WebFOCUS: Powered by NetWeaver

By Nick Zavalkov

WebFOCUS 7.1.1 has received the SAP "Powered by NetWeaver" certification, allowing SAP customers to develop business intelligence applications that leverage the NetWeaver technology they already own.

Information Builders has made SAP-specific integration and optimization work to qualify for the NetWeaver certification. Specifically, WebFOCUS can now run on SAP Web Application Server (SAP Web AS) Release 6.40. Also, WebFOCUS reports can be accessed using the iViews feature within SAP Enterprise Portal Server.

iViews displaying WebFOCUS reports support single sign-on (SSO) as well as advanced report personalization capabilities. SAP's NetWeaver platform is becoming more accepted for many large enterprises. Making SAP's environment more easily available to an expanded number of mainstream users is a major priority for these organizations. WebFOCUS integrated architecture and scalability can help SAP customers to extend business intelligence's benefits further and deeper into their enterprises.

Information Builders advanced business intelligence architecture provides SAP customers with the ease of administration and scalability they expect, as well as the monitoring, reporting and analysis capabilities business users require. As SAP customers start deploying business intelligence applications enterprise-wide, they often need the integrated reporting and analysis capabilities uniquely offered by Information Builders.

This certification will allow Information Builders to provide our customers with an even more integrated SAP solution.