Information Builders understands that ad hoc query and analysis is critical to ensuring fast, effective decision-making and the smooth execution of day-to-day operations. That’s why we’ve developed a robust, user-friendly solution that helps companies overcome the challenges associated with traditional ad hoc query and analysis environments.

WebFOCUS InfoAssist extends the power ofWebFOCUS, providing users with the most advanced — yet simple to use — ad hoc query and analysis capabilities available today.With WebFOCUS InfoAssist, business users have access to all the features they need to generate even the most intricate reports and analyses on their own.

Flexible and Powerful
WebFOCUS InfoAssist allows business users to leverage state-of-the-art ad hoc functionality to quickly and easily:

• Generate highly complex reports, charts, and documents from any enterprise information source — without IT intervention
• Rapidly complete basic tasks, such as building a simple query
• Easily progress to more sophisticated activities such as publishing and sharing documents
• Rapidly search for and locate data in cubes and other multidimensional sources, such as Oracle Essbase, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, and the SAP Business InformationWarehouse, via a simplified interface that is easier and faster than traditional cube browsers
• Convert reports to charts or charts to reports in a single click
• Create and analyze multiple reports and charts simultaneously, and utilize advanced tiling options to view the data from multiple perspectives
• Leverage today’s most flexible report output capabilities, generating reports in HTML, inline HTML, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint,WebFOCUS Active Reports (for offline analysis), and other formats

With WebFOCUS Active Reports, users like these can take the power of business intelligence with them wherever they go. By combining data and interactive controls into a single, self-contained HTML file, WebFOCUS Active Reports deliver analytic capabilities in a completely portable and disconnected environment, with absolutely no software required. Users can manipulate reports in various sort orders, filter data by different criteria, and chart information for visual impact — anytime, anywhere.

WebFOCUS Active Reports can:

• Make enterprise data available to a broader audience of external users, with no dependencies on third-party software
• Minimize development cycles and reduce backlogs, while eliminating repeated connections to enterprise data, by providing a single report that can be transformed again and again
• Deliver timely information to field workers whenever they need it
• Minimize network costs by enabling mobile users to work in disconnected mode

WebFOCUS Active Reports can be e-mailed to anyone, anywhere – including customers and external business partners – with no additional software or user license required by the recipient.

With WebFOCUS Active Reports, users like these can take the power of business intelligence with them wherever they go. By combining data and interactive controls into a single, self-contained HTML file, WebFOCUS Active Reports deliver analytic capabilities in a completely portable and disconnected environment, with absolutely no software required. Users can manipulate reports in various sort orders, filter data by different criteria, and chart information for visual impact — anytime, anywhere.

WebFOCUS Active Reports can:

• Make enterprise data available to a broader audience of external users, with no dependencies on third-party software
• Minimize development cycles and reduce backlogs, while eliminating repeated connections to enterprise data, by providing a single report that can be transformed again and again
• Deliver timely information to field workers whenever they need it
• Minimize network costs by enabling mobile users to work in disconnected mode

WebFOCUS Active Reports can be e-mailed to anyone, anywhere – including customers and external business partners – with no additional software or user license required by the recipient.

With WebFOCUS Active Reports, users like these can take the power of business intelligence with them wherever they go. By combining data and interactive controls into a single, self-contained HTML file, WebFOCUS Active Reports deliver analytic capabilities in a completely portable and disconnected environment, with absolutely no software required. Users can manipulate reports in various sort orders, filter data by different criteria, and chart information for visual impact — anytime, anywhere.

WebFOCUS Active Reports can:

• Make enterprise data available to a broader audience of external users, with no dependencies on third-party software
• Minimize development cycles and reduce backlogs, while eliminating repeated connections to enterprise data, by providing a single report that can be transformed again and again
• Deliver timely information to field workers whenever they need it
• Minimize network costs by enabling mobile users to work in disconnected mode

WebFOCUS Active Reports can be e-mailed to anyone, anywhere – including customers and external business partners – with no additional software or user license required by the recipient.

