WebFOCUS: Because Everyone Makes Decisions

April 20, 2023

WebFOCUS:Because Everyone Makes Decisions

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Information Builders’ WebFOCUS What Do We Do?

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 2

Our technology allows you to leverage every

data asset

To make your systems, people and processes

more efficient

Information Builders’ WebFOCUSBusiness Drivers for Business Intelligence

Improve business processes Eliminate bottlenecks – accelerate or automate

Real-time visibility into enterprise operationsMonitor and track performance of business initiativesCorporate governanceDrive down costs Improve customer satisfactionNew sources of revenue driven by information availability

What are your drivers?

Experience Shows…

Timely information is needed by everyone

Yet most companies use only 20% of their data

And provide access to only 10% of the people


Data

20%

People

10%

We help companies

achieve better

results!

People

10%

Non-TechnicalBusiness

Users 90%

Customers &Partners

People

10%

So - Why Do So Few People Receive The Benefit of BI?

Analysts & Power Users

7 %

Many BI Solutions concentrate on

putting tools in the hands of

advanced users

WebFOCUS BI Applications

provideease of use & flexibility at all

levels

• Extending the audience for BI• And promoting wide user adoption

Developers 3 %

Typical OrganizationP

eople

How Do You See Business Intelligence?

WebFOCUSAt FreightlinerAny BI Tool vsWebFOCUS

At Zurich Financial ServicesWebFOCUSAt Elie Tahari

WebFOCUSAt Target

Information Builders’ WebFOCUS Customer Examples

• NASA• 600 Contractors• 30 Million Parts• 1 Simple Management System

• Verizon• Over 200 Applications• Running on All platforms•For Example…• Process and Operational Efficiency Management System (POEMS)• Used by Execs to Field Technicians

• Target• 40,000 Users• 6,700 Stores• 4.4 Million Report requests/month

Data Connections DB2 (mainframe) DB2 UDB (AIX) Oracle AS400 Informix FOCUS Files SQL Server Essbase MS Access MS Excel Flat files Peoplesoft

• Hillman Group• Medium-sized business• 1,000 daily users• Real-time production data from 4 different systems• 2 Developers

Information Builders’ WebFOCUS Big Impact With Few Resources


2,000,000 usersCredit Card Billing

3 developers

-85,000 Users-Payroll & HR-3 Developers

Target40,000 Users

Inventory Mgmnt60,000 Users

Warranty Mgmnt1.5 Full

1,500 Users5 Developers

Asset-based Lending7,000 Users5 Developers

University of North Carolina 16 Campuses200,000 users2 developers

Online Brokerage Analytics85,000 investment professionals

5 developers

20,000 Users4 Developers

The Best user to developer ratio in the

BI Market!

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Why Choose Information Builders?

We have a unique project based approach We solve business problems with information It’s not about putting a BI tool in an end users hands

Our approach ensures early and rapid, success Measured by broad user adoption

Low cost, low maintenance, low risk, …with an agile infrastructure that can be applied to many

business problems

Based on a partnership with the customer


Why Choose Information Builders?Technology Differentiators

300+ Data Sources

Leverages all platforms Windows, Linux, UNIX, system-i, system-p, system-z

Scalability to the hundreds of thousands

Solves more problems that other BI Tool sets… 7 Unique Integration patterns Active Reports – provides portable business intelligence to unlimited

users at a low one time server price Leverages common “day to day” tools for delivery

Email, excel, web browser, search, Adobe PDF, etc.


Information Builders’ WebFOCUS Two Core Competencies: Intelligence and Integration


Function Formats

Information Builders’ WebFOCUSBusiness Intelligence and Integration


Data Warehouse

Operational Applications & Data

Messages,Transactions &

Services

Integration

Visualization

Reporting LocationIntelligence

AnalysisVehicles

OfficeMobile

Applications &Portals

eMail

Dashboards

InformationDelivery

Documents

Search

Real-time

NearReal-time

Staged

Intelligence


WebFOCUS for Business Managers

Why Choose Information Builders?Business Managers

WebFOCUS dashboards, reports and analysis will give you real-time visibility into your business

Ease of use of WebFOCUS applications will promote wide user adoption Creating a measurement culture

Users spend less time finding or creating information and more time solving problems

Spreadsheets become the source for proven, auditable, consistent, information – NOT an error prone, inconsistent data mart

Little or NO end user training required!



