WebFOCUS InfoCube
Pre-built Templates to Satisfy Your Analysis Needs
Business analysts have found that slicing and dicing corporate data in eight key ways will produce 80 percent of the answers needed to run most businesses. WebFOCUS InfoCube provides those answers instantly with a series of decision support application templates designed specifically for managers who analyze sales and marketing performance. These customizable templates provide preconstructed report requests that allow any user, with any level of computer or business experience, to get these answers with just a few mouse clicks. For example:
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Find out whether you're on plan and, if not, locate precisely where you're deviating |
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Quickly locate the lowest-margin products with the fewest sales or highest-margin products with the most sales |
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Identify the 20 percent of your products, salespeople, or customers, producing 80 percent of your revenue |
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Quickly find large customers who are buying less from you and understand how dependent you are on their business |
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Explore your general ledger and financial data in an intuitive way |
WebFOCUS Power on the Web or in Windows
InfoCube is a series of templates that utilizes the WebFOCUS reporting engine and can therefore take advantage of its many powerful features. This includes the ability to easily deploy in either a Web environment, requiring only a standard Web browser without any plug-ins, or in a Microsoft Windows environment.
Zero Learning Curve
Using InfoCube is as easy as using a Web browser or any standard Windows application. Users are immediately productive as there is no learning curve. Its highly intuitive interface makes navigation a simple matter of point-and-click. As a result, you can get your critical business intelligence faster, while lowering training and maintenance costs.
Maps Module
InfoCube's Maps data analysis module can easily arrange sales data into geographic maps, allowing you to drill down on the maps to see the underlying data. This is one of the easiest ways to view and analyze sales information. As you move from one image to the next, the underlying data – shown in an adjacent frame – changes along with it.
Top/Bottom Rankings
Powerful ranking is available at the touch of a button with the Top/Bottom data analysis module. See your top (or bottom) 3, 10, 50, or 500 customers, products, stores, regions...anything you choose to measure. You can rank and analyze revenues, costs, margins, profits, or any other relevant variable.
Financials
The Financials data analysis module lets you do high-level financial analysis. The analysis is typically based on monthly extracts from your general ledger system, although it can be based on anything you choose. Report options include cash flow, income statement, gross margin analysis, and detailed line-item analysis. You can export information from the Financials module into Excel for further analysis.
Over Time
No matter what you measure, you can analyze how it changes over time with the Over Time data analysis module. Analyze sales, units, margins, cost, and more for any product, customer, region – or anything appropriate for your objectives.
Planning
The Plan data analysis module lets you analyze information for any product, customer, sales representative, store, dealer ... anything you want to understand better. Drill down to detail data with a few clicks. There is no limit to the number of drill-downs, and details can be sorted any way you choose and shown as numbers, graphs, or a combination.
Pareto
The unique Pareto module lets you uncover valuable percentage information. Find out what percent of your business comes from what percent of your products. Or what is the percentage of each of your sales representatives' contribution to the bottom line this year. Insight like this is invaluable for running your operations at maximum efficiency.
List
The List data analysis module lets you view your report in a variety of ways so you can view data from many different perspectives. Simply select any column, click on the button above to sort it, then watch while your data presents itself in a whole new light. You can sort one way, then another, and yet another until you're satisfied with the results.
Power Grid
InfoCube's most powerful data analysis module divides total revenue, profit, cost, or any appropriate measure into four "buckets." The buckets add up to 100 percent and represent different segments and trends in your business. These grids will let you answer such questions as "What percent of my business comes from large customers who have recently purchased very little of my high-end products?" From any Power Grid result, you can drill down to any other InfoCube data analysis module for quick identification of major problems or opportunities.
System Requirements
Web Deployment
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Operating Systems – NT, Linux, UNIX, OpenVMS, MVS, VM |
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Web Servers – Any Web server that supports the standard CGI protocol or Microsoft ISAPI, including Netscape, Microsoft, and NCSA-compatible Web servers |
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Browsers – Netscape 4.5 or higher or Microsoft IE 4.01 version 4.72 or higher. For pure HTML applications: Microsoft IE or Netscape version 3.0 or higher |
Windows Deployment
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Operating Systems – Microsoft |
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Hardware – Pentium 166 or higher; VGA or higher resolution graphics card; 32MB of memory for Windows 95/98 or 64MB of memory for NT 4.0; 100MB of free disk space |
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Browsers – Microsoft IE 4.01 version 4.72 or higher. (You do not need to make IE your default browser, but since the WebFOCUS Desktop Viewer uses IE files, this browser must be installed on your workstation.) |
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Additional Software – Adobe Acrobat to display reports in |
