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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 Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 2
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WebFOCUS Usability – Making Information Easily Accessible Copyrig ht 2007, Informa tion Builder s. Slide 3 email 0-Click Search 1-Click Dashboards 1-Click Guided Ad hoc 1-Click InfoAssist 2-Click Samples… Excel Work Book Active Report PDF/Flash eDocument
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WebFOCUS Usability – Making Information Easily Accessible Copyrig ht 2007, Informa tion Builder s. Slide 4 email 0-Click Search 1-Click Dashboards 1-Click Guided Ad hoc 1-Click InfoAssist 2-Click Internal External – Customers, Partners, Citizens All People Power Users Power Users Business Users Business Users
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WebFOCUS Usability – Bringing It All Together! Copyrig ht 2007, Informa tion Builder s. Slide 5 email 0-Click Search 1-Click Dashboards 1-Click Guided Ad hoc 1-Click InfoAssist 2-Click Combine these to create robust, scalable, and easy-to-use BI applications.
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WebFOCUS Core BI + Extended BI Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 6 Reporting Query & AnalysisDashboards InformationDelivery PerformanceManagement EnterpriseSearch Visualization & Mapping MobileApplications App/Dev, Portals & Mash-ups PredictiveAnalytics MS Office & e-Publishing Front office Extended BI Core BI Extensions to the WebFOCUS platform allow you to build more application types at a lower cost Business to Business Data Warehouse & ETL Master Data Management Data Quality Business Activity Monitoring Back office
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Business Intelligence Roadmap Copyright 20011, Information Builders. Slide 7
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Business Intelligence Roadmap Core Guiding Principles Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 8 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
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Business Intelligence Roadmap Release Plan Snapshot Release 7.7.02 – GA now Features formerly planned for Release 8 accelerated due to customer demand Release 7.7.03 – 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 Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 9
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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 Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 10
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InfoAssist Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 11
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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 Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 12
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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 Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 13
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InfoAssist Plans for Release 8 Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 14
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Business Intelligence Roadmap InfoAssist: Additional Advanced Features Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 15 Cube Support In 7.7.02: 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.)
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Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities Expandable Navigation/Drill-Down for Multiple Dimensions Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 16
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Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities Expandable Navigation/Drill-Across Dimensions
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Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities Filters Tab Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 18
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Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities Right-Click Context Menus for Filtering, Calculations… Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 19
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Active Technologies Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 20
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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 Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 21
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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 7.7.03: 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 Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 22
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WebFOCUS Mobile Strategy & Offerings Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 23
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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 Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 24
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WebFOCUS Mobile Faves For iPad and iPhone
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Mobile Faves for iPad and iPhone: Native App from App Store
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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
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PMF, Rstat and Magnify Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 29
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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 7.6. All production, all high performance Combines pre-built Metric knowledge (over 400 out-of-the-box) and BI custom flexibility Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 30
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Business Intelligence Roadmap Predictive Analytics – RStat – “Next-Gen BI”
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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 Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 32
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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! Business Intelligence Roadmap Magnify Quick Feed: Create Magnify Applications Easily
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Business Intelligence Roadmap Magnify
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WebFOCUS Developer Studio Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 35
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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 Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 36
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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 37 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
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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 38 Business Intelligence Roadmap Developer Studio Guided Adhoc Application Templates
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InfoAssist-style Ribbon UI coming to Developer Studio in Release 8.x later this year!
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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 40 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 )
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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 41 ArcGIS Server Support: Available in today’s 7.6.10 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 Business Intelligence Roadmap ESRI Integration Innovation Iitiative
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New Business Intelligence Portal Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 42
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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 43 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 Business Intelligence Roadmap New BI Portal Initiative: Release 8
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BI Portal New Feature Snapshot Developer Created Custom Portal Views Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 44
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BI Portal New Feature Snapshot End User Portal Content Customization Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 45
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Thank You! Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 46
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