Transcript of WebFOCUS Program Update: Continued Innovation & Customer-Driven Advancements Copyright 2007,...
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- WebFOCUS Program Update: Continued Innovation &
Customer-Driven Advancements Copyright 2007, Information Builders.
Slide 1 Dan Ortolani VP AdvancedTechnology Services
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- Core Mission & Philosophy Core Mission: Dedicated to
provide the best platform and tools for creating and delivering
large enterprise information systems Maintain and expand a wide
range of capabilities from data access to application development
Continuous improvements in development efficiencies to reduce the
cost and time to deliver enterprise information systems Strategic
Goals: Use the platforms core strengths to power an ecosystem BI
related technologies to allow customers to expand their information
systems in new areas such as predictive analytics, search, etc.
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- Development Areas Breakdown Core Product Enhancements: 60% of
development resources Hundreds of new features per release Example:
Multi-Fact Support in Metadata Strategic Extensions to Core
Product: 15% of development resources Approximately 2-3 products
per year Example: Hyperstage, ziip support New BI Extensions: 25%
of development resources 2-3 new products or extensions to new
products per year Example: RStat, Magnify, Data Migrator, Mobile
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- At IBI Innovation is an Institutionalized Process Copyright
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Development Market Perspective Plans & Proto- types Customer
Cross Reference Panels POCs
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- Core Philosophy: Continuous Innovation & Capability
Expansion to Support Business & People Growth Over Time
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- Innovative and Useful Technologies: Developed Here Why useful?
Invention is the creation of new technology: we do a lot of this!
Innovation is the proliferation of new technologies in the market:
We aim for high adoption! So all of our inventions have to be
useful! InfoAssist Big Data Adapters New Data Migrator Mobile 508
Compliance New releases Rstat, ESRI viewer, Enable Copyright 2007,
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- Release 7.7.03 GA now! Release 8 Beta now, Production release
end of December 2011 WebFOCUS Enable, RStat, and Performance
Management Framework on flexible, independent release tracks New
ATS Strategic Support Services team 100% focused on supporting
Release 8 customer rollout Beyond Release 8 (2012-2013) Escalating
investment across core and new BI Extension areas Copyright 2007,
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& Related Initiatives
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- Industry Trends & WebFOCUS Strategic Development Projects:
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- WebFOCUS Mobile Enterprise Mobile Enablement Trend:
Mobility
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- Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 10 WebFOCUS Mobile
Strategy: Offer device independent BI solutions Offer develop once,
deploy anywhere environment Offer highly interactive, device
exploitive Web Apps with built in analytic capabilities Make it
easy to embed BI Web Apps in custom applications WebFOCUS
MobileComponents: Active Technologies Mobile Favorites Mobile Faves
WebFOCUS Maintain ..and forthcoming extensions Any Device, Any Form
Factor, Any OS Platform
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- Active Technologies for Mobile Web Apps Ease of Use Single-tap
UI paradigm Full gesture & screen rotation support Embedded
data analysis and visualization Full offline data interactivity
Ease of Development Dynamic device detection Build once, fit in any
device Industry Standard Web Apps technology iPhone App-like UI
Available in HTML or Flash
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- Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 13 Mobile Faves App
for iOS (iPad &iPhone) Native app for consumption of WebFOCUS
content Provides controlled access to WebFOCUS content through: SSO
security Mobile Favorites portal (normal pull) Email attachments
(Open-in) Subscribed documents (automatic push) Access to any
online WebFOCUS application or content Allows saving, emailing and
cataloging of stand-alone content Copyright 2007, Information
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- Maintain for User Input Mobile Applications Copyright 2010,
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- Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 15 Update Assist:
Six Easy Steps 1.Launched Update Assist by right-clicking on a
Master File. 2.Select the fields to which you want to Add, Update
or Delete data.
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- Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 16 Update Assist:
Six Easy Steps 3. Select the navigation option for the application.
4. Select skins. 5. Select name for the default files created by
Update Assist
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- Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 17 Update Assist:
Six Easy Steps 6. Launch the application
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- WebFOCUS Hyperstage Enterprise Mobile Enablement Improve
database performance for WebFOCUS applications with less hardware,
no database tuning and easy migration. Trend: Big Data Trend: Big
Data
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- WebFOCUS Hyperstage No indexes No partitions No views No
materialized aggregates Value proposition Low IT overhead Allows
for autonomy from IT Ease of implementation Fast time to market
Less Hardware Lower TCO No DBA Required!
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- Smarter Architecture No maintenance No query planning No
partition schemes No DBA Data Packs data stored in manageably
sized, highly compressed data packs Knowledge Grid statistics and
metadata describing the super-compressed data Column Orientation
WebFOCUS Hyperstage Engine Data compressed using algorithms
tailored to data type How does it work?
