3- WebFOCUS Roadmap Customer Update DRO · WebFOCUS Server Administrator WebFOCUS Report Caster DBA/Data Steward WebFOCUSArchitecture. Areas of Enhancements in WebFOCUS 8 Data Access

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WebFOCUS Update

UK WebFOCUS User Group2nd October, 2013

Information Dynamics influencing the BI Landscape

Data increases in size every 12 to 18 months This is accelerating because of social media and other phenomena Companies typically leverage less than 20% External sources of information enhance perspective

Size of user audience is increasing Mobile workers expecting Google‐like access to corporate information Customers and partners demanding better web view of their data Sophisticated users and novice users growing simultaneously

Security issues getting more complex Government regulations Information take‐out Separating customers (multi‐tenancy)

Requirements change rapidly Business happens faster (Decisions need to be made quicker) User requests continue to stack up Pressure from “IT‐less” tools

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External

WebFOCUS Roadmap Timeline

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5/2013 7/2013 8/2013 10/2013 11/2013 Q1/2014

WebFOCUS Release 8 Production/GARel 8.0.02M

WebFOCUS Release 8 8.0.03

Maintenance Release

Maintenance Releases – Every 6‐8 Weeks Only Maintenance Releases

New Feature Releases – Twice a year

Release 8 .0.04Maintenance Release

Release 8.0.05 Maintenance Release

With Excel XLSX Support w/

Formulas, Cell‐sizing. Mapping

Application StudioManaged ReleaseIndependent of

Maintenance platform

Release 8.1.00 New Feature ReleaseWith Data Discovery

WebFOCUS and Areas of Enhancements

Dev & AppStudio

RStatWeb ServiceAPI

Developer

Metadata

Web ServicesAdapter

TraditionalAdapter

ModernAdapter

InfoAssistGuided Ad‐hoc

Business Intelligence Portal

Magnify

End User

Vis Dis & IA Data Discovery

Analyst & Data scientist

Security and Administration

WebFOCUS Server

WebFOCUS Report CasterAdministrator

DBA/Data Steward

WebFOCUS Architecture

Areas of Enhancements in WebFOCUS 8

Data Access

Development

End User Tools

Data Discovery/Visualisation

Portals, Security, Administration

Mobility

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Big Data, Social Media, External Sources Redesign Development Environment, Predicative Analytics InfoAssist, Active Reports, Magnify

Data Discovery, Heat‐maps, Matrix charts Rapid Application Design, Dynamic Dashboards, 140 Security Privileges

“Mobile Faves” and Improved Device Exploitive Content

Data AccessLegacy, Modern, External


Dev & AppStudio

RStatWeb ServiceAPI

Developer

Metadata

Web ServicesAdapter

TraditionalAdapter

ModernAdapter



Magnify

End User




WebFOCUS Server


DBA/Data Steward

DATA

Areas of BI EnhancementsData Access

Traditional Relational ERP Legacy

Modern Cube Netezza Vertica 1010 Par accel Greenplum Hyperstage MongoDB (JSON) Hadoop/Hive/HDFS SAP Hana

External Salesforce Web Services REST Adapter JSON (Javascript Object Notation) Facebook Twitter

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Big Data

Big Data – that exceeds the processing capabilities of conventional systems Hadoop – most common platform, managed by Apache Hadoop provides distributed data and processing; requires programming Hive provides an SQL like interface to Hadoop Access through JDBC and ODBC Information Builders provides a Hive/Hive2 adapter Supports Cloudera Impala for faster access

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Areas of BI EnhancementsData Access

REST Web Services Adapter Released in Reporting Server versions 7705 & 8001

Allows WebFOCUS to directly interact with applications that are RESTful Web Services enabled

Join internal data to data from external applications

Report against data from internal applications

Ability to interact with WebFOCUS RESTful Web Services (eg. Add a WebFOCUS user via a WF Report)

