WebFOCUS Open Portal Services for the JA-SIG's uPortal

Delivering Real-Time Information Anywhere, Anytime, to Anyone

JA-SIG’s uPortal is a free, sharable portal developed by institutions of higher-education. Information Builders' WebFOCUS Open Portal Services technology integrates fully with the uPortal solution to deliver consistent, accurate real-time information on a broad scale throughout the academic institution at a low per-user cost. With convenient, centralized access to business intelligence information, uPortal users at every level of the enterprise can make faster, more informed decisions that improve business performance.

WebFOCUS Open Portal Services for the JA-SIG uPortal

WebFOCUS Open Portal Services for the JA-SIG uPortal enables customers to add business intelligence content to their portal initiatives without any need for additional programming. uPortal developers gain the ability to quickly and easily integrate any enterprise data – more than 300 sources across 35 platforms – and distribute it to employees, partners, and customers via a personalized portal page that incorporates users’ e-mails, sales leads, inventory reports, and market news.

Features

WebFOCUS Open Portal Services allows you to deliver robust business intelligence capabilities to uPortal users by:

	Personalizing the way users view, store, and retrieve business intelligence content for optimum job efficiency
	Deciding what content users will have appear in each content window, how that content is displayed, and how it’s organized – even combining graphics and reports on the same page
	Managing documents for users and enabling them to perform content searches
	Extending additional privileges to users, allowing them to perform all types of reporting and queries, including ad hoc, OLAP, scheduling, and mobile
	Giving users the ability to select a report, run it, and direct the output
	Letting users work in a secure, role-based, managed environment

Security

WebFOCUS Open Portal Services technology supports internal and external security for screening authorized users within the uPortal environment. Administrators can structure and assign reports to individuals based upon their department and can assign even greater levels of security by granting access to reports based upon job function. Departmental security allows users to see reports only for the department to which they have access, such as accounting, finance, or sales. Role-based security allows individuals to view reports based upon their positions within the organization; for example, the CEO or vice president can be granted access to information across several departments in the enterprise.

For more information about WebFOCUS support for internal and external security, visit www.informationbuilders.com/products/webfocus/security.html.

Benefits

By integrating WebFOCUS Open Portal Services technology with uPortal, organizations can deliver flexible, secure, role-based business intelligence capabilities to their portal. Personalized access to information helps meet the individual requirements and skill levels of employees, partners, and customers.