WebFOCUS Roadmap Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 1 Jennifer Lalik, Systems Engineer November 18, 2010

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 2 WebFOCUS Roadmap WebFOCUS Program Priorities

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 3 WebFOCUS Roadmap WebFOCUS Release Highlights & Timelines Current Release2Q Release  Incremental enhancements: strong focus on report formatting enhancements  WebFOCUS Magnify evolves: Scalability & Performance  PMF 5.2  New RStat  New Flex Enable - Release  Production Release  Premium Support Customer outreach  End-User Dashboards  Strong focus on performance, metadata & adaptor areas  New Data Migrator  Release 8 beta program 3Q2010-4Q Release (Sept.) Production availability - Release 8 beta continues; first customer ship by year- end  Major upgrades across the product line  New WebFOCUS BI Portal initiative  Next generation of InfoAssist, RStat, & Magnify, Flex Enable  New security model  Real-time offerings  Ongoing innovation

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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 5 WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release Enhancements for BI Applications  Incremental enhancements in Developer Studio based on field and customer feedback  Areas of Focus  Speed guided ad-hoc forms development  Provide significant upgrades in PDF formatting  Drive toward more consistency in development across most popular output types  Incremental improvements in WYSIWYG report & forms development

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 6 WebFOCUS Roadmap Information Assurance: WebFOCUS Commitment  IBI Committed to Provide Industry Leadership  Many WebFOCUS deployments are customer-facing, partner-facing public internet applications  Major priority in our development program  Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)  Only member Business Intelligence company  Proactive Approach:  Use latest Scanning tools, hacker techniques, code reviews as means to identify potential vulnerabilities *before* releases are finalized  Periodic audits and health checks implemented in partnership with industry specialists  Level 3 Application Security Verification Standards

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Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 8  Build Active Reports Flex Dashboards from within Info Assist  Import existing reports and charts or build from scratch  Global filtering and filtering on specific dashboard components  Advanced chaining, other parametric capabilities (dimensions, measures, etc.)  Add new RIA components to Active Dashboards, e.g., multiple combo boxes, tabs, etc.  Visualization  Implementation of new Flex-based charts in Active Report chart menu  Upgraded chart aesthetics for Active HTML reports WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7 End-User Dashboards Innovation Initiative

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 9 WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7 Enhancements for BI Applications  Developer Studio: Automatic Generation of Guided Ad-hoc Applications  Goal is to reduce development time and need for scripting  HTML Composer is starting point  Developers call Report Painter directly and choose report components: fields, stylesheets, drill-downs, sorting, ON TABLE SET options  New “Guided Report” report parameterizes above options, imports the report into HTML Composer, and automatically generates the appropriate launch web  Dialogue Manager script generated

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 10  Total Length of all fields – 256K  Maximum size of Master  Maximum size of structure created via JOIN  Total Number of Segments  Maximum number of segments in report structure  Maximum number of JOINS  Total Number of Sort Fields  Combination of BY and ACROSS fields  Includes hidden sorts list FOCLIST  Maximum size of single XFOCUS partition – 32 GB WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7 Limits Lifted

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 11 WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7 Report Caster Scalability  Distribute reports in any format  Workload Management & Fail-Over  Vertical & Horizontal scaling  Report Library: Reports are always available  Cached reports shared within workgroups

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 12  ArcGIS Server Support: Available in today’s 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  Current IB-developed viewer will not be enhanced WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7 ESRI Integration Innovation Initiative

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 13 WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7 Performance Enhancements for Data Visualization  WebFOCUS Visual Discovery  In-memory analytics  New version exploits 64-bit architecture  Tens-of-millions of records accessible in-memory

WebFOCUS Release 8 Highlights Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 14

WebFOCUS 8 Overview Business Intelligence  Make business intelligence Pervasive in organizations  Drives user adoption  Improve richness of UI for all users  Reduce latency in decision making  Embed intelligence into business processes  Lead market in security and usability compliance standards  Strongest security for outward facing applications

WebFOCUS 8 Four Critical Elements For Smarter Decisions  Data Integrity  WebFOCUS incorporates data integration for all information latency requirements and unique data integrity solutions.  Performance Management  The new PMF allows organizations to increase strategic use of information and analytics to meet critical business objectives drive all levels of performance and manage risk.  Business Intelligence  The core feature enhancements expand our lead in enterprise user adoption and large-scale customer-facing deployments.  Advanced Analytics  The use of visualization and predictive analytics to shorten and simplify decision cycles.

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8 WebFOCUS Upgrade Goals for Release 8 Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 17  Provide support, services and product features to minimize impact of upgrade costs  Existing applications must function as in previous release: Report scripts, forms, metadata, etc. will work w/o any changes  Installation will respect configuration settings  Change management facilities will automatically move all application objects (including dashboards) and user definitions (e.g., roles, etc.)  Prior to release: Proactive customer outreach effort to identify and support any widely-used customizations

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 18  Adding AJAX and Flex controls to Developer Studio  Implementation of RIA-based widgets  Create rich internet application without the need for 3 rd party tools Core Business Intelligence Enhanced RIA Development

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 19  User Interface and workflow changes planned  Build Rich Internet Guided Ad-hoc Applications via Developer Studio  Implementation of RIA-based widgets  Customizable pre-built interactive components that can be used inside HTML pages to manage navigation, animation, etc. w/in BI applications  Build highly customized dashboards  WYSIWYG Capability in Report Painter environment  Advanced Charting with much simplified UI  Options available via ribbon-style navigation UI  One charting tool for Developer Studio & InfoAssist WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8 Development Environment

