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Dan Ortolani, Vice President Advanced Technology Services
WebFOCUS Roadmap
Core Guiding Principles
Customer-driven development projects are
highest priority and are most visible throughout
Support, Development & Product Management
areas
Maximize Utilization:
• Offer robust set of tools and technologies for
every need and employee skill level
ROI and Value Maximization:
• Ease of use, deployment, and scaling
• Integration of auxiliary tools and technologies
• Unique model & architecture to leverage
open source
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WebFOCUS Roadmap
WebFOCUS Program Priorities
Exploit latest
hardware
Core
Product
innovations
Enhancements
Innovation Initiatives
BI Extension
Offerings
• Customer-driven, incremental
enhancements
• Implemented across product line
• Major new development effort
• New product offering or significant
upgrade to existing capabilities
• New products that expand
WebFOCUS platform via singlevendor, cost-effective alternatives
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WebFOCUS Roadmap
WebFOCUS Release Highlights & Timelines
Current Release
1Q2010-2Q2010
3Q2010-4Q2010
-Release 7.6.11
Incremental
-Release 7.7
Enhancements in
enhancements: strong
focus on report
formatting
enhancements needed
for competitive
conversions
WebFOCUS Magnify
evolves: Scalability &
Performance driven by
LEA implementations
PMF 5.2
New RStat
New Flex Enable
performance,
metadata & adaptor
areas
RIA Development in
Developer Studio
Automatic
generation of Guided
Ad-hoc applications
New Data Migrator
Active Technologies
Dashboards
Easier to build
Visualization
zIIP support
- Release 7.7.x
continues
- Release 8 introduced
Major upgrades
across the product line
New WebFOCUS BI
Portal initiative
ESRI ArcGIS Server
Flex Support
Next generation of
InfoAssist , RStat, &
Magnify, Flex Enable
New security model
Real-time offerings
Ongoing innovation
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WebFOCUS Release 7.6.11
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WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.6.11
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
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WebFOCUS Roadmap
Information Assurance
“Measures that protect and defend information and
information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity,
authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. These
measures include providing for restoration of information
systems by incorporating protection, detection, and reaction
capabilities. “
- Source: US Government’s Information Assurance Glossary
Superset of Security Integration
Emphasis on strategic risk management
Defend against malicious hacker attacks
Critical for externally-facing Web-based applications
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WebFOCUS Roadmap
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
Certified @ Level 3 Application Security Verification
Standards
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WebFOCUS Roadmap
Standard Authentication & Authorization
Reporting Server Security
Data security (in addition to RDBMS)
Managed Reporting/CUS
Domain/Group-based
Reports, Reporting Objects, Shared
Reports, MyReports
Application Level:
Authentication, Single Sign-on
Isolate components across configuration
Partition application server, web server, Reporting Server
on separate tiers
Custom configurations
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WebFOCUS Roadmap
Performance Management Framework
Strategic Objectives
Operational
Performance
Management
Metrics Management
Strategy Modeling
Reporting & Analytics
Methodology and Predictive Formulas
Performance Management Framework
KPI’s
KRI’s
WebFOCUS
Applications
Operational Reports Operational Analytics
Operational Systems
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WebFOCUS Roadmap
PMF 5.2 Major Themes
Attractive and well Put together
Dashboard Animation and Personalization
Full Analytics and Social tools
Intelligent and Accomplished
Blend Enterprise Risk with Performance Strategies
Built-in Business Science Expertise
Broad and Open world view
Web 2.0 mashups, Industry Metrics Catalog, CPM from
Tagetik, WebFOCUS and iWay integration
Vertical and Horizontal Starter Kits
Commercial, Public, and Finance
While Labeled for custom implementations
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WebFOCUS Release 7.7
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WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7
Active Technologies & InfoAssist
Innovation
Initiative
Build Active Reports Flex Dashboards from within Info
Assist
Implementation of new Flex-based charts in Active Report
chart menu
Add new RIA components to Active Dashboards, e.g.,
multiple combo boxes, tabs, etc.
Create electronic interactive briefing books magazines for
large scale distribution
Compound documents consisting of text, images, datadriven content, e.g., annual report, bank statements, etc.
