Brian Carter May 2012 WebFOCUS 8 1. Core Mission & Philosophy Core Mission: Dedicated to provide...
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Brian Carter May 2012 WebFOCUS 8 1. Core Mission & Philosophy Core Mission: Dedicated to provide the best platform and tools for creating and delivering
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 platforms 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.
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WebFOCUS 8 Architecture ExcelExcel Web Browsers MobileMobile
EmailEmailFTPFTPPrinterPrinter Web Server Application Server
DataData ContentContent ReportCasterReportCaster BI Portal
ApplicationsRelational UnstructuredWeb Services
InfoAssistInfoAssist MagnifySearchMagnifySearch SecuritySecurity
Reporting Server ETL DataMigrator DataMigrator PortalsPortals Web
Services IDE IDE Developer Studio
ApplicationStudioApplicationStudio MaintainMaintain RStatRStat
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Enabling Self Service for Business Users: BI Portal &
InfoAssist
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The Self Service Trend: Hype & Reality Self-Service is the
new management fad: banking, retail, telecom, BI. Self-Service
Myths: Valid across all industries 1.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
2.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 3.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 4.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
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InfoAssist & New Portal Copyright 2010, Information
Builders. Slide 6 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 BIP Objective: Become highly
competitive in the self-service market with enterprise level query,
analysis & portal tools IA
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InfoAssist & New Portal Copyright 2010, Information
Builders. Slide 7 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 8.0 8.x
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BI Portal: iGoogle Like User Experience
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BI Portal: PowerPoint Like Ease of Customization 9
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BI Portal: Stylesheet Inheritance
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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
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InfoAssist: WebApps Development via AT & HTML5 12
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InfoAssist: Multi-Page Documents Copyright 2007, Information
Builders. Slide 13
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Advanced Data Visualization: Going Forward Plan 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
Objective: Create an IA module for advanced visualization (AV) to
address raising self-service needs, customer requirements &
competitive pressure 8.0 8.x
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InfoAssist: Visual Discovery Like Analysis 15
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InfoAssist: New Dimensional Combination Charts
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InfoAssist: New Dimensional Pivot Charts
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Next Generation Graphs Under Consideration 18 Lexical Diversity
Lexical Frequencies Re-Posting PathsSocial Connectedness Streaming
Frequencies
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Enterprise Mobile Enablement
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Design Once, Deploy on Any Device Device DetectionMedia
QueryGesture Support Smart PhoneTabletMonitor/TV
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Some Trends 21 Most new interactions and developments will come
from users phone Diversity in design drives innovation and
adoption
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Mobile 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 Copyright 2010,
Information Builders. Slide 22 8.0 Objective: Ongoing enhancements
for designing state of the art applications for any device 8.x
WebFOCUS 8 Security 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 Objective: Provide a robust security model
that facilitates SaaS & PaaS, Deep personalization, and
simplified administrations
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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
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WebFOCUS 8 Security: Built-in Domain Templates 29 WebFOCUS
creates the required groups, resources, and security policy