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The ibi™ WebFOCUS® product is an enterprise business intelligence and analytics solution equipped with data management, visual discovery, predictive analytics, and visualizations. Combining these capabilities and data science in one unified containerized platform, the WebFOCUS® solution can be used to…
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- Customizable dashboards (11)9.090%
- Drill-down analysis (13)8.080%
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What is ibi WebFOCUS?
The ibi™ WebFOCUS® product is an enterprise business intelligence and analytics solution equipped with data management, visual discovery, predictive analytics, and visualizations. Combining these capabilities and data science in one unified containerized platform, the WebFOCUS® solution can be used to make data-driven decisions across the enterprise and provide reports, dashboards, and customer-facing applications at scale.
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Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Analytics Platform, and Tableau Desktop are common alternatives for ibi WebFOCUS.
Reviewers rate Formatting capabilities and Report sharing and collaboration and Publish to Web highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of ibi WebFOCUS are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Users of WebFocus have found it to be a versatile tool for generating reports and analyzing data. It is widely used across different departments and projects within organizations, including sales, healthcare, marketing, procurement, and R&D. One key use case is the creation of dashboards and executive reporting, which enables key business individuals to build and manage information solutions effectively. Additionally, WebFocus is utilized for generating scheduled reports tied to releases and independent time-triggered reports, making it easier for users to access real-time data in graphical form.
WebFocus addresses the challenges of generating and handling reports efficiently. With its HTML pages, users can select parameters and run queries quickly and easily. The ability to generate custom reports in various formats such as HTML, Excel, or PDF provides flexibility for different users' preferences. Moreover, the integration with Oracle as the backend database enhances the reliability and performance of fetching data for display in reports.
Another notable use case of WebFocus is ad-hoc analysis of data, providing meaningful insights for analysts and executives. This feature allows users to perform predictive analytics using the new version 8 of WebFocus. Furthermore, it serves as a central business intelligence solution for consolidating transactional information from multiple countries, improving data quality and providing valuable insights for decision-making.
Overall, WebFocus is well-regarded by users due to its user-friendly interface, efficient report generation capabilities, support for various data formats, integration with Oracle as the backend database system, and its ability to fulfill diverse use cases across different departments within an organization.
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March 09, 2021
Webfocus: a gem with a vast potential
We use [Information Builders WebFOCUS] as our main central BI and analytics solution, where we consolidate transactional information from over 20 of our countries (dispersed landscape). We translate the data in descriptive as well as prescriptive reports and dashboards, mainly focusing on marketing, procurement and r&d. We also use it to get insight in data quality and improve there
- Integration in suite of information builders (data migrator, info assist, webfocus etc) allows me to do all ETL and reporting without need of other solutions
- Flexibility in reporting. If the GUI cannot offer it, FOCUS (code) allows you to get really creative
- Increased speed of development in the last 1-2 years
- Bi for all types of users
- More flexibility in graphs/charts out of the box (html5 allows for a lot, but they are not all out of the box or limited in the applicability)
- Further development of info assist (it lags behind compared to the rest of the toolset)
- Upgradeability could be easier
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- Relatively low investment
- Helped us grow data insights in a decentralized company structure that provided new ways of support from the center
- Limited investments locally in new BI solutions
Above average. Feature wise [Information Builders WebFOCUS] stands out. User friendliness is OK. It can handle the most complex tasks and its extensions with for example R make it extremely versatile. Support is lagging in western Europe, although i am more than happy with current level. With takeover by tipco it remains to be seen how European strategy will evolve
November 11, 2015
Informaton Builders WebFocus
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
We are doing implementation of the Information Builders WebFocus to our clients. We do installation, configuration, migration, upgrade, development, administration, and maintenance of WebFocus to our clients. We do it for the whole organization.
It is simple to use and easy to convert from legacy or any existing bi product. User will get a detailed overview about the data in a quick time.
It is simple to use and easy to convert from legacy or any existing bi product. User will get a detailed overview about the data in a quick time.
- You can integrate WebFocus with any platform. It works well with SAP, Salesforce, etc.
- WebFocus has a great charting capability. You can see most of the charts you found in Stephen Few. It will give you a good overview on your data.
- Most of all, it is simple to use. You can build your own report in a quick time. It's interface is easy for the user to understand. Most of them are drag and drop. The new version offers the users to build their dashboard in 5 minutes.
- In the new versions they have done lot of code tightening and they want the user to do drag and drop mostly. Developer should have the ability to modify the code in the UI tool. That is very much restricted in the new version. Of course there is a way to do it but you need to be an expert to find it.