User forums are valuable resources for users of Information Builders solutions – including WebFOCUS business intelligence software and iWay Software technology for business integration – to learn from technical experts and to network with peers.

The objective is simple – to share product information, programming techniques, and experiences in order to maximize the potential of your Information Builders investment.

Informative Sessions

Customers present case studies and real-world applications, highlighting any challenges and explaining the solutions – insider tips and benefits. Information Builders business and technical experts are invited to demonstrate the latest trends, strategies, and the newest features, including enhanced development, analysis, and deployment capabilities.

Team Environment

More than 60 local and regional forums are held throughout the year, each comprising a wide variety of members ranging from end users to integrators, project leaders, and consultants. Representing all levels of experience, members work together to discover new and exciting ways to improve productivity and meet tomorrow’s business goals.

Bridging the Gap Between Search Technology and Business Intelligence

How do you bring the speed, breadth, and power of an Internet search to the realm of the enterprise? What if you could efficiently and easily locate all references to a part number or customer across all data stores, transactions, and dynamically generated reports in the enterprise? With WebFOCUS Magnify, you can empower users to search the enterprise as easily as they use their favorite search engine on the Web.

WebFOCUS Magnify is a cutting-edge tool that combines the power of state-of-the-art search, business intelligence, and integration technologies. It lets you tap into enterprise records and empower more users than ever to leverage critical corporate information. With WebFOCUS Magnify, structured and unstructured data references are compiled into the universally known and easy-to-use Google Search paradigm. By enabling users to easily locate key facts through simple keyword searches, organizations can realize significant productivity gains and enhance decision-making across the enterprise.

When you search a keyword with WebFOCUS Magnify, indexed content is rapidly scanned to create Google-style results drawn from all data sources across the enterprise. From the search page follow links to execute reports and access information in the format of your choice, including Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDF, HTML, or XML.

What you get:

• Everyone, at all levels, aligned in support of corporate strategy with the industry's greatest scalability, ease of use, and data access – and its lowest TCO
• A common user experience against consistent, accurate data with a single, organically developed solution – not a patchwork of products added via acquisition
• Complete insight into enterprise performance with comprehensive access to any data source
• Support for multiple performance management methodologies with BSC-certified scorecard technology and open, flexible functionality
• Problems resolved by the right people with role-based levels of data access and security
• Access to real-time data to resolve problems that can't wait
• Staged or real-time data, according to need with a flexible data access architecture
• Accountability with built-in audit trails

Information Builders' WebFOCUS is the one solution that meets all these requirements.

Introducing WebFOCUS Power Painter. This new environment is a Windows-like tool for developing graphs and reports, and then publishing them, all in a thin-client environment. No plug-ins or desktop software required.

WebFOCUS Power Painter is built with the latest AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) tools for data transfer and Bindows technology for rendering the GUI. This framework makes Power Painter a thin-client tool that looks, responds, and performs like a Windows-based facility. Power Painter is the first tool of its type to provide multiple levels of scalability. It can scale to large numbers of users since it is easily administered as a thin-client Web tool. Power Painter will also scale to the user's skill level, based on multi-level preference profiles.

This is the short demo that can be emailed to your prospects.

Introducing WebFOCUS Power Painter. This new environment is a Windows-like tool for developing graphs and reports, and then publishing them, all in a thin-client environment. No plug-ins or desktop software required.

The intuitive interface is ideal for power business users; just launch Power Painter from portals or dashboards, then drag and drop reports, graphs, images, and lines onto a canvas. Data extraction and report modeling are combined into a single step allowing the WYSIWIG environment to preview the output's look and feel and also its actual contents. Any changes to the content or layout appear instantly.

Power Painter integrates three new thin-client tools – a report painter, graph assistant, and layout tool – into a single environment. The new publishing capabilities of these tools include:

• Changeable skins that enable seamless integration with corporate color schemes
• Visual aids such as grids and rulers
• Layouts with multiple reports and graphs
• Vast array of new chart types
• Coordinated sorting of multiple reports and graphs
• Boardroom quality output

WebFOCUS Power Painter is built with the latest AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) tools for data transfer and Bindows technology for rendering the GUI. This framework makes Power Painter a thin-client tool that looks, responds, and performs like a Windows-based facility. Power Painter is the first tool of its type to provide multiple levels of scalability. It can scale to large numbers of users since it is easily administered as a thin-client Web tool. Power Painter will also scale to the user's skill level, based on multi-level preference profiles.

