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InfoAssist: Past, Present, and Future. Brian Carter September 16, 2010. What we’ll cover…. Technology Overview Functional Overview Product walk-through. Introduced: June 2008 Release 7.6.7. http://www.eweek-digital.com/eweek/20090119/?pg=38. InfoAssist: One Tool for Business!.
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InfoAssist: Past, Present, and Future Brian Carter September 16, 2010
What we’ll cover… Technology Overview Functional Overview Product walk-through
Introduced: June 2008 Release 7.6.7 http://www.eweek-digital.com/eweek/20090119/?pg=38
InfoAssist: One Tool for Business! Web 2.0 meets BI
What is Web 2.0? According to Tim O'Reilly: “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as a platform…”
Benefits of a Web 2.0 architecture • Rich – robust and intuitive • Responsive – quickly updates • Look and feel similar to desktop • Zero footprint • Lower Total Cost of Ownership
InfoAssist: One Tool for Business! Key to Success?
Keys to user adoption • Familiar • Flexible • Easy • Power
InfoAssist: One Tool for Business! Ad hoc reporting
Ad hoc reporting defined Wikipedia: "ad hoc" reporting systems allow the users themselves to create specific, customized queries. Typically this would be via a user-friendly GUI-based system without the need for the in-depth knowledge of SQL, or databaseschema that a programmer would have.
InfoAssist: One Tool for Business! Comparison
Ad hoc Reporting with WebFOCUS • Guided ad hoc and InfoAssist • Application versus a tool • Applications can be rolled out to millions of users • Customer Facing, Scalable, No training required • Tools are better suited for “power users” • Much more flexible and powerful
Comparison: InfoAssist to Dev Studio Developer Studio Developer: application based InfoAssist Business User: query based with getting started wizard
Comparison: InfoAssist to Dev Studio • Developer Studio • Drag and drop report creation InfoAssist Office 2007 look and feel with WYSISWYG drag and drop
Comparison: InfoAssist to Dev Studio InfoAssist: intelligent ribbon based options
InfoAssist: One Tool for Business! FEATURES!
Flex Charts Flex Charts
Active Dashboards Flex Active Dashboards Flex
Active Dashboards HTML Active Dashboards HTML
Coordinated Documents Coordinate Documents
Recent Items Recent Queries
Active Preview Charts Active Preview Charts Solid border indicates currently selected element Dashed border indicates the item you are currently hovering over
InfoMini InfoMini
SlicersTab Filters Tab
Active Dashboard Prompts Filters Tab
Save and Publish Filters Tab
Cube Browser Cube Browser
Create Files & Subqueries Hold Files Set the Destination to File To create a subquery click here
Create Files & Subqueries Hold Files Fields from file Original request and subquery
Advanced Charting Advanced Charting Capabilities