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WebFOCUS 8 – What’s New!!??

WebFOCUS 8 – What’s New!!??. Nurud Mohamed Sr. Systems Engineer. Core Mission & Philosophy. Core Mission : Dedicated to provide the best platform and tools for creating and delivering large enterprise information systems

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WebFOCUS 8 – What’s New!!??

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  1. WebFOCUS 8 – What’s New!!?? Nurud Mohamed Sr. Systems Engineer

  2. 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 platform’s 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.

  3. Development Areas Breakdown The breakdown is a testimony to our commitment to customers needs, to innovation, and expansion of capabilities: • 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

  4. Enabling Self Service for Business Users:BI Portal & InfoAssist

  5. InfoAssist & New Portal 8.0 • BIP & IA: Unifiedlook and feel and workflow • BIP: Targeted for designers, business and end users • WYSIWYG designer with robust layout options • Themes & dynamic report styling • Chart autofit within any screen/device size • InfoAssist: • New HTML 5 chart engine integration & multi-drill • Full AR styling and enhanced conditional styling • Relative Positioning • Tools consolidation –Advanced GA in IA • New: Multipage layouts, Sub-query support, more analytic functions, 508 output. • Integration of BIP with Social Media Sites • Mobile development in IA or Application Studio 8.x

  6. BI Portal: PowerPoint Like Ease of Customization

  7. BI Portal: Stylesheet Inheritance

  8. The New Visualization Engine: Benefits • An entirely new unified visualization technology that is now being rolled out across our entire product line • The benefits: • WebFOCUS is the only platform that offers unified charting experience: • Single engine generates: HTML5, Flash, JPEG, PNG • 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

  9. InfoAssist: Visual Discovery Like Analysis

  10. InfoAssist: New Dimensional Combination Charts

  11. Enterprise Mobile Enablement

  12. Mobile – Design Once Deploy on any Device • Active Technologies Enhancements: • 80 New HTML5 Charts • New Modern Look and Feel: Google like style • Incremental: layoutand image rendering improvements and jQuery integration • Building Device Aware Apps: • Media Query initial support via templates • jQuery integration for mobile application development • InfoMinifor mobile devices • Implement CSS3 support and generation tools • Mobile development via InfoAssist and Application Studio Objective: Ongoing enhancements for designing state of the art applications for any device 8.0 8.x

  13. Active Technologies UI Upgrade

  14. WebFOCUS 8 Security Enhancements Drive SaaS & Personalization

  15. WebFOCUS8 Security • New DBMS-based repository for WebFOCUS, ReportCaster, and Managed Reporting: • New hierarchical object-based repository called Information Builders File System (IBFS) • Frees customers from fixed folders, folder depth, file names • Simplifies administration and system backup over previous version • Key features and benefits of IBFS • Fine-grained control over role definition and permission assignments • Security policies can be applied on any IBFS object including users, groups, folders, reports, portals, report server nodes, etc. • Supports inheritance • Supports Multi-tenancy and group administration • New auditing captures user logon activity and administrative actions Objective: Provide a robust security model that facilitates SaaS & PaaS, Deep personalization, and simplified administrations

  16. WebFOCUS 8 Security • Benefits for the Administrator: • User authorization integration with LDAP groups • Automatic account creation & log-in synchronization • Group administration: • Create groups to manage ReportCaster and BI Portal resources • Resource Templates: • Predefined templates for groups, content folders, roles and policies • Simplify the onboarding of new customers in multi-tenant SaaS environments • Simplify extending BI to new departments • Benefits to End Users: • Advanced content sharing enables users to pick individuals whom they wish to share content with • Security subsystem makes it possible for tenant users to securely share content created in a common domain with their colleagues

  17. WebFOCUS 8 Security: Built-in Domain Templates • WebFOCUS creates the required groups, resources, and security policy

  18. Thank You! Let’s See Some Product!!

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