To address the varied information needs of all types
and levels of users, developers must be able to quickly and easily
build and implement sophisticated business intelligence and data
maintenance applications. With WebFOCUS, you can create applications
that deliver simplified end-user reporting capabilities in a secured,
business-oriented environment that can easily be maintained and
customized.
xBusiness Intelligence Portal
The Business Intelligence Portal
(BI Portal) is the successor to the Business Intelligence Dashboard.
The BI Portal allows you to build complete modern websites.
Some of the highlights of the BI Portal include:
- Visual editor with
live preview.
- Up to four banner
areas.
- Customizable Menu
Bar.
- Nine prebuilt themes.
- Customizable individual
objects, including different settings for different states.
- User-dependent view,
personalize, and edit capabilities at the portal level.
- Single-area or column-based
page layouts.
- Optional navigation
menu.
- Repeatable object
backgrounds.
- Multiple border styles.
- Easily added new
pages.
Release 8.0 Version 05
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Custom Sign In Page. You
can create a custom sign in page for WebFOCUS 8. This allows you
to override the default sign in page that is included with WebFOCUS
8, which is a basic sign in screen branded for Information Builders.
Release 8.0 Version 02
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WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Analyst Edition. Through
the WebFOCUS Business Intelligence Portal, you can now link to WebFOCUS
Visual Discovery Analyst Edition (AE) Projects. Visual Discovery
AE 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.
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Filtering Reports Using an HTML Composer Form. Within
your own portal created through the WebFOCUS Business Intelligence
Portal, you can filter reports that were created in any tool, or
even by hand, using a form that was built in HTML Composer.
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Managed Reporting provides a selection of reporting
tools that can be used to create and edit reports, manipulate data
in existing reports, submit reports for background processing, and
view reports while protecting sensitive or confidential information.
Release 8.0 Version 02
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Alert Tools. Authorized
users can run an Alert test interactively and optionally schedule
it to be distributed by ReportCaster.
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Alert Assist Application Menu. The
Alert Assist Application Menu provides a drop-down list containing
the Save, Save As, Run, and Close options. Some of these options
are also on the Quick Launch toolbar.
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Reporting Objects. The
following are enhancements to the Reporting Objects tool for both
the browser and Developer Studio.
- The Other component
has been split into the Preprocessing Other component and the Postprocessing
Other component, allowing the use of custom code before or after
the execution of other components.
- The Reports and Graphs
or Charts feature launches InfoAssist.
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Maintain is an application development
tool that creates web-based data maintenance applications to be
deployed across an enterprise. Using WebFOCUS Maintain and its multi-platform
4GL language, you can easily create, test, and deploy complex business
applications that span the Internet, IBM mainframes, midrange servers,
and workstations.
Release 8.0 Version 02
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Controlling Layers at Run Time Using the SetLayer Command. The SetLayer
command allows layers to be set as visible or invisible at run time.
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CSSCLASS Property. A
new property, CSSCLASS, has been added for most MDE controls. CSSCLASS
gets or sets the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) class, rendered by
the web server control, on the client.
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Pop-up Calendar for Date Fields. The
pop-up calendar for date fields has an option to display datetime
at the top of the screen.
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BodyRowHeight Property. The
BodyRowHeight property, for HTML tables only, allows you to set
the height of each row in the HTML table.