Business analytics from Information Builders enable
business users to instantly identify the factors that impact their
businesses, create more accurate forward-looking strategies, enhance
efficiency, increase profitability, and improve customer satisfaction
and loyalty.
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WebFOCUS RStat is a data mining and predictive modeling
workbench embedded in WebFOCUS Developer Studio. RStat supports
common statistical and data mining tasks and the development of
predictive models that can be deployed as scoring applications on
any WebFOCUS platform.
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Model Export C Files Compliant for Teradata UDF (User Defined Function) for In-database Processing. This
UDF export function generates a C program that is Teradata UDF compliant
for in-database processing. When scoring large amounts of data,
running the predictive model using in-database processing results
in significant performance gains.
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Ability to Load R Scripts to the RStat GUI. The
Rscript button in the RStat GUI can load an R script with all models
that R supports. If a new package is required, the new package is
loaded accordingly for specific model and code executions. Files
or plots are outputted in the R console or a new window, and then
saved to the directory that is specified in the R script.
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WebFOCUS Visual Discovery is
an integrated extension of WebFOCUS Enterprise Reporting that enables
you to create advanced data visualization for executive-level dashboards.
Data visualization turns raw data into perceptive images, providing
a powerful and dynamic instrument for the discovery and reasoning
of quantitative information.
Release 8.0 Version 02
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Enhanced Loading and Storing of Data in Memory. Enhanced loading
and storing of data in memory will allow most users to see an overall improvement
in performance.
xAdapter for Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Information Builders and ESRI® deliver a complete location
intelligence solution that leverages the real-time reporting capabilities
of the WebFOCUS BI platform and the powerful ESRI geographic information
system. Information Builders integration with ESRI requires no Java™
script coding or other programming. WebFOCUS integrates with the
ESRI Adobe® FLEX® Viewer, and can be leveraged as part of a SaaS
or cloud implementation.
Release 8.0 Version 02
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ESRI Configuration Editor for Flex Integration. Creates
a configuration XML to define the integration between WebFOCUS and
ESRI using the ESRI Flex API.
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ToolTips With Symbolizing Features in the Flex Map Viewer. Point features
can have ToolTips.
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TextSymbol in the Flex Map Viewer. You
can use TextSymbol in the Flex Map Viewer to display text at points
on the graphics layer.
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Heat Map Overlay With the Flex Map Viewer. Creates
a gradient map using discrete data, such as individual point locations.
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Geocoding With the Flex Map Viewer. Use
addresses to define the location for a point.
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Geoprocessing Models for Creating Advanced GIS Maps and WebFOCUS Reports. The
ArcGIS Server allows spatial models based on business decisions
to be published. These models can be used with WebFOCUS reports
to create smart maps.
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Magnify is an enterprise search solution that allows
you to search your structured and unstructured business content
across multiple data sources and systems. The Magnify search page
is an easy-to-use, interactive user interface that dynamically categorizes
search results, allows you to sort results based on several criteria,
and includes an option to present results in a tabular format.
Release 8.0 Version 02
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Sentiment Analysis Support. Sentiment
Analysis software determines the general tone (positive, negative,
or neutral) of an indexed record using natural language processing.
Magnify integrates with the DataFacet Taxonomy Server for Sentiment
(installed separately) to perform sentiment analysis on structured
and unstructured content.
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Flat File Indexing and Synchronization. The
Adapter for Flat File has been enhanced to monitor file repositories
so that administrators can index file repositories using Magnify
and keep them synchronized as new files are added, modified, renamed,
moved, or deleted in the repository.
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Dynamic Partitioning Support. As
the size of an index library increases, the search speed decreases
and can eventually cause the indexing or search process to stop
working. The dynamic partitioning feature enables the scalability
of local index files by splitting index folders into partitions
and thereby increasing the performance of the indexing and search
processes significantly.
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Massive Parallel Search Support. Massive
parallel searching enables you to distribute Lucene® indexes in
order to search across many machines in a network. This feature
increases the speed at which large amounts of data can be searched.
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Information Builders has developed a product that enables
Flex developers to rapidly create Business Intelligence applications
in Flex Builder, without the need to code ActionScript or MXML.
WebFOCUS Enable performs the most useful Business Intelligence
functions out-of-the-box, to allow Flex developers to focus on front-end
development and the user experience. At run time, the functions
used are compiled in the SWF application.