Case Studies

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Ad Hoc Reporting Delivered!

Tech Level: | Prerequisite: Some understanding of FOCUS code and MasterFiles.
Ever wanted ad hoc reporting? At Paycor, we've crafted a unique reporting solution using WebFOCUS, web services, and ASP.NET. This presentation explores how these technologies interact to create an intuitive, easy to use web application, giving our users the power to make the report they want with a few simple clicks.

Business Intelligence That Scales: The Power of Guided Ad Hoc

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World Wide Technology (WWT) is a leading systems integrator that provides powerful, yet cost-effective technology and supply-chain solutions to the commercial, government, and telecom sectors. WWT specializes in delivering and supporting advanced technology solutions to customers around the world. In this session, we will show you how we have developed some of our guided ad hoc applications by unleashing the power of WebFOCUS. This will be a detailed, technical look into the development of one of our guided ad hoc BI applications. We will also explain how this application has greatly improved customer satisfaction while reducing our BI footprint.

Developing an RIA-Based Dynamic Charting Dashboard for MetroPulse Chicago

Tech Level: | Prerequisite: Knowledge of WebFOCUS.
The MetroPulse Chicago website developed an RIA-based Dynamic Charting Dashboard based on the latest WebFOCUS Flex Enable API and Adobe Flash Builder. The dashboard is key in helping users visualize the vast warehouse of data on quality-of-life factors in the Chicago metropolitan region. It also gives users the ability to choose interesting indicators and create dynamic, complex charts in a few simple clicks.

Embedding WebFOCUS in a SaaS Application

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LeanLogistics is a SaaS provider in the Logistics and Transportation space. Over the past year, we have been integrating WebFOCUS into our suite of products and services and deploying InfoAssist for use by both internal and external customers ad hoc reporting needs. This session will detail our application and review how we overcame the various authentication, data restriction, and UI challenges inherent with tightly integrating a third-party application into a SaaS infrastructure.

Harnessing the Power of the FOCUS Database

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Humans harness the power of the wind, sun, ocean, and lightening. Under control, all of these elements return immense benefits. The FOCUS database is an additional source of power to FOCUS/WebFOCUS applications. This power, once harnessed, leads to the transformation of raw data into highly auditable, accurate, and well-structured information. This session will provide an overview of the FOCUS database, with an eye toward how FOCUS/WebFOCUS professionals leverage its power, on a practical day-to-day basis. Topics will include: FOCUS database design, ETL techniques, and methods for making the database adaptable and time sensitive.

Kelasto: The Statistical Database of Social Insurance Institution of Finland

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The 25 different statistics compiled by Kela, the Social Insurance Institution of Finland, serve the continued development of the country's social protection, illustrating, in numbers, the role that social security plays in meeting the income security needs of people in different situations of life. They also provide information about the level and prevalence of various benefits as well as about their regional and demographic distribution. Kelasto, Kela's statistical database, contains key statistical information about the social security schemes and lets users generate their own reports with whatever criteria they wish.

Leveraging TMN Network Infrastructure Data: WebFOCUS BI Culture in Action

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TMN's leadership in the competitive Portuguese mobile communications landscape demands continuous network quality reporting. Attendees are invited to hear how TMN deployed a new BI culture using WebFOCUS, enabling a web-based reporting paradigm that helps all business users to steer network behavior.

Mid-Continent Group Insurance Performance Foundation

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Mid-Continent Group needed an online, single source of integrated enterprise information for strategic business planning and execution. The Insurance Performance Foundation (IPF) provided a solution. This presentation will take a look at Mid-Continent Group's requirements, why it selected IPF, the steps taken to build the necessary components, and a preview of the various reports now in use.

Sales Cockpit at Wustenrot & Wurttembergische

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Since 2006, Wustenrot & Wurttembergische (W&W), a leading provider for building loans in Germany, has been growing faster than the market and increasing market share. With its new Sales Cockpit initiative, W&W provides targeted information, from several sources, to sales management and field sales in an attractive and intuitive way. Sales people find up-to-date metrics about sales and opportunities to drive more business. In 2011, W&W will complete a major rollout of the Sales Cockpit to 3.500 users, focusing on design and development aspects of the project such as requirements, features, basic concepts, development strategy, layouts, and optimization.

Successful Implementation and Adoption of WebFOCUS: A Recipe for Success

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There are several considerations organizations should take when deploying WebFOCUS. Attend this session to learn about the importance of management's commitment to and understanding of the goals and objectives of the WebFOCUS implementation; effective communication to make an implementation successful; and lightweight documentation to support key implementation milestones, goals and objectives, clarity around scope, requirements, validated architectural framework, testing criteria, and various decision points.

Varolii: New Ways to Communicate, New Ways to Integrate WebFOCUS

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Varolii, a SaaS provider and market leader in proactive automated communications, is trusted by more than 380 organizations, such as Southwest Airlines, Time Warner Cable, and Southern California Edison, to make between three and four million communications every day. Varolii is working on a major reporting and controls initiative to provide its clients with innovative insight, access, and control over their applications. This session will cover some of the unique ways that Varolii is tightly integrating WebFOCUS products, including InfoAssist, with its new client portal.

Where in the Universe Is My Data and How Can I Get It?

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Hercules Tire, a wholesale tire distributor based out of Findlay, Ohio, recently embarked on an initiative to provide data to its sales team in an effort to get them the right information at the right time and continue to provide excellent customer service. Hercules has a unique enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with a flat, multi-valued database structure (Universe), which presented some unique challenges, and benefits, for the WebFOCUS implementation team. This case study will address some of those issues and showcase the Guided Ad-Hoc tool we developed to provide critical data to our internal users in a much easily managed and understood format.