Business Intelligence "Quick Takes"
Each of these mini-demos lasts 10 to 15 minutes and illustrates specific features and benefits of the WebFOCUS enterprise business intelligence suite.
Administration and Security
Closed-Loop Data Update Capabilities
Delivery and Management
Development and Deployment
End User Reporting
Integration With Third-Party Tools
Query and Analysis
Administration and Security
Managing a Secure Internal Reporting Environment (WebFOCUS Managed Reporting)Find out how to satisfy the information demands of users inside and outside your enterprise in a single, secure, and highly manageable environment. You'll learn how WebFOCUS Managed Reporting enables you to streamline reporting, reduce per-user costs, and significantly minimize training and maintenance. You can also provide powerful, real-time reporting and analysis capabilities to end users via the Internet, intranets, and extranets, while ensuring maximum security and giving administrators complete control over the environment. |
Closed-Loop Data Update Capabilities
Updating Central Databases From Excel (WebFOCUS Connector for Excel)Allow your organization to share and distribute data throughout the enterprise and instantly send data back to central databases via Excel spreadsheets. We'll show you how you can use Excel as a means for a central update and to transfer data from central databases or warehouses. |
Rapid Application Development and Closed Loop BI (Update Assist)Learn how WebFOCUS Update Assist's intuitive, graphical interface can empower you to quickly build and deploy complete applications that allow users to obtain and analyze enterprise data and immediately update it in the operational source when necessary. |
Increased Productivity With Microsoft Excel IntegrationThis Webcast will show you how WebFOCUS delivers any information to Excel. We will show you how, by using just a Web browser, users can generate WebFOCUS reports, including compound reports, as Excel spreadsheets, with all elements such as field names, headers, subtotals, styled output, sort breaks, conditional styling, and drill-downs preserved. Learn how WebFOCUS automatically generates native Excel formulas and translates numeric values and dates into supported Excel formats. Additionally, we will show you how WebFOCUS creates PivotTables and offers data update capabilities. |
Delivery and Management
Enterprise Information Delivery and Management (WebFOCUS ReportCaster)Learn how WebFOCUS ReportCaster can provide you with a comprehensive information delivery and management solution one that can accelerate and streamline the delivery, storage, and retrieval of reports and other electronic business documents, and put vital information in the hands of your decision-makers when they need it most. |
Operational Performance Management This demo takes a look at the WebFOCUS Performance Management Framework (PMF), a comprehensive application suite for enterprise metrics management and business intelligence. With PMF business strategies can be measured and tracked and owners are automatically linked to their business objectives. |
Development and Deployment
Extending Your Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) With BI (WebFOCUS Open Portal Services)We'll show you how you can put an end to information overload and dramatically improve responsiveness and agility by enhancing your enterprise information portal (EIP) with robust business intelligence capabilities during this mini demo. |
End User Reporting
Operational Business Intelligence to GoFind out how to empower mobile workers, partners outside the enterprise, and traditional knowledge workers with fully interactive reports that can be exploited in connected or disconnected mode. Active Reports encapsulate data and controls in single self-contained files that require nothing more than a browser to launch. This demonstration shows how to keep all interested parties, inside and outside the enterprise, fully informed while also reducing network costs and the reliance on proprietary software. |
WebFOCUS Active ReportsIn this mini demo you'll learn how you can bridge the gap between client servers and traditional Web-based reporting and empower users to perform common reporting functions such as filtering and calculations, or advanced analysis such as roll up charting, in connected or disconnected mode. Because WebFOCUS Active Reports delivers HTML formatted documents that are viewable by anyone with a Web browser, no plug-ins or other software requirements are necessary, making data more available, usable, and transportable. |
Generating Complex Financial Reports and Statements (WebFOCUS Financial Reporting)This mini demo illustrates how WebFOCUS Financial Reporting enables you to easily comply with regulatory reporting guidelines, while empowering financial professionals at all levels from CFOs to controllers to analysts to accurately assess financial status, effectively manage budgets, control costs, and instantly identify critical trends in the business. |
Insurance Reporting Foundation From Information BuildersDesigned with - and tested by - insurance clients in production environments, the Insurance Reporting Foundation (IRF) gives P&C insurance companies the reports that executives, analysts, operational staff, customers, and agents need...exactly the way they need them. Each fully functional report is also a framework that supplies a wide array of variations and ad hoc reporting options yielding hundreds to thousands of pertinent reporting combinations. |
