Transcript American Express & Information Builders A WebFOCUS

WebFOCUS Roadmap
Dan Ortolani
Vice President, Advanced Technology Services
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
 Release Snapshot
 Industry Trends & Drivers for WebFOCUS Strategic
Initiatives
 Mobile
 Increasing Influence of Business Users
 Renewed Disruption and Competition in the Data
Warehouse Marketplace
 Demand for Simplified BI Development
 Increased Traction of SaaS & Cloud BI Solutions
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WebFOCUS Strategic Initiatives
Release Plan Snapshot
 Release 7.7.03 – GA now!
 WebFOCUS Enable, RStat, and Performance Management
Framework on flexible, independent release tracks
 Release 8 – Beta 2 now!
 Includes Business Intelligence Portal
 Expanded beta program will continue throughout the
summer (Premium & Strategic Customers)
 High impact feedback still possible and encouraged
 GA 3Q
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Strategic Initiatives for 2011
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Industry Trend: Mobile
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Proliferation of Mobile Devices is Accelerating
Over 428 million mobile devices were sold in 1Q2011 a 19% year-over-year increase.
Growth is attributed to the continued spike in smartphone
sales
Gartner estimates 100.7 million for Q1, up 85% year-overyear.
Android remained the leader with 36% of the market.
 Nokia’s Symbian is in second place with 27.4%, followed
by Apple’s iOS with 16.8%, RIM’s BlackBerry with 12.9%
and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 with 3.6%.
Source: Gartner (April, 2011)
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Industry Trends Driving WebFOCUS Product Strategy
Tablet Market Dynamics
Apple’s iOS will continue to own the majority of the
worldwide media tablet through 2015
Due to the success of Apple’s iPad, iOS will account for 69%
percent of media tablet market in 2011 and represent 47%
in 2015.
Android tablets will capture an estimated 39% of the
market by 2015
Estimated market share for Windows-based tablets: 0%
Ignores/dismisses touch screen laptops and roadmaps
from Dell and others regarding both Windows 7 &
Windows 8 Slate plans
Source: Gartner (April, 2011)
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WebFOCUS Mobile Capabilities
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
“WebFOCUS to Go” Mobile Strategy
 Develop Once, Run Anywhere:
A unique, Web-based
low cost solution in which Dashboards, Active
Technologies content, and Guided Ad-hoc BI applications
are developed via the appropriate WebFOCUS tools and
then deployed to desktop & mobile devices
 Device Awareness: WebFOCUS adapts so users and
developers are not required to do so
 When appropriate, provide a Helper App to house
above-mentioned content & provide useful integration
points with the device.
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WebFOCUS Mobile Capabilities
Release 7.7.03
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
Active Technologies Web App
 Active Technologies dashboards & reports provide
embedded analytics & visualization for Android, Apple, RIM &
other devices
 Automatic device detection supports specific devices’
gesturing, touch technologies
 Over 30 HTML5/JavaScript charts with interactivity &
animation properties available
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Business Intelligence Roadmap
MobileFaves Native Helper App for the iPad & iPhone
 Download and install from Apple’s Appstore
 Connect directly to IB-hosted web site for HELP, live
demos and other content
 The WebFOCUS iPad MobileFaves helper app houses and
organizes BI content by connecting to your WebFOCUS
environment (note: Mobile Favorites or New Portal Pro
license required)
 Provides additional capabilities such as the ability open
Active Technologies reports via email, exploitation of
Report Caster's Watch List feature (push content to the
iPad directly) and the ability to save Active Technologies
content locally on the iPad.
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WebFOCUS Mobile Capabilities
Release 8
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
Additional Mobile Capabilities in Release 8
 Data Visualization
 WebFOCUS charts converted into JavaScript/HTML5,
featuring over 100 charts with interactivity, animation,
properties
 All charts will be built in InfoAssist replaces Advanced
Graph Assist)
 All charts available to Active Technologies
 Supported across all browsers, mobile devices
 Delivery of priority charts has already occurred
 Implementation of mobile JavaScript framework
 Enable automatic adherence to all mobile device form
factors
 BI Portal, InfoAssist, Guided Ad-hoc forms, etc.
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Demonstration
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Industry Trend: Increasing Influence
of
Business Users
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Industry Trend & Development Driver
Increasing Influence of Business Users
“Functional alignment within organizations for Business
Intelligence continues to shift. Most notably, in North America,
business users appear to be increasingly driving BI adoption.
We believe that the trend towards business-dominated BI is a
global trend, with other geographies lagging behind North
America by several years.”
Source: Dresner Advisory Services (May, 2011) – “Wisdom of the
Crowds” BI market survey
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WebFOCUS Strategy
for
Delivering Advanced Capabilities to Business Users
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
WebFOCUS Strategy for Business Users
 Provide advanced development, data discovery and
analytical capabilities to fit the wide range of customers’
development models
 Central IT model
 Development occurring in Business units (IT provides
metadata, templates, admin)
 Shadow IT working within Business units
 Allow for flexibility in delimitation of users roles and
associated entitlements
 Traditional “Power User” and Developer roles are
blurring in many organizations
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Advanced Capabilities for Business Users
Release 7.7.03
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
New InfoAssist Capabilities Now Available
 InfoAssist: Advanced Development Tool
 End-user dashboards, sophisticated development
capabilities
 Data automatically linked via cascading filter controls
 Many dashboard components share single cache
 Rich, interactive UI experience: Flash & HTML
 InfoMini expands potential deployment of IA
 UI can be customized for wide range of developers,
power users, and information consumers
 Entire applications & gadgets built and automatically
deployed to users’ portal environment
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Advanced Capabilities for Business Users
Release 8
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
InfoAssist in Release 8: Additional Advanced Features
 Tools consolidation
 Close gap with legacy tools such as Report Assist & Graph
Assist
 Extend cube support via new Browser mode for cube
databases
 SAP/BW
 Essbase
 Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
 Multi-step reports (HOLD file creation), Financial Reporting
(inter-row calculations, account hierarchies, etc.)
