WebFOCUS Mobile Favorites
Solutions for Mobile Business Intelligence and Reporting
As mobile phones become more powerful the list of supported applications increases. The analyst community believes that all applications should now be mobile-enabled by default.
Jumpstart your mobile development initiatives with WebFOCUS Mobile Favorites from Information Builders. Leveraging existing report design and distribution technologies, this solution uses a thin-client (pure browser-based) architecture. Mobile Favorites enables reports to be shared across devices and content to be delivered to mobile devices without changing underlying infrastructures.
For an increasingly mobile workforce, the value of instant access to information outweighs other inconveniences such as screen and keyboard size.
Enabling the Mobile Enterprise
- Easy to manage content – with the My Mobile Favorites dashboard folder users can add and delete mobile content in just two clicks
- E-mail alerts for content updates – lets users know that content in their My Mobile Favorites folder has been modified
- User selected report format – content is delivered in the user's preferred format, such as HTML, PDF, and Excel, limited only by their device's capabilities
- Intuitive interface – mobile reports are launched from a link either in an e-mail or a bookmarked mobile-browser page
- On-demand customization – users can run parameterized reports and drill down to further details
- No connection required – users can trigger reports to be sent as attachments to view or work with while in disconnected mode
- Actionable applications – self-contained, interactive reports (WebFOCUS Active Reports) and dashboards (WebFOCUS Active Dashboards) can be manipulated, sliced and diced, and drilled into for advanced analysis, both in connected or disconnected mode
WebFOCUS Mobile Favorites presents a robust platform for information and application delivery to mobile devices. Its robust features, include:
From any Web-enabled device users can access their Mobile Favorites folder and easily navigate to BI content.
- No device software to support – reports are delivered directly to a device's browser, eliminating costly maintenance, updates, and versioning for different operating systems; reports are available on all mobile browsers
- No additional hardware required – standard Web and BI technologies are used so that dedicated mobile servers aren't needed to convert BI content to mobile formats or manage interactions
- No unique design and delivery tools needed – create mobile reports and make them immediately available using standard development and delivery tools; existing reports can be distributed to any mobile device without conversion
- No special security considerations – provide a secure connection through mobile device and virtual protocol networks (VPNs); WebFOCUS Managed Reporting is used to manage user access and any Managed Reporting user can be immediately given access to mobile content
Device agnostic and cost-effective, Mobile Favorites allows organizations to benefit from increased productivity and maximized returns on existing investments. Other benefits include:
