Transcript MGI Financial WebFOCUS overview April 2010

Extending WebFOCUS Business Intelligence
to Mobile devices
Toronto User Group
Information Builders (Canada) Inc.
April 2011
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WebFOCUS Business Intelligence
Core Services + Extended Business Intelligence
User Facing
Intranet
Internet
Visualization
& Mapping
Mobile
Applications
Extranet
App/Dev, Portals
& Mash-ups
Enterprise
Search
Performance
Management
Reporting
Predictive
Analytics
Query &
Analysis
MS Office &
e-Publishing
Dashboards
Information
Delivery
Mainframe
Relational
Real Time
Data Warehouse
& ETL
Spreadsheets
Access
Integration
Data
Warehouse
Business to
Business
Cust.
3rd
Party
Providers
…
…
Data Quality
Master Data
Management
Business Activity
Monitoring
Extensions to WebFOCUS
platform allow building more
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application types at lower costs
WebFOCUS Business Intelligence
Extending to Mobile devices
User Facing
Intranet
Internet
Visualization
& Mapping
Mobile
Applications
Extranet
App/Dev, Portals
& Mash-ups
Enterprise
Search
Performance
Management
Reporting
Predictive
Analytics
Query &
Analysis
MS Office &
e-Publishing
Dashboards
Information
Delivery
Mainframe
Relational
Real Time
Data Warehouse
& ETL
Spreadsheets
Access
Integration
Data
Warehouse
Business to
Business
Cust.
3rd Party
Providers
…
…
Data Quality
Master Data
Management
Business Activity
Monitoring
Extensions to WebFOCUS
platform allow building more
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application types at lower costs
Mobile Business Intelligence
Overview
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Mobile Business Intelligence
State of the Market
 3 Years ago the vote was
 No mobile Business Intelligence (BI)
 Custom Client Applications
 Today
 Everything is going mobile
 Benefit: Access to real time information anywhere
 Early Adopters: Executives, Middle Managers
 Hard Choices
 Client vs. Browser based applications
 What content to deliver
 What BI functions are important
 How to deliver on small screen
 What makes it difficult
 Device choices & Screen size choices
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WebFOCUS Mobile Business Intelligence
What it provides
 Portable Online web content
 Reports, Charts and Dashboards across all device browsers
 KPIs, Briefing books, Business Analytics, Transactions
 Device leveraging web apps for Online and Offline
 Embedded Analytics Engine and Data
 Transform Reports into Charts and Dashboards
 Device aware: Mouse/Finger, Swipe, Tap, Pinch, Zoom
 Can use native device apps
 Native device portal apps
 Access, capture, save, catalog, navigate, search web content
 Subscribe and receive alerts and pushed documents
 Brings web content easily to the native app user
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WebFOCUS Mobile Business Intelligence
Portable Online web content
 Information Builders Mobile philosophy and BI strategy
 Open, flexible and device independent
 No additional development or deployment costs
 However, tablet market is changing face of mobile BI
 Native iPad app was made available
 iPad is clear leader in market
 Leverage device specific capabilities
 Use self-service mobile portal or custom deployment
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Across mixed devices: Reporting
BB OS6
BB Older
Android
iPhone
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Across mixed devices: Charting
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Android
iPhone
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Across mixed devices: Guided Ad hoc Reporting
iPhone
Xoom
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Across Mixed Devices: User Prompted Reports
BB OS6
BB Older
Android
iPhone
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Across Mixed Devices: KPIs
BB OS6
BB Older
Android
iPhone
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Across mixed devices: Self-service browser portal
BB OS6
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Android
iPhone
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Device leveraging Offline web apps
WebFOCUS Mobile Business Intelligence
Device leveraging Offline web apps
 Ease of Use
 Single Tap UI paradigm
 95% of most commonly used Excel functions
 Ease of Development
 Client-side dynamic device detection
 Build once, fit in any device
 Industry Standard
 iPhone App-like UI
 Most familiar Gestures
 Available in HTML or Flash
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WebFOCUS Mobile Business Intelligence
Access Active menu to interact with Data
 Tap Column title
 Sort
 Filter
 Calculate
 Visualize
 Chart
 Rollup
 Pivot
 Tap Cell
 Comments
 Filter
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WebFOCUS Mobile Business Intelligence
Data in any Chart, Rollup or Pivot Table
 Robust Chart Engine
 About 30 Flash/HTML5 Chart types available
 Create Charts based on any data
 Swap X/Y Fields, Add/Remove Fields
 Change Aggregation types
 Create Rollup table or Pivot table on the fly
