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WebFOCUS 8 – What’s New!!??
Nurud Mohamed
Sr. Systems Engineer
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Core Mission & Philosophy
 Core Mission: Dedicated to provide the best platform and tools for
creating and delivering large enterprise information systems
 Maintain and expand a wide range of capabilities – from data
access to application development
 Continuous improvements in development efficiencies to reduce
the cost and time to deliver enterprise information systems
 Strategic Goals: Use the platform’s core strengths to power an
ecosystem BI related technologies to allow customers to expand their
information systems in new areas such as predictive analytics,
search, etc.
Development Areas Breakdown
The breakdown is a testimony to our commitment to customers needs, to
innovation, and expansion of capabilities:
 Core Product Enhancements:
 60% of development resources
 Hundreds of new features per release
 Example: Multi-Fact Support in Metadata
 Strategic Extensions to Core Product:
 15% of development resources
 Approximately 2-3 products per year
 Example: Hyperstage, ziip support
 New BI Extensions:
 25% of development resources
 2-3 new products or extensions to new products per year
 Example: RStat, Magnify, Data Migrator, Mobile
Enabling Self Service for Business Users:
BI Portal & InfoAssist
InfoAssist & New Portal
8.0
8.x
 BIP & IA: Unified look and feel and workflow
 BIP: Targeted for designers, business and end users
 WYSIWYG designer with robust layout options
 Themes & dynamic report styling
 Chart autofit within any screen/device size
 InfoAssist:
 New HTML 5 chart engine integration & multi-drill
 Full AR styling and enhanced conditional styling
 Relative Positioning
 Tools consolidation –Advanced GA in IA
 New: Multipage layouts, Sub-query support, more analytic functions,
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Integration of BIP with Social Media Sites
Mobile development in IA or Application Studio
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BI Portal: PowerPoint Like Ease of Customization
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BI Portal: Stylesheet Inheritance
The New Visualization Engine: Benefits
 An entirely new unified visualization technology that is now being rolled
out across our entire product line
 The benefits:
 WebFOCUS is the only platform that offers unified charting experience:
 Single engine generates: HTML5, Flash, JPEG, PNG
 The exact same chart experience in all output formats: Active
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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
InfoAssist: Visual Discovery Like Analysis
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InfoAssist: New Dimensional Combination Charts
Enterprise Mobile Enablement
Mobile – Design Once Deploy on any Device
Objective: Ongoing enhancements for designing state of the art
applications for any device
8.0
 Active Technologies Enhancements:
 80 New HTML5 Charts
 New Modern Look and Feel: Google like style
 Incremental: layout and image rendering improvements and
jQuery integration
8.x
 Building Device Aware Apps:
 Media Query initial support via templates
 jQuery integration for mobile application development
 InfoMini for mobile devices
 Implement CSS3 support and generation tools
 Mobile development via InfoAssist and Application Studio
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Active Technologies UI Upgrade
WebFOCUS 8 Security Enhancements
Drive SaaS & Personalization
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WebFOCUS 8 Security
Objective: Provide a robust security model that facilitates SaaS &
PaaS, Deep personalization, and simplified administrations
 New DBMS-based repository for WebFOCUS, ReportCaster, and Managed
Reporting:
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New hierarchical object-based repository called Information Builders File
System (IBFS)
Frees customers from fixed folders, folder depth, file names
Simplifies administration and system backup over previous version
 Key features and benefits of IBFS
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Fine-grained control over role definition and permission assignments
Security policies can be applied on any IBFS object including users, groups,
folders, reports, portals, report server nodes, etc.
Supports inheritance
Supports Multi-tenancy and group administration
 New auditing captures user logon activity and administrative actions
WebFOCUS 8 Security
 Benefits for the Administrator:
 User authorization integration with LDAP groups
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Automatic account creation & log-in synchronization
Group administration:
 Create groups to manage ReportCaster and BI Portal resources
Resource Templates:
 Predefined templates for groups, content folders, roles and policies
 Simplify the onboarding of new customers in multi-tenant SaaS
environments
 Simplify extending BI to new departments
 Benefits to End Users:
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Advanced content sharing enables users to pick individuals whom they wish to
share content with
Security subsystem makes it possible for tenant users to securely share content
created in a common domain with their colleagues
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WebFOCUS 8 Security: Built-in Domain Templates
• WebFOCUS creates the required groups, resources, and security policy
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Thank You! Let’s See Some Product!!