ones)
So why are we (and our customers) successful?
End user adoption is one key measure of success. We have the widest known deployments and WebFOCUS is used by information workers at every level of an enterprise. Ease of use drives adoption and adoption drives return on your investment. The more people that use it, the higher your return.
We have proven scalability - some applications reaching into millions of named users. (Pershing mentioned here is a portal used by 100,000 investment professionals. Patrick Yip of Pershing said “One of the main reasons our BI environment [WebFOCUS] has been adopted so widely is because it does not require any special experience or sophistication…”
With our breadth of data access we can create more systems than other vendors including those that reach into real-time operational systems – those applications that reach frontline workers at the bottom of the org chart and partners and customers outside your organization.
With all of this our customers experience high yield with low costs in:
Software – flexible pricing including server based options that do not go up for each named user
Hardware –because our software scales you need less hardware to service more users
Training – very few WebFOCUS applications require training at all
Development – since you can do so many things with WebFOCUS your developer needs to know less tools but can create more applications
Support – Without (“how-to”) questions overloading you internal support lines you don’t require as many support personnel

47. Win, Place or No-show? The 4 Critical Elements to Smarter Decisions
Need screenshots for PMF (black ones)
So why are we (and our customers) successful?
End user adoption is one key measure of success. We have the widest known deployments and WebFOCUS is used by information workers at every level of an enterprise. Ease of use drives adoption and adoption drives return on your investment. The more people that use it, the higher your return.
We have proven scalability - some applications reaching into millions of named users. (Pershing mentioned here is a portal used by 100,000 investment professionals. Patrick Yip of Pershing said “One of the main reasons our BI environment [WebFOCUS] has been adopted so widely is because it does not require any special experience or sophistication…”
With our breadth of data access we can create more systems than other vendors including those that reach into real-time operational systems – those applications that reach frontline workers at the bottom of the org chart and partners and customers outside your organization.
With all of this our customers experience high yield with low costs in:
Software – flexible pricing including server based options that do not go up for each named user
Hardware –because our software scales you need less hardware to service more users
Training – very few WebFOCUS applications require training at all
Development – since you can do so many things with WebFOCUS your developer needs to know less tools but can create more applications
Support – Without (“how-to”) questions overloading you internal support lines you don’t require as many support personnel

48. Win, Place or No-show? The 4 Critical Elements to Smarter Decisions
Need screenshots for PMF (black ones)
So why are we (and our customers) successful?
End user adoption is one key measure of success. We have the widest known deployments and WebFOCUS is used by information workers at every level of an enterprise. Ease of use drives adoption and adoption drives return on your investment. The more people that use it, the higher your return.
We have proven scalability - some applications reaching into millions of named users. (Pershing mentioned here is a portal used by 100,000 investment professionals. Patrick Yip of Pershing said “One of the main reasons our BI environment [WebFOCUS] has been adopted so widely is because it does not require any special experience or sophistication…”
With our breadth of data access we can create more systems than other vendors including those that reach into real-time operational systems – those applications that reach frontline workers at the bottom of the org chart and partners and customers outside your organization.
With all of this our customers experience high yield with low costs in:
Software – flexible pricing including server based options that do not go up for each named user
Hardware –because our software scales you need less hardware to service more users
Training – very few WebFOCUS applications require training at all
Development – since you can do so many things with WebFOCUS your developer needs to know less tools but can create more applications
Support – Without (“how-to”) questions overloading you internal support lines you don’t require as many support personnel

49. Win, Place or No-show? The 4 Critical Elements to Smarter Decisions
Need screenshots for PMF (black ones)
So why are we (and our customers) successful?
End user adoption is one key measure of success. We have the widest known deployments and WebFOCUS is used by information workers at every level of an enterprise. Ease of use drives adoption and adoption drives return on your investment. The more people that use it, the higher your return.
We have proven scalability - some applications reaching into millions of named users. (Pershing mentioned here is a portal used by 100,000 investment professionals. Patrick Yip of Pershing said “One of the main reasons our BI environment [WebFOCUS] has been adopted so widely is because it does not require any special experience or sophistication…”
With our breadth of data access we can create more systems than other vendors including those that reach into real-time operational systems – those applications that reach frontline workers at the bottom of the org chart and partners and customers outside your organization.
With all of this our customers experience high yield with low costs in:
Software – flexible pricing including server based options that do not go up for each named user
Hardware –because our software scales you need less hardware to service more users
Training – very few WebFOCUS applications require training at all
Development – since you can do so many things with WebFOCUS your developer needs to know less tools but can create more applications
Support – Without (“how-to”) questions overloading you internal support lines you don’t require as many support personnel

