WebFOCUS provides an intuitive, immersive experience inviting users to begin creating analytical content, portal pages/ dashboards and reports in minutes. This same platform empowers data scientists, developers, and administrators to leverage powerful capabilities to manipulate and transform data within an unparalleled data prep and governance foundation.
* Business users need complete self-service analytics capabilities that help them create, use, and share analytical content
* Data scientists and other experts need sophisticated predictive, AI and statistical capabilities that enables them to build models that can be used standalone or in scoring applications
* Non-technical users need self-service applications for rich, interactive content that doesn’t require training or tools – including analytics inside the documents you send to them
* Developers need the tools to create large-scale enterprise analytical applications for users inside and outside the firewall
WebFOCUS is uniquely positioned to fulfill all the needs of a modern enterprise, through its ability to combine a broad range of governed analytics and BI with agile insights created by business users, all in one place, securely, at scale, and in the cloud or on premises.
Information Builders WebFOCUS
Naeem S.
Advanced user of Information Builders WebFOCUS
★★★★★
WebFocus can do it ALL , you just need to know How
What do you like best?
WebFocus is able to connect to all sorts of data be it mainframe, different DBMS , Unlike some others in the market which just handle front end tools like creating reports, and fancy charts etc.. WebFocus has all those features PLUS allows you to create virtual fields using its Define procedures, some of the data users' needs is not always available in the tables, so WebFocus allows you to create that data, in addition to JOINS it allows you to MATCH files where JOIN will not do the trick Also IBI has very good support system and user community where you can find solutions.
What do you dislike?
Errors messages are not clear sometimes … you have to really check different areas to find out, oh this error was related to this issue. In Version 8.1.5 App Studio has issue which I hear are resolved in the 8.2 Versions
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking for Flexibility in creating reporting and analytics Then WebFocus is the Tool to use, Companies implement ERP systems and try to use reporting out of the Box , in my experience they have to go to many hoops to create Reports that Users need , if they can create it..
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Instead of manually creating Access Lists we are using Restful Service and using our own security tables to determine user locations and internal applications they should have and create the access list. So when a user access is changed or a new user is added , Access list get automatically updated via nightly report caster job
Review source: G2.com
