publishing information with webfocus 7.6.4 copyright 2007, information builders. slide 1 brian...

Publishing Information with WebFOCUS 7.6.4

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 1

Brian CarterTechnical ManagerJanuary 16, 2007

Abstract

All companies have a need to create comprehensive, boardroom quality documents that deliver the overall state of the business. Annual or even monthly reports must contain scores of individual reports and graphs all compiled into a single distributable document. Creating these types of reports can be very difficult and time-consuming, presenting a major challenge to those responsible for this task. WebFOCUS can easily meet this challenge and help streamline the process of creating these large scale reports. The PDF Layout Painter has added many new features in the latest release allowing the delivery of advanced and stylish multi-page layouts. This session will show how you can combine, coordinate, and publish your reports with WebFOCUS!

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OVERVIEWPublishing Information with WebFOCUS

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Exposure and

Dissemination of

information

Compilation and

presentation

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What is Report Publishing?

Generation of “all-purpose” boardroom quality report booklets

View, print, and analyze

Automatically burst, print, and distribute

WYSIWYG - full scale precision layout

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Mission

Consistent, dynamic

output

HTML viewing

PDF printing

PowerPoint presentations

Excel/Active Reports analysis

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Functionality

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Functionality cont.

Paint with live data

Page Master

Save and reuse

pages

Printable TOC

with navigation

Design and runtime positioning

Latest Features 7.6.x

REAL WORLD APPLICATIONSPublishing Information with WebFOCUS

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Strategic Planning

Billing/Statements

Regulatory Reporting

Marketing

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Applications

4 report “books” reviewed monthly by CEO and the Board Printed and Projected versions Updated minutes before the meeting

Reporting and Analysis process very carefully designed Coordinated color

schemes Placement

Petrobras

Dashboard Application used for strategic planning

Use of Coordinated Compound reports

Dynamic output for

viewing, printing,

and analysis

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Bayer Material Science

Distributes financial statements to roughly 20,000 users

200,000 Compound PDF Documents per month

Completely automated using

WebFOCUS ReportCaster

American Express

BEST PRACTICESPublishing Information with WebFOCUS

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Back to Basics

Know your audience

Tell a story

Illustrate the data and add visual appeal

Allow the information to breathe

Sans-serif fonts such as Arial – no more than two

Consistency!

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Best Practices

Check out the article in the

Summer 2007 edition of the WF

Newsletter!

Check out the article in the

Summer 2007 edition of the WF

Newsletter!

DEMONSTRATIONPublishing Information with WebFOCUS

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FUTURE DIRECTIONPublishing Information with WebFOCUS

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Mix and match burst and non-burst content

Component based creation of bookletsMix and match from a library of reports and

layouts

Embed documents into a template

Interactive PDF with Macromedia FLEX

Future