Information Builders helps organizations transform data into business value. Our business intelligence, integration, and data integrity solutions enable smarter decision-making, strengthen customer relationships, improve performance, and drive growth. WebFOCUS InfoDiscovery Self-Service Data Discovery for Everyone WebFOCUS InfoDiscovery is a web-based self-service data discovery tool that empowers users to gain deeper insight from all kinds of data and easily share the impact of their findings to guide actions and decisions. WebFOCUS InfoDiscovery Analysts can retrieve and decipher data from spreadsheets, departmental databases, enterprise data warehouses, and web-based or public data sources faster than ever before. Multiple charts, graphs, maps, and other visual styles can be combined into visualizations (analytic dashboards) and interactive InfoApps to help find answers to pressing questions and issues. Analysts can then publish and easily share their storyboards with all users via the web and mobile devices. The result is perfect strategic and operational alignment across the enterprise. InfoDiscovery enables everyone across the enterprise to benefit from new insights gleaned from a wide array of data. Critical items that might go undetected in a summarized report stand out clearly with InfoDiscovery. Large volumes of data, aggregated at multiple dimensional levels, can be represented in a compelling and meaningful way on a single screen, giving analysts the ability to effortlessly discover the hidden patterns, trends, and relationships in raw data. These new insights can boost intelligence and enhance decision-making for everyone. WebFOCUS iway Software Omni
Access, Prepare, Visualize, Discover, and Share InfoDiscovery enables analysts to create powerful data visualizations, discover insights, and then publish them for others to use. InfoDiscovery InfoApps Personal Data Isolate revenue opportunities Departmental Data Marts Patterns Correlations Exceptions Contradictions Coincidences Trends Cycles Insights Reduce customer attrition Operational Data Web-Based and Third-Party Data Predict sales volumes Access Prepare Visualize Discover Share Advanced Analysts Business Analysts Access, Prepare, Blend, and Manipulate Data Personal data, such as spreadsheets and local data files, can be blended, prepared, and joined with enterprise databases, transactions, applications, and third-party sources to deliver exciting and insightful visualizations. Analyze, Visualize, Explore, and Discover Hidden trends, patterns, and connections can be discovered within data using a library of intuitive pre-built charts, maps, grids, filters, sliders, and other interactive data discovery tools. Users can explore rich visualizations to instantly understand data and find fast, accurate ways to answer questions, seize opportunities, or resolve problems. Publish, Share, and Collaborate Analysts can publish their dashboards to a central repository, where they can be shared with colleagues for further exploration and collaboration. Analysts can also publish InfoApps, which are interactive data visualizations that can be easily accessed and queried by business users as standalone apps, or embedded directly into enterprise applications.
InfoDiscovery Highlights Geographic Analysis Intuitive and compelling maps blend spatially related data with external demographic or market information to help users understand the location of customers, potential customers, suppliers, and employees. InfoDiscovery includes access to cloud-based Esri Maps, the world s most advanced mapping service. Mapping visualization helps users better understand customer trends, locate inventory, and detect fraud. InfoDiscovery allows power users to combine charts, graphs, maps, and other data sources to create sophisticated visualizations. Matrix Charts for Spotting Outliers Graphic matrix charts make it easy to compare many charts side by side. They allow authors to create rows and columns of the same chart, so they can discover more details about the things they are measuring.
