1. WebFOCUS Program Update: Continued Innovation & Customer-Driven Advancements
Dan Ortolani
VP AdvancedTechnology Services

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. Development Areas Breakdown
Core Product Enhancements:
60% of development resources
Hundreds of new features per release
Example: Multi-Fact Support in Metadata
Strategic Extensions to Core Product:
15% of development resources
Approximately 2-3 products per year
Example: Hyperstage, ziip support
New BI Extensions:
25% of development resources
2-3 new products or extensions to new products per year
Example: RStat, Magnify, Data Migrator, Mobile

4. At IBI Innovation is an Institutionalized Process
Customer Cross
Reference
Executive
Team
Industry &
Technology
Conferences
Industry
Analysts
Hands on
Ethical
Competitor
Research
Customer
Input
Employee
Innovation
Council WF
Advisory
Board
Market
Perspective
POCs
Plans &
Proto- types
Panels
Strategic
Development
User
Croups

5. Core Philosophy: Continuous Innovation & Capability Expansion to Support Business & People Growth Over Time

6. Innovative and Useful Technologies: Developed Here
Why useful?
Invention is the creation of new technology:
we do a lot of this!
Innovation is the proliferation of new technologies in the market:
We aim for high adoption!
So all of our inventions have to be useful!
InfoAssist
Big Data Adapters
New Data Migrator
Mobile
508 Compliance
New releases – Rstat, ESRI viewer, Enable

7. Release Snapshot Release Schedule & Related Initiatives
Release – GA now!
Release 8 – Beta now, Production release end of December 2011
WebFOCUS Enable, RStat, and Performance Management Framework on flexible, independent release tracks
New ATS Strategic Support Services team – 100% focused on supporting Release 8 customer rollout
Beyond Release 8 ( )
Escalating investment across core and new BI Extension areas

8. Industry Trends & WebFOCUS Strategic Development Projects: Release 7.7

9. WebFOCUS Mobile Enterprise Mobile Enablement
Trend: Mobility
WebFOCUS Mobile Enterprise Mobile Enablement

10. Any Device, Any Form Factor, Any OS Platform
WebFOCUS Mobile Strategy:
Offer device independent BI solutions
Offer develop once, deploy anywhere environment
Offer highly interactive, device exploitive Web Apps with built in analytic capabilities
Make it easy to embed BI Web Apps in custom applications
WebFOCUS MobileComponents:
Active Technologies
Mobile Favorites
Mobile Faves
WebFOCUS Maintain
..and forthcoming extensions
Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 10 10

11. Active Technologies for Mobile Web Apps
Ease of Use
Single-tap UI paradigm
Full gesture & screen rotation support
Embedded data analysis and visualization
Full offline data interactivity
Ease of Development
Dynamic device detection
Build once, fit in any device
Industry Standard
Web Apps technology
iPhone App-like UI
Available in HTML or Flash

13. Mobile Faves App for iOS (iPad &iPhone)
Native app for consumption of WebFOCUS content
Provides controlled access to WebFOCUS content through:
SSO security
Mobile Favorites portal (normal “pull”)
attachments (“Open-in”)
Subscribed documents (automatic “push”)
Access to any online WebFOCUS application or content
Allows saving, ing and cataloging of stand-alone content
Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 13 13

14. Maintain for User Input Mobile Applications

15. Update Assist: Six Easy Steps
Launched Update Assist by right-clicking on a Master File.
Select the fields to which you want to Add, Update or Delete data.

16. Update Assist: Six Easy Steps
3. Select the navigation option for the application.
4. Select skins.
5. Select name for the default files created by Update Assist

17. Update Assist: Six Easy Steps
6. Launch the application

18. WebFOCUS Hyperstage Enterprise Mobile Enablement
Trend: Big Data
Improve database performance for WebFOCUS applications with less hardware, no database tuning and easy migration.
WebFOCUS Hyperstage Enterprise Mobile Enablement

19. No DBA Required! WebFOCUS Hyperstage No indexes No partitions No views
No materialized aggregates
Value proposition
Low IT overhead
Allows for autonomy from IT
Ease of implementation
Fast time to market
Less Hardware
Lower TCO
No DBA Required!

20. WebFOCUS Hyperstage Engine
How does it work?
Column Orientation
Smarter Architecture
No maintenance
No query planning
No partition schemes
No DBA
Knowledge Grid – statistics and metadata “describing” the super-compressed data
Data Packs – data stored in manageably sized, highly compressed data packs
Data compressed using algorithms tailored to data type

21. Company A Data Compression
SQL Server Database
418GB
Hyperstage Database
10GB

22. Company A Query Results
Test 3 represented the most commons scenario for this customer with Hyperstage running at close to 3X faster than SQL Server
Test 4 was a scenario where SQL Server (32 secs) was slightly faster than Hyperstage (38 secs)

23. Company B Data Compression
SQL Server Database
400GB
Hyperstage Database
37GB

24. Company B Query Results
These queries were full table scans for SQL Server but were well suited to the Hyperstage architecture
Case study to be documented

25. WebFOCUS Hyperstage Adapter
Available with M and Release 8
Will be included in future releases of the server software
Access to the Hyperstage data store will be enabled via the adapter
Enables tight integration and administration via the WebFOCUS console
HyperCopy – integrated ETL included

26. Industry Trends & WebFOCUS Strategic Development Projects: Release 8 and Beyond

27. Enabling Self Service for Business Users: BI Portal & InfoAssist
Trend: Self-Service BI
Enabling Self Service for Business Users: BI Portal & InfoAssist

