Dan Grady

The future is interactive…Visualization 2012

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The Value of a Picture

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A man with a broom is standing sideways on the wall of a brownish-orange building. There are potted trees and plants near by. Several windows can be seen – one at street level, one approximately 6 feet from the ground the other at ten feet. Each of the windows are guarded by black wrought-iron fencing. A Lamp post is seen directly behind the horizontal man.

A brief history of business charting

Report Oriented – The only thing that mattered up to the year 2000. Standard business graphics for paper (later simple HTML) documents. Static or limited interaction.

Examples: Office 2000, Crystal Reports Dashboarding – Starting in 2001 with Web 1.0 and Flash. Moderate

interaction (animation, simple pan) – new graphics like gauges, stop lights. Designed for Web consumption of information that changes relatively frequently but not very data dense.

Examples: Xcelsius, Flex. Visualization – Starting in late 2000’s with Web2.0 and HTML5 and more

powerful versions of FLEX. Key concepts: HIGHLY interactive (Sliders, fast tooltips,…) Infographic Style (FlowingData and Visual.ly) Data Exploration Capabilities Mobile Aware

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Welcome to the future…project Moonbeam

Moonbeam is IBI’s codename for an entirely new unified visualization technology that is now being rolled out across our entire product line. It’s first incarnation is in WebFOCUS 8.0.0.0 with Reporting Server 7.7.0.4

What Moonbeam offers you, our customers: The exact same chart experience in all output formats (AR, HTML, Flex,

PDF) The same set of properties and syntax for all IBI products A high level of visual sophistication A new standard for interactivity Designed for HTML5 and Web 2.0: Works in all browsers (including

mobile!) Easily expandable and customizable

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What is IBI’s Visualization Roadmap?

WebFOCUS 8.0.0.0 with 7.7.0.4 Reporting Server

HTML5 Visualizations available for use in regular and Active HTML output formats. Auto Flex fallback for older browsers.

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What is IBI’s Visualization Roadmap?

WebFOCUS 8.0.0.2

WYSIWIG editing of HTML5 visualizations in InfoAssist Social Media Visualization capabilities Data Exploration mode in InfoAssist.

WebFOCUS 8.0.0.3

Integrated light-weight GIS Visual Search and other interactive analysis

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What is IBI’s Visualization Roadmap?

Let’s take a look at the future of WebFOCUS:

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