 Enhanced prompting support
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Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities
Adding an Expandable “Across”
Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities
Filters Tab
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Planned Cube Browsing Capabilities
Context Menu
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
Visual Discovery : Integration with InfoAssist
WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
New BI Portal Initiative: Release 8
 Next Generation of
Business Intelligence
Portal
 Built with Rich Internet
Application approach
 Consistent ribbon-style
navigation for both
building new portal
views and user-based
personalization
 Open, component
approach
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
Key Drivers for New WebFOCUS Enable Capabilities
 Adobe’s Flash development environment remains
a strong industry force, with a huge development
community
 Demand from strategic customers for Flash-based,
specialized, highly visible applications
 Strong demand to deploy Flash-based dashboards
rich in data visualization and custom components
to large user constituencies
WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
WebFOCUS Enable in 2011
 Dashboard Builder Component (Q32011)
 Managed Reporting Components (Q32011)
 Dashboard framework component to provide customizable
widgets to the end user (Q32011)
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
Location Intelligence
 ESRI Integration: Based on customer and
field demand, WebFOCUS now integrates
with ESRI’s Flash-based map viewer
 IB delivers value-add components
for
bi-directional integration with
ArcGIS Server
 Google Maps
 Coming in Release 8:
 Bing Maps: Easily integrate
Bing Maps with WebFOCUS via
standard controls in Developer Studio’s
HTML Composer
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Industry Trend: Renewed Disruption and
Competition in the Data Warehouse
Marketplace
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Industry Trend & Development Driver
Disruption and Competition in the Data Warehouse Market
 Upstart Columnar and Big Data Database Vendors Challenge
Established Leaders
 ParAccel, Sand, InfoBright, 1010, open source
alternatives, others
 Enterprise Data Warehouse Vendors Respond
 Acquisition (Mega-Vendors)
 Hardware, specialized database vendors
 Appliance strategy
 More flexible market positioning allows for
departmental deployments
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WebFOCUS Strategy for Addressing
Dynamics of Database Market
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
Reporting Server & Adapter Enhancements
 Enhanced Adapters for Columnar Databases
 Integrated WebFOCUS/Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance
Offering
 Specific innovations developed for this offering can also
be leveraged by existing WebFOCUS Teradata
implementations.
 Web-based Quick Copy Data Migrator option to load
source data to targets without the need to create
data flows.
 Data Migrator now supports the ability to exploit
Teradata’s in-memory bulk load facilities.
 New Web-based Metadata Wizard
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WebFOCUS Strategy for Addressing
Dynamics of Database Market
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
Reporting Server & Adapter Enhancements
 SQL Adapter Optimizations
 Performance improvements were implemented across
SQL Adapters
 The SQL Server adapter now features new default data
access mapping strategies and settings that have been
modified to yield very significant performance
improvements for many SQL Server/WebFOCUS
implementations
 New tracing separates RDBMS and WebFOCUS
Reporting Server processing statistics
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
Reporting Server & Adapter Enhancements
 Nested Application Folders
 The ability to easily categorize server-based application

components is now the default behavior in this release.
Application folders will be nested allowing for easy
navigation via standard hierarchical directory structures.
Spreadsheet Upload and Mapping
 A new option had been added allowing users to quickly
upload spreadsheets to the Reporting Server, create
metadata via standard tools, associate the metadata in
a secured application folder and make it available as a
data source for reporting, filtering, etc.
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Simplifying Development of BI
Applications
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
Key Drivers for New Developer Studio Capabilities
 Customer Feedback:
 Make developing customer-facing guided adhoc
applications faster and easier via improved
workflow and templates
 Create UI consistent with InfoAssist and modern
web development paradigm
 Maintainability of guided adhoc applications
 Lessen reliance on specialized FOCUS language skills
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WebFOCUS Strategic Product Initiatives
New Developer Studio Capabilities Now Available
 Developer Studio: Automatic Generation of Guided Ad-hoc
Applications
 Goal is to reduce development time
 Pre-built templates provided as starting point
 New “Guided Report” development mode provides one-click
parameterization of dimensions, measure, ranking and sort
objects’ properties, report output choices, other options
 A full application with launch pages, reports, filters,
dashboards, and other options is automatically generated
and easily deployed
 Ideal for developers who are new to WebFOCUS
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InfoAssist-style
Ribbon UI coming
to Application
Studio in Release
8.x later this year.
Industry Trend:
Increased Traction of SaaS BI Solutions
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Industry Trend & Development Driver
Increased Traction of SaaS BI Solutions
*Modest but significant growth in anticipated SaaS
investment
In WebFOCUS’ customer base, SaaS requirements are
influencing new feature development in these areas:
Security
User Interface branding
Specialized adapters, e.g., WebFOCUS integration
with SalesForce
 Multi-tenancy features
Strong demand for web-based administration and
development model
*Source: Dresner Advisory Services (May, 2011) – “Wisdom of the
Crowds” BI market survey
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Thank you !
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