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The Building Blocks of Enterprise Business Intelligence
A business intelligence (BI) software implementation is only successful if it solves your most critical information challenges and satisfies the needs of all of your users, from executives to analysts, employees, partners, and customers. The following are some of the most common problems addressed by BI, along with details of how the WebFOCUS enterprise business intelligence suite from Information Builders satisfies these requirements.
WebFOCUS meets all critical enterprise information requirements through one powerful Web-based reporting solution whose robust tools enable the creation of richly formatted reports from enterprise data in real time. In the intuitive drag-and-drop WebFOCUS environment, developers can rapidly create and deploy compelling reporting applications.
WebFOCUS also supplies all the advanced Web-based features people need to use reports effectively, such as integrated proactive hyperlink drill-downs – in all supported output formats – to any other report, program, location, or multiple locations without any additional client or viewer. Additionally, WebFOCUS offers the broadest range of financial reporting. And, because WebFOCUS is the only enterprise reporting solution built for the Web, an organization can effortlessly extend all of these powerful reporting capabilities to everyone who impacts business. WebFOCUS is superior at parameter-driven or structured ad hoc reporting. Structured ad hoc reporting is one of the most useful and widely deployed business intelligence functions available today, because it does not require all aspects of the report to be determined ahead of time. An end user can interact with report pages, determining the report's final content by simply selecting from predefined parameters in drop-down menus.
WebFOCUS provides comprehensive, native access to more than 85 data sources, including relational, legacy, ERP, and CRM. With native access to data, you can:
WebFOCUS, the only business intelligence solution with robust information management features, comprises a complete just-in-time business information delivery platform. Through WebFOCUS' cutting-edge report delivery engine, ReportCaster, companies have a single point of control for fully automating the scheduling, distribution, and storage of information, including WebFOCUS reports and third-party content – with delivery to anyone within or outside the organization.
WebFOCUS information delivery and management solutions automatically deliver critical information directly into the hands of the people who need it. Information can be distributed via e-mail, FTP, or directly to a network printer or fax (via a third-party fax service provider) on either a scheduled or an event-driven basis. Users can then access the information via e-mail, the Web, or any wireless device, including Palm and Windows Pocket PCs, PDAs, and handhelds.
To satisfy the broadest range of end users and their individual analytical preferences, WebFOCUS combines all the functionality of query tools, reporting tools, and OLAP into a single, powerful solution with one common interface. WebFOCUS query and analysis solutions offer a comprehensive zero-cube, zero-extract, and zero-client environment for conducting in-depth analysis. With WebFOCUS, every analytical session starts with a report, allowing users to generate ad hoc queries and conduct uninhibited, in-depth analysis in the most collaborative and efficient manner. End users are always just a few clicks away from reporting their findings.
WebFOCUS is the only true end-to-end reporting solution that makes even a single piece of information "report-ready." After making an observation, the user can save the results as a new report generated in a preferred format. Reports can then be viewed, printed, or taken offline for even further analysis. Users can schedule the resulting report for delivery to themselves and others on a scheduled or event-driven basis. WebFOCUS also offers data visualization abilities for an intuitive and illustrative analysis that offers quick answers. With WebFOCUS, users have the capability to access and analyze data in the way that is best suited to get exact results – and then share and collaborate on that information in the most effective way possible.
Information Builders' performance management framework provides a comprehensive set of capabilities that enable an organization to monitor, analyze, and manage the performance of every aspect of its business. BSC certified and open to other methodologies, the customizable and modular framework helps companies optimize business performance in a way that translates directly into profitability and competitive advantage: by aligning strategic, tactical, and operational staff at all levels in direct support of corporate strategy. The framework, which is based on industry-leading enterprise business intelligence technology, provides performance management's fastest time to market and lowest cost of ownership.
Self-service applications can yield a competitive advantage for a company – such as a new way to initiate and solidify relationships with customers. Information Builders offers self-service solutions that enable large companies to provide their customers, employees, or partners with secure access to data. WebFOCUS is an ideal tool for creating these self-service applications, either on the public Web or within the confines of a corporate intranet. Through self-service applications, WebFOCUS allows an enterprise to remove the "middlemen" like a customer service representative or bank teller. This gives your customers, partners, or employees direct access to such information as billing data, bank statements, or employee benefits. With a single infrastructure for query, analysis, enterprise-wide report distribution, and external information delivery, WebFOCUS allows organizations to deliver real-time information at the point of business.
WebFOCUS' seamless integration with Excel 2000 and XP is unmatched by other leading business intelligence solutions. Fully formatted WebFOCUS reports can be displayed in Excel 2000 and XP, with all report elements – including field names, headers, subtotals, sort breaks, and drill-downs – preserved within the spreadsheet. Clicking on embedded hyperlinks in Excel produces the same drill-downs as those created in WebFOCUS HTML, providing users with rapid and easy access to detailed data. Additionally, WebFOCUS automatically generates native Excel formulas and translates numeric values and dates into supported Excel formats. Once displayed, Excel reports can then be saved on local PCs, or e-mailed for further viewing and analysis.
WebFOCUS also supports saving report data directly to PivotTables. By starting with a relational request to get the scope of desired data into a single report, and then automatically generating a PivotTable for iterative exploration, this feature supports a workflow common to many organizations. Automatic generation of PivotTables is a WebFOCUS exclusive.
Information Builders’ WebFOCUS suite of business intelligence solutions provides a robust platform for financial reporting and analysis. Powerful features satisfy the broadest range of financial information needs – enabling any user to quickly and easily turn any enterprise
data into the valuable insight needed to enhance financial planning, management, and control. WebFOCUS enables financial professionals at all levels – from CFOs to controllers and analysts – to access and analyze real-time information located in various sources across multiple departments and business units, and deliver it to anyone, anywhere – including investors, creditors, and regulatory organizations.
Departmental initiatives (HR, finance, accounting, research and development, sales, marketing, etc.) and functional business initiatives such as customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), and enterprise resource planning (ERP) have created more data than ever before. While that information is critical, access to it is often limited. Information Builders makes the information easy to get and easy to use – whatever system it's stored in, and in whatever format people want – anytime, anywhere, for any number or type of users.
WebFOCUS turns enterprise data into key performance indicators and business metrics that can be monitored and measured in real time by decision-makers at all levels. WebFOCUS offers a broad toolset for creating analytic dashboards, scorecards, and KPI applications. All three can provide an enterprise view of an organization's overall performance, simplifying the steps a user needs to complete in order to find critical information in their organization. Additionally, the WebFOCUS Performance Management Framework delivers a basic set of analytics, graphs, KPI indicators, and feedback functions for performance management initiatives, including a scorecard system that is certified by the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative (BSC).
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