1. Create Boardroom Report Books With Developer Studio Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 1 Brian Carter Technical Director June, 2008

2. Abstract All companies have a need to create comprehensive, boardroom quality documents that deliver the overall state of the business. Annual or even monthly reports must contain scores of individual reports and graphs all compiled into a single distributable document. Creating these types of reports can be very difficult and time- consuming, presenting a major challenge to those responsible for this task. WebFOCUS can easily meet this challenge and help streamline the creation and analysis of these large scale reports with its Electronic Publishing solution. Come see how you can combine, coordinate, and publish your reports with WebFOCUS! Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 2

3. OVERVIEW Print Ready Boardroom Reporting Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 3

4.  Exposure and Dissemination of information  Compilation and presentation Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 4 What is Report Publishing?

5.  Generation of “all-purpose” boardroom quality report booklets  View, print, and analyze  Automatically burst, print, and distribute  WYSIWYG - full scale precision layout Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 5 Mission

6.  Consistent, dynamic output  HTML  viewing  PDF  printing  PowerPoint  presentations  Excel/Active Reports  analysis Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 6 Functionality

7. Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 7  Formatting: styling, vector graphics, free-form text with formatting  Viewing: tabs, bookmarks  Navigation: TOC, drill-down  Intelligent Bursting Functionality cont.

8.  Paint with live data  Page Master  Save and reuse pages  Printable TOC with navigation  Design and runtime positioning Latest Features 7.6.x

9. REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS Print Ready Boardroom Reporting Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 9

10.  Strategic Planning  Billing/Statements  Regulatory Reporting  Marketing Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 10 Applications

11.  4 report “books” reviewed monthly by CEO and the Board  Printed and Projected versions  Updated minutes before the meeting  Reporting and Analysis process very carefully designed  Coordinated color schemes  Placement Petrobras

12.  Distributes financial statements to roughly 20,000 users  200,000 Compound PDF Documents per month  Completely automated using WebFOCUS ReportCaster American Express

13. BEST PRACTICES Publishing Information with WebFOCUS Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 13

14.  Keys to successful “boardroom quality” reports  Colors  Fonts  Layout  Artwork Tip: “Less is More” Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 14 Back to Basics

15.  Know your audience  Tell a story  Illustrate the data and add visual appeal  Allow the information to breathe  Sans-serif fonts such as Arial – no more than two  Consistency! Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 15 Best Practices Check out the article in the Summer 2007 edition of the WF Newsletter!

16. DEMONSTRATION Publishing Information with WebFOCUS Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 16

17. FUTURE DIRECTION Publishing Information with WebFOCUS Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 17

18. Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 18  Mix and match burst and non-burst content  Component based creation of booklets  Mix and match from a library of reports and layouts  Embed documents into a template  Interactive PDF with Macromedia FLEX Future