Changes in WebFOCUS 8

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This section contains a summary of new and changed features for WebFOCUS 8. It will help you plan your upgrade and application migration strategies and develop a training curriculum for your users.


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New Features

WebFOCUS 8 has some exciting new features which are described in the WebFOCUS New Features manual. For purposes of this document, the features that will be focused on from the perspective of the upgrade and migration will be:


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Changed Features

WebFOCUS 8 has undergone significant architectural and behavioral changes in features. Some WebFOCUS 7 features have been removed, replaced, or implemented differently in WebFOCUS 8, so it is important to understand the differences in features between WebFOCUS 7 and WebFOCUS 8. A direct mapping for some features does not exist between WebFOCUS 7 and WebFOCUS 8. For example, in WebFOCUS 7, in Business Intelligence Dashboard, you could have created a role tree that shows the authorized reports for a user. In WebFOCUS 8, the role tree option has been removed and similar capabilities are provided by the security authorization model.


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Supported Environments

An up to-date list of hardware and software supported by WebFOCUS 8 is available on the Technical Support web site. Review this list to determine if you need to make any infrastructure changes to support a WebFOCUS 8 deployment.


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