WebFOCUS support real-time data access and reporting through the use of iWay Software's 280 plus native data and application adapters.
Real-Time Reporting, Real-Time Results
When Yesterday's Data Isn't Good Enough, Turn to Real-Time Reporting Tools Real-time data access and real-time reporting are determined by the speed at which information changes and when it becomes available for the user to manipulate. Users often equate real time with something that occurs immediately. Providing data in real time remains a key challenge for organizations that want to maximize the value of their application and business intelligence investments without impacting the performance of operational systems. Real-time information requirements also force administrators and architects to make serious decisions about the architecture and design of an information system.
Fortunately, Information Builders' WebFOCUS lets administrators manipulate data on a timeline that makes the most sense for their environment and their user requirements. All the power of the native data and applications adapters of iWay Software, Information Builders' integration subsidiary, can be used by WebFOCUS for real-time data integration and transformation from over 280 different information sources and databases. These native adapters support sophisticated manipulations such as:
- Aggregations, sorts, and joins on the source data before it leaves the source platform
- Data-set level transformations with multiple roll-up levels, summations, and more – on a single pass of the source data
- Field-level transformations that can later be selected as if they were standard database fields
In addition, real-time process flows can feed your business intelligence system with data from Web services, EDI documents, XML messages, flat files, and almost any other document format.
Meanwhile iWay Software's ETL tools allow you to build data warehouses and data marts optimized for reporting for those applications that can accept a slight lag in data access and reporting.
No matter what your real-time requirements may be, Information Builders' WebFOCUS can meet them.
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