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WebFOCUS - Now and the Road Ahead

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WebFOCUS Now and The Road Ahead

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Changes in the Landscape

90%Of all the data in the world has been generated over the last few years

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

• Rapid Growth in Data• New Sources of Data

• Internet of Things (IoT)• Images, Video, Audio

• Business-side needs to consume faster• More diversified information

consumers• Partners, Customers, citizens


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Market Shifts – Self-Service Tools Disrupt

IT-driven

• Enterprise and beyond• App-based• Supported by developers/technologists• Operational data or enterprise DW

• Secure, sanctioned, accurate• Production

• 24 x 7• Long-life• Hundreds, thousands, etc. users• Centralized

• Departmental and workgroup• Tool-based• Supported by business users• Data marts, desktop, internet sources

• In-memory or high-speed sandbox• Ad-hoc

• Amorphous• Constantly changing• A few to a hundred• Decentralized

Business-driven

Content

Content creation shifting from IT-driven to Business-driven


Two Approaches Co-existIn the latest Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, Gartner writes how

“the ability to bridge decentralized business-user-led analytics deployments with those centralized to serve the enterprise will be a crucial ongoing challenge for IT and BI vendors.”

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Business Intelligence and Analytics Landscape - 2016 Perspective

WebFOCUS Now

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Upgrade Release 2 Years of New Features Available for Upgrades

Highlights Collaborative Portal

Responsive Templates Chatting/Blogging Shared Pages

InfoAssist+ - (Self-Service Analytics)

Visualization and Storyboarding Mapping with Demographic Templates D3 Plug-in Charts

App Studio - (Enterprise InfoApps) Source-Code Control Responsive Templates ESRI GIS Mapping

Data Access, Preparation and Management Big Data Adapters Business View+

Key New Features – WebFOCUS 8201M – Balancing the Enterprise & Self-Service

WebFOCUS Now and The Road AheadInfoAssist+ 8200 Feature

One tool to create:

Reports & Charts

Dashboards

Documents

Data Discovery

WebFOCUS Now and The Road AheadInfoAssist+

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Simplified workflow

Time series animation

Matrix Charts

Extended attributes: Size, Color, etc.

Tooltips

Auto Drill

Auto Link

8201 Feature

WebFOCUS Now and The Road AheadInfoAssist+ - Mapping

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Multiple Basemap Styles

Demographic Layers

• Population Density• Median Income Level• Dominant Tapestry• Etc.

Geographic Data Enrichment

8200 Feature

WebFOCUS Now and The Road AheadInfoAssist+ - Mapping

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Demographic LayersGeographic Data EnrichmentVia Web Services tier 2 3 Only

8200 Feature


Free Today

Down to Zip 5 in US

NUTS 3 in Europe

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Coming Soon - More Comprehensive Mapping Geometries

Free

58 Countries

To smallest available district

Available for a fee

228 Countries

To smallest available district

Include D3 charts (and other JavaScript visualizations) from the Web

Use our Legends, Tooltips, Selections, etc.

Directly from within InfoAssist+

WebFOCUS Now and The Road AheadInfoAssist+ - Extensible Charting

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8200 Feature


Instead of just charts as plug-ins –Apps as Plug-ins

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Mini Apps as Plug-ins


Create visualizations to “Map” any space (Plane, Cruise ship, Warehouse, Department Store, etc.)

Mini Apps as Plug-ins


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Routing using Google Maps Plug-in


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Integration via Watson Plug-in

WebFOCUS Now and The Road AheadWhat’s the Difference Between Basic and Collaborative Portals?

Basic Portals in 8.1 and 8.2 Pages cannot be copied or shared across Portals

You cannot separate the role of developing pages from the role of administering the portal

Security rules must be created between theDomain groups to the Portal

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WebFOCUS Now and The Road AheadWhat’s the Difference Between Basic and Collaborative Portals?

Collaborative Portals in 8.2 Pages and Portals are stored as distinct objects in the Repository

Pages can be copied or linked to one or more Portals

Page Designer and Portal Designer are separately assignable privileges

Most Portals require no special security rules

A folder is automatically created to hold the pages

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WebFOCUS Now and The Road AheadPage Linking

Link to or make a copy of a page

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WebFOCUS Now and The Road AheadCollaboration Features - Content Blogs

Comments in a Tab

Page-level Comments

Comments on a Panel

3 Options

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WebFOCUS Now and The Road AheadCollaboration Features - Using a Chart Created by Another User

Content shared with you is displayed under the Shared Content folder

Users can:• Copy Shared Content

to their My Content folder and repurpose it

• Reference the shared content directly so changes made by the author will be automatically reflected

Note: Content sharing is available in all 8.x releases

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WebFOCUS Now and The Road AheadCollaboration Features – Using a Page Created by Another User

Same Copy and Reference options available

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What’s New in 8.201M – Upgrade for ALL WebFOCUS Customers

InfoAssist+ (Self Service Analytics)

