1. WebFOCUS 8
Brian Carter
May 2012

2. 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.

3. WebFOCUS 8 Architecture
Web Browsers
Excel
Mobile
Portals
Web Services
FTP
Printer
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

4. Enabling Self Service for Business Users: BI Portal & InfoAssist

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. BI Portal: iGoogle Like User Experience

9. BI Portal: PowerPoint Like Ease of Customization

10. BI Portal: Stylesheet Inheritance

11. 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

12. InfoAssist: WebApps Development via AT & HTML5

13. InfoAssist: Multi-Page Documents

14. 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

15. InfoAssist: Visual Discovery Like Analysis

16. InfoAssist: New Dimensional Combination Charts

17. InfoAssist: New Dimensional Pivot Charts

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

19. Enterprise Mobile Enablement

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

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

22. 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

23. Active Technologies UI Upgrade

24. Update Assist: Web Forms for Mobile Devices

25. InfoMini: Gadgets & Widgets

26. WebFOCUS 8 Security Enhancements Drive SaaS & Personalization

27. 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

28. 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

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

30. Thank You!