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WebFOCUS Roadmap

Jennifer Lalik, Systems Engineer

November 18, 2010

WebFOCUS RoadmapWebFOCUS Program Priorities

WebFOCUS RoadmapWebFOCUS Release Highlights & Timelines

Current Release

2Q2010

-Release 7.6.11

Incrementalenhancements: strongfocus on reportformattingenhancements

WebFOCUS Magnifyevolves: Scalability &Performance

PMF 5.2

New RStat

New Flex Enable

-Release 7.7.01

Production Release

Premium SupportCustomer outreach

End-UserDashboards

Strong focus onperformance,metadata & adaptorareas

New Data Migrator

Release 8 betaprogram

3Q2010-4Q2010

- Release 7.7.02 (Sept.)Production availability

- Release 8 betacontinues; firstcustomer ship by year-end

Major upgradesacross the product line

New WebFOCUS BIPortal initiative

Next generation ofInfoAssist , RStat, &Magnify, Flex Enable

New security model

Real-time offerings

Ongoing innovation

WebFOCUS Release 7.6.11

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.6.11Enhancements for BI Applications

Incremental enhancements in Developer Studio based on fieldand customer feedback

Areas of Focus

Speed guided ad-hoc forms development

Provide significant upgrades in PDF formatting

Drive toward more consistency in development acrossmost popular output types

Incremental improvements in WYSIWYG report & formsdevelopment

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, codereviews as means to identify potential vulnerabilities*before* releases are finalized

Periodic audits and health checks implemented inpartnership with industry specialists

Certified @ Level 3 Application Security VerificationStandards

WebFOCUS Release 7.7

Build Active Reports Flex Dashboards from within InfoAssist

Import existing reports and charts or build from scratch

Global filtering and filtering on specific dashboardcomponents

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 ActiveReport chart menu

Upgraded chart aesthetics for Active HTML reports

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7

End-User Dashboards

InnovationInitiative

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7Enhancements for BI Applications

Developer Studio: Automatic Generation of Guided Ad-hocApplications

Goal is to reduce development time and need for scripting

HTML Composer is starting point

Developers call Report Painter directly and choose reportcomponents: fields, stylesheets, drill-downs, sorting, ONTABLE SET options

New “Guided Report” report parameterizes above options,imports the report into HTML Composer, and automaticallygenerates the appropriate launch web

Dialogue Manager script generated

Total Length of all fields – 256K

Maximum size of Master

Maximum size of structure created via JOIN

Total Number of Segments - 1024

Maximum number of segments in report structure

Maximum number of JOINS- 1023

Total Number of Sort Fields - 128

Combination of BY and ACROSS fields

Includes hidden sorts list FOCLIST

Maximum size of single XFOCUS partition – 32 GB

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7Limits Lifted

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7Report Caster Scalability

Distribute reports in any format

Workload Management & Fail-Over

Vertical & Horizontal scaling

Report Library: Reports are alwaysavailable

Cached reports shared withinworkgroups

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

Based on customer and fielddemand, new product strategyis to integrate with ESRI’sFlex-based map viewer

IB to deliver value-addcomponents for bi-directionalintegration with ArcGIS Server

Current IB-developed viewerwill not be enhanced

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7ESRI Integration

InnovationInitiative

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

WebFOCUS 8 OverviewBusiness 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 8Four Critical Elements For Smarter Decisions

Data Integrity

WebFOCUS incorporates data integration for all informationlatency requirements and unique data integrity solutions.

Performance Management

The new PMF allows organizations to increase strategic use ofinformation and analytics to meet critical business objectives driveall levels of performance and manage risk.

Business Intelligence

The core feature enhancements expand our lead in enterprise useradoption and large-scale customer-facing deployments.

Advanced Analytics

The use of visualization and predictiveanalytics to shorten and simplifydecision cycles.

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8WebFOCUS Upgrade Goals for Release 8

Provide support, services and product features tominimize impact of upgrade costs

Existing applications must function as in previousrelease: Report scripts, forms, metadata, etc. willwork w/o any changes

Installation will respect configuration settings

Change management facilities will automaticallymove all application objects (includingdashboards) and user definitions (e.g., roles, etc.)

Prior to release: Proactive customer outreacheffort to identify and support any widely-usedcustomizations

Adding AJAX and Flexcontrols to Developer Studio

Implementation of RIA-basedwidgets

Create rich internetapplication without the needfor 3rd party tools

Core Business IntelligenceEnhanced RIA Development

User Interface and workflow changes planned

Build Rich Internet Guided Ad-hoc Applications viaDeveloper Studio

Implementation of RIA-based widgets

 Customizable pre-built interactive componentsthat can be used inside HTML pages to managenavigation, 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 8Development Environment

UI Customization for InfoAssist

Customizable ApplicationRibbon (InfoMini)

Select specific IA optionson a per report basis

Cube browsing within reportoutput

Tool & data in any language

Core Business IntelligenceInfoAssist Enhancements

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8Customizing User Interactivity

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8Customizing User Interactivity

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8Customizing User Interactivity

Browser

WebFOCUS 8 OverviewNew BI Portal

Highly flexible BI Portal

User and Role baseddeployment

Completely customizable byend users

Consistent UI Ribbon “lookand feel” with InfoAssist

WebFOCUS BI Portal Overview

WebFOCUS BI Portal, the coming replacement toWebFOCUS Dashboard, is a fully integrated reportingenvironment. It is built using the same cutting edge AJAXtechnology and user interface as WebFOCUS InfoAssist.Building your own custom Views and Pages is as simple as afew clicks.