- Adding version control is a bit of challenge. Would like to see that made a bit easier.
- As like any other product it might have some missing functionality but that will be resolved by integrating other technologies with WebFocus. Like the way, you integrate JQuery with WebFocus and get most of the UI updates.
Haven't used any and not even think of using any. We are very much satisfied with WebFocus.
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- Identify the problem easily through our dashboards. Faster action can taken through that.
- User satisfaction.
- Providing good service to the customer.
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WebFocus, front end technologies, understanding of databases.
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Kash Tech LLC
March 29, 2014
Can do with WebFOCUS, but it's not as easy as it looks!
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We're establishing a formalized, standardized BI environment for Healthcare Decision Support, aka Healthcare Economics. Currently we have a portal prepared to offer reports, charts, dashboards for Clinical, Operational, Financial, Administrative business domains.
Over time, we hope to use this product across the entire Nevada organization. Up to now, reporting has been developed by a number of disparate groups without a single source of truth. Now building a data warehouse, performing ETL and standardizing reporting requirements.
We want to empower analysts, supervisors and managers, medical staff and executives to answer their own questions. We are doing this by using WebFOCUS InfoAssist for advanced users to develop their own reporting tools. Developers use Report Painter to generate dashboards, infographics, etc.
Over time, we hope to use this product across the entire Nevada organization. Up to now, reporting has been developed by a number of disparate groups without a single source of truth. Now building a data warehouse, performing ETL and standardizing reporting requirements.
We want to empower analysts, supervisors and managers, medical staff and executives to answer their own questions. We are doing this by using WebFOCUS InfoAssist for advanced users to develop their own reporting tools. Developers use Report Painter to generate dashboards, infographics, etc.
- Drag and drop functionality for creating quick, complex, parameterized reports/charts, dashboards, portals.
- End users do not need to understand back end structures or database languages (SQL) to query their data
- If you are willing to learn how to write FOCUS code, you can do anything imaginable with the product. Easy access to the underlying code.
- Very complete and complex security system allowing for granular access. This is very important in healthcare as HIPAA laws must be observed. Our discretion is critical to our success.
- Though we haven't yet taken advantage of Mobile capabilities, fully expect to make clinical and operation data available via smart phones and tablets.
- The learning curve is not very steep. Generally, analysts and developers can create productive tools within several hours of uninterrupted practice.
- Disconnect between new world knowledge base and 'old school' employees. Sales system engineers and training personnel know and understand the latest technology (to some degree). Long time employees who are in tech support, consulting and after-sales system engineering are apparently NOT required to stay current with the latest version. Too many times, we've been told that we could solve our problem by writing code. We are NOT a development shop.
- Documentation is unimaginative and incomplete. We learned that there are ways to do things that are not recorded anywhere. For example, when using the change control management (export/import) tool to set up production for development, must first and separately export the security/groups/roles/rules configuration before any of other components.
- We were not told about the enterprise domain templates available to quickly establish security/groups/roles/rules and a simple portal. Learned the hard way.
- The organization is very East Coast centric. Technical Support becomes sparse after 2:00 West Coast time. The Summit appears to always take place back East and at hours that are painful for those traveling from other time zones.
- We are not yet a success story. Though we've been implementing WebFOCUS for over a year, we have very few products in our Production portal. Of course, this is not all the responsibility of Information Builders, but we were ill-advised by our 'training coordinator' in our training of staff and coming up to speed with the tools has been very slow.
- Once skilled analysts and professional IT staff achieve a grasp of the products, they are able to very quickly create polished and well-received products.
- The DW/BI project has helped us to establish standards and protocols of communication that will allow us to more quickly meet knowledge transfer requirements
The reason we chose WebFOCUS is because it seemed the easiest to use to create great reporting products. Also, we really liked that the code is transparent and readily available. We were confident in Information Builder's longevity and believed that ultimately, our staff would prefer working with it's integrated, drag and drop tools over Microsoft's less cohesive approach.
March 28, 2014
Who would use WebFOCUS?
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
WebFOCUS was selected as the standard BI/Reporting tool for the BCHousing. It provides rich data interfaces for many legacy systems such as those mainframe systems. Reports can be built for legacy systems without creating an ETL and a separate ODS.
- Rich data interfaces/adapters
- Developer interface. It should have a user friendly development IDE rather than the scripting interface
- An API that can publish reports to SharePoint and single sign on
- Poor development support as there are not many people with the skills in the local area
- Rapid development
- Difficult to learn for developers and support people
- Microsoft BI,Tableau Desktop
WebFOCUS was selected because of the rich data interface/adapter