InfoDiscovery aggregates and visualizes large volumes of data from multiple business dimensions, so users can uncover critical findings that often go undetected. Using Graphic Variables to Communicate More Effectively Traditional charts use size to compare data across categories, or to break data down into stacked bars. InfoDiscovery s Color By attribute takes it one step further, allowing additional dimensions or measures to be presented by shading the bars in a gradual scale. InfoDiscovery also offers its unique ToolTips feature, which enables users to hover over any item for a pop-up containing additional information about the selected item. These other attributes allow you to show multiple dimensions and relationships of information on one chart. InfoDiscovery User Roles InfoDiscovery provides an easy-to-use web-based tool that allows analysts to rapidly build compelling, intuitive, and interactive analytic dashboards that can be accessed securely from any web browser on any device. To deploy the right functionality to the right user, InfoDiscovery offers out-of-the-box user roles to match various personas and skillsets. InfoDiscovery users can be defined as follows: Authors/Administrators Super users who can do everything from define and combine data sources to build new visualizations, design portals for other users, and manage secure access for groups of users Power Users Can run or edit projects created by an author, or create new visualizations from the data to which they have been given access. The combination of Authors and Power Users creates an environment where groups of analysts can work collaboratively to best understand data Viewers Business users who use the resulting visualization dashboards to investigate their own data from the secure InfoDiscovery Portal. All content and data is automatically tailored according to their specific access rights
InfoDiscovery Components InfoDiscovery Workbench The InfoDiscovery Workbench provides a comfortable and familiar web-based environment for analysts to quickly author interactive visualizations. Those visualizations can also be stored and shared with other analysts, who can enhance them further in the workbench, or deploy directly to business users. Key capabilities include: Visualization and Analysis InfoDiscovery provides a new mode of visual analytic design that allows business users and analysts to learn about their data through a visual and cumulative process. No matter how big the data set, InfoDiscovery can deliver immediate visual feedback through: HTML5 Chart Library, a comprehensive library of rich, interactive charts and visualizations, based on the latest HTML5 technology, which can be accessed via any browser or device Tooltips, allowing authors to add measures and descriptive information in the form of a helpful pop-up tooltip. Tooltips allow users to learn more about the item as they are hovering over it. Tooltips can also include hyperlinks to drill-down to another report to provide further detail about an item accessed via any browser or device View Data, allows authors to identify and grab a set of data associated with a visualization, and eaily share that data with any user via e-mail. Design and Development With InfoDiscovery, users can blend large volumes of data into interactive visual displays that answer hundreds of questions in a single screen. By combining summary and detail data in an InfoDiscovery dashboard rather than displaying it in spreadsheets users can gain a deeper understanding of their data, which leads to faster, better decisions. InfoDiscovery eliminates cumbersome, iterative report design processes between business users and IT. Business users are empowered with interactive capabilities, so they can efficiently satisfy their own requirements for deep visual analysis. Responsive Layout Visualization objects are automatically organized and optimized for any device to provide the clearest understanding and interpretation, so users can spend less time worrying about screen design and more time focused on the meaning behind the data.
Automatic Visual Isolation and Filtering Visual isolation helps users understand how outliers, both good and bad, are constructed, and to determine which attributes of an outlier make it unique. You can then filter out obstructing data to more closely pinpoint and document those attributes. Interactive ribbon facilitates rapid visualization, discovery, and storytelling. Capture your insight and produce a storyboard. Interactive and customizable tooltips. Use Matrix, size, color, and tootip markers. Automatic layout capabilities ensure that visualizations display as perfectly on a tablet as they will on a highresolution desktop monitor. Lasso, Select, and Exclude any data points. Drill up and down dimensional hierachies, and view and export data. Filter Controls InfoDiscovery provides advanced controls that make it easy to add or eliminate partial data sets from visual displays: Sliders add or remove data from a range of numbers Calendar controls adjust data by date Check boxes remove select sets of data from analysis InfoDiscovery Server and Repository The InfoDiscovery Server contains a secure, central, web-based repository where users can store their work. Administrators can define groups of users with different roles and privileges, allowing content to be quickly shared, while securing it from unauthorized viewing. The repository allows a single user of InfoDiscovery to get started as if she were using a simple desktop product, but then quickly grow to a workgroup of analysts and business users who can share their work across an organization.
