Hans Heerooms Information Builders

October 2012

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8 & Beyond

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WebFOCUS 8 Release Snapshot

A lot of NEW features:

New architecture New portal New visualization engine New data sources adapters New social media adapters New security model

Excel Web Browsers Mobile

Email FTP Printer Web Server

Application Server

Content

ReportCaster

BI Portal InfoAssist

Magnify Search

Secu

rity

Reporting Server ETL DataMigrator

Portals Web Services

IDE

Developer Studio

Application Studio

Maintain

RStat

WebFOCUS 8 Architecture: Technical & Product View

Data Applications Relational/Cube Unstructured Web Services Big Data/Columnar

BI Accelerator

Excel Web Browsers Mobile

Email FTP Printer Web Server

Application Server

Content Management

Scheduling

Self Service Ad Hoc

Search & Social Analysis A

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inis

trat

ion

Reporting Server ETL, Data Quality

Portals Web Services

IDE

Applications

Lightweight Applications

Write-back

Statistics & Data Mining

WebFOCUS 8 Architecture: Business Needs View

Data Applications Relational/Cube Unstructured Web Services Big Data/Columnar

In-Memory/Columnar

Main BI Technology and Business Analytics Trends

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Faster decisions

Mobile BI delivery

Self Service

Fact-based decisions

Business analytics

Big Data

Public opinions

based decisions

Social analytics

Search BI

Ease of Use

Responsive Design

Tools UI & Workflow

Rich components

Device Recognition

Gesture Support

Unified Architecture and New Security Model

Repositories that store Managed Reporting content, ReportCaster information, security roles and privileges, and other metadata for WebFOCUS' web tier components have been unified into a single RDBMS-based repository, which simplifies administration and configuration.

The new security model itself is extremely flexible, allowing for custom roles, granular assignment of privileges, and control of the user interface experience.

New multi-tenancy capabilities facilitate centralized administration and deployment of SaaS and externally-facing Business Intelligence applications.

For new implementations, WebFOCUS Resource Templates simplify the creation of security policies for both enterprise reporting and multi-tenancy SaaS deployments.

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Enabling Self Service for Business Users:

BI Portal & InfoAssist

BI Portal: Give Control To End Users

BI Portal: PowerPoint Like Ease of Customization

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BI Portal: Branding for Every Department & SaaS

InfoAssist: Enhanced HTML5 Visualizations

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Standardizing The Core Visualization Engine on HTML5

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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InfoAssist: Interactive Multi-Page Documents

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New Charts & Selectors: Pivot Chars & Linked Selectors

InfoAssist: Simplifying Complex SQL Queries

Responsive Design: Dynamic Form Factor Preview

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CSS3 Interactive Styling

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BI Apps: Customer Facing Applications

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BI Apps: Custom Analytic Workflows

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Data Discovery: Analytic Tools & Skills Hierarchy

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Adhoc query Business Analysts

Ad Hoc Queries

InfoAssist

Data discovery

Knowledge Worker

Interactive Pattern

Discovery

InfoAssist

Advanced Mode

Statistics

Technical Analyst

Statistical Pattern

Discovery RStat

Complexity

Medium

High

What is Data Discovery: The ability to browse any data source

and interactively explore the data to discover pattern and insights.

Data Discovery Dashboard

Selection

Data Discovery Dashboard

Selection

New Charts : Root Cause Analysis

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Enabling Mobility: Market Drivers & Technology Trends

Our Strategy: Design Once, Deploy on Any Device

Device Detection Media Query Gesture Support

Smart Phone Tablet Monitor/TV

Our Strategy: Design Once, Deploy on Any Device

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Easy Mobile Design & Deployment

Native Apps: Developed using OS SDK; Installed to run natively on the device; Leverage OS functionality.

Web Apps: Web pages conforming to OS UI and behavior.

Optimized Web Pages: Content scales appropriately to device size.

Compatible Web Pages: Display content as is without Optimizing for form factor.

Hybrid Approach: Combine native UI with web content via content viewing area.

Building Native Applications on Android

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From : http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

Making Analysis and User Experience Easy

Advanced Transformations: Pivot, Chart/Rollup Tools

Customization: Show/Hide Menu Options, Customize Pagination Bar

Global Filter: Dynamically filter across all dashboad components

Robust Dashboard development and layout

Trial version: Available without license

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Update Assist: Web Forms for Mobile Devices

Native Applications Built with Cross Compilers

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Social Media & Sentiment Analysis

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WebFOCUS Social Media Applications: Architecture

Graphs for New Emerging Data Types

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Lexical Diversity

Lexical Frequencies

Re-Posting Paths Social Connectedness

Streaming Frequencies

Graphs for New Emerging Data Types

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Forward Looking BI & Fact-Based Decision Making

Competing on Analytics: Forward Looking BI

Degree of Intelligence

Standard Reports

Ad Hoc Reports

Query/Drill Down

KPIs/Alerts

What happened?

How many, how often, where?

Where exactly is the problem?

What actions are needed?

Re

ar V

iew

Statistical Analysis

Forecasting/Extrapolation

Predictive Modeling

Optimization

Why is this happening?

What of these trends continue?

What will happen next?

What is the best that can happen?

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Note: Adapted from “Competing on Analytics”

Reports Analytics

100% 13%

All companies have the data. Some ‘torture’ the data more.

The Competitive Advantage of Competing on Analytics

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RStat: Why Analytic Applications

Analytic Applications: Targeted to well defined business or functional problems

Examples: Activity Based Cost Accounting, EBITA, etc. Based on well known and established methodologies Repeatable across industries with small variations

The Problem: IT cannot build them Business users have knowledge how to use but lack the knowledge to

create requirements IT lacks the business knowledge

Packaged Advantages: Time to market Extend BI usage without straining development resources

Copyright 2007, Information

Builders. Slide 47

Price Optimization Solution: Fact-Based Pricing

Integrated Application Development

Application Studio Preview

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Ribbon

New Outline View

Multi Document Tabs

Uniform Chart Tooling

Ribbon also for Report Authoring

Thank You!