WebFOCUS Open Portal Services for the Oracle 9i Portal

Broad-Scale Delivery of Critical, Real-Time Information

The Oracle 9i Portal serves as the focal point for conducting day-to-day business by providing a single source of interaction with essential corporate applications and information. Information Builders’ WebFOCUS Open Portal Services integrates fully with the Oracle 9i Portal to deliver consistent, accurate real-time information to anyone, anywhere, at any time.

WebFOCUS Open Portal Services enables Oracle customers to add business intelligence content to their portal initiatives without any need for additional programming. Oracle developers gain the ability to quickly and easily integrate any enterprise data that is accessible by WebFOCUS – 85 different data sources – and distribute it among employees, partners, and customers on a personalized portal page that incorporates users’ e-mails, sales leads, inventory reports, and market news.

Features

Using WebFOCUS Open Portal Services, you can deliver business intelligence capabilities to Oracle 9i Portal users quickly and easily 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 combine 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 supports internal and external security for delivering real-time business intelligence reports to authorized users within the Oracle 9i Portal environment. Administrators can structure and assign reports to individuals based upon the department they work in and can assign even greater levels of security by granting access to reports based upon their function in the organization. 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 particular position within the organization, for example the CEO or vice president who needs to access information across various departments throughout the enterprise.

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

Benefits

WebFOCUS Open Portal Services empowers Oracle 9i Portal customers to deliver integrated, flexible, secure, role-based business intelligence capabilities, with personalized access to information that helps meet the individual requirements and skill levels of employees, partners, and customers.

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