50. Win, Place or No-show? The 4 Critical Elements to Smarter Decisions
Need screenshots for PMF (black ones)
So why are we (and our customers) successful?
End user adoption is one key measure of success. We have the widest known deployments and WebFOCUS is used by information workers at every level of an enterprise. Ease of use drives adoption and adoption drives return on your investment. The more people that use it, the higher your return.
We have proven scalability - some applications reaching into millions of named users. (Pershing mentioned here is a portal used by 100,000 investment professionals. Patrick Yip of Pershing said “One of the main reasons our BI environment [WebFOCUS] has been adopted so widely is because it does not require any special experience or sophistication…”
With our breadth of data access we can create more systems than other vendors including those that reach into real-time operational systems – those applications that reach frontline workers at the bottom of the org chart and partners and customers outside your organization.
With all of this our customers experience high yield with low costs in:
Software – flexible pricing including server based options that do not go up for each named user
Hardware –because our software scales you need less hardware to service more users
Training – very few WebFOCUS applications require training at all
Development – since you can do so many things with WebFOCUS your developer needs to know less tools but can create more applications
Support – Without (“how-to”) questions overloading you internal support lines you don’t require as many support personnel

51. Business Intelligence Roadmap PMF + WF Solution Approach
Validated solution paradigm
PMF for Metrics Management (and Strategy)
Business Analytics: Forecasting, Correlation, Cause/Effect
WF for Operational Details (Drill-down to BI)
Business Analytics: VizDiz, Rstat
WF 7.7 provides enhanced integration
InfoAssist is PMF “aware”
Automatic Slicers and PMF Gadget creation with non-PMF reports
PMF 5.2 works with 7.7 or All production, all high performance
Combines pre-built Metric knowledge (over 400 out-of-the-box) and BI custom flexibility
PMF provides operational PMF – 2 levels – one is top down, flip side – metrics management approach…no strategy but still want to manage certain important metrics.
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52. Business Intelligence Roadmap Predictive Analytics – RStat – “Next-Gen BI”

53. Business Intelligence Roadmap RStat in 2011
Expanding the library of scoring routines:
Market Basket Scoring Routine
Survival Analysis – used extensively in warranty applications
Language Support:  Japanese, French, German, Spanish
Packaging 64-bit version of R for use with larger data sets
Extending in-database scoring
Embed models as RDBMS functions

54. Business Intelligence Roadmap
Magnify Quick Feed: Create Magnify Applications Easily
Challenge: Building Search Based Applications (SBA) required specialized skills and often cumbersome (creating the indexes)
Realization: Building Search Based Applications is no different than building reports
New Feature (7.7.02): FORMAT MAGNIFY for quick feeds
Create a report in Dev Studio
Magnify category fields equal BY fields in WebFOCUS
Searchable content equal PRINT fields in WebFOCUS
Change format to Magnify...Indexes are dynamically created and you’re done!

55. Business Intelligence Roadmap
Magnify

56. WebFOCUS Developer Studio

57. Business Intelligence Roadmap 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

58. Goal is to reduce development time
Business Intelligence Roadmap New Developer Studio Capabilities Now Available
Developer Studio (7.7.02): 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

59. Business Intelligence Roadmap Developer Studio Guided Adhoc Application Templates

60. InfoAssist-style Ribbon UI coming to Developer Studio in Release 8
InfoAssist-style Ribbon UI coming to Developer Studio in Release 8.x later this year!

61. Business Intelligence Roadmap Next Generation of Security Integration
OWASP-Certified: Release is hardened against hacker attacks
Open Web Application Security Project (open source standard)
Personalized approach
GUI responds & displays options based on roles
Set of permissions mapped to which objects and tools a user or group of users can access
Can be highly customized, flexible
List, Create, Delete an object
Read, Update
Execute (report, report template, etc.)
New model will be RDBMS-based and provide single repository for the entire product (including Report Caster)

62. Business Intelligence Roadmap Metadata Enhancements
Key Business Benefits:
Reusable Components Available to WebFOCUS Tools & Applications
Represent data in business terms (Business Views)
Technical operations & complexity hidden from users
Simplicity of Metadata Creation & Administration
Data sources defined once to WebFOCUS, stored centrally, then referenced as needed
Mapping of OLAP dimensional views available for all data sources
Provide benefits of multi-dimensional analysis w/o the cube admin costs

63. Business Intelligence Roadmap Extended Metadata & Adapter Capabilities
New Metadata Wizard makes creating metadata easy
New adapters for columnar databases (ParAccel)
Support for complex metadata relationships
Star Schema Join (Multi-fact Table Joins)
Demonstrable now in Metadata tools; InfoAssist & Dev Studio support planned for Release 8
Can address requirements raised by users accustomed to B.O. and/or have strong relational heritage
STORE,PROD,SALE
STORE,PROD,REORDER
PROD, PTYPE
Sale Fact Table Reorder Fact Table

64. Business Intelligence Roadmap ESRI Integration
Innovation Iitiative
ArcGIS Server Support: Available in today’s product release
Based on customer and field demand, new product strategy is to integrate with ESRI’s Flex-based map viewer
IB to deliver value-add components for bi-directional integration with ArcGIS Server
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65. New Business Intelligence Portal

66. Business Intelligence Roadmap New BI Portal Initiative: Release 8
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
View Builder is old. Uplifts look and feel and consistency.
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67. BI Portal New Feature Snapshot Developer Created Custom Portal Views

68. BI Portal New Feature Snapshot End User Portal Content Customization

69. Thank You!