Visualization Mode

Storyboarding

Matrix Charts

Animation

AutoDrill, AutoLink, AutoPrompt

D3 Plug-Ins (extensibility)

Mapping Everywhere

Demographic Layers

App Studio (Development)

ESRI HTML5 Mapping (Easy GIS)

Maintain

Responsive Templates

Source-Code Control

Precision Reporting

Data Adapters

Adapter for Cloudera Impala

Adapter for Google BigQuery

Adapter for Jethro

Adapter for Esri ArcGIS

Adapter for RStat Predicative Analytics

Adapter for Apache Drill

Adapter for Apache Phoenix for HBase

Adapter for EXASol ODBC

Adapter for MariaDB

BI Portal


Easy Selector - Customization

Shared Pages

Page Linking

Chatting/Blogging

Mobile Viewer

Data Management

Business View Plus

Optimize Load Option for Merge

Data Preparation Metadata-Driven Esri Integration

Managed Geographic Roles

New Upload Wizard

Futures

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Tools Transformation

From IT Developer to Business-side Developer

Seamless End to End Web Development

Portal, InfoAssist, Page Design – as one integrated Tool

Smart BI and Search-based Discovery - InfoSearch

Integrating Search with Analytics

Index Content, Metadata, Data Elements

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Components of WebFOCUS 82XX Futures

Transitioning to New Business-Side Web-Development PlatformWebFOCUS Now and The Road Ahead

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IT Developers Business Analysts Management Operational Employees Business Partners Customers

100%

Business Developer

IT Business

App Studio

-Desktop IDE

-End to End Development

-Create InfoApps

InfoAssist+

-Reporting-Dashboards-Documents-Data Discovery

InfoApps(consumers)

InfoAssist+ Dev

-InfoApp Creation-Front End Forms Design-Portal Management

-InfoApps -Extremely flexible-Easy to use-Little to no training-Quickly get answers and make decisions

WebFOCUS Designer – Web-based, Seamless, Integrated

WebFOCUS HomeInfoAssist DesignerPage DesignerPortal Designer

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WebFOCUS Home

Easily navigate of content

Thumbnail View

Quick Search

Launch Designer for:

Content

Forms

Portals


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Redesign of InfoAssist Workflow

Drag and Drop To Query Tree or

Canvas

Suggested Chart Types

Create Content on Tablets

Interactive Preview Mode for Casual Users


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Page Designer


Grid-based Custom Layout

Quick Snapping Alignment

Parameter Recognition

Create Dashboards, Portal Pages and InfoApps in Minutes

Collapsible Zones


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Filtered Dashboards with Thumbnail-based Easy Selectors

Multi-Level Navigation

Drag and Drop Folder Structure to build an App

Thumbnail “Easy-Selector” for Customizations

Lock and Unlock Pages

Mash-up WebFOCUS and Other Content

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WebFOCUS InfoSearch – Search-based Discovery & Smart BI


Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Watson, Your car’s navigation system

Natural language Recognition has made its way into everyday life

Why not allow it into our Information Technology departments?

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Natural Language Recognition

WebFOCUS Now and The Road AheadSearch-based Discovery/BI

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• Type ahead index provides easily searchable elements

• Data elements associates with metadata columns

• Auto-Link Table provides list of ALL reports that will tell you “more”

• Available on WebFOCUSHome

• Or as App Component

WebFOCUS Now and The Road AheadSearch-based Discovery and Smart BI

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Dynamically index – Repository Content, Master files, Key Data Elements

Enables 4 distinct capabilities:

1. Find Existing Content by typing or speak its name or description

2. Find Existing Content that references metadata (e.g. Revenue, Product Category, Region)

3. Find Existing Content that will tell you more about a data values (e.g. “John Manning”)

4. Create New Content by typing an analytical Phrase (e.g. “Relationship between Sales & Profit)


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1) Find content by typing or speaking its name or description

• Based on Google One-Box lets you locate and run content by voice commands

• Simple but powerful feature for Mobile devices

• A common way that people use search today


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2) Find content that references metadata – e.g. REVENUE

• The #1 “knock” against self-service tools is • “too many of the same or similar dashboards accumulate”

• Find all content referencing REVENUE

• Prevents duplication


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3) Find Existing Content that will tell you more about a data element (e.g. “Blu Ray”)

• Enter a data element – “Blu Ray”

• Because of index - WebFOCUS will know Blu Ray is a Product in Sales Domain

• Auto Links are reports that will tell you more about “Blu Ray”

• Perfect for Research


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4) Create New Content by typing or speaking an analytical Phrase“Relationship between Sales and COGS”

• Smart BI

• Anticipates your needs

• Helps you create it

• Provides tools to modify

Server-Side Graphics

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WebFOCUS Now and 2017 – Innovations

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Server-side JS Charts - 8202

Today

data

Data sent to browser and rendered in JS using local device/desktop resources

Future“image-mapped” visualizations and PDF/PPT documents with embedded PNG’s (created from server-side JS) rendered on the

server

Improve Document Creation / Extended Capabilities for Big Data Analysis

Questions and Answers

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