jenny lalik eastern region solutions engineer march 29, 2011 because everyone makes decisions

Jenny Lalik Eastern Region Solutions Engineer

March 29, 2011

Because Everyone Makes Decisions

Business Intelligence Roadmap

Copyright 20011, Information Builders. Slide 2

WebFOCUSKey Mission

Expand the current reach of BI from under 20% to 100% and beyondHow… Embracing the needs of each user constituency

Executives, analysts, frontline workers, mobile workers Partners, customers, citizens

Making it Easy to use Cost effective Scalable & portable


WebFOCUSIndustry Recognition

“Information Builders had the best forward progress in the leadership quadrant because of their commitment to leading innovation and their ability to listen and respond to their customers.”

James Richardson, Analyst, Gartner BI Conference

WebFOCUSCore BI + Extended BI


Reporting

Query & Analysis

Dashboards

Information Delivery

PerformanceManagement

EnterpriseSearch

Visualization& Mapping

Mobile Applications App/Dev, Portals

& Mash-upsPredictive Analytics

MS Office &e-Publishing

Front office

Extended BI

Core BI

Extensions to the WebFOCUS platform allow you to build more application types at a lower cost

Business toBusiness

Data Warehouse& ETL

Master DataManagement

Data Quality Business ActivityMonitoringBack office

Business Intelligence Roadmap


Business Intelligence Roadmap Core Guiding Principles


Customer-driven development projects are highest priority and are most visible throughout Support, Development & Product Management areas

Maximize Utilization:• Offer robust set of tools and technologies

for every need and employee skill level ROI and Value Maximization:

• Ease of use, deployment, and scaling • Integration of auxiliary tools and

technologies• Unique model & architecture to leverage

open source

Business Intelligence Roadmap Release Plan Snapshot

Release 7.7.02 – GA now Features formerly planned for Release 8 accelerated

due to customer demandRelease 7.7.03 – GA April, 2011WebFOCUS Enable, RStat, and Performance Management

Framework on flexible, independent release tracksRelease 8 – Beta now; Estimated GA Q3

Expanded beta program will continue throughout the first half of 2011

High impact feedback still possible and encouraged


Business Intelligence Roadmap Key Product Initiatives

InfoAssist: Advanced Web Development Tool ** Active Technologies: New Visualization Enhancements Options** New GUI facilities to speed Guided Adhoc Development ** WebFOCUS Mobile ** Simplified WebFOCUS Magnify (BI + Search)** RStat Predictive Analytics** Enhanced Metadata Capabilities New Business Intelligence Portal Enhanced GUI & Workflow for IT Developers Business Analytics Initiatives

** Release 7.7 & Release 8


InfoAssist


Business Intelligence Roadmap Key Drivers for New InfoAssist Capabilities

Customers’ development models vary widely Central IT model Development occurring in Business units Shadow IT working w/in Business units

Traditional Power User and Developer roles are blurring in many organizations

Strong demand for advanced Web-based development features

Expanding IA’s features and functionality


Business Intelligence Roadmap New InfoAssist Capabilities Now Available (7.7.02)

InfoAssist: Advanced Development Tool End-user dashboards, sophisticated development

capabilities, InfoMini (unique in the industry)Dashboards easily created via IA (no need for Developer

Studio) InfoMini expands potential deployment of IA and balances

“too many features for me”UI can be customized by “developer” for wide range

of consumption by power users and information consumers

Entire applications & gadgets built and automatically deployed


InfoAssist Plans for Release 8


Business Intelligence Roadmap InfoAssist: Additional Advanced Features


Cube Support In 7.7.02:

IA provides reporting and analysis development against major cube data sources (SAP/BW, Essbase, MS Analysis Services)

Metadata maps to cube structures allowing IA users to view and navigate cube hierarchies

Compound documents and dashboards containing both cube and RDBMS sources can be created

In 8.0: Extend cube support via new Browser mode for cube databases Allow users to perform analysis, save results, promote analysis

into Dashboards, highly-styled reports, Active Technologies, mobile access

Multi-step reports (HOLD file creation) Financial Reporting (inter-row calculations, account hierarchies, etc.)

Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities Expandable Navigation/Drill-Down for Multiple Dimensions


Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities Expandable Navigation/Drill-Across Dimensions

Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities Filters Tab


Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities Right-Click Context Menus for Filtering, Calculations…


Active Technologies


Business Intelligence Roadmap Key Drivers for New Active Technologies Capabilities

Growing market demand for end-user dashboards Competition in the mobile market

Emergence of HTML5 as a market rival to Flash and critical in order to support Apple devices

Emergence of iPad as the current industry leader in the tablet market

Increasing market share of Android devices as challenger to Apple and Blackberry devices

Expectations in user community for ongoing visualization enhancements


Business Intelligence Roadmap New Active Technologies Capabilities Now Available

New controls allow for the creation of custom, portable Dashboards

Mobile support: Active content delivered to any mobile device’s browser In 7.7.03:

Automatic device detection supports specific devices’ gesturing, touch technologies

Initial set of HTML5 charts with animation properties All WebFOCUS charts (approximately 100 charts) will

follow later this year


WebFOCUS Mobile Strategy & Offerings


Business Intelligence RoadmapWebFOCUS Mobile: Open Strategy

Today, WebFOCUS reports can be displayed on any mobile device

Mobile Favorites Users can subscribe to reports and view them via any

browser on any mobile device Active Technology content provides embedded analytics for

Android, Apple and other mobile devices with features mentioned earlier

Core Technology (guided adhoc applications, InfoAssist, etc.) will be available via Web apps for mobile browsers


WebFOCUS Mobile Faves

For iPad and iPhone

Mobile Faves for iPad and iPhone: Native App from App Store

Business Intelligence Roadmap Key Drivers for New WebFOCUS Enable Capabilities Adobe’s Flash development environment remains a

strong industry force, with a huge development community

New version of Adobe’s Flash development released Demand from customers for Flash-based, specialized,

highly visible applications (customer-facing)Competitive considerations: allow customers to build

custom components

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PMF, Rstat and Magnify



GartnerOn improving business performance

“Just deploying BI systems and executive dashboards isn’t enough for companies looking to improve their business performance and gain a competitive edge on rivals.”

Gartner


Business Intelligence Roadmap Challenges Organizations Face Today

Frustrations in failing to execute a strategy

Lack of accountability

Rapid decision making is just a dream

Poor customer value management

Poor communication and alignment

Unfulfilled ROI promises from IT(lack of integration)

Business Intelligence Roadmap Performance Management Framework

Manage the performance of ANYTHING through metrics – people, systems & processes

Out-of-the-box framework and data model with strategy maps, scorecards, reports, charts, roles and hierarchies

Fully integrated with WebFOCUS Easily combine operational reporting

with performance metrics Rapid implementation and time to

market

Business Value:Communicate strategy and improve performance. Drive results to higher standards and identify opportunities for improvement.

PerformanceManagement


Operational Performance Management (OPM) is about translating the strategy into operational goals & initiatives

Linking the initiative back to any metric in your organization

Leading Indicators of performance – not a Rear View Mirror

Based on customer facing and operational processes

Addresses Any Key Enablers Human Capital Information Capital Organization Capital

Business Intelligence Roadmap PMF = Operational Performance Management

Everyone Makes Decisions


Communication Dashboards Robust alerting Collaboration Publishing

Alignment Operational and strategic

closed loops Visual cause/effect tools Aligned projects/initiatives Aligned Processes Feedback loops Cascaded scorecards Pooled metrics

Analytics Guided ad hoc and OLAP Trending & predictive analytics Visual analytics and GIS Correlation tools

Business Intelligence Roadmap PMF is the “How”

Business Intelligence Roadmap PMF – Strategy Map

Map out your path to success

Understand the risks you face that may inhibit you

Transform goals into measurable objectives

Communicate to everyone

Everyone is accountableStrategy

Where are we going?

