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5 Year Veteran WF Developer Opinion
September 11, 2015

5 Year Veteran WF Developer Opinion

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

81M01.1

Modules Used

  • Application Studio and Developer Studio

Overall Satisfaction with Information Builders WebFOCUS

We use WebFocus for all the college business intelligence reporting as well as letter generation and the college directory.
  • The GUI is fairly intuitive.
  • Packaged functions are useful.
  • Their tech support is usually pretty good.
  • The new version 8 has a lot of bugs to be worked out. Page validation is not currently working on launch pages.
  • Dates could be easier to use!!!
  • Source control is also a huge issue. There needs to be built in source control, other than change management.
If you are looking at getting WebFocus, either pay to have a data mart(data wharehouse) built for you by information builders or connect to existing databases and report that way. A home grown data mart is VERY difficult and time consuming to manage and report from.

ibi WebFOCUS Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.5
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
7
6.0
Drill-down analysis
6
Formatting capabilities
6
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
Not Rated
4.8
Publish to Web
6
Publish to PDF
6
Report Versioning
1
Report Delivery Scheduling
6
6.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
Not Rated
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
6
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
8.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated