1. ACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES Providing Business Intelligence on any device from anywhere Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 1 Presented by: Adam Lotrowski Strategic Product Management November, 5 th, 2008

2. Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 2 Strategic Trends & Technologies for 2008  More laptops than desktops in 2008 (IDC Research) vs. 1-of-5 in 2000  40% of enterprise employees are mobile, spending 20% or more away from their primary workspaces (Yankee Group Survey)

3. Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 3 Active Report Technology: Benefits & Differentiators  Truly Portable  Connected and disconnected  No additional software or browser plug-ins  High compression  Really Simple to Develop and Use  95% of most commonly used Excel functions  “Single Click” UI paradigm – no training required  Slice, dice and share  Robust  Reports, Storyboards, Dashboards  New: 256bit encryption, Caching, API Access and Flex Format

4. Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 4 Self-contained Analytic Platform in single HTML file

5. Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 5 Active Technology Features  Export to Microsoft Office: Excel, PowerPoint and Word  Save User Interactions: Customization  Pivot: Data Transformations  Collaboration: Shared Comments

6. Active Caching Features  On the Reporting Server  No code in the WebFOCUS Client  Utilizes Reporting Server FOCCACHE feature  Applies the concept of On Demand Paging  Offline versus connected mode

7. Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 7 Active Dashboard Features  All Active Report functionality  Schedule with ReportCaster  Provide a complete view of the business  Globally filter across all report components

8. New format type merging Flex and Active Technology

9. Live Demonstration: Building an Active Dashboard

10. Easily convert reports into Active Reports

11. Hide columns for run-time use only

12. Present Active Reports as charts or tables

13. Turn coordinate on and output type to Active Report

14. Add images and text

15. Import/Reference multiple Active Reports

16. Add new dashboard pages

17. Assign business view names to each dashboard panel

18. Add additional Active Report components

19. Panels and Drop down control automatically created

20. Filter individual Active Dashboard parts

21. On-the-fly charting

22. Export to Microsoft Office

23. Pass data being used

24. Easily create Pivot tables with 2 clicks of the mouse

25. Add comments

26. Save for collaboration or offline analytics

27. Questions and Answers

28. Thank you!