WebFOCUS Roadmap Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 1 Jennifer Lalik, Systems Engineer November 18, 2010

WebFOCUS Roadmap

Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 1

Jennifer Lalik, Systems Engineer

November 18, 2010


WebFOCUS Roadmap WebFOCUS Program Priorities


WebFOCUS Roadmap WebFOCUS Release Highlights & Timelines

Current Release 2Q2010

-Release 7.6.11 Incremental enhancements: strong focus on report formatting enhancementsWebFOCUS Magnify evolves: Scalability & PerformancePMF 5.2 New RStat New Flex Enable

-Release 7.7.01Production ReleasePremium Support Customer outreach End-User DashboardsStrong focus on performance, metadata & adaptor areasNew Data MigratorRelease 8 beta program

3Q2010-4Q2010

- Release 7.7.02 (Sept.) Production availability - Release 8 beta continues; first customer ship by year-end Major upgrades across the product lineNew WebFOCUS BI Portal initiativeNext generation of InfoAssist , RStat, & Magnify, Flex EnableNew security model Real-time offeringsOngoing innovation

WebFOCUS Release 7.6.11



WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.6.11 Enhancements for BI Applications Incremental enhancements in Developer Studio based on field

and customer feedback Areas of Focus

Speed guided ad-hoc forms development Provide significant upgrades in PDF formatting Drive toward more consistency in development across

most popular output types Incremental improvements in WYSIWYG report & forms

development


WebFOCUS Roadmap Information Assurance: WebFOCUS Commitment

IBI Committed to Provide Industry LeadershipMany WebFOCUS deployments are customer-facing, partner-facing public internet applicationsMajor priority in our development program

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)Only member Business Intelligence company

Proactive Approach: Use latest Scanning tools, hacker techniques, code reviews as means to identify potential vulnerabilities *before* releases are finalized Periodic audits and health checks implemented in partnership with industry specialists Certified @ Level 3 Application Security Verification

Standards

WebFOCUS Release 7.7



Build Active Reports Flex Dashboards from within Info Assist

Import existing reports and charts or build from scratch Global filtering and filtering on specific dashboard components Advanced chaining, other parametric capabilities (dimensions, measures, etc.)

Add new RIA components to Active Dashboards, e.g., multiple combo boxes, tabs, etc.Visualization

Implementation of new Flex-based charts in Active Report chart menuUpgraded chart aesthetics for Active HTML reports

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7 End-User Dashboards


WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7 Enhancements for BI Applications Developer Studio: Automatic Generation of Guided Ad-hoc

ApplicationsGoal is to reduce development time and need for scripting

HTML Composer is starting point Developers call Report Painter directly and choose report

components: fields, stylesheets, drill-downs, sorting, ON TABLE SET options

New “Guided Report” report parameterizes above options, imports the report into HTML Composer, and automatically generates the appropriate launch web

Dialogue Manager script generated


Total Length of all fields – 256K Maximum size of Master Maximum size of structure created via JOIN

Total Number of Segments - 1024 Maximum number of segments in report structure Maximum number of JOINS- 1023

Total Number of Sort Fields - 128 Combination of BY and ACROSS fields Includes hidden sorts list FOCLIST

Maximum size of single XFOCUS partition – 32 GB

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7Limits Lifted


WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7 Report Caster Scalability

Distribute reports in any formatWorkload Management & Fail-Over

Vertical & Horizontal scalingReport Library: Reports are always available

Cached reports shared within workgroups


ArcGIS Server Support: Available in today’s 7.6.10 product release

Based on customer and field demand, new product strategy is to integrate with ESRI’s Flex-based map viewer

IB to deliver value-add components for bi-directional integration with ArcGIS Server

Current IB-developed viewer will not be enhanced

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7 ESRI Integration

Innovation Initiative


WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7 Performance Enhancements for Data Visualization