28. 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:
Implement it right or not at all
Self-Service eliminates IT bottlenecks (customer interactions):
Works only as part of a multi-channel service plan
Self-Service is a quick fix:
It is often only a transfer of cost
It frequently alienates 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

29. IB/WebFOCUS Differentiation
In a mature industry everyone claims to have:
A great BI portal
A great Ad Hoc tool
BI Portal: Focus on becoming a BI engagement platform
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 and from which permitted platforms 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
Enhanced customization via function/feature shrink-wrap & plugins

30. BI Portal: New Features
Portal Design: Targets the BI Developer:
Key Differentiators:
Same UI & Workflow as InfoAssist
Standard Web Development UI and Workflow Paradigm
Key Features:
Live designer
Robust layout options: Freeform & column based
Content Panels: Tabbed, accordion, etc.
Themes Support: Nine packaged CSS themes
Dynamic Report Styling
Chart AutoFit
End User Customization:
PowerPoint like workflow
Familiar drag & drop experience

32. BI Portal:End User Portal Content Customization

33. BI Portal:Development of Portal Views

34. BI Portal: Development of Portal Views

35. BI Portal: Development of Portal Views

36. InfoAssist: New Features in 8 and Beyond
InfoMini for Mobile devices
Sub query Support (hold files)
New Visualization Engine
Design & Styling
CSS3 support
Relative Positioning
Full Active Report Styling
Multi-page layouts
Conditional Styling
Field to Field
Drill Down
Chart sizing options
More Analytic Functions
Customized Subtotals
Redesigned Calculations
508 Report Output

37. Key Focus: Simplicity
Replace Compute/Define dialog with ribbon and canvas integrated calculations
WITHIN support so you can do PCT type calculations within a certain sort level
Multi-fact support
New Visualization Engine
Hold files
Add new feature that make the tool more powerful, but also make it very easy to use.

38. Hold Files
Hold Files

39. Hold Files – Document Mode

40. New Visualization Engine
Trend: Data Visualization
New Visualization Engine

41. The New Visualization Engine: Benefits
An entirely new unified visualization technology that is now being rolled out across our entire product line
The benefits:
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
Availability: Version 1.0 for regular and Active HTML output formats.
Rado, Matt: Feel free to reword this to suit your needs

42. Active Technologies Column chart with bevel effect Pie Chart
Line Chart with smooth curves
Scatter chart
Also note: Unified Palette + smart automatic layout (No more overlapping labels!)

43. Sample HTML5 output Waterfall Chart (Visual Cash Flow Statement)
TreeMap (great for big data and nested data)
Bubble Chart (note soft shadow and sphere effects, now simple one-click properties)
Interactive 3D charts in the browser (rotate them on your iPad)

44. Interactive Data Discovery
Choropleth Maps
Small Multiples
Chloropleth Maps: Color scales applied to simple GIS
Small Multiples: Tables where each cell is itself an interactive visualization
Visual Search: drill down by clicking through data OR by typing keywords
Linking & Brushing: Data Discovery through interactive region highlighting which automatically filtesr in other dimensions
Visual Search
Linking / Brushing

45. Trend 5: Social Networking & Collaboration

46. Social Networking and Collaboration
BI Portal allows for easy integration/display of Facebook, Twitter, other external widgets
Facebook Adapter
In development currently
Users Facebook API to access data via WebFOCUS
Information can be passed to specialized tools to perform sentiment analysis
Rado, Matt: Feel free to reword this to suit your needs

47. WebFOCUS for SaaS Environments
Trend: BI SaaS Deployments
WebFOCUS for SaaS Environments

48. SaaS Business Requirements
SaaS Deployment
Architecture
Tenant Onboarding
Tenant Isolation
Tool Deployment
Branding

49. Increased Traction of SaaS BI Solutions
In WebFOCUS’ customer base, SaaS requirements are influencing new feature development in these areas:
Granular security model
User Interface branding
Multi-tenancy features
Strong demand for web-based administration and development model
Best Practices guide
Specialized adapters, e.g., WebFOCUS integration with SalesForce

50. Tools for Converting to WebFOCUS
Trend: BI Tools Consolidation/Cost Savings
Tools for Converting to WebFOCUS

51. BI Tools Consolidation and Cost Savings
Crystal Reports-to-WebFOCUS conversion tool
RDL-to-WebFOCUS conversion tool
Business Objects-to-WebFOCUS Metadata adapter/conversion capability
Convert Universe to WebFOCUS Cluster Join
SAS-to-RStat Best Practices for conversion
Rado, Matt: Feel free to reword this to suit your needs

52. BI Extensions: Enable, RStat, Mapping

53. Enable for Adobe Flex Branded Customer Facing Applications
Demand from strategic customers for Flash-based, specialized, highly visible applications
Adobe’s Flash Builder development environment:
Strong industry adoption with a huge development community
New version of Adobe’s Flash Builder with built in capbilities to compile on any device
Strong IDE for development of custom components

54. Enable for Adobe Flex Build In Enable, Customize in InfoAssist

55. RStat Culture of Competing On Analytics
Statistical Analysis
Forecasting/Extrapolation
Predictive Modeling
Optimization
Why is this happening?
What of these trends continue?
What will happen next?
What is the best that can happen?
Forward View
Standard Reports
Ad Hoc Reports
Query/Drill Down
KPIs/Alerts
What happened?
How many, how often, where?
Where exactly is the problem?
What actions are needed?
Rear View
Degree of Intelligence
Note: Adapted from “Competing on Analytics”

56. RStat Business Analytic Applications

57. RStat Application Templates

58. Thank You!