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- Company A Data Compression SQL Server Database 418GB Hyperstage
Database 10GB
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- Company A Query Results Test 3 represented the most commons
scenario for this customer with Hyperstage running at close to 3X
faster than SQL Server Test 4 was a scenario where SQL Server (32
secs) was slightly faster than Hyperstage (38 secs)
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- Company B Data Compression SQL Server Database 400GB Hyperstage
Database 37GB
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- Company B Query Results These queries were full table scans for
SQL Server but were well suited to the Hyperstage architecture Case
study to be documented
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- WebFOCUS Hyperstage Adapter Available with 7.7.03M and Release
8 Will be included in future releases of the server software Access
to the Hyperstage data store will be enabled via the adapter
Enables tight integration and administration via the WebFOCUS
console HyperCopy integrated ETL included
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- Industry Trends & WebFOCUS Strategic Development Projects:
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- Enabling Self Service for Business Users: BI Portal &
InfoAssist Trend: Self-Service BI
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- The Self Service Trend: Hype & Reality Self-Service is the
new management fad: banking, retail, telecom, BI. Self-Service
Myths: Valid across all industries 1.Self- Service is a foolproof
way to reduce cost: Implement it right or not at all 2.Self-Service
eliminates IT bottlenecks (customer interactions): Works only as
part of a multi-channel service plan 3.Self-Service is a quick fix:
It is often only a transfer of cost It frequently alienates users
4.One Self-Service method fits all customers and all their needs:
Only some customers prefer self-service: Find out who Many BI
customers do not know any better For IBI Self-Service is one aspect
of a much broader enterprise information and decision support
system
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- IB/WebFOCUS Differentiation In a mature industry everyone
claims to have: A great BI portal A great Ad Hoc tool BI Portal:
Focus on becoming a BI engagement platform Customizable: Let the
users define how they consume content Collaborative: Let the users
define how they want to publish and share content Componentized:
Let the users define what widgets they want to add and from which
permitted platforms to their content pages. InfoAssist: Single tool
and single workflow to make the tool as easy and ubiquitous as
Excel for the analytic BI user Enhanced analytic capabilities
Enhanced interactive design capabilities Enhanced customization via
function/feature shrink-wrap & plugins
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- BI Portal: New Features Portal Design: Targets the BI
Developer: Key Differentiators: Same UI & Workflow as
InfoAssist Standard Web Development UI and Workflow Paradigm Key
Features: Live designer Robust layout options: Freeform &
column based Content Panels: Tabbed, accordion, etc. Themes
Support: Nine packaged CSS themes Dynamic Report Styling Chart
AutoFit End User Customization: PowerPoint like workflow Familiar
drag & drop experience
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- BI Portal:End User Portal Content Customization Copyright 2007,
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- BI Portal:Development of Portal Views Copyright 2007,
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- Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 34 BI Portal:
Development of Portal Views
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- Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 35 BI Portal:
Development of Portal Views
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- InfoAssist: New Features in 8 and Beyond InfoMini for Mobile
devices Sub query Support (hold files) New Visualization Engine
Design & Styling CSS3 support Relative Positioning Full Active
Report Styling Multi-page layouts Conditional Styling Field to
Field Drill Down Chart sizing options More Analytic Functions
Customized Subtotals Redesigned Calculations 508 Report Output
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- Key Focus: Simplicity Replace Compute/Define dialog with ribbon
and canvas integrated calculations WITHIN support so you can do PCT
type calculations within a certain sort level Multi-fact support
New Visualization Engine Hold files
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- Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 38 Hold Files
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- Hold Files Document Mode Copyright 2007, Information Builders.
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- New Visualization Engine Trend: Data Visualization
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- The New Visualization Engine: Benefits An entirely new unified
visualization technology that is now being rolled out across our
entire product line The benefits: The exact same chart experience
in all output formats: Active Technologies, HTML5, Flex, PDF The
same set of properties and syntax for all IBI products A high level
of visual sophistication: Gradients Animations Works in all
browsers including mobile Easily expandable and customizable:
Allows IBI consultants and BI developers to quickly meet customer
requirements by adding custom properties and features Availability:
Version 1.0 for regular and Active HTML output formats.
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- Active Technologies
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- Sample HTML5 output
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- Interactive Data Discovery
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- Trend 5: Social Networking & Collaboration
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- Social Networking and Collaboration BI Portal allows for easy
integration/display of Facebook, Twitter, other external widgets
Facebook Adapter In development currently Users Facebook API to
access data via WebFOCUS Information can be passed to specialized
tools to perform sentiment analysis
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- WebFOCUS for SaaS Environments Trend: BI SaaS Deployments
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- Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 48 SaaS Business
Requirements
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- Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 49 Increased
Traction of SaaS BI Solutions In WebFOCUS customer base, SaaS
requirements are influencing new feature development in these
areas: Granular security model User Interface branding
Multi-tenancy features Strong demand for web-based administration
and development model Best Practices guide Specialized adapters,
e.g., WebFOCUS integration with SalesForce
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- Tools for Converting to WebFOCUS Trend: BI Tools
Consolidation/Cost Savings
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- BI Tools Consolidation and Cost Savings Crystal
Reports-to-WebFOCUS conversion tool RDL-to-WebFOCUS conversion tool
Business Objects-to-WebFOCUS Metadata adapter/conversion capability
Convert Universe to WebFOCUS Cluster Join SAS-to-RStat Best
Practices for conversion
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- BI Extensions: Enable, RStat, Mapping Copyright 2007,
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- Demand from strategic customers for Flash-based, specialized,
highly visible applications Adobes Flash Builder development
environment: Strong industry adoption with a huge development
community New version of Adobes Flash Builder with built in
capbilities to compile on any device Strong IDE for development of
custom components Enable for Adobe Flex Branded Customer Facing
Applications
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- Enable for Adobe Flex Build In Enable, Customize in InfoAssist
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- RStat Culture of Competing On Analytics 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? Rear View 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? Forward View Note: Adapted
from Competing on Analytics
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- RStat Business Analytic Applications Copyright 2007,
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- RStat Application Templates Copyright 2010, Information
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- Thank You! Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 58