WebFOCUS Reporting ServerLearn how the WebFOCUS Reporting Server provides the flexibility to quickly and cost-effectively develop and deploy a wide array of richly formatted and styled reports including charts, graphs, and compound reports, as well as complex financial statements and structured ad hoc queries from data in virtually any enterprise source. |
Integration With Third-Party Tools
Updating Central Databases From Excel (WebFOCUS Connector for Excel)Allow your organization to share and distribute data throughout the enterprise and instantly send data back to central databases via Excel spreadsheets. We'll show you how you can use Excel as a means for a central update and to transfer data from central databases or warehouses. |
Rapid Application Development and Closed Loop BI (Update Assist)Learn how WebFOCUS Update Assist's intuitive, graphical interface can empower you to quickly build and deploy complete applications that allow users to obtain and analyze enterprise data and immediately update it in the operational source when necessary. |
Extending Your Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) With BI (WebFOCUS Open Portal Services)We'll show you how you can put an end to information overload and dramatically improve responsiveness and agility by enhancing your enterprise information portal (EIP) with robust business intelligence capabilities during this mini demo. |
Increased Productivity With Microsoft Excel IntegrationThis Webcast will show you how WebFOCUS delivers any information to Excel. We will show you how, by using just a Web browser, users can generate WebFOCUS reports, including compound reports, as Excel spreadsheets, with all elements such as field names, headers, subtotals, styled output, sort breaks, conditional styling, and drill-downs preserved. Learn how WebFOCUS automatically generates native Excel formulas and translates numeric values and dates into supported Excel formats. Additionally, we will show you how WebFOCUS creates PivotTables and offers data update capabilities. |
Connect Excel to Enterprise Data and Applications With Business IntelligenceWith WebFOCUS Quick Data, corporate Excel users can now access virtually any enterprise data source or application without leaving the familiar Microsoft Excel environment. |
Combine the Simplicity of Search With the Insight of Business IntelligenceFinding information on the Web requires only a browser's search box. Why can't gathering information from business intelligence solutions be that easy? With WebFOCUS Magnify, it is. This demo shows how to:
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Query and Analysis
Using Data Visualization to Uncover Hidden ProblemsExplore the benefits of data visualization and see how it can be used to identify problems you never knew existed. WebFOCUS Visual Discovery uses color, isolation, and chart interactions, to reveal hidden conditions. Instead of combing through hundreds of thousands of rows of data, employ Visual Discovery to make relevant information pop out, using unique configurations like paraboxes, cone charts and scatter plots. Then use WebFOCUS' traditional BI tools to investigate and monitor situations you've discovered. This demonstration shows how. |
Query and Analysis for End Users (WebFOCUS Analytical Reporter)This mini demo, we'll show you how you can empower your business users to instantly access and analyze vital corporate information from any Web browser without the involvement of IT staff so they can get the answers they need, as soon as they need them. |
Advanced Data Visualization for Analysts (WebFOCUS Visual Discovery)This mini demo will show how you can significantly increase the usability and interpretability of large volumes of complex data by turning it into powerful, perceptive images that can be quickly measured, compared, and analyzed. |
Advanced Visualization and Analysis for Executive Dashboards: (WebFOCUS Visual Discovery)This mini demo will show you how you can rapidly design executive dashboards and scorecards to keep your upper management apprised of vital metrics and their effects on goals. |
Personalized Business Intelligence (WebFOCUS BI Dashboard)Learn how the WebFOCUS Business Intelligence Dashboard provides an efficient and cost-effective way to build and deploy secure, comprehensive portals and executive dashboards, making it easier than ever for developers and administrators to deliver customized information on a broad scale. |
Simple Ad Hoc Reporting (Introducing WebFOCUS Quick Query)Learn how you can use WebFOCUS Quick Query to plug ad hoc reporting into any application with little or no custom coding. WebFOCUS Quick Query gives a nontechnical end user the ability to query any data source and generate a report complete with data visualization, conditional styling, subtotals, filtering, and corporate logo. |
Increased Productivity With Microsoft Excel IntegrationThis Webcast will show you how WebFOCUS delivers any information to Excel. We will show you how, by using just a Web browser, users can generate WebFOCUS reports, including compound reports, as Excel spreadsheets, with all elements such as field names, headers, subtotals, styled output, sort breaks, conditional styling, and drill-downs preserved. Learn how WebFOCUS automatically generates native Excel formulas and translates numeric values and dates into supported Excel formats. Additionally, we will show you how WebFOCUS creates PivotTables and offers data update capabilities. |





















