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Steve Frederick
December 2012
Summit 2012 Trending Topics and WebFOCUS Update
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What it’s all about
“Summit is a great mix of roadmap, product updates and sneak peeks, and hands-on training. I particularly like seeing new ways other customers are using WebFOCUS.”
Teri Howe, Manager, Product Management | Varolii Corporation
Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 2
Process For Continuous Innovation & Capability Expansion to Support Business & User Growth Over Time
What it’s all about
Top 8 Topics Trending Now!
Mobile Active Technologies Pro Portal/Graphics Big Data Advanced Analytics Predictive Security Data Quality
Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 4
Mobile and Active
Active Technologies for Mobile Web Apps
Ease of Use Single-tap UI paradigm Full gesture & screen rotation support Embedded data analysis and visualization Full offline data interactivity
Ease of Development Dynamic device detection Build once, fit in any device
Industry Standard Web Apps technology iPhone App-like UI Available in HTML or Flash
Active Technologies UI Upgrade
Copyright 2011, Information Builders. Slide 7
Enabling Self Service for Business Users:
BI Portal & InfoAssist
The Self Service Trend: Hype & Reality
Self-Service is the new management fad: banking, retail, telecom, BI….
Self-Service Myths: Valid across all industries 1. Self- Service is a foolproof way to reduce cost:
Implement it right or not at all2. Self-Service eliminates IT bottlenecks (customer interactions):
Works only as part of a multi-channel service plan3. Self-Service is a quick fix:
It is often only a transfer of cost It frequently alienates users
4. One Self-Service method fits all customers and all their needs: Only some customers prefer self-service: Find out who Many BI customers do not know any better
For IBI Self-Service is one aspect of a much broader enterprise information and decision support system
InfoAssist & New Portal
Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 10
BI Portal: Focus on engaging the BI consumer Customizable: Let the users define how they consume content Collaborative: Let the users define how they want to publish
and share content Componentized: Let the users define what widgets they want to
add to their content pages.
InfoAssist: Single tool and single workflow to make the tool as easy and ubiquitous as Excel for the analytic BI user Enhanced analytic capabilities Enhanced interactive design capabilities
BIP
Objective: Become highly competitive in the self-service market with enterprise level query, analysis & portal tools
IA
Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 11
New Visualization Engine
The New Visualization Engine: Benefits
An entirely new unified visualization technology that is now being rolled out across our entire product line
The benefits: The exact same chart experience in all output formats: Active
Technologies, HTML5, Flex, PDF The same set of properties and syntax for all IBI products A high level of visual sophistication:
Gradients Animations
Works in all browsers including mobile Easily expandable and customizable:
Allows IBI consultants and BI developers to quickly meet customer requirements by adding custom properties and features
Availability: Version 1.0 for regular and Active HTML output formats.
Active Technologies
Sample HTML5 output
WebFOCUS HyperstageBig Data and Sentiment Analysis
Improve database performance for WebFOCUS applications with less hardware, no database tuning and easy migration.
WebFOCUS Hyperstage - Why?
Why Do BI Applications Fail? Typically 3 Reasons….1. Too ComplicatedSelf-Service, Guided Ad hoc2. Bad DataData Quality3. Too SlowHyperstage
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Hyperstage will improve database performance for WebFOCUS applications with less hardware, no database tuning and easy migration.
IT Manager’s try to mitigate these response times …..
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Source: KEEPING UP WITH EVER-EXPANDING ENTERPRISE DATA ( Joseph McKendrick Unisphere Research October 2010)
How Performance Issues are Typically Addressed – by Pace of Data Growth
Don't Know / Unsure
Upgrade networking infrastructure
Archive older data on other systems
Upgrade/expand storage systems
Upgrade server hardware/processors
Tune or upgrade existing databases
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
7%
21%
30%
33%
54%
66%
4%
32%
44%
60%
70%
75%
High Growth
Low Growth
I/O is typically the first thing addressed to increase the performance of growing databases.
WebFOCUS Hyperstage Components
Hyperstage is extremely flexible and the components can be deployed on the same server as WebFOCUS or on their own dedicated servers.
