InfoAssist: Past, Present, and Future Brian Carter September 16, 2010

InfoAssist: Past, Present, and Future

Brian CarterSeptember 16, 2010

What we’ll cover…

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 2

Technology Overview

Functional Overview

Product walk-through


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Introduced: June 2008

Release 7.6.7

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WEB 2.0 MEETS BIInfoAssist: One Tool for Business!


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What is Web 2.0?


According to Tim O'Reilly: “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as a platform…”

Benefits of a Web 2.0 architecture

Rich – robust and intuitive

Responsive – quickly updates

Look and feel similar to desktop

Zero footprint

Lower Total Cost of Ownership


KEY TO SUCCESS?InfoAssist: One Tool for Business!


Keys to user adoption

Familiar

Flexible

Easy

Power



AD HOC REPORTINGInfoAssist: One Tool for Business!


Ad hoc reporting defined

Wikipedia:

"ad hoc" reporting systems allow the users

themselves to create specific,

customized queries. Typically this

would be via a user-friendly

GUI-based system without the

need for the in-depth knowledge

of SQL, or database schema

that a programmer would have.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_(computer_science)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-friendly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema

COMPARISONInfoAssist: One Tool for Business!


Ad hoc Reporting with WebFOCUS

Guided ad hoc and InfoAssist

Application versus a tool

Applications can be rolled out to millions of usersCustomer Facing, Scalable, No training required

Tools are better suited for “power users”Much more flexible and powerful


Function Developer Studio InfoAssist

Installation Desktop install Zero footprint

Creating metadata Can create or change metadata

No metadata management

Data access Access any data source Access any data source

Manipulating, joining data Join, Hold, Match, and Modify data

Join Data

Query, report, chart Reports, charts, compound reporting with access to 4GL

query language

Reports, Charts, and compound documents/dashboards

Calculations, virtual fields Yes, plus inter-row financial calculations

Yes

Filtering/prompting Yes, plus creation of ad hoc launch pages

Yes

Publishing All output formats All basic output formats

Comparison: InfoAssist to Dev Studio




Developer Studio

Developer: application based

InfoAssist

Business User: query based with getting started wizard



Developer Studio

Drag and drop report creation

InfoAssist

Office 2007 look and feel with WYSISWYG drag and drop



InfoAssist: intelligent ribbon based options

FEATURES!InfoAssist: One Tool for Business!


Key Feature Highlights

Now Shipping

• Flex Charts• Active Dashboards• Coordinated Documents• Recent Items• Active Preview Charts• Use Existing Reports in

Documents• Use Reporting Objects in

Documents• Excel 2007 Reports

Coming Soon

• InfoMini• Slicers Tab• Active Dashboard Prompts• Active Dashboard Templates• Save and Publish• A Brand New Look• Cube Browser• Create Files & Sub-queries• Advanced Charting

Capabilities• Multi Fact Table Support• Metadata Creation• Security Based

Personalization

Flex Charts


Flex Charts

Active Dashboards Flex


Active Dashboards Flex

Active Dashboards HTML


Active Dashboards HTML

Coordinate Documents


Coordinated Documents

Recent Queries


Recent Items

Active Preview Charts


Active Preview Charts

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Dashed border indicates the item you are currently hovering over

Coming SoonWebFOCUS 7.7.02 &

WebFOCUS 8 Features

InfoMiniInfoMini

Filters Tab


SlicersTab

Filters Tab


Active Dashboard Prompts

Filters Tab


Save and Publish


A brand new look

Cube Browser


Cube Browser

Hold Files


Create Files & Subqueries

Set the Destination to File

To create a subquery click here

Hold Files


Fields from file

Original request and subquery

Create Files & Subqueries

Advanced Charting Capabilities


Advanced Charting

Demonstration