web focus overview presentation 2015

Information Builders

Transforming your data into true business value

Chris Banks

Lines of Business

Corporate Summary

� Founded in 1975

� Headquartered in New York City

� 50 global locations

� 1,600 employees

� 9,000+ direct customers

� Tens of thousands OEM customers

� Tens of millions product users


Corporate Summary

Lines of Business

� Software Products

� Business Intelligence & Analytics (WebFOCUS)

� Data Integration (iWay)

� Data Integrity (iWay)

� Professional Services

� Consulting Services

� Education

� Customer Support Services

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Our primary goal is to deliver the industry’s best engineered

software and top customer service to ensure customer success

Lines of Business

Corporate Summary

� Founded in 1975

� Headquartered in New York City

� 50 global locations

� 1,600 employees

� 9,000+ direct customers

� Tens of thousands OEM customers

� Tens of millions product users


Corporate Summary

Lines of Business

� Software Products

� Business Intelligence & Analytics (WebFOCUS)

� Data Integration (iWay)

� Data Integrity (iWay)

� Professional Services

� Consulting Services

� Education

� Customer Support Services

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Our primary goal is to deliver the industry’s best engineered

software and top customer service to ensure customer success

Customer Support Services


Customers By Industry

CommunicationsCommunications

ConsumerConsumer

Packaged GoodsPackaged Goods

AutomotiveAutomotive

Business Business

ServicesServices

Financial Services:Financial Services:

BankingBanking

MichiganNorth DakotaTennessee

BankingBanking

Financial Financial Services:Services:

Capital MarketsCapital Markets

Financial Financial Services:Services:

PaymentsPayments

Healthcare:Healthcare:

PayersPayers

Healthcare:Healthcare:

ProvidersProviders

InsuranceInsurance

ManufacturingManufacturing


Customers By Industry

NaturalNatural

ResourcesResources

Pharmaceutical andPharmaceutical and

Medical SupplyMedical Supply

TechnologyTechnology

RetailRetail

Not for ProfitNot for Profit

Travel andTravel and

EntertainmentEntertainment

Transportation andTransportation and

LogisticsLogistics

TechnologyTechnology

Government:Government:

FederalFederal

Government:Government:

Provincial, State, LocalProvincial, State, Local

EducationEducation


Leader in Enterprise Business Intelligence

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BARC BI Survey 14, Oct 2014

IBI ranks first in 32 Categories

Large international BI vendor

Top ranked

Large scale enterprise reporting vendor

Top rankedTop ranked

Business benefits

Project success

Seats per admin

Operational BI

Query performance

Performance

Vendor support

Self-service

Flexibility for the user

Top ranked

Business benefits

Project success

Seats per admin

Proportion of employees

Recommendation

Operational BI

Query performance

Performance

Vendor support

Self-service

Technology Differences


Integration + Integrity

� Integration Solutions

� Leverage existing infrastructure

� Deliver real-time data to analytical processes

� Streamline operational processes

� Simplify integration of B2B transactions, cloud-

based, and third party systems

� Modernize legacy technology investments

� Assemble and configure solutions with minimal

Heterogeneous

environment?

Big Data?

Structured?

Cloud?

Unstructured?� Assemble and configure solutions with minimal

coding

� Integrity Solutions

� Data Profiling

� Data Quality Management

� Master Data Management

� Data Governance

Unstructured?











Heterogeneous

anyone?


coding


� Data Profiling



� Data Governance

Bad

data?


What are Data Quality Issues Costing You?

� According to author Larry English, data

quality issues are costing companies

20-35% of their operating revenue

� TDWI claims that data quality problems

cost U.S. businesses more than $600

billion a year











Heterogeneous

anyone?


coding


� Data Profiling



� Data Governance

360 degree

view

Bad

data?


Our Philosophy on BI

Make BI Easy to Use(and flexible)


Focused on Ease of Use and 100% Adoption

IT Developers Power Users Business Analysts Management Operational Employees Business Partners Customers

Traditional BI Vendors

Open Source BIOpen Source BI

Data Discovery Vendors


ROI on Information Capital

Growth & Revenue Opportunities

100%

IT Developers Management Operational Employees Business Partners Customers

App Studio InfoDiscovery/InfoAssist

Generate & Deploy Insights

InfoAppsTM

Portal

Create your

own App Store

experience

Operationalize Insights & Monetize Data

Business Analysts

Self-Service BI and Analytics for Everyone

Tools for IT and Analysts, InfoAppsTM for the Masses

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DataDiscovery

PredictiveAnalytics

SocialIntelligence

Search

LocationIntelligence

Reporting Query andAnalysis

Dashboards

Dashboards &

Scorecards

Guided Ad-hoc

Reporting

Mobile InfoApps

Data Discovery

InfoApps

Predictive InfoAppsSearch & Social

Analytic InfoApps

experience

So How Do We Make BI Easy (and flexible) to Use?

MS-Office Integration

Any Excel users?

Quotable Quotes

“Excel is, by far, the most popular

analytical tool on the market”

Author unknown

� Generate Reports as fully formatted Excel documents

� with Formulas

� and Calculations

� and Tabs

� even as Pivot Tables

Reduces

� “Spreadmart Chaos”

and

Self-serving your business users

The BEST Excel Integration and Output Formatting

NO Licensing costs for recipients!

and

� “Inconsistent answers”

Excel becomes…

� A viewer of information

� A “Single Version of the Truth”

Guided Self-Service

Dimensions Measures

Ranking Options

9 x 6 x 8 x 7 x 5 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 4 x 3 = 725,760

1 report to create and maintainNO training required NO Licensing costs for recipients!

Filters

Output Formats

Drill downs

6+ billion permutations of output

Self-Service Analytics

Active Technologies

Deliver to any email, any deviceNo Server, No Software NO Licensing costs for recipients!

Is that all we do?!?


We do so much more…

Information Builders’ 3i Platform

Higher Adoption & Reusability with Low TCO

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Data Discovery

What Do Your Users Want?Tools vs Apps

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InfoApps™

• Self-service for Non Technical Business Users

• pre-built, interactive BI content


InfoApps

• pre-built, interactive BI content

• charts, reports, dashboards

• delivered through our portal

• Fast, easy and direct answers to specific

questions or common problems

• easy “app store-like” experience

Predictive Analytics


We Make Predictive Modeling Easy

The output is simply another column in your report

We put the GUI on top of it to make modeling EASY

Historical, present and future views

Fully integrated into our BI Platform

Why pay for techniques that will be rarely, if ever, used?

Risk Analysis?

Historical, present and future views

Fraud Analysis?

Churn Analysis?

Quality Analysis?

Cross-Selling Analysis?

Contains the most commonly used techniques


Decision Making – Do you use Math or “Gut-feel”

� Predictive Marketing

� Predicts who to send

catalog to based on

likelihood of

purchasing

� Factors

� Age

Who Has a >80% Likelihood of Buying from our Catalogue?

� Age

� Marital Status

� Income

� Education

� Etc.

Not just for businesses!

■ Child Welfare - Children can be better matched with foster parents by

identifying the factors that contribute to successful placements

■ Unemployment - Classify new claims as fraudulent or legitimate enables

claims to be processed more quickly and fraud to be minimized

■ Tax Collection - Improved targeting of past-due tax collections can help

increase revenue


Decision Making – Do you use Math or “Gut-feel”

■ Fraud Detection - A more accurate view of trends and patterns in food

stamp benefit transactions makes illegal activity easier to detect

■ Crime Rate Reduction - Accurately predicting when and where crimes are

likely to occur, and allocating the appropriate resources

■ Student/Faculty Attrition - Improving student attrition and graduation

rates, identify trends in keeping your best faculty

■ Hospital Administration – Internal fraud detection, reduce mortality rates,

improve patient satisfaction, increase physician loyalty

Summary

Why Information Builders?

No Inhibitors

•Ease of Use & Flexibility

•Wide adoption is the greatest measure of success

•Accepted & used by information workers at all levels

•Both inside and outside the firewall

•Scalability & Reusability

•Add new users at little or no cost

•Many different types of applications

“Throughout its 39 year history, IBI has

demonstrated an ability to innovate without

making acquisitions. If you have not looked at •Many different types of applications

•Effectively scale to your ecosystem

•Data Access

•Widest breadth of access

•Reaches real-time operational data

•Low Cost of Ownership

•Lowest cost in…

•Hardware, software, training, development & support

making acquisitions. If you have not looked at

how they have brought BI and information

management together to support business

analytics, I recommend that you do.”

Mark Smith, CEO, Ventana Research

Information Builders’ 3i Platform

Transforming Data Into Business Value

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Next Steps

Take us up on one of our Challenges!

Your Data

Data Discovery Challenge

Data Quality Challenge

No COST,

No kidding!

Portable BI Challenge

Social Analytics Challenge

web focus overview presentation 2015

Data & Analytics