WebFOCUS Visual Discovery In-memory analytics New version exploits 64-bit architecture Tens-of-millions of records accessible in-memory

WebFOCUS Release 8 Highlights


WebFOCUS 8 OverviewBusiness Intelligence

Make business intelligence Pervasive in organizations Drives user adoption

Improve richness of UI for all users Reduce latency in decision making Embed intelligence into business processes Lead market in security and usability compliance standards

Strongest security for outward facing applications

WebFOCUS 8Four Critical Elements For Smarter Decisions

Data Integrity WebFOCUS incorporates data integration for all information

latency requirements and unique data integrity solutions. Performance Management

The new PMF allows organizations to increase strategic use of information and analytics to meet critical business objectives drive all levels of performance and manage risk.

Business Intelligence The core feature enhancements expand our lead in enterprise

user adoption and large-scale customer-facing deployments. Advanced Analytics

The use of visualization and predictive analytics to shorten and simplify decision cycles.

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8 WebFOCUS Upgrade Goals for Release 8


Provide support, services and product features to minimize impact of upgrade costsExisting applications must function as in previous release: Report scripts, forms, metadata, etc. will work w/o any changes Installation will respect configuration settings Change management facilities will automatically move all application objects (including dashboards) and user definitions (e.g., roles, etc.)Prior to release: Proactive customer outreach effort to identify and support any widely-used customizations


Adding AJAX and Flex controls to Developer Studio

Implementation of RIA-based widgets

Create rich internet application without the need for 3rd party tools

Core Business IntelligenceEnhanced RIA Development


User Interface and workflow changes planned Build Rich Internet Guided Ad-hoc Applications via

Developer Studio Implementation of RIA-based widgets

Customizable pre-built interactive components that can be used inside HTML pages to manage navigation, animation, etc. w/in BI applications

Build highly customized dashboards WYSIWYG Capability in Report Painter environment Advanced Charting with much simplified UI

Options available via ribbon-style navigation UI One charting tool for Developer Studio & InfoAssist

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8Development Environment


UI Customization for InfoAssist Customizable Application

Ribbon (InfoMini) Select specific IA options

on a per report basis Cube browsing within report

output Tool & data in any language

Core Business IntelligenceInfoAssist Enhancements




WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8 Customizing User Interactivity







Browser

WebFOCUS 8 OverviewNew BI Portal

Highly flexible BI Portal

User and Role based deployment

Completely customizable by end users

Consistent UI Ribbon “look and feel” with InfoAssist

WebFOCUS BI Portal Overview

WebFOCUS BI Portal, the coming replacement to WebFOCUS Dashboard, is a fully integrated reporting environment. It is built using the same cutting edge AJAX technology and user interface as WebFOCUS InfoAssist. Building your own custom Views and Pages is as simple as a few clicks.


Coming in WebFOCUS 8

WebFOCUS BI Portal is S.I.M.P.L.E.

STUNNINGINTUITIVEMODERNPROFESSIONAL

LIVEEASY


SIMPLE

Functional Objectives


Web 2.0 Dashboard Trends

Extensively reviewed Web 2.0 Personalized Homepageshttp://mashable.com/2007/06/29/personalized-homepages/

User Defined ContentDrag and Drop ContentCollapsible ContentTabbed ContentCustomized LayoutsThemesStrong Corporate

Branding and Identity


http://mashable.com/2007/06/29/personalized-homepages/


Visual Interface Customize Navigation Layout Enable 0 – 4 banner areas Customize the Domain Tree location Choose from one of many included

themes Personalize with Text, HTML, and

Images

View Design

Default Tabs at Login

Configuration Menus

Report & Graph View for “Today”

Dashboard

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8 BI Portal Personalization & Customization

