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InfoAssist: Past, Present, and Future Brian Carter September 16, 2010
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What we’ll cover… Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 2 Technology Overview Functional Overview Product walk-through
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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 3 http://www.eweek-digital.com/eweek/20090119/?pg=38 Introduced: June 2008 Release 7.6.7
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WEB 2.0 MEETS BI InfoAssist: One Tool for Business! Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 4
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What is Web 2.0? Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 5 According to Tim O'Reilly: “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as a platform…”
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Benefits of a Web 2.0 architecture Rich – robust and intuitive Responsive – quickly updates Look and feel similar to desktop Zero footprint Lower Total Cost of Ownership Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 6
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KEY TO SUCCESS? InfoAssist: One Tool for Business! Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 7
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Keys to user adoption Familiar Flexible Easy Power Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 8
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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 9
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AD HOC REPORTING InfoAssist: One Tool for Business! Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 10
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Ad hoc reporting defined Wikipedia: "ad hoc" reporting systems allow the usersusers themselves to create specific, customized queries. Typically this would be via a user-friendlyuser-friendly GUIGUI-based system without the need for the in-depth knowledge of SQL, or database schemaSQLdatabaseschema that a programmer would have. Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 11
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COMPARISON InfoAssist: One Tool for Business! Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 12
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Ad hoc Reporting with WebFOCUS Guided ad hoc and InfoAssist Application versus a tool Applications can be rolled out to millions of users Customer Facing, Scalable, No training required Tools are better suited for “power users” Much more flexible and powerful Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 13
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Function Developer StudioInfoAssist InstallationDesktop installZero footprint Creating metadata Can create or change metadata No metadata management Data accessAccess any data source Manipulating, joining dataJoin, Hold, Match, and Modify data Join Data Query, report, chartReports, charts, compound reporting with access to 4GL query language Reports, Charts, and compound documents/dashboards Calculations, virtual fieldsYes, plus inter-row financial calculations Yes Filtering/promptingYes, plus creation of ad hoc launch pages Yes PublishingAll output formatsAll basic output formats Comparison: InfoAssist to Dev Studio Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 14
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Comparison: InfoAssist to Dev Studio Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 15 Developer Studio Developer: application based InfoAssist Business User: query based with getting started wizard
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Comparison: InfoAssist to Dev Studio Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 16 Developer Studio Drag and drop report creation InfoAssist Office 2007 look and feel with WYSISWYG drag and drop
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Comparison: InfoAssist to Dev Studio Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 17 InfoAssist: intelligent ribbon based options
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FEATURES! InfoAssist: One Tool for Business! Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 18
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Key Feature Highlights Now Shipping Flex Charts Active Dashboards Coordinated Documents Recent Items Active Preview Charts Use Existing Reports in Documents Use Reporting Objects in Documents Excel 2007 Reports Coming Soon InfoMini Slicers Tab Active Dashboard Prompts Active Dashboard Templates Save and Publish A Brand New Look Cube Browser Create Files & Sub-queries Advanced Charting Capabilities Multi Fact Table Support Metadata Creation Security Based Personalization
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Flex Charts Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 20 Flex Charts
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Active Dashboards Flex Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 21 Active Dashboards Flex
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Active Dashboards HTML Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 22 Active Dashboards HTML
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Coordinate Documents Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 23 Coordinated Documents
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Recent Queries Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 24 Recent Items
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Active Preview Charts Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 25 Active Preview Charts Solid border indicates currently selected element Dashed border indicates the item you are currently hovering over
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Coming Soon WebFOCUS 7.7.02 & WebFOCUS 8 Features
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InfoMini
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Filters Tab Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 28 SlicersTab
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Filters Tab Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 29 Active Dashboard Prompts
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Filters Tab Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 30 Save and Publish
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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 31 A brand new look
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Cube Browser Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 32 Cube Browser
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Hold Files Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 33 Create Files & Subqueries Set the Destination to File To create a subquery click here
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Hold Files Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 34 Fields from file Original request and subquery Create Files & Subqueries
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Advanced Charting Capabilities Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 35 Advanced Charting
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Demonstration
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