WebFOCUS for IT

Why Choose Information Builders?IT

Rapid development of BI Applications Low Maintenance, Low Cost, & Solves more problems BI Apps more widely adopted than BI tools 300+ Data Sources

Co-existence with current IT infrastructure Any Data, Any platform, Any App Server, Any Web Server Windows, Linux, UNIX, system-i, system-p, system-z

New users can be added at little or no cost

Inherent scalability prepares you for success



WebFOCUS for The Data Architect

Why Choose Information Builders?Data Architecture

300+ Data Sources Through Optimized Native Adapters

Solves more problems that other BI Tool sets because 7 Unique Integration patterns

Leverages all platforms Windows, Linux, UNIX, system-i, system-p, system-z

Queries can be processed close to the source Reducing network traffic



THE BEGINNING OF DETAILED TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW


Business Intelligence EngineTechnology Overview Details

WebFOCUS: Because Everyone Makes DecisionsThe Business Intelligence Engine


Reporting

Information Delivery

Visualization

Location Intelligence

Dashboards

Analysis



Reporting

• Robust, mature reporting• Operational, • Financial• Analytical

• Leading Reporting Technologies• Guided Ad-hoc• Best output formatting

• • PDF Report Books• Active Reports

WebFOCUS: Because Everyone Makes DecisionsReporting: Anatomy Of Guided Ad-hoc


Run itRun it

Schedule ItSchedule It Send ItSend It

SaveSelections

SaveSelections

Column PromptsColumn Prompts

Drilldown PathsDrilldown Paths

OutputFormatsOutput

Formats

FiltersFilters ParamterizeVirtually Anything

ParamterizeVirtually Anything

• Form based report creation• Recognized as the easiest &most flexible BI deployment method• Make it as simple or as thorough as you like• Allow users to change any aspect of the report• then they can….

• 1 Guided Ad-hoc Template = 1,000 Personal Reports

• Form based report creation• Recognized as the easiest &most flexible BI deployment method• Make it as simple or as thorough as you like• Allow users to change any aspect of the report• then they can….

• 1 Guided Ad-hoc Template = 1,000 Personal Reports



Analysis

• Introducing Active Technologies• A new thin output format for disconnected users

•Binds report Data and Analytic capabilities into one document•Requires no software•Completely portable

• Provides analytic functions to non-technical users• Create it on the fly or email to anyone• As single report or dashboard• Works on mobile devices• *Recipient does not need a license

1. Filter2. Calculate3. Visualize4. Chart5. Pivot6. Annotate7. Send/Share8. Export to MS

Office



Information Delivery

• Intelligent “Push” of Relevant Information• True Real-time Alerting

• Monitor any type of business event• Transactions, emails, FTP, Messages, etc.

• Information Delivered in Context• Reduces the time Spent Searching• Accelerates problem resolution• email Delivery in ANY Format



Visualization

• Visualize thousands of data points in a single analytic dashboard• Immediately identify “Outliers”• Hundreds of questions answered visually• With little or No training required



Location Intelligence

• Visually & Geographically understand your business•Better understand revenues, risks, costs, opportunities when they are associated with proximity• Plot Report data on a map• Report on adjacent data from a map



Dashboards

• Your business at a Glance

• Whether your approach is Formal…

• Balanced Scorecard• Six Sigma• Activity Based Costing

or •Custom…

• Data Warehouse basedor• Real-time from multiple sources



• So how will your application look?• Anyway you like

•All of this delivered to• The WebFOCUS Portal• Or ANY Portal

• Your email

• Access from Excel• Or your favorite Office product

• Or on your Mobile device


The Integration EngineTechnology Overview Details

WebFOCUS: Because Everyone Makes DecisionsThe Integration Engine

Data Integration

Process Design& Service Composition

ETL – Data Migrator

Remember This…Experience Shows…

Timely information is needed by everyone

Yet most companies use only 20% of their data

And provide access to only 10% of the people


Data

20%

People

10%

We help companies

achieve better

results!

WebFOCUS: Because Everyone Makes DecisionsThe integration Engine

Data Integration

• Over 7 Styles Of Integration• Data Warehouse• Real-time Data Warehouse• Enterprise Information Management (EII)• Operational Data Access• Process Integration• Search• Web Services

• WebFOCUS allows you to leverage all of your data

• Providing high-value, real-time visibility into enterprise performance and processes

Data

20%

Data


Data Adapters

Adabas Adabas/C ALLBASE/SQL C-ISAM (Informix) C-ISAM (Microfocus) C-ISAM ACCUCORP CA-Datacom CA-IDMS/DB CA-IDMS/SQL Cloudscape D-ISAM DB2 DB2/400 DBASE DBMS EJB

ENSCRIBE Essbase Excel Flat Files FOCUS Data Access Foxpro IDS-II ImageSQL IMS InfoMan Informix Ingres Interplex ISAM KSAM Lotus Notes Microsoft Access

Microsoft OLAP Services Microsoft SQL Server Millennium Model 204 MUMPS MySQL NOMAD NonStop SQL Nucleus Omnidex OpenIngres Oracle PROGRESS QSAM Rdb Red Brick

