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Copyright 2008, Information Builders. Slide 1

Build Real-Time BI Dashboards With Flex and WebFOCUS Web Services

Paulo TavaresSr. Systems Engineer

June, 2008


To provide a road map to create new generation of interactive dashboards using WebFOCUS Flex Enable and WebFOCUS Web Services

OBJECTIVE


INSPIRE YOU

MAIN OBJECTIVE


AGENDA

Intro to WebFOCUS Web Services Intro to WebFOCUS Flex ComponentsCase Study: Credit Card Statement Dashboard

Before Scenario (Problem) After Scenario (Solution)

Live Demo Implementation Architecture (Ingredients) Implementation Steps (Recipe)

Q&A


Intro to WebFOCUS Web Services


It is an integration technology

It allows two applications written with same or different technologies (such as JAVA, .NET, FLEX or WebFOCUS) to communicate to each other using a Web API

Intro to WebFOCUS Web Services What is a Web Service?


ACCOUNTING

DE

PA

RT

ME

NT

S

SALES

DATA (.XML)

<customer> <id>123</id> <rev>1200</rev></customer>

Intro to WebFOCUS Web Services Web Service Scenarios: Department to Department

JAVA APPLICATION.NET APPLICATION

WS

WSDL (.XML)

operation:getRevenueparameter(s): customerIdoutputrevenue

What info can I get?

getRevenue(“123”)


COMPANY BCOMPANY A

CO

MP

AN

IES

Intro to WebFOCUS Web Services Web Service Scenarios: Company to Company

JAVA APPLICATION.NET APPLICATION

WS

What info can I get?

getRevenue(“123”)

WSDL (.XML)

operation:getRevenueparameter(s): customerIdoutputrevenue

DATA (.XML)

<customer> <id>123</id> <rev>1200</rev></customer>


Intro to WebFOCUS Web Services Web Service Scenarios: Company to Companies

CO

MP

AN

IES

COMPANY A

CRM APPLICATION

WS

COMPANY C

.NET APPLICATION

COMPANY D

.NET APPLICATION

COMPANY E

FLEX APPLICATION

COMPANY G

JAVA APPLICATION

COMPANY F

.NET APPLICATION

COMPANY B

JAVA APPLICATION


It is the ability to expose (publish) WebFOCUS procedures as Web Services and to call (consume) any available Web Services

WebFOCUS can PUBLISH and CONSUME a Web Service

Plus, WebFOCUS has the ability to publish Managed Reporting and Report Caster functions as Web Services

Intro to WebFOCUS Web ServicesWhat is WebFOCUS Web Service?


Intro to WebFOCUS Web Services WebFOCUS Web Services Scenario

CO

MP

AN

IES COMPANY B

JAVA APPLICATION

COMPANY D

.NET APPLICATION

COMPANY G

JAVA APPLICATION

COMPANY F

JAVA APPLICATION

COMPANY C

.NET APPLICATION

COMPANY E

JAVA APPLICATION

COMPANY C

WEBFOCUS APP

COMPANY A

CRM APPLICATION

WS COMPANY E

WEBFOCUS APP

COMPANY A

.NET APPLICATION

WS

COMPANY A

WEBFOCUS APP

WS


Intro to WebFOCUS Flex

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FLEX is a web technology created by Adobe that allows web

developers to build Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) using the

popular Flash browser plug-in

Adobe claims 98% of all internet users have the Flash plug-in

already installed

FLEX applications are built with a mix of MXML (XML based

language) and ActionScript (similar to Javascript)

Intro to WebFOCUS FlexWhat is Flex?

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 14Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 14

It is a set of FLEX Business Intelligence Components that

allows developers to create with very few lines of code or

NONE, Rich Internet Applications (RIA's) using Flex technology

leveraging all WebFOCUS capabilities and existing reports

WebFOCUS report data can be brought into the FLEX

application via URL calls or,

Via WebFOCUS Web Services enhancing security and

integration into Managed Reporting and Report Caster

Intro to WebFOCUS FlexWhat is WebFOCUS Flex?


Case Study: Credit Card Statement Dashboard


CHARGES CREDIT CARD STATEMENTCREDIT CARD USERS

Authorized UserSON

WIFEAuthorized User

HUSBANDAccount