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WebFOCUS 8 – What’s New!!??. Nurud Mohamed Sr. Systems Engineer. Core Mission & Philosophy. Core Mission : Dedicated to provide the best platform and tools for creating and delivering large enterprise information systems - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Nurud MohamedSr. Systems Engineer
WebFOCUS 8 – What’s New!!??
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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.
Development Areas Breakdown
The breakdown is a testimony to our commitment to customers needs, to innovation, and expansion of capabilities:
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
Enabling Self Service for Business Users:
BI Portal & InfoAssist
InfoAssist & New Portal
Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 5
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
BI Portal: PowerPoint Like Ease of Customization
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BI Portal: Stylesheet Inheritance
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
InfoAssist: Visual Discovery Like Analysis
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InfoAssist: New Dimensional Combination Charts
Enterprise Mobile Enablement
Mobile – Design Once Deploy on any Device
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 12
8.0
Objective: Ongoing enhancements for designing state of the art applications for any device
8.x
Active Technologies UI Upgrade
WebFOCUS 8 Security EnhancementsDrive SaaS & Personalization
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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
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
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• WebFOCUS creates the required groups, resources, and security policy
Thank You! Let’s See Some Product!!