Click “Settings” to Open

Navigation Menu

Opens Properties

Menu

WebFOCUS Roadmap BI Portal Personalization & Customization

Multiple layout options

Move to Right side


New Style Sheet changes background to Blue

Click “Hide” to close configure mode


Choose Page Layout

Customize Dashboard at User Level

New Page append Tab list


Choose Page

Content Objects to

setup layout and

design

Layout #1Accordion

Layout #2Tabbed


Insert Report &

Graph into Layout


Finalize Dashboard properties, save and share


WebFOCUS 8 OverviewPredictive Analytics - RStat

Based on R-System Open Source Predictive modeling and statistics Embed predictions into operational BI applications

Provides.. Data Preparation Data Exploration Hypothesis Testing Model Building Model Evaluation Model Deployment/ Application Creation

WebFOCUS 8 OverviewAdvanced Visualization – “In-memory Visual Analytics”

New 64-bit visualization components

Tested with over 25 million rows in-memory

Easily find outliers and relationships in large data sets


Core Business Intelligence EnhancementsEnhanced Security & Usability Compliance

Open Web Application Security Project

(OWASP)

Hacker-proofing software applications

Only Business Intelligence company

Level 3 Certification

Application Security Verification Standards

3rd party audit

508 Compliance for US federal government

Many WebFOCUS deployments are customer-

facing, B2B, or public internet applications


WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8 Next Generation of Security Integration

Reporting Server Security DBA: Data security (in addition to RDBMS)Authentication, Single Sign-on Based on Roles

Set of permissions mapped to which objects and tools a user or group of users can access Can be highly customized, flexible

List, Create, Delete an object Read, UpdateExecute (report, report template, etc.)

New model will be RDBMS-based and provide single repository for the entire product (including Report Caster)

Update: BI Extension Offerings



Free with Developer StudioSpecialized services via Fractal Business Analytic Applications

BAA are based on industry standard measurement methodologiesSolve a particular business problem, instead of being a frameworkDo not require data model – most frequently built against existing systems and flat filesHighly customizable on a case by case basis

WebFOCUS RoadmapKey RStat Programs for 2010

Innovation Initiative

WebFOCUS Roadmap


BI and Search will remain BI and Search will remain separate technologiesseparate technologies

BI and Search will remain BI and Search will remain separate technologiesseparate technologies

2006-2007

Search + BI = Unified Search + BI = Unified Information AccessInformation Access

Search + BI = Unified Search + BI = Unified Information AccessInformation Access

2008-2009

Information Access Information Access TechnologiesTechnologies

Information Access Information Access TechnologiesTechnologies

searchsearch

BusinessBusinessIntelligenceIntelligence

convergenceconvergence

Key Trend: Convergence of Search & BI

Unified Information Access

WebFOCUS 8Performance Management

WebFOCUS 8 offers integrated performance management that taps into every & any operational system

Helps align Strategic and Operational initiatives It is one of the only solutions integrated directly in to a Business

Intelligence infrastructure Promotes a culture of accountability

WebFOCUS 8 OverviewPerformance Management

Compelling Dashboards/Scorecards Role personalization Dashboard animation Full analytics and social tools

Performance and Risk Aligns impact of performance

and associated risks Broad and Open world view

Web 2.0 mashups, Industry Metrics Catalog

Vertical and Horizontal Starter Kits Commercial, Public, Finance

WebFOCUS RoadmapWebFOCUS Magnify

Provides real-time indexing of transactional informationSearches, categorizes structured and unstructured information Easy access for any type of userNew Initiatives:

Scalability & performance enhancements driven by LEA implementations Support for Office 2007, many other file formats Access to third-party and custom dictionaries Synonym Searching

Automatically broadens submitted searches by also searching terms with meanings similar to the terms submitted

Internationalization

WebFOCUS & iWay Blended Offerings

WebFOCUS 8iWay Data Profiler

Gathers statistics about enterprise data

Provides key reports and analysis on general data health

Helps Identify and prioritize issues that need attention

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WebFOCUS Roadmap Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 1 Jennifer Lalik, Systems Engineer November 18, 2010