InfoDiscovery Portal The InfoDiscovery Portal is a secure adaptive container for all completed InfoDiscovery visualization projects. It allows authors to organize pages of visualizations and views, and to style them according to their organization s default look and feel. This streamlines and accelerates the creation and deployment of web-based InfoDiscovery apps, so other business users and viewers can interact with resulting visualization projects to visually query and interrogate the underlying data. InfoDiscovery Analytics Sandbox The InfoDiscovery High-Speed Analytics Sandbox is a columnar data store that can be used to store large amounts of data for lightning-fast retrieval, aggregation, and calculation without the need for complex indexing or pre-aggregation of data. Because it uses memory efficiently, but is not limited to computer memory, the Sandbox can deliver near-instant response times for very large data sets through: Data Compression, in which data is compressed at a ratio of 10:1 but can achieve much higher compression levels depending on the type of data loaded QuickCopy Utility, which allows authors to quickly and easily move complete copies (or subsets) of an original data set. It mimics the original metadata schema, so that analysts familiar with access to the original will recognize all aspects of the copy. QuickCopy creates an isolated sandbox for analysts to play with, so the performance of the original operational data is not impacted JOIN/BLEND Utility, which enables users to combine data from multiple sources into a single view. It intelligently aggregates the data, so users don t have to worry about the incorrect results that are common with relational joins Our Unique Approach to Data Discovery Web-based user interface features a work bench for design, deployment that includes drag-and drop-workflow, context-sensitive right-click actions, accordion controls, and ribbon toolbars Fast, multi-dimensional, and responsive HTML5 graphics and charts library adapts to any mobile device or browser Interactivity between visual components allows users to select and filter Ability to generate storyboard of analysis in PowerPoint to share insights with users and executives Authors can publish discoveries to the Portal for other users to leverage Active Technology dashboards can be e-mailed to any user for easy mobile distribution Authors can work individually or collaborate in workgroups High-speed data storage for big data analytics with data compression ratios from 10:1 to 40:1 View Data enables users to easily share an identified set of data with non-licensed users
Find Out More To find out how we can help your company succeed, talk to your local Information Builders representative today. Visit us at informationbuilders.com, or in the U.S. and Canada, call (800) 969-4636. To improve your skills with our solutions, visit education.ibi.com. InfoDiscovery and WebFOCUS: Better Together As an integral part of the WebFOCUS business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform, InfoDiscovery offers unique advantages that other data discovery tools lack: Reduced Maintenance Shared metadata, centralized administration, and security management greatly reduce maintenance and administration of development and runtime environment Many Different Styles of BI Data discovery capabilities can be seamlessly augmented with predictive analytics, social media analytics, performance management, standard reporting, and other core BI and analytics to satisfy every information need Access Any Enterprise Data Users can drill down to operational data from a discovery dashboard to perform deeper data exploration and rapidly uncover critical patterns, trends, anomalies, and outliers Governance, Version Control, and Auditing Ability Centralized administration provides a single console for real-time user and system management. Includes usage monitoring and auditing, self-tuning scalable server, and optimization of in-memory environment Enterprise-Class Security Powerful security features include single sign on, metadata-based deployment, multi-tenancy templates, and a fine-grained security model with authorized users based on RDMS data or web services Interactive Portals, Dashboards, and InfoApps WebFOCUS uses the same metadata across its entire infrastructure, so InfoDiscovery can incorporate existing reports and objects into its dashboards and InfoApps. The WebFOCUS Portal can also assemble multiple InfoApps from InfoDiscovery or other WebFOCUS resources into a single dashboard. Selector controls can provide dynamic filtering and data synchronization across the entire dashboard, regardless of where the components come from Requirements InfoDiscovery Server supports a group of users, and requires: Windows 7 or Linux Quad core processor 8GB RAM 500MB disk space InfoDiscovery Workbench can be accessed by users via any web browser no software download is required. Corporate Headquarters Two Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121-2898 (212) 736-4433 Fax (212) 967-6406 DN7507775.0814 Connect With Us informationbuilders.com askinfo@informationbuilders.com Copyright 2014 by Information Builders. All rights reserved. [117] All products and product names mentioned in this publication are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.