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Ad hoc reporting is still the top priority for business users when it comes to business intelligence (BI) requirements. Yet few users have the skill or the time to employ the necessary BI solutions. WebFOCUS guided ad hoc technology bridges the information gap between static reports and flexible, yet complex BI tools.

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    Guided Ad Hoc Technology

    WebFOCUS makes true end-user reporting and dashboarding a reality with guided ad hoc technology.

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    Robust Visualizations

    Any information, like this sales data, can be monitored and analyzed with robust visualizations.

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    Generate Reports

    Generating reports is simple with WebFOCUS, and can be done by anyone in the enterprise.

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    Dashboards for Healthcare Data

    In this dashboard, hospital information for a number of different parameters is displayed.

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    Variance Analysis

    This generated report provides self-service variance analysis for measuring net revenue of various procedures.

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    Variance and Trends Summary

    With these simple variance and trends summary, users can select the appropriate parameters and generate different report types.

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IT departments are inundated with changing requirements and new report requests – distracting them from other critical corporate technology initiatives. The challenge is to find a way to empower end users to create their own customized information, without requiring them to become BI experts. Advancements in technology have made report development tools easier to use, yet most business users still don't have the time or the skills needed to create their own reports from scratch.
 
The WebFOCUS BI platform makes true end-user reporting and dashboarding a reality with guided ad hoc technology. Users can rapidly create custom reports and dashboards as simply as if they were shopping online, offering:
 
  • Flexibility – Users can customize every aspect of a report or dashboard, with columns, measures, drill-down paths, sorting, styling, stop-lighting, and output formatting (including Excel, PDF, HTML, Flex/Flash, Word, or even our innovative Active Technology format)
  • Ease of use – Even though there can be many options, guided ad hoc forms are surprisingly intuitive. Users can create new views of reports or dashboards in minutes instead of hours, and in most cases, no training is required to use a guided ad hoc report or dashboard
  • Fast access – After customizing a report or dashboard with a guided ad hoc form, users can save their results as an object that can be run in a single click, or set it up for repeat delivery on a schedule, or based on the occurrence of a business event
  • Simplified development and management – A single guided ad-hoc form can generate thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of different reports. However, developers only have to create and manage a single template, reducing development time and increasing flexibility
  • Authored by business users or developers – WebFOCUS Developer Studio allows IT developers to rapidly create guided ad hoc reports and dashboards, and embed them into complete BI applications. Business unit power users can use InfoAssist, a thin-client drag and drop tool, to author them as well