Dan Ortolani VP Advanced Technology Services WebFOCUS Product Roadmap

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 2 WebFOCUS Product Update Agenda  Information Builders in the New B.I. Market  Partnership & Support Commitment  Technology Vision & Innovations

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 3 WebFOCUS Program Strategy Provide Expanded Value to Our Customers Developers Information Consumers Customers & Partners Service All User Constituencies Business Users Executives Power Users

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 4 Information Builders in the New B.I. Market WebFOCUS Program Priorities  Establish & maintain strong customer relationships with exceptional technical support and senior management sponsorship  Evolve and execute product roadmap program  Leverage emerging technologies & innovate  Respond directly to customers’ key priority requests  Release new features and value to customers at accelerated pace  Alternating pure maintenance service and service packs that contain limited new features  – limited new features + maintenance  – pure maintenance  Minimize product upgrade considerations  Drive cost of BI down by embracing & extending Open Source

Technology Vision & Innovations

Dashboard Technologies

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 7 Technology Vision & Innovations Active Reports  Portable Analytics  Interactivity & analytical engine built into reports  Sorting, calculations, pivot tables, collaboration  Integrated security  Disconnected analysis  Distribute reports via  Perfect for billing statements, sales force/field reports, etc.  Active Dashboards  New “occasionally connected” option  Flex Active Report Option

Demonstration

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 9 Technology Vision & Innovations WebFOCUS Flex Enable  Flex: Technology for Rich Internet Applications (RIA):  Highly responsive applications, similar to desktop  Advanced graphics, animation and interaction effects  Used heavily today in consumer web sites  Enables the development & deployment of Flex dashboards  Data grids, charts, filters, etc. Ability to build full-blown Rich Internet Applications  Integration with existing WebFOCUS CUS environment  Data driven directly from standard WebFOCUS Reporting Server

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 10 WebFOCUS Flex Enable Components

Demonstration

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 12 Technology Vision & Innovations Dashboards for Location Intelligence  Merge Reports with geo-coded information on maps  Event-driven reports  Web Services  GIS (ESRI ArcGIS Server, Google Maps)  Multiple data sources

WebFOCUS RStat

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 14 Technology Vision & Innovations Statistics  New RStat Option  Based on “R” open source offering  Combines predictive analytics w/ complex statistical analysis  Regression, Decision Tree, Neural Network  Basic statistical processes with exploring, graphing and transformations  Additional options in each routine, that make building ‘scoring’ systems easy  Integrated with Developer Studio

WebFOCUS Mobile Initiatives

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 16 Technology Vision & Innovations Mobile Favorites  Reporting for Mobile Users  Easy to use  Report subscription model  Easy to implement  No additional mobile infrastructure required  Integrated with standard WebFOCUS security  New: Update capability expands the scope of solutions

New Capabilities for Power Users

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 18 Technology Vision & Innovations Quick Data Guided Ad-Hoc  Quick Data  Runs inside of Excel  Users create their own reports via Report Assist  Report populates spreadsheet  Quick Data + Guided Ad-hoc  Run parameterized applications directly from w/in Excel  Help manage Excel usage  BI and Excel users all accessing consistent data sources

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 19 Data is returned to Excel

Info Assist

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 21  New User Tool based on Rich Internet Applications  Info Assist – To be released in Summit 2008 time frame  Integrated thin client UI for analysis, ad-hoc reporting, report publishing and charting  Role-based granting of granular functionality  Casual Users: Simple WYSIWYG ad-hoc analysis  Advanced Users/Developers: Complex, compound, coordinated reports and print-ready reports:  Compound reports: Contain multiple graphs and tables  Print-ready reports: Full control over the styling and formatting of every element in the report Technology Vision & Innovations Info Assist: Users Create Their Own Reports

Demonstration: Info Assist

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WebFOCUS Magnify

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 25  Transactional Search Approach  Transactions are enriched (with grouping information) and sent to search engine for indexing  Leverages iWay Service Manager capabilities  User Experience  Search results can be viewed via categories  Tabular representation (Active Report) view  Real-time integration with WebFOCUS  Pass search results are selection criteria for reports  New Option: Embedded Lucene Search Engine Technology Vision & Innovations WebFOCUS Magnify Update

Financial Reporting: XBRL

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 27 Technology Vision & Innovations Financial Reporting: XBRL “XBRL US, the national consortium for XML standards for business and financial information reporting, applauds the actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) which voted unanimously yesterday to propose mandating the use of XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) for public company filings to the SEC’s EDGAR database. Under the terms of the current proposal, companies using US GAAP with a worldwide public float over $5 billion will be required to submit their primary financial statements, footnotes and financial statement schedules in XBRL format for fiscal periods ending in late 2008.” - XBRL press release, May 15, 2008

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 28 Technology Vision & Innovations Financial Reporting: XBRL  eXtensible Business Reporting Language  A language for the electronic communication of business and financial data  Part of the XML family of languages  Provides an identifying tag for each individual data item  Provides information about each data item  Eg. monetary item, percentage or fraction  Shows how items are calculated  Shows how items relate to one another (eg. Organizational Groupings, Presentation Groupings)

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 29 Technology Vision & Innovations Financial Reporting: XBRL  XBRL Adapter  Allows WebFOCUS to directly report against XBRL documents  Presents a normalized view of the data  XBRL Taxonomy shows in the Financial Report Painter  Ability to consolidate multiple XBRL documents in a simplified process  XBRL Publish  Ability to create a Financial Report that will output an XBRL Instance Document.  XBRL Mapping Tool  Maps internal Chart of Accounts to a selected taxonomy  Ability to parameterize report & schedule

Demonstration

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Performance Metrics Manager

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 33 Technology Vision & Innovations Performance Metrics Manager  Complete metrics/dashboard deployment platform  Allows real savings on development costs and implementation time  Over 100 reports, graphs, dashboards, and analytic tools  300+ built-in industry metric definitions and formulas  End-user managed – just add data  Vertical and Horizontal starter kits  Benchmarking and stretch targets  Easy entry level to full PMF

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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 36 WebFOCUS Product Program Our Commitment Information Builders will continue to invest in the application of strategic technologies in order to advance the WebFOCUS program and create new value for our customers.