WebFOCUS is an operational business intelligence solution that makes any type of data available, accessible, and meaningful, distributing sophisticated reports to thousands of users, inside and outside your enterprise.

• Integration of disparate data from virtually any platform in any format
• Transformation of raw data into styled reports, charts, Web pages, Adobe PDF documents, and Excel spreadsheets
• WebFOCUS 7's simplified BI development tools
• A parameter-based reporting framework that allows end users to customize report elements, filters, and output formats to suit their specific needs

WebFOCUS Quick Data from Information Builders is the solution you’ve been waiting for. An
Excel add-in file, Quick Data connects Excel directly to the WebFOCUS reporting engine. By
leveraging over 300 adapters Quick Data gives users access to a virtually unlimited amount
of enterprise information. And, most importantly, they can do all this without having to
learn a new tool.

• From within the familiar Excel environment, users can:
  
• Access all enterprise data
• Build reports that are automatically refreshed with updated data
• Combine multiple reports from various data sources in a single worksheet
• Create new queries

Fully integrated with Excel Query and built with the power of WebFOCUS’ industry-leading Excel
integration capabilities, Quick Data:

• Creates named ranges automatically
• Outputs computations and totals as native Excel formulas
• Styles the output, adds data filtering, and includes drill-downs

And, while in application mode Quick Data can:

• Generate PivotTables
• Burst data into multiple worksheets within the workbook
• Refresh data in a server-based Excel application or template

WebFOCUS is an operational business intelligence solution that makes any type of data available, accessible, and meaningful, distributing sophisticated reports to thousands of users, inside and outside your enterprise.

• Integration of disparate data from virtually any platform in any format
• Transformation of raw data into styled reports, charts, Web pages, Adobe PDF documents, and Excel spreadsheets
• WebFOCUS 7's simplified BI development tools
• A parameter-based reporting framework that allows end users to customize report elements, filters, and output formats to suit their specific needs

Tired of scrolling through spreadsheet after spreadsheet to find the answer to a simple question? WebFOCUS Visual Discovery enhances your existing WebFOCUS environment with cutting-edge data visualization capabilities. WebFOCUS Visual Discovery allows you to perform in-depth, intuitive analysis in real time using a variety of visualization mechanisms and features. You can conduct analysis from any enterprise data source using a wide variety of advanced visualization components, including three-D bar and pie charts, histograms, data constellations, and multiscapes.

WebFOCUS Visual Discovery turns raw data into visually perceptive, highly interactive charts and illustrations, allowing users to dynamically change graphical views on the fly by selecting, zooming, pivoting, or re-coloring charts while uncovering new relationships with their data. Users can implement intuitive, highly interactive, graphical data discovery and visualization techniques. Data can be more easily measured and compared, critical trends and relationships can be spotted in an instant, and problems can be immediately detected and acted upon.

A "Powered by SAP NetWeaver" solution – is simple to use, yet powerful enough to help maximize the value of your SAP investment. Tightly integrated with SAP, WebFOCUS brings the rich metadata found in SAP BW directly to users' fingertips. WebFOCUS makes SAP reporting so easy that even casual business users will be able to take full control of SAP BW hierarchies, selecting measures and dimensions in an intuitive point-and-click interface, and generating reports in any output format including html, PDF, Excel, XML, or plain text.

What You'll See in This Demo

• Development and delivery of structured ad hoc reports for business users using SAP BW data
• Administration of SAP BW metadata in multiple languages concurrently
• Inclusion of any SAP BW structure (variable, measure, characteristic, or characteristic hierarchy) into a customized, parameter-driven front-end to generate a virtually unlimited set of formatted reports
• Creation of self-contained Active Reports with built-in analytics and charting functionality allowing the user to slice and dice the data with no live connection to SAP required

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