On‐board new sources Quickly

A.K.A. JSON Adapter

Sentiment Analysis and Word AnalyticsLeveraging Social Media Data

Other Unique Data on the horizon…

Linked‐In

Google + Google Analytics Google YouTube Google Big Data

Alternatives Get aggregated from Data Sift

…if you are looking to analyze specific historical data

IB “REST‐based” Adapters …if you are planning on accumulating data overtime

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Developer tools


Dev & AppStudio

RStatWeb ServiceAPI

Developer

Metadata

Web ServicesAdapter

TraditionalAdapter

ModernAdapter



Magnify

End User




WebFOCUS Server


DBA/Data Steward

DEVELOPMENT

WebFOCUS Content Strategy

Content Viewer

Browser

Content HTML5 and AHTML PDF XLSX

PDF Viewer

Excel

Content Creation Application Studio InfoAssist

Portal

Mobile Faves

Mobile Favorites

WebFOCUS Content Architecture

Content Creation Application Studio infoAssist

Coming Soon!• Auto‐Sizing Content (Objects scale in current position)• Form Factor Specific Content (Targeted device)• Auto‐Adjusting Content (Phone, Tablet, Desktop)• Device integration – Exploiting device functions

Areas of BI EnhancementsDevelopment

WebFOCUS Application Studio Modern Ribbon‐based Interface JQuery controls in HTML Canvas Form Factor in HTML Canvas Preview in Other Browsers Support Mobile Aware Features

Links into CORDOVA (phone‐gap)

Location intelligence Camera Access

Support for CSS3 CSS Editor with Intelli‐sense Availability in Q3/Q4

NavigationCentralised & Secure Navigation Repository

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FEX1 Region &REGION Security

FEX2 Product &PRODUCT Security

FEX3 Product &PRODUCT Security

Tools mark objects as CIOs

Central Intelligence Objects ‐ ‘CIOs’ kept in CIO table in repository

Subsequent development, & ad‐hoc can use CIOs

Multi‐drill menu dynamically create from CIO repository at runtime. List based on authorisation

Previous 6 months salesForecastKnown RecallsCurrent InventoryYTD Warranty Expense

Navigation/Drilling

A new way to define links between objects Central intelligence Objects (CIO)

Each “Entity” can be defined as a Central Intelligence Object “CIO” about an entity (e.g. Region or Product) can be centralised in repository and utilised based on security infrastructure

Drilling to CIO can be available automatically in any Report, Chart or Dashboard

Drill Anywhere Extension to Auto‐drill Allows user to navigate to any dimension at any level from current location

With these features you will be able to Drill Down to the next level in the dimension Drill Over to another dimension in the hierarchy Jump to another domain

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WebFOCUS Office Integration RoadmapExcel and Powerpoint

Office Formats: XLSX workbook features

Q3 2013 Formula. Cell sizing with wrap.

Q4 2013 Images. WebFOCUS Graphs. Cell locking. Drilldowns from text in headings and footings.

PPTX presentations with core PPT feature set ‐ Q4 2013

Watermarks in PDF and HTML ‐ Q3 2013

Mobile Expanding Sub‐reports ‐ Q4 2013 HTML sub‐reports Expanding sub‐feet

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Areas of BI EnhancementsDevelopment

WebFOCUS RESTful Web Services API Released in WebFOCUS 8001 Allows custom built applications to interact with WebFOCUS (eg. MS Visual Studio, Java) Features Include: Ability to run and display WebFOCUS reports/charts Ability to perform WebFOCUS Security Maintenance Ability to schedule ReportCaster jobs

Areas of BI EnhancementsDevelopment ‐ REST Web Services API

Managed Reporting Functions Creating and Updating a Folder Deleting a Folder Deleting a WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Report Listing Folders and Subfolders Listing Reports, Schedules, and Library Content Within WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Listing the Versions for a Stored Report in the ReportCaster Library Listing the Parameters for a Report Within Managed Reporting Running a Report From WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Change Management Import Publishing an Item Un‐publishing an Item Copying an Item Moving an Item Renaming an Item Uploading a WebFOCUS Report Creating a URL Link Retrieving Content for a WebFOCUS Report and URL

Areas of BI EnhancementsDevelopment ‐ REST Web Services API

WebFOCUS Reporting Server Functions Listing WebFOCUS Reporting Server Nodes Listing Applications Listing Files Within an Application Listing the Parameters for a Report Within an Application Running a Report Within an Application Deleting a File Within an Application Deleting an Application Change Management Import

WebFOCUS Security Administration Deleting a Group Listing Users Adding a User to a Group Listing Groups Removing a User From a Group Listing Privileges Adding a Role Listing Roles Deleting a Role Listing Users Within a Group Adding a Rule Adding and Updating a User Deleting a Rule Deleting a User Running a Template Adding and Updating a Group

WebFOCUS Report Caster Functions Retrieving Reports From the Report Caster Library Creating and Updating an Address Book Creating and Updating a Library Access List Deleting a Library Access List Creating and Updating a Schedule Running a Schedule Retrieving a Schedule Deleting a Schedule Deleting an Address Book

Business Intelligence Portal, Security, Administration

BI Portal: PowerPoint Like Ease of Customisation Rapid Application Development Complete “Out‐of‐the‐Box” BI Infrastructure

Repository & Security Groups, Roles, Privileges

Reports, Dashboards, Content Organized in Folders and Sub‐Folders Scheduling, Personal Folders, Shared Reports, Library Reports

Mash‐up content Themes “Dynamic” Dashboards Multi‐Content Containers

End User Customisation

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Areas of BI EnhancementsPortal, Security, Administration

Areas of BI EnhancementsPortal, Security, Administration

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Flexible Security Model Over 150 assignable privileges You can develop custom roles

Sub‐Groups and Inheritance Simplify Policy Creation Tools simplify Creation and Management of Policies Can Address Both the Enterprise and SaaS Markets Can Address Each Customer’s Unique Needs

Fluid CanvasGlobal

Parameters Page

Share Pages Duplicate Page

Page Enhancements

MobileView

End User ToolsThe Right Tools to The Right People…so they can ask the right questions


Dev & AppStudio

RStatWeb ServiceAPI

Developer

Metadata

Web ServicesAdapter

TraditionalAdapter

ModernAdapter



Magnify

End User




WebFOCUS Server


DBA/Data Steward

Business User Tools

Areas of BI EnhancementsEnd User Tools

WebFOCUS InfoAssist Subqueries Hold Files Theming Multi‐page documents for Excel

Areas of BI EnhancementsEnd User Tools

Strategic Goal: Unified charting experience: Single engine generates: HTML5, Flash, JPEG, PNG

The exact same chart experience in all output formats: Active Technologies, HTML5, Flex, PDF

A high level of visual sophistication Works in all browsers including mobile

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Areas of BI EnhancementsEnd User Tools – Magnify Search

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Single Point of Information Access

IT

BusinessAnalysts

Anyone

Multiple Application Interfaces

Mainframe Servers Reports Documents Images Multi MediaFormsDatabases

Areas of BI EnhancementsEnd User Tools – Magnify for Mixed Content Apps

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Magnify Search Join unstructured content with structured data found in emails, documents, and database records Word Analysis Adapter Evaluates mixed content and returns word frequencies

WebFOCUS Sentiment Analysis

Upgrading to latest Lucene Engine Type Ahead Index size reduce by 50%

Magnify integrated Search in WebFOCUS Search repository, metadata, output

WebFOCUSData Discovery/VisualizationInterpreting large amounts of data

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 37

WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Analyst Workbench Addresses the needs of a new audience: Data Scientists/Data Explorer Intended to help Interpret large amounts of data Helps you Visualize new types of data Helps answer the question: What is unusual about this data? Easily identify outliers and hidden trends in large data sets Hundreds of questions asked & answered visually

Areas of BI EnhancementsEnd User Tools – Data Discovery

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 38

WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Analyst Workbench Available with 8.0.02

WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Server AE Runs on IIS 64‐bit machine Minimum 8GB Memory More memory: more data


Business Intelligence ToolsFor IT and Business

IT Developers Data Analyst Power User Business User Operational Employees Business Partners Customers

Developer Studio

Visual Discovery

Business Intelligence Application

BusinessIT

BI PortalInfoAssist

WebFOCUS Server

Web ServicesAdapter

TraditionalAdapter

ModernAdapter

DeveloperStudio

InfoAssist

Business Analyst/Data

Scientist

BI Developer

BusinessAnalyst

WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Server AE

WebFOCUSVisual

Discovery Workbench

AE

Data Preparation

• Traditional BI• Reports• Dashboards• Documents• Alerts• BI Applications

Analytic Dashboards and Visualizations for end user consumption

Any Web Browser

Any Web Browser

Any Web Browser

Visual Discovery Architecture

Portal &

MR Re

pository

Self‐Serve

Self‐Serve

WebFOCUS Server

Web ServicesAdapter

TraditionalAdapter

ModernAdapter

DeveloperStudio

InfoAssist

Business Analyst/Data

Scientist

BI Developer

BusinessAnalyst

WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Server AERequires ‐Windows 64‐bit IIS

WebFOCUSVisual

Discovery Workbench

AE

Data Preparation

Visual Discovery Architecture

Staged Data

StagedData

Release 1:Caster and Bursting

Release 2:Get Data at Runtime via Focexec

Fex gets data from ANY source

WebFOCUS InfoAssist

Technology: HTML5 JavaScript Works across browsers and devices

Uses mid‐tier caching for large data volumes Over 140 Chart types


Leaflet API Call

Map‐Tiling Engine(OpenStreetMaps)(Out of the Box)

WebFOCUS Data Discovery

Alternate Map‐Tiling EngineESRI, UrbanMapping, Google,etc

WebFOCUS Data Discovery• Leverages Leaflet API to provide…• Interactive mapping out‐of‐the‐box

• 9 Layers of Zoom• Translated Countries• Lasso• Choropleth (colored Polygons)• Points

• Map‐tile Swapping for…• Added Data Points/Layers

• Per‐capita Income

Areas of BI EnhancementsEnd User Tools – Data Discovery and Mapping

WebFOCUS Data DiscoveryR‐based Clustering Capabilities

When data discovery involves too many measures the process is flawed With too many measures an analysts can spend days and months investigating data with little result

However, if you can apply “machine learning” algorithms like clustering you can give an analyst a head start on discovery.

44Original Data Set New Clustered Data Set

Clustering – a function of R – can inspect large amounts of data and automatically determine relationships. Clustering charts can visually expose those relationships WebFOCUS is unique in this ability

Cluster Visual

Separate Design and Run Modes

D

R

Active Visualization Returned to Browser

Data extract created and data embedded in Active Visualization

Any WebFOCUSData Source

Combined Design and Run Modes Data extract created and data remains in cache

Any WebFOCUSData Source

Combined Design and Run Modes Hyperstage Cache and Server side JS and image creations

Any WebFOCUS Data Source or Hyperstage for scalability and performance

Visualization Scalability

This is a treemap chart that allows you to visualise multiple measures via a multi‐level hierarchy. Here we see overall population by country in North America,

separated by religious affiliation (both represented by size). Color represents the % growth or loss in a segment – very powerful visual

Treemaps

Matrix charts are very popular now. Think of them as a crosstab report where each cell is a chart. For us any chart we do can be in a cell (pie, bar, line, map, treemap,

etc.)

Matrix Charts (A.K.A. Small Multiples)

Notice the sliders on each of these charts. This is very useful when

you are showing lots a visual over a “wide” time period. Days in a

year, Or months over 10 years for example. Slider moves the chart through time. The bottom slider can be adjusted left and right to

shrink or increase the time period.

Slider Charts

Notice the tooltips: These are “hoover over” pop‐ups that give you additional information about an item. The tooltips can be

edited by a designed to include things like – maximum value, average value, total value etc.

Tooltips

We now have lightweight maps. These are our own maps that are built‐in to the product and don’t require an outside API. Countries and major cities are represented and can be color‐coded as you see here. We are looking into getting these maps down to zip code level

for all areas.

Map Charts

We will have our own built‐in lightweight maps Polygons representing countries and major subdivisions

They will be extensible We are working with 2 External Mapping companies

For more extensive capabilities Packaged Metrics (e.g. Per capita income)

Notice the that these 3 charts are all interacting with each other. The selection in the bar chart on the right is highlighted using the same color in the other charts. The unselected areas are greyed out. This is automatic standard behavior in our new Active

Visualisation product target for first release in 8003 later this year.

Interactive Visualisations

MobilityBuild Once, Deploy Anywhere

Areas of BI EnhancementsMobility ‐ Approaches to Mobile Deployment

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Native Apps installed on devices

Web Apps conforms to mobile devices

Optimised Web Pages designed for mobile devices

Compatible Web Pages works for mobile devices

Hybrid Approach combination of Native and Web

Areas of BI EnhancementsMobility – Mobile Faves New Features

You can now add device functions to your web application Use built‐in javascript variables that access native device functions

GPS information Access to the camera and your photo library Ability to read bar codes Access Contacts Determine what network strength you are receiving, allowing you to have different levels of web content depending if you are on wi‐fi, 3G or 4G

Currently requires manual coding Internal Dev guide available soon Samples available on mobilefaves.ibi.com

Utilises Cordova technology, aka Phonegap Future: dialogs in App Studio Mobile Faves for ‘Good’

Good Dynamics Write to disk thru Good Remote wipe

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Mobile Faves for Good Technology

Good Technology Mobile Device Management (MDM) Secure infrastructure for Mobile access to Enterprise resources Good for Enterprise app Creates secure tunnel for network communications outside firewall

We have officially released Mobile Faves for Good Technology Feature parity with Mobile Faves for iOS Requires Good Technology Allows customers of Good Technology to leverage the MobileFaves app without creating a custom VPN

Android version in Q3

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Areas of BI EnhancementsMobility – New Platforms

New platforms announcement! Mobile Faves for Android and Windows 8

Equal functionality on all three platforms Android 4 and above only Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and above only

Android Just Launched Windows targeted for Q4

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Information Builders Global Cloud Program

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WebFOCUS CloudWhy?

Increased Adoption Pay as you go (lower startup costs) Easy to deploy (faster time to value) Pay only for what you use Handle variable workload demands

Value for IT Offload administration and management Many Execs are welcoming the opportunity to offload infrastructure, expertise requirements and on‐going maintenance

SMB organisations have little/no IT Staff

Value for the Business An opportunity to be independent from IT As validated by the strength of the self‐service BI market, business units are increasingly marginalizing IT's involvement in BI projects

Cloud Terminology

Virtual Cloud Hosting Shared computing resources Uses virtual servers and partitioned storage Multiple tenants

Private Cloud Hosting Dedicated hardware environment Partitioned or dedicated storage No sharing of resources

Managed Hosting Services Minimise the need for IT skills on the part of the customer Operating System installation and configuration Web/App server installation and configuration Firewall installation and configuration Backup and restoration Monitoring and alerting Network management

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Cloud Infrastructure: Virtual or Dedicated Environment

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Shared or DedicatedSwitches

Managed Security

Load Balancer

Managed Virtual or Dedicated Servers

Database Servers

Enterprise StorageNAS

SAN

On‐premise Data

Shared or DedicatedStorage

WebFOCUS

iWay EIM

WebFOCUSReportingServer

Cloud Offering: One Stop Shop Model

Contracts are on IB paper – customer deals with IB only Pre‐sales Cloud Assessment: We recommend a Cloud configuration based on results Information Builders provides:

Cloud Support Services WebFOCUS and iWay installation and initial configuration Application of maintenance (hot‐fixes, etc.) Performance tuning Single vendor support model

Cloud Managed Services Virtual and Private options Infrastructure ‐Windows or Linux OS System security System Admin Network Management Database provisioning

Professional Services such as application development, ETL, WebFOCUS administration are sold separately as per standard processes and pricing

iWay and WebFOCUS software sold via standard pricing, including subscription pricing

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Cloud Offering: Customer Preferred Vendor Model

Customer recommends their preferred Cloud vendor Pre‐sales Cloud Assessment: We recommend a Cloud configuration based on results Information Builders provides:


Cloud vendor provides: Cloud Managed Services

Virtual and Private options Infrastructure ‐Windows or Linux OS System security System Admin Network Management Database provisioning


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Cloud Offering: Referral Model

We refer a customer to a Cloud partner Pre‐sales Cloud Assessment: We recommend a Cloud configuration based on results Information Builders provides:


Cloud vendor provides: Cloud Managed Services

Virtual and Private options Infrastructure ‐Windows or Linux OS System security System Admin Network Management Database provisioning


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Locations of Physical Data Centers

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