What risks may effect the outcome?

Risks

Win, Place or No-show?The 4 Critical Elements to Smarter Decisions

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Business Intelligence RoadmapPMF + WF Solution Approach

Validated solution paradigm PMF for Metrics Management (and Strategy)

Business Analytics: Forecasting, Correlation, Cause/Effect WF for Operational Details (Drill-down to BI)

Business Analytics: VizDiz, Rstat WF 7.7 provides enhanced integration

InfoAssist is PMF “aware” Automatic Slicers and PMF Gadget creation with non-PMF

reports PMF 5.2 works with 7.7 or 7.6. All production, all high performance Combines pre-built Metric knowledge (over 400 out-of-the-box) and

BI custom flexibility


Business Intelligence RoadmapPredictive Analytics – RStat – “Next-Gen BI”

Business Intelligence Roadmap RStat in 2011 Expanding the library of scoring routines:

Market Basket Scoring Routine Survival Analysis – used extensively in warranty

applicationsLanguage Support: Japanese, French, German, SpanishPackaging 64-bit version of R for use with larger data setsExtending in-database scoring

Embed models as RDBMS functions


Challenge: Building Search Based Applications (SBA) required specialized skills and often cumbersome (creating the indexes)

Realization: Building Search Based Applications is no different than building reports

New Feature (7.7.02): FORMAT MAGNIFY for quick feeds Create a report in Dev Studio Magnify category fields equal BY fields in WebFOCUS Searchable content equal PRINT fields in WebFOCUS Change format to Magnify...Indexes are dynamically

created and you’re done!

Business Intelligence Roadmap Magnify Quick Feed: Create Magnify Applications Easily

Business Intelligence Roadmap Magnify

WebFOCUS Developer Studio


Business Intelligence Roadmap Key Drivers for New Developer Studio Capabilities

Customer Feedback: Make developing customer-facing, guided adhoc

applications faster and easier via improved workflow and templates

Create UI consistent with InfoAssist and modern Web development paradigm

Maintainability of guided adhoc applications Lessen reliance on specialized FOCUS language skills



Business Intelligence Roadmap New Developer Studio Capabilities Now Available Developer Studio (7.7.02): Automatic Generation of

guided ad-hoc applicationsGoal is to reduce development time

Pre-built templates provided as starting point New “Guided Report” development mode provides one-click

parameterization of dimensions, measure, ranking and sort objects’ properties, report output choices, other options

A full application with launch pages, reports, filters, dashboards, and other options is automatically generated and easily deployed

Ideal for developers who are new to WebFOCUS


Business Intelligence Roadmap Developer Studio Guided Adhoc Application Templates

InfoAssist-style Ribbon UI coming

to Developer Studio in Release 8.x later this year!


Business Intelligence Roadmap Next Generation of Security Integration

OWASP-Certified: Release is hardened against hacker attacks Open Web Application Security Project (open source standard)

Personalized approach GUI responds & displays options based on roles

Set of permissions mapped to which objects and tools a user or group of users can access

Can be highly customized, flexible List, Create, Delete an object Read, Update Execute (report, report template, etc.)

New model will be RDBMS-based and provide single repository for the entire product (including Report Caster)


ArcGIS Server Support: Available in today’s 7.6.10 product release

Based on customer and field demand, new product strategy is to integrate with ESRI’s Flex-based map viewer

IB to deliver value-add components for bi-directional integration with ArcGIS Server

Business Intelligence Roadmap ESRI Integration

Innovation Iitiative

New Business Intelligence Portal



Next Generation of Business Intelligence Portal

Built with Rich Internet Application approach

Consistent ribbon-style navigation for both building new portal views and user-based personalization

Open, component approach

Business Intelligence Roadmap New BI Portal Initiative: Release 8

BI Portal New Feature SnapshotDeveloper Created Custom Portal Views


BI Portal New Feature SnapshotEnd User Portal Content Customization


Thank You!


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