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Smarter Architecture
No maintenance No query planning No partition schemes No DBA
Data Packs – data stored in manageably sized, highly compressed data packs
Knowledge Grid – statistics and metadata “describing” the super-compressed data
Column Orientation
WebFOCUS Hyperstage Engine
Data compressed using algorithms tailored to data type
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Sentiment Analysis
Search for a product across many systems
Narrow down matches based on Sentiment Analysis
Compare facets withCategory Tree pie charts
Magnify Sentiment Analysis
How It Works Natural language processing on
any mix of structured and unstructured content
Magnify calls WAND’s Taxonomy server Web Service
A positive, negative, or neutral score is returned to Magnify
Magnify displays sentiment as part of the Category Tree
Allows users to filter search results based on the information's overall tone
Enrich Enterprise Information with Sentiment
Predictive
RStat: Why Analytic Applications
Analytic Applications: Targeted to well defined business or functional problems
Examples: Activity Based Cost Accounting, EBITA, etc. Based on well known and established methodologies Repeatable across industries with small variations
The Problem: IT cannot build them Business users have knowledge how to use but lack the knowledge to
create requirements IT lacks the business knowledge
Packaged Advantages: Time to market Extend BI usage without straining development resources
Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 24
Pricing Application
Price Optimization Application
IBI Fractal solution
Why use a Price Optimization application? How do you determine the right price? How elastic is the price, i.e., how sensitive is the consumer to price
increase/decrease? What is the cost of having the wrong price?
The Price Optimizations applications improves the accuracy of the pricing decisions by: Capturing all the dimensions for pricing – consumer demand,
competition, and profitability Providing both historical as well as predictive view of the demand-
price scenarios Incorporating all past learnings of consumer behavior in response
to price changes in the models
Pricing Application
Projected KPIs (Numerical and graphical)Modified Prices
Export options
With the changed price, the projected numbers for Quantity sold, $ sales, margin, %margin and variance for all of these items get updated. The numbers are also visualized graphically.User also have option of exporting the new pricing and projected numbers into Excel, PDF or HTML output
Security
Why a New Security Model?Customer Feedback Related to WebFOCUS 7x
Managed Reporting Role Security was LimitingOnly 5 base roles and 9 permissionsOne role for all Domains
Domain Security Model was LimitingCouldn’t customize security on sub-folders
Content Sharing was LimitingCouldn’t share with specific people
Challenging for Multi-tenancy SaaS DeploymentsCouldn’t allow sharing in a common Domain—user’s
would see content from other tenantsDilemma: abandon common domain or drop sharing?
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WebFOCUS 8 Addresses These Challenges!
WebFOCUS 8 Security Model Benefits
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Flexible Security ModelOver 150 assignable permissionsCan develop custom permission sets
Sub-Groups and Inheritance Simplify Policy CreationEasy to Use Tools to Create and Verify Security PoliciesMakes it Possible to Support Many Different Deployment
Requirements
Data Quality
Make Your BI Better
Data Quality - Facts and Stats
250 CFO’s Surveyed -75% said “data quality significantly impedes performance.”
Gartner Survey(2009)
50% of Data Warehouse projects will fail or receive limited acceptance because of NOT proactively addressing data quality issues
Thomas Redman – Data-Driven(2008)
The amount of data you have
doubles every 12 to 18 monthsThomas Redman – Data-Driven(2008)
1/3 of data in ERP systems originate from outside of the organisation
Gartner Survey(2009)
2.9% of transactions from external trading partners require exception processing or error handling
Gartner Survey(2009)
“It costs a company 10 times as much to process a faulty transaction compared to a perfect transaction.”
Thomas Redman – Data-Driven(2008)
Data Quality Centre
Profiling
DQC
CleansingParsing Validation Enrichment Match & MergeMonitoring
A state-of-the-art solution designed to optimise the integrity of information throughout an entire business.
With comprehensive, fully customisable business rules and a portfolio of localised dictionaries
Center of Excellence
Maximize Your Investment
Center of ExcellenceWhy?
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Innovation Days
Maximize Your Investment
Innovation DayWhat is it?
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Show Us Yours Pick the best 4-5 topics of interest
Mobile Active Technologies Pro Portal/Graphics Big Data Advanced Analytics Predictive Security Data Quality Center of Excellence
Delivered in a 2 hour lunch time based interactive session Combination of presentation on trends as they apply to your app
and supportive demo’s) Follow Innovation Day with a 1 day Health Check Health Check Report Card
“You own it! Now make WebFOCUS perform like never before!”
Thank You!