New styling, bursting, and distribution options
Upgraded chart aesthetics for Active HTML reports
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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
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WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7
Enhancements for BI Applications
New & Upgraded adapters
iWay Adapters configured from Reporting Server’s Data
Management Console
Netezza is now available as named adapter Adapter
upgraded to support newer versions of native databases
In-depth R&D around metadata & report formatting
enhancements needed to support conversion opportunities
Emulate expected behavior for complex RDBMS structures
Performance & other optimizations throughout the core codebase
New initiative for IBM System z environments: FOCUS &
WebFOCUS: Exploit zIIP processor
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WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7
New Release of Data Migrator
Real-time Capability
iWay Adapter Framework adapters now supported, allowing
for real-time access to transactional data directly from Data
Migrator
Integration with/callable from iWay Service Manager
Effective combination in 2009 for competitive
opportunities
Change Data Capture
Incremental transactions in operational sources identified
and automatically loaded into warehouse
Enhancements Driven by Informatica Replacement
Support for source code control
New data relationships in GUI & Metadata
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WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 7.7
Enhancements for BI Applications
Distribute reports in any format
Workload Management & Fail-Over
Vertical & Horizontal scaling
Report Library: Reports are always
available
Cached reports shared within
workgroups
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WebFOCUS Release 8 Highlights
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WebFOCUS Roadmap
WebFOCUS Upgrade Goals for Release 8
Customer Feedback
Processes & costs are the same for service pack and
new feature release upgrades
In 2010, most customers will have budget for one
release upgrade
Upgrade drivers
Specific feature set
ERP or database vendor release
New offerings & extensions
New or upgraded hardware
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WebFOCUS Roadmap
WebFOCUS Upgrade Goals for Release 8
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
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WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8
Development Environment
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
WebFOCUS AJAX- & Flex-based components within
Developer Studio
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
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WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8
InfoAssist
Innovation
Initiative
Advanced Features
UI Customization
More control
over UI
Customizable
Application Ribbon
(InfoMini)
Select specific
IA options on a
per report basis
Cube browsing
within report output
Tool & data in any
language
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WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8
Customizing User Interactivity
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WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8
Customizing User Interactivity
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WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8
Customizing User Interactivity
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Browser
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WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8
New BI Portal Initiative
Innovation
Initiative
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
Component Approach
Integrate with major industry portals
Additional capability exclusively for SharePoint
New Web Parts
Report templates for SharePoint Lists
Report from underlying data model
View & manipulate archived report content
Customer feedback is ongoing
Need further customer feedback in this area
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WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8
BI Portal Personalization & Customization
Default Tabs at
Login
Configuration
Menus
Report & Graph
View for “Today”
Dashboard
WebFOCUS Roadmap
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
Click “Hide” to close configure mode
New Style Sheet changes background to Blue
WebFOCUS Roadmap
BI Portal Personalization & Customization
Choose Page
Layout
New Page
append Tab list
Customize Dashboard at User Level
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: 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)
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WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8
ESRI Integration
Innovation
Initiative
ArcGIS Server Support:
Available in today’s 7.6.10
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
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WebFOCUS Roadmap: Release 8
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
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Update: BI Extension Offerings
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WebFOCUS Roadmap
Key RStat Programs for 2010
Innovation
Initiative
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…sold on ROI
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Marketing Performance Analytics Example
WebFOCUS Roadmap
Key Trend: Convergence of Search & BI
Unified Information Access
2006-2007
BI and Search will remain
separate technologies
convergence
2008-2009
search
Business
Intelligence
Search + BI = Unified
Information Access
Information Access
Technologies
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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 Roadmap
iWay & WebFOCUS Blended Solutions
Part of EIM suite of products available with
WebFOCUS
iWay Data Quality Center: Real-time
Online, Event-based, Batch Data Cleansing,
Profiling, and Enrichment
Data Profiling reports
powered by WebFOCUS
Data Migrator
Real-time ETL
iWay CEP Enable
Real-time Complex
Event Processing
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Best Practices for WebFOCUS
Implementations
Advanced Technology Services
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Best Practices for WebFOCUS Implementations
Documentation & ATS Enterprise Enablement
Result of year-long partnership with Sales Technical organization,
Documentation Services & Professional Services
Key Areas Covered:
Identifying Staffing and Leadership
Designing the WebFOCUS Architecture
Implementing the WebFOCUS Architecture
Executing the Architecture Implementation
Establishing Operational Procedures
Support and Administration
Training and Knowledge Transfer
Change Management
Deploying the Application to Production
Formal rollout in 1Q2010
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Best Practices for WebFOCUS Implementations
Designing the Architecture – WebFOCUS design
The Fundamentals of WebFOCUS Design
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Best Practices for WebFOCUS Implementations
Designing the Architecture – Enterprise Data
Enterprise Data
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Best Practices for WebFOCUS Implementations
Designing the Architecture – WebFOCUS Environments
WebFOCUS Environments
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Thank You!