Introducing WebFOCUS Visual Discovery

By Chris Banks

WebFOCUS Visual Discovery is Information Builders’ advanced data visualization product that allows you to graphically represent any of your enterprise data – detail and summary – through a combination of multiple related components on the same screen. WebFOCUS Visual Discovery gives you an illustrative and multifaceted view of your data, enabling immediate observations and increasing productivity tenfold.

We expect WebFOCUS Visual Discovery will appeal to business analysts who will use it to quickly understand their data in new and better ways, as well as executives who can now easily view, understand and interact with performance metrics.

But there’s more. An extension of WebFOCUS enterprise reporting, WebFOCUS Visual Discovery, seamlessly interacts with your existing WebFOCUS reports. Passing parameters or providing drill-downs from WebFOCUS Visual Discovery to your WebFOCUS reports, and vice versa, is second nature. In fact, WebFOCUS is the only business intelligence solution in the market with this capability.

Imagine starting with your customized WebFOCUS Business Intelligence Dashboard, where you have your corporate “look and feel” defined. From here you run and display a styled WebFOCUS report. By drilling down into WebFOCUS Visual Discovery, you now see your data visually, defined as rich and intuitive graphs and charts. And just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, you drill down even deeper into yet another WebFOCUS report, displaying your detailed data.

You’re not only finding answers to complex business problems that perhaps may be impossible to see with tables and reports, you’re seeing them, and you’re seeing them quickly. Think of the time saved in eliminating the pages upon pages of printed reports that employees go through to get a single answer. With WebFOCUS Visual Discovery those answers are instantaneous, even if you know nothing about the data set.

Besides dynamic charting capabilities (line, bar, pie, and histogram charts), WebFOCUS Visual Discovery provides complex graphs as well (paraboxes, data constellations, time tables and scatter plots). Imagine having your business analysts discovering their answers with the complex graphs of their choosing, and your executives viewing their KPI’s through graphical and easy-to-use representations that you’ve designed for them.

And speaking of design, Developer Studio’s seamless integration with Microsoft FrontPage enables the creation your WebFOCUS Visual Discovery pages in just a matter of minutes.

Ready to see this in action? Contact your local Information Builders representative, who will make it possible for you to see WebFOCUS Visual Discovery firsthand. Or click here for a demo of the product.