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WebFOCUS Mobile Business Intelligence
Offline Interactive Dashboards
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WebFOCUS Mobile Business Intelligence
Device leveraging Offline web apps
Droid X
Xoom
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Native device portal apps
WebFOCUS Mobile Business Intelligence
Native device portal apps – Introducing Mobile Faves
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Mobile Faves app
What it is
 Native app for consumption of WebFOCUS content
 Provides controlled access to WebFOCUS content through:
 Mobile Favorites portal (normal “pull”)
 Email attachments (“Open in Mobile Faves”)
 Subscribed documents (automatic “push”)
 Access to any online WebFOCUS application
 Identical app on iPad and iPhone
 Android app possible in future
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Mobile Faves app
Enhance experience beyond browsers
 WebFOCUS produces content, leverage on all mobile devices
 Access directly
 Customized through guided ad hoc form
 Embedded in a web app
 Delivered via email
 Web apps don’t have easy way of managing offline content
 Save, email, cataloging of stand-alone content
 Active Technologies or PDF documents
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Mobile Faves app
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Mobile Faves app
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E-mail content from Mobile Faves
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Open in E-mail attachments
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Watch list for push
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Search saved documents and comments
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Live Demonstration
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Mobile BI
Usage Benefits and Differentiators
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Active Technologies for Mobile
Benefits
 Ease of Use
 Single Tap UI paradigm
 95% of most commonly used Excel functions
 Ease of Development
 Client-side dynamic device detection
 Build once, fit in any device
 Industry Standard
 iPhone App-like UI
 Most familiar Gestures
 Available in HTML or Flash
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Mobile Favorites for iPhone/iPad
Benefits
 Native iPhone/iPad App interface
 Available in Apple App Store
 No Additional development
 Instant Access to Reports and Dashboards
 Seamless User experience
 Store locally
 Share Reports
 Update data
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Mobile Faves for iPad and iPhone
Usage Benefits over bare Browser
 Values
 Easy / fast way to access, view, store, manage BI content
 Simple and uncomplicated interface
 Start app – Display last Mobile Faves list
 Tap item – Display content, Tap save or email
 Leverage portable web content model
 No separate local app gadgets to manage, update
 Share content across devices and platforms
 App is administrative – works for any use
 Excellent platform for Active Technology capabilities
 Analytic – interactive – disconnected
 Any user can have own WF Mobile Faves list
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WebFOCUS Mobile Solutions
Key Values and Benefits
 Active Technologies + Mobile Faves App = Best in Class
 Active = Analytics engine embedded in each report
 Drill, filter, sort, roll up, report  graph  dashboard
 Without waiting on IT
 All portable web content
 Mobile Faves App
 Capture and store BI documents
 Subscriptions – Watch lists, email attachments
 Easy Tap and Search
 Deliver deep Analytics compared to other offerings
 Offline, store, subscription watch lists, attachments, ...
 No special software or hardware required
 Same development tools, servers, processes for each
report. Leverage all existing BI investments.
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Information Builders
Mobile Strategy and Roadmap
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Mobile Strategy and Roadmap
Native vs. Web based Approach
Native vs. Web is not an either or question. The answer is both!
Websites should work no matter what device you are on.
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Mobile Faves
How it fits into overall IB Mobile Strategy
 Value add to portable solutions
 Simple interface
 Content access through Mobile Favorites server
 Exception is email attachments
 Current device support
 iOS native app only: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch
 Market adoption will drive plans porting to Android,
BlackBerry, or webOS (HP/Palm) devices
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Mobile Faves app
Availability – Release
 WebFOCUS 7.7.03 – Available Q3 2011
 Latest Active Technologies – support HTML 5 / Gesturing
 Mobile Faves app available now in App Store
 Free download (uses mobilefaves.ibi.com site)
 Requires license for WebFOCUS Mobile Favorites to work
with customers WebFOCUS Server
 Mobile Faves works today with WF release 7702M
 Without enhanced Active Technologies features
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