Dan Ortolani VP Advanced Technology Services WebFOCUS Product Roadmap.

Dan OrtolaniVP Advanced Technology Services

WebFOCUS Product Roadmap

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WebFOCUS Product UpdateAgenda

Information Builders in the New B.I. Market Partnership & Support Commitment Technology Vision & Innovations


WebFOCUS Program Strategy Provide Expanded Value to Our Customers

DevelopersInformation Consumers

Customers & Partners

Service All User Constituencies

Business Users Executives

Power Users


Information Builders in the New B.I. Market WebFOCUS Program Priorities

Establish & maintain strong customer relationships with exceptional technical support and senior management sponsorship

Evolve and execute product roadmap program Leverage emerging technologies & innovate Respond directly to customers’ key priority requests

Release new features and value to customers at accelerated pace Alternating pure maintenance service and service packs that contain

limited new features 7.6.5 – limited new features + maintenance 7.6.6 – pure maintenance

Minimize product upgrade considerations Drive cost of BI down by embracing & extending Open Source

Technology Vision & Innovations

Dashboard Technologies


Technology Vision & Innovations Active Reports

Portable Analytics Interactivity & analytical engine built into reports

Sorting, calculations, pivot tables, collaboration Integrated security

Disconnected analysisDistribute reports via email

Perfect for billing statements, sales force/field reports, etc.

Active DashboardsNew “occasionally

connected” optionFlex Active Report Option

Demonstration


Technology Vision & Innovations WebFOCUS Flex Enable

Flex: Technology for Rich Internet Applications (RIA): Highly responsive applications, similar to desktop Advanced graphics, animation and interaction effects Used heavily today in consumer web sites

Enables the development & deployment of Flex dashboards Data grids, charts, filters, etc. Ability to build full-blown Rich

Internet Applications Integration with existing WebFOCUS CUS environment Data driven directly from standard WebFOCUS Reporting

Server


WebFOCUS Flex Enable Components

Demonstration


Technology Vision & Innovations Dashboards for Location Intelligence

Merge Reports with geo-coded information on maps

Event-driven reports

Web Services GIS (ESRI

ArcGIS Server, Google Maps)

Multiple data sources

WebFOCUS RStat


Technology Vision & Innovations Statistics

New RStat Option Based on “R” open source offering Combines predictive analytics w/ complex statistical

analysis Regression, Decision Tree, Neural Network Basic statistical processes with exploring, graphing and

transformations Additional options in each routine, that make building

‘scoring’ systems easy Integrated with Developer Studio

WebFOCUS Mobile Initiatives


Technology Vision & Innovations Mobile Favorites Reporting for Mobile Users

Easy to use Report subscription

model Easy to implement

No additional mobile infrastructure required

Integrated with standard WebFOCUS security

New: Update capability expands the scope of solutions

New Capabilities for Power Users


Technology Vision & Innovations Quick Data Guided Ad-Hoc

Quick Data Runs inside of Excel Users create their own reports via Report Assist Report populates spreadsheet

Quick Data + Guided Ad-hoc Run parameterized applications directly from w/in Excel Help manage Excel usage

BI and Excel users all accessing consistent data sources


Data is returned to ExcelData is returned to Excel

Info Assist


New User Tool based on Rich Internet Applications Info Assist – To be released in Summit 2008 time frame

Integrated thin client UI for analysis, ad-hoc reporting, report publishing and charting

Role-based granting of granular functionality Casual Users: Simple WYSIWYG ad-hoc analysisAdvanced Users/Developers: Complex, compound,

coordinated reports and print-ready reports:Compound reports: Contain multiple graphs and

tablesPrint-ready reports: Full control over the styling

and formatting of every element in the report

Technology Vision & Innovations Info Assist: Users Create Their Own Reports

Demonstration: Info Assist


WebFOCUS Magnify


Transactional Search Approach Transactions are enriched (with grouping information) and

sent to search engine for indexing Leverages iWay Service Manager capabilities

User Experience Search results can be viewed via categories Tabular representation (Active Report) view Real-time integration with WebFOCUS

Pass search results are selection criteria for reportsNew Option: Embedded Lucene Search Engine

Technology Vision & Innovations WebFOCUS Magnify Update

Financial Reporting: XBRL


Technology Vision & Innovations Financial Reporting: XBRL

“XBRL US, the national consortium for XML standards for business and financial information reporting, applauds the actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) which voted unanimously yesterday to propose mandating the use of XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) for public company filings to the SEC’s EDGAR database. Under the terms of the current proposal, companies using US GAAP with a worldwide public float over $5 billion will be required to submit their primary financial statements, footnotes and financial statement schedules in XBRL format for fiscal periods ending in late 2008.”

- XBRL press release, May 15, 2008


Technology Vision & Innovations Financial Reporting: XBRL

eXtensible Business Reporting LanguageA language for the electronic communication of business

and financial dataPart of the XML family of languagesProvides an identifying tag for each individual data itemProvides information about each data item

Eg. monetary item, percentage or fraction Shows how items are calculated Shows how items relate to one another (eg.

Organizational Groupings, Presentation Groupings)


Technology Vision & Innovations Financial Reporting: XBRL XBRL Adapter

Allows WebFOCUS to directly report against XBRL documents

Presents a normalized view of the data XBRL Taxonomy shows in the Financial Report Painter Ability to consolidate multiple XBRL documents in a

simplified processXBRL Publish

Ability to create a Financial Report that will output an XBRL Instance Document.

XBRL Mapping Tool Maps internal Chart of Accounts to a selected

taxonomyAbility to parameterize report & schedule

Demonstration


Performance Metrics Manager


Technology Vision & Innovations Performance Metrics Manager

Complete metrics/dashboard deployment platform Allows real savings on development costs and

implementation time Over 100 reports, graphs, dashboards, and analytic

tools 300+ built-in industry metric definitions and formulas End-user managed – just add data Vertical and Horizontal starter kits Benchmarking and stretch targets Easy entry level to full PMF




WebFOCUS Product Program Our Commitment

Information Builders will continue to invest in the application of strategic technologies in order to advance the WebFOCUS program and create new value for our customers.

Dan Ortolani VP Advanced Technology Services WebFOCUS Product Roadmap.

Documents

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webfocus rstat slide

open source slide

dashboard technologies

developer studio slide

geocoded information

webfocus program strategy

active dashboards new