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Century Corp Demos

The following demos illustrate how Information Builders' technology is used in today's business world – from developer solutions to information delivery. Set in the fictional Century Corp – an electronics manufacturer – these demos will guide you through typical business scenarios where ready access to enterprise information is critical in uncovering opportunities for business process improvement as well as identifying potential problems before they escalate.

The live WebFOCUS demo is most appropriate for business users to see how a finished business intelligence application operates. The Developer Studio demo is ideal for developers and IT professionals to get a sense of how business intelligence applications are developed from scratch using WebFOCUS application-development tools.


As an employee of the fictitious Century Corp, you'll see how you can use WebFOCUS business intelligence software to solve typical business problems, and enhance business processes.

What You'll See in This Demo

  • Real-time information delivery in a live, interactive demonstration
  • Easy-to-use business intelligence applications that offer flexibility and security with access to a great depth of information, including:
    • Sales ranking analysis
    • Variance analysis
    • Percentage-distribution analysis
    • Profit-margin analysis
    • Order-history analysis
  • Efficient navigation through an extensive Web-based report
  • Web, PDF, and Excel formatting capabilities

WebFOCUS Century Corp Demo (This demo requires Internet Explorer Version 5.5 or higher.)

WebFOCUS is an operational business intelligence solution that makes any type of data available, accessible, and meaningful, distributing sophisticated reports to thousands of users, inside and outside your enterprise.

  • Integration of disparate data from virtually any platform in any format
  • Transformation of raw data into styled reports, charts, Web pages, Adobe PDF documents, and Excel spreadsheets
  • WebFOCUS 7's simplified BI development tools
  • A parameter-based reporting framework that allows end users to customize report elements, filters, and output formats to suit their specific needs

View the WebFOCUS 7 Interactive Product Tour

WebFOCUS for SAP – a "Powered by SAP NetWeaver" solution – is simple to use, yet powerful enough to help maximize the value of your SAP investment. Tightly integrated with SAP, WebFOCUS brings the rich metadata found in SAP BW directly to users' fingertips. WebFOCUS makes SAP reporting so easy that even casual business users will be able to take full control of SAP BW hierarchies, selecting measures and dimensions in an intuitive point-and-click interface, and generating reports in any output format including html, PDF, Excel, XML, or plain text.

    What You'll See in This Demo

  • Development and delivery of structured ad hoc reports for business users using SAP BW data
  • Administration of SAP BW metadata in multiple languages concurrently
  • Inclusion of any SAP BW structure (variable, measure, characteristic, or characteristic hierarchy) into a customized, parameter-driven front-end to generate a virtually unlimited set of formatted reports
  • Creation of self-contained Active Reports with built-in analytics and charting functionality allowing the user to slice and dice the data with no live connection to SAP required

View the WebFOCUS for SAP demo

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Quickly and easily create business intelligence reports and broadly deploy them via the Web.

Can Fred, Century Corp's IS administrator, build a report that meets the CEO's demands in time for tomorrow's board meeting? What You'll See in This Demo
  • How a developer can establish standards that define the qualities of a report
  • The importance of styling a report for optimal look and feel and ease of use
  • Drill-down capabilities that enable a report to display even more detailed information
  • How user parameters can be used to specify content and output formats
  • The finished report in action – its look, feel, and performance capabilities

WebFOCUS Developer Studio Demo (Note: Disable pop-up blockers to view.)

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Use e-mail to access business information anytime, anywhere.

Can Mike, Century Corp's Eastern Region sales manager, save an account while he's on the road?

    What You'll See in This Demo

  • Push/pull of enterprise information from a wireless handheld via e-mail
  • Scheduled sales report distribution
  • Instant alert notification
  • Interactive requests for new information from the road

WebFOCUS Two-Way Email Demo
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