Features and Benefits of the WebFocus Architecture

Unparalleled reach for real-time information

Optional adapters provide native access to and integration of any enterprise data

	Popular financial packages (i.e. SAP, PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards, Lawson)
	More than 85 other sources across 35 platforms

Financial professionals can obtain a complete, accurate, up-to-the-minute view of financial and corporate performance

Enhanced analysis for multidimensional cubes

Interface with Microsoft Analysis Services and Hyperion Essbase

Eliminates need for plug-ins

Advanced support for Hyperion Essbase
	User-friendly OLAP front-end
	Drill-through capability to source or related data
	Ability to paint hierarchical reports directly against Essbase metadata
	Organizes and reports on data like any other data source
	Ability to partially traverse a dimension (i.e., only selecting desired data values)

	Increased and better access to any data
	Improved report development
	Much more effective data pull

Rapid time to market

An integrated development environment for quickly building, testing, and managing financial applications

	Powerful, visually intuitive tools allow for point-and-click creation of financial reports
	Robust financial modeling tool to handle complex, financially-oriented data,and dynamically read varying hierarchies such as chart of accounts, for rapid generation of sophisticated financial reports such as balance sheets, profit and loss analysis, and income statements

Increases the efficiency of delivering information to financial users

Maximum usability for non technical financial staff

End users can easily access, navigate, and analyze real-time financial information in the format/way that’s most useful to them with:

	Self-service applications
	Secure, manageable end-user reporting environments
	Intuitive ad hoc and OLAP and forecasting tools
	Report output in common business formats such as HTML, PDF, and graphs
	Tight integration with Excel, including dynamic generation of Native Excel formulas and Pivot tables, so analysts can continue to use familiar tools

Facilitates and accelerates decision-making by empowering financial professionals to satisfy their own demands for real-time financial information

Broad delivery of information

Makes information widely accessible and deliverable to anyone, anywhere, at any time:

	Developers can create a portal-like interface for WebFOCUS financial applications
	Financial reports can be incorporated into leading third-party portals such as Plumtree, Microsoft SharePoint, and IBM WebSphere
	Dynamic distribution of information on a scheduled or alert-driven basis via e-mail, the Web, and wireless devices

Ensures that critical financial information is available to, or can be received by, key decision makers when it’s needed most

Full support for global financial reporting and management

Designed to work in all countries and for all languages:

	National Language Support reads and interprets national characters and handles sorting, case conversions, and formatting of dates, currencies, and numbers
	Analyze and compare financial data from several geographic regions by incorporating multiple currencies into a single report column
	National Language Version capabilities display the WebFOCUS user interface in a variety of foreign languages

Provides a worldwide picture of financial and business activities, and allows users around the globe to easily generate financial reports

Robust report and information archiving

A powerful archiving facility makes it easy to securely store and manage financial reports and documents for future retrieval and use

Reduces the costs associated with information management, and allows for efficient compliance with information retention guidelines