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 20  UI Customization for InfoAssist  Customizable Application Ribbon (InfoMini)  Select specific IA options on a per report basis  Cube browsing within report output  Tool & data in any language Core Business Intelligence InfoAssist Enhancements

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WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8 Customizing User Interactivity Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 24

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8 Customizing User Interactivity Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 25

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WebFOCUS 8 Overview New BI Portal  Highly flexible BI Portal  User and Role based deployment  Completely customizable by end users  Consistent UI Ribbon “look and feel” with InfoAssist

WebFOCUS BI Portal Overview WebFOCUS BI Portal, the coming replacement to WebFOCUS Dashboard, is a fully integrated reporting environment. It is built using the same cutting edge AJAX technology and user interface as WebFOCUS InfoAssist. Building your own custom Views and Pages is as simple as a few clicks. Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 29 Coming in WebFOCUS 8

WebFOCUS BI Portal is S.I.M.P.L.E. S TUNNING I NTUITIVE M ODERN P ROFESSIONAL L IVE E ASY Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 30 SIMPLESIMPLE

Functional Objectives Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 31 Design Views (sites) Customize Navigation Layout Customize Banners (0 – 4) Customize Menu BarBranding Design Pages Add Content Configure Content Behavior Drag and Drop Collapsible Tabbed User Customization Add/Remove ContentDrag ContentCollapse ContentChange ColorsChange Fonts

Web 2.0 Dashboard Trends  Extensively reviewed Web 2.0 Personalized Homepages  User Defined Content  Drag and Drop Content  Collapsible Content  Tabbed Content  Customized Layouts  Themes  Strong Corporate Branding and Identity Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 32

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 33  Visual Interface  Customize Navigation Layout  Enable 0 – 4 banner areas  Customize the Domain Tree location  Choose from one of many included themes  Personalize with Text, HTML, and Images View Design

Default Tabs at Login Configuration Menus Report & Graph View for “Today” Dashboard WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8 BI Portal Personalization & Customization

Click “Settings” to Open Navigation Menu Opens Properties Menu WebFOCUS Roadmap BI Portal Personalization & Customization

Multiple layout options Move to Right side WebFOCUS Roadmap BI Portal Personalization & Customization

New Style Sheet changes background to Blue Click “Hide” to close configure mode WebFOCUS Roadmap BI Portal Personalization & Customization

Choose Page Layout Customize Dashboard at User Level New Page append Tab list WebFOCUS Roadmap BI Portal Personalization & Customization

Choose Page Content Objects to setup layout and design Layout #1 Accordion Layout #2 Tabbed WebFOCUS Roadmap BI Portal Personalization & Customization

Insert Report & Graph into Layout WebFOCUS Roadmap BI Portal Personalization & Customization

Finalize Dashboard properties, save and share WebFOCUS Roadmap BI Portal Personalization & Customization

WebFOCUS 8 Overview Predictive Analytics - RStat  Based on R-System  Open Source Predictive modeling and statistics  Embed predictions into operational BI applications  Provides..  Data Preparation  Data Exploration  Hypothesis Testing  Model Building  Model Evaluation  Model Deployment/ Application Creation

WebFOCUS 8 Overview Advanced Visualization – “In-memory Visual Analytics”  New 64-bit visualization components  Tested with over 25 million rows in-memory  Easily find outliers and relationships in large data sets

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 44 Core Business Intelligence Enhancements Enhanced Security & Usability Compliance  Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)  Hacker-proofing software applications  Only Business Intelligence company  Level 3 Certification  Application Security Verification Standards  3 rd party audit  508 Compliance for US federal government  Many WebFOCUS deployments are customer- facing, B2B, or public internet applications

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 45 WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8 Next Generation of Security Integration  Reporting Server Security  DBA: Data security (in addition to RDBMS)  Authentication, Single Sign-on  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)

Update: BI Extension Offerings Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 46

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 47  Free with Developer Studio  Specialized services via Fractal  Business Analytic Applications  BAA are based on industry standard measurement methodologies  Solve a particular business problem, instead of being a framework  Do not require data model – most frequently built against existing systems and flat files  Highly customizable on a case by case basis WebFOCUS Roadmap Key RStat Programs for 2010 Innovation Initiative

WebFOCUS Roadmap Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 48 BI and Search will remain separate technologies BI and Search will remain separate technologies Search + BI = Unified Information Access Search + BI = Unified Information Access Information Access Technologies Information Access Technologies search BusinessIntelligenceconvergence Key Trend: Convergence of Search & BI Unified Information Access

WebFOCUS 8 Performance Management  WebFOCUS 8 offers integrated performance management that taps into every & any operational system  Helps align Strategic and Operational initiatives  It is one of the only solutions integrated directly in to a Business Intelligence infrastructure  Promotes a culture of accountability

WebFOCUS 8 Overview Performance Management  Compelling Dashboards/Scorecards  Role personalization  Dashboard animation  Full analytics and social tools  Performance and Risk  Aligns impact of performance and associated risks  Broad and Open world view  Web 2.0 mashups, Industry Metrics Catalog  Vertical and Horizontal Starter Kits  Commercial, Public, Finance

WebFOCUS Roadmap WebFOCUS Magnify  Provides real-time indexing of transactional information  Searches, categorizes structured and unstructured information  Easy access for any type of user  New Initiatives:  Scalability & performance enhancements driven by LEA implementations  Support for Office 2007, many other file formats  Access to third-party and custom dictionaries  Synonym Searching  Automatically broadens submitted searches by also searching terms with meanings similar to the terms submitted  Internationalization

WebFOCUS & iWay Blended Offerings

WebFOCUS 8 iWay Data Profiler  Gathers statistics about enterprise data  Provides key reports and analysis on general data health  Helps Identify and prioritize issues that need attention