Coming in WebFOCUS 8

Coming in WebFOCUS 8

WebFOCUS BI Portal is S.I.M.P.L.E.

STUNNING

INTUITIVE

MODERN

PROFESSIONAL

LIVE

EASY

Functional Objectives

Design Views (sites)

CustomizeNavigation Layout

Customize Banners(0 – 4)

Customize Menu Bar

Branding

Design Pages

Add Content

Configure ContentBehavior

•Drag and Drop

•Collapsible

•Tabbed

User Customization

Add/Remove Content

Drag Content

Collapse Content

Change Colors

Change Fonts

Web 2.0 Dashboard Trends

 Extensively reviewed Web 2.0 Personalized Homepages

http://mashable.com/2007/06/29/personalized-homepages/

User Defined Content

Drag and Drop Content

Collapsible Content

Tabbed Content

Customized Layouts

Themes

Strong CorporateBranding and Identity

Visual Interface

Customize Navigation Layout

Enable 0 – 4 banner areas

Customize the Domain Tree location

Choose from one of many includedthemes

Personalize with Text, HTML, andImages

View Design

Default Tabs atLogin

ConfigurationMenus

Report & Graph

View for “Today”Dashboard

WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8BI Portal Personalization & Customization

Click “Settings”to OpenNavigationMenu

OpensPropertiesMenu

WebFOCUS RoadmapBI Portal Personalization & Customization

Multiple layoutoptions

Move to Rightside

WebFOCUS RoadmapBI Portal Personalization & Customization

New Style Sheet changes background to Blue

Click “Hide” to close configure mode

WebFOCUS RoadmapBI Portal Personalization & Customization

Choose PageLayout

Customize Dashboard at User Level

New Pageappend Tab list

WebFOCUS RoadmapBI Portal Personalization & Customization

Choose

Page

Content

Objects tosetuplayout anddesign

Layout #1

Accordion

Layout #2

Tabbed

WebFOCUS RoadmapBI Portal Personalization & Customization

InsertReport &Graph intoLayout

WebFOCUS RoadmapBI Portal Personalization & Customization

Finalize Dashboard properties, save and share

WebFOCUS RoadmapBI Portal Personalization & Customization

WebFOCUS 8 OverviewPredictive Analytics - RStat

Based on R-System

Open Source Predictive modelingand statistics

Embed predictions into operational BIapplications

Provides..

Data Preparation

Data Exploration

Hypothesis Testing

Model Building

Model Evaluation

Model Deployment/ ApplicationCreation

WebFOCUS 8 OverviewAdvanced Visualization – “In-memory Visual Analytics”

New 64-bit visualizationcomponents

Tested with over 25 millionrows in-memory

Easily find outliers andrelationships in large data sets

Core Business Intelligence EnhancementsEnhanced Security & Usability Compliance

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)

Hacker-proofing software applications

Only Business Intelligence company

Level 3 Certification

Application Security Verification Standards

3rd party audit

508 Compliance for US federal government

Many WebFOCUS deployments are customer-facing, B2B, or public internet applications

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WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8Next 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 whichobjects and tools a user or group of users canaccess

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 singlerepository for the entire product (including Report Caster)

Update: BI Extension Offerings

Free with Developer Studio

Specialized services via Fractal

Business Analytic Applications

BAA are based on industrystandard measurementmethodologies

Solve a particular businessproblem, instead of being aframework

Do not require data model –most frequently built against existingsystems and flat files

Highly customizable on a case bycase basis

WebFOCUS RoadmapKey RStat Programs for 2010

InnovationInitiative

WebFOCUS Roadmap

BI and Search will remainseparate technologies BI and Search will remainseparate technologies

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Search + BI = UnifiedInformation Access Search + BI = UnifiedInformation Access

2008-2009

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Key Trend: Convergence of Search & BI

Unified Information Access

WebFOCUS 8Performance Management

WebFOCUS 8 offers integrated performance management thattaps into every & any operational system

Helps align Strategic and Operational initiatives

It is one of the only solutions integrated directly in to a BusinessIntelligence infrastructure

Promotes a culture of accountability

WebFOCUS 8 OverviewPerformance Management

Compelling Dashboards/Scorecards

Role personalization

Dashboard animation

Full analytics and social tools

Performance and Risk

Aligns impact of performanceand associated risks

Broad and Open world view

Web 2.0 mashups, IndustryMetrics Catalog

Vertical and Horizontal Starter Kits

Commercial, Public, Finance

WebFOCUS RoadmapWebFOCUS 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 LEAimplementations

Support for Office 2007, many other file formats

Access to third-party and custom dictionaries

Synonym Searching

Automatically broadens submitted searches by alsosearching terms with meanings similar to the termssubmitted

Internationalization

WebFOCUS & iWay Blended Offerings

WebFOCUS 8iWay Data Profiler

Gathers statistics aboutenterprise data

Provides key reports andanalysis on general datahealth

Helps Identify and prioritizeissues that need attention