In addition to the usual business analytics functionality, WebFOCUS BI provides predictive analytics, data visualisation, social media analytics, geolocation intelligence and search-based BI apps.
WebFOCUS Intelligence is Information Builders' Business Intelligence and Analytics platform. The platform is focused on easy-to-use BI, enterprise analytics, and providing enterprise performance management capabilities.
The suite allows the integration of data from various sources to finally access them in a web environment through reports more oriented towards operations than analytics, but with a great capacity for parameterisation and interactivity, as the user can even define their own parameters and create interactive dashboards.
WebFOCUS has an alert and planning management system, which allows the automated distribution of reports through different channels, such as email, mobile devices or FTP locations.
The platform also has predictive analytics capability with RStat and, with WebFOCUS Web Services, interaction with web services including geocoding and map generation from the Esri provider.
It also provides the WebFOCUS REST API development software, which allows developers to access the platform's functionality via the API to embed it in applications or customise the BI environment itself.
WebFOCUS Mobile
The WebFOCUS Mobility product family includes the Mobile Faves software for mobile reporting and WebFOCUS Maintain, a web application that provides transactional services, enabling data writing from mobile applications.
Search-based business intelligence
WebFOCUS Magnify software is a search engine that allows users to enter keywords to get the information they need when using the platform, which the developer can make available either in the form of search-based applications, or in the form of reports related to these keywords.
Remote Analytics
WebFOCUS Active Technologies, thanks to its HTML5 implementation, and a complete visualisation and charting library, allows remote users to examine and analyse their data while disconnected from corporate servers.
Social Media Analytics and Big Data Adapters
Adapters for social networks such as Facebook or Twitter make it possible to obtain information from social networks, and to analyse statuses, activities, or texts, with specific 'Sentiment Analysis' and 'Word Analytics' services.
Adapters for Big Data allow databases such as MongoDB or Hadoop Hive to be used as data sources. It also incorporates adapters for columnar databases such as Greenplum, ParAccel, 1010data or Vertica, and for integration with Salesforce.com.
Self-service BI
With respect to self-service Business Intelligence and guided analytics, the WebFOCUS family incorporates the WebFOCUS InfoAssist Plus product, designed for use by the business user. InfoAssist+ is included in the Business User Edition of WebFOCUS, aimed at non-technical users.
The other two editions of WebFOCUS are the Application Edition, which includes InfoApps, Magnify, RSTAT, Maintain and App Studio, designed for the development of highly customised analytical applications, and WebFOCUS Enterprise Edition, the more 'traditional' BI edition for large enterprises.
WebFOCUS BI platform products can be installed in client/server mode, licensed on a per-processor, per-nominal-user basis, or used 'in the cloud' on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Resources about webFOCUS
Information Builders product page
WebFOCUS Magnify online demo to test the search engine
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