What we’ll cover…
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Technology Overview
Functional Overview
Product walk-through
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http://www.eweek-digital.com/eweek/20090119/?pg=38
Introduced: June 2008
Release 7.6.7
WEB 2.0 MEETS BIInfoAssist: One Tool for Business!
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What is Web 2.0?
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Comparison: InfoAssist to Dev Studio
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Developer Studio
Developer: application based
InfoAssist
Business User: query based with getting started wizard
Comparison: InfoAssist to Dev Studio
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Developer Studio
Drag and drop report creation
InfoAssist
Office 2007 look and feel with WYSISWYG drag and drop
Comparison: InfoAssist to Dev Studio
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InfoAssist: intelligent ribbon based options
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
Active Preview Charts
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Active Preview Charts
Solid border indicates currently selected element
Dashed border indicates the item you are currently hovering over
Hold Files
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Create Files & Subqueries
Set the Destination to File
To create a subquery click here
Hold Files
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Fields from file
Original request and subquery
Create Files & Subqueries