7 Reasons to Upgrade to WebFOCUS 7

Is your company looking to simplify everyone's job? Reduce administration and maintenance costs? Provide information to employees or partners at any level of the organization without the need for a connection to the network? Maximize the value of your SAP NetWeaver/BW implementation? Then, please read on and find out how WebFOCUS 7, the leading operational business intelligence platform, can help you achieve these goals!

1. Increase Business User Productivity With WebFOCUS 7 you get: Electronic document publishing and delivery – invoices, purchase orders, and billing documents are easier to develop and can be published for electronic delivery, saving on printing costs WebFOCUS Excel templates – speed up financial reports and ensure a single version of the truth; leverage your existing Excel applications by replacing the private data feeds with corporate data warehouse or operational data sources Parameterized values – virtually any metadata object – fields, drill-down paths, output formats, filtering criteria, even report heading and footer – can be parameterized; any consumer of structured ad hoc reports can now save their parameter value selections and rerun their report at any time

2. Empower Front-Line Workers Portable analytics – the new WebFOCUS Active Reports – satisfies the information needs of employees as well as partners and customers. Internal and external information consumers can manipulate reports in various sort orders, filtering them by different criteria and charting their data for visual impact. Active Reports can be delivered via e-mail or saved to any disk medium and taken offline to provide true portable analytics without a network connection. This gives field workers access to information at the exact moment they need it.

3. Lower TCO Multiple features help to reduce administration and development costs, including: WebFOCUS SOA – based on iWay's enterprise service bus (ESB) – helps reap the full benefits of Web services and accelerate integration between disparate systems, quickly linking up to vendors and leveraging the reusability of these components Common metadata repository for all BI components – allows ETL, reporting, and analysis with new mouse-over business descriptions and impact analysis features Autonomic – self-aware server technology anticipates and addresses increased workloads without operator intervention Capacity planning – integrated stress test and performance tool simulates workloads and assists IT in determining hardware requirements in order to satisfy service-level agreements with the business user community Resource Analyzer/Governor integrated with ReportCaster – measures and provides preemptive control of resource usage for distributed reports

4. Increase Report and Application Development Efficiency WebFOCUS 7 offers: Extensible Report Wizard templates – include business forms, letters, and accounting reports to reduce development cycles and costs Application flowchart – new visualization of report process flow reduces report application-development time and future maintenance costs HTML layout – now has the ability to integrate and extend HTML objects, producing sophisticated, boardroom quality documents

5. Extend SAP NetWeaver BI (BW and Portal) Capabilities WebFOCUS 7 offers: "Powered by SAP NetWeaver" certification – WebFOCUS iViews delivers the powerful features of WebFOCUS through the NetWeaver Portal; WebFOCUS is also certified to be deployed on the SAP J2EE engine so you can consolidate to a single platform HIERARCHY syntax – simplifies SAP BW Reporting where any aspect of BW Hierarchies can be parameterized and consumed by your business users Dynamic multilanguage support – allows developers and consumers of WebFOCUS Reports to see column titles in the language of their choice

6. Improve and Track Business Performance WebFOCUS 7 provides: Integrated iWay SOA architecture and 300+ adapters – provide real-time operational BI capabilities to access any data in real time or trickle feed your operational data warehouse Performance Management Framework – analyze and track KPIs that are mapped to your business' strategic goals Geographical BI with ESRI's ArcGIS – lets you quickly identify business problems and drill down to resolution to effectively manage any aspect of your business with a geographical representation

7. Consolidate to a Single BI Tool SQL Wizard – allows you to take existing SQL and SQL procedures and quickly convert them into highly formatted and styled WebFOCUS 7 reports or charts.

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Companies looking to consolidate to a single BI tool can use WebFOCUS to eliminate other BI vendor products and associated training, development, licensing, and support costs!