RMS SAP BW SAP R/3 SQL/DS SUPRA Sybase Sybase/IQ System 2000 Teradata TOTAL TurboIMAGE Unisys DMS 1100 /2200 UNISYS DMS II UniVerse VSAM XML

Transaction Processing Adapters

CICS (non-mainframe) CICS (mainframe)

IMS/TM (non-mainframe) IMS/TM (mainframe) Software AG Natural

Tuxedo

Terminal Emulation Adapters

3270 (Mainframe, System z) 5250 (AS/400, System i)

e-Business Adapters

AS1/AS2/AS3 Comma-Delimited Files cXML ebXML EDI-ANSI X12 (American) EDI-EDIFACT EDIG@S EDIINT FIX FIXML Flat (positional) Files

HIPAA HL7 ISO 15022 ISO 8583 OAG BOD Structured Files SWIFT SWIFTML Transora UCCnet xCBL

Technology Adapters

Any J2EE Application Server BEA MessageQ BEA WebLogic Application Server BEA WebLogic Integration C C++ cc:mail (VIM) COBOL COM FOCUS FORTRAN FTP Fujitsu Interstage Geographical Information Systems (GIS) HTTP

IBM WebSphere Application Server IBM WebSphere MQ (MQ Series) IBM WebSphere MQ Integrator Internet Mail (SMTP/MIME) JacORB Java JMS Lotus Notes (VIM) Microsoft BizTalk Server Microsoft Exchange (MAPI) Oracle 9iAS Integration Oracle AQ Oracle AS10g Oracle PL/SQL

Orbix Pascal POP Python RDBMS RPG SAP eXchange Infrastructure (XI) SAP Web Application Server Sonic ESB SonicMQ SunONE Application Server TIBCO JMS TIBCO Rendezvous Visibroker

Application System Adapters

AXIOM mx/open Baan BroadVision Clarify Hogan Financials i2 Technologies J.D. Edwards Lawson MFG/PRO

Manugistics Microsoft CRM MySAP.com Oracle Applications PeopleSoft SAP R/3 Siebel Vantive Walker Interactive


Over 7 styles of integration

1) Data Warehouse

Operational SystemsBilling Inventory Shipping

DW

Data Integration



1) Data Warehouse


DW

2) Operational Access

Data Integration




3) Enterprise InformationIntegration (EII)

Combine Data FromMultiple Enterprise Sources

At Report Time

1) Data Warehouse2) Operational Access

Data Integration



TransactionsBilling Inventory Shipping


Transactions fed in real-timeTo data warehouse(a.k.a. Trickle-feed)


DW

4) Real-time DW

Data Integration



TransactionsBilling Inventory Shipping


Transactions fed in real-timeTo data warehouse(a.k.a. Trickle-feed)


DW

4) Real-time DW5) Process Integration

New Order

Generate Packing Slip

Debit Inventory

Create Invoice

Alert Supply Manager!

Data Integration



Billing Inventory Shipping3) Enterprise InformationIntegration (EII)


4) Real-time DW5) Process Integration

New Order

Generate Packing Slip

Debit Inventory

Create Invoice

Alert Supply Manager!

6) Web Services

Web Service Web Service Web Service

Access 1 or more web services in conjunction

with internal data assets

Data Integration





4) Real-time DW5) Process Integration6) Web Services7) Search

Billing Inventory Shipping

Search results associated with BI

Reports

Transactions

SearchEngine

Sent toSearch engine

Enriched transaction

in HTML

Search

Data Integration


ETL - Data Migrator

Data Migrator•ETL productivity tool that will•Extract data from any enterprise data source•Transfer across platforms •Transform data applying business rules•Load to relational database or create files and xml•And is used to•Build a Data Warehouse or stage data for analysis•Prepare data for Application Loading


Process Design

•Event Monitors•Decision Switches – Business Logic• Service Provisioning

• Service Enablement• Service Composition• Service Governing

• Works with• Any Message Type• Any Transport• Any Data Source• Any Platform• Any Middleware• Any Application Server


Event Monitors

Event Listener:•Transactions•eMail•File (Exists)•FTP•Message Queue•RDBMS Transaction•SAP Transaction•Etc.

Actions: •Caster•WebFOCUS Report•ETL•SQL Input•SQL procedure•Etc.

Decision Switch



BI Content & Application Development

Enterprise Information Management

Service Composition & Process Design

•Report Design•Form Creation•Dashboard Layout•User Administration•Metadata Management•Report Scheduling

•Adapter Management•Transformation•Load Management•ETL Scheduling

•Service Composition•Process Design•Decision Switch•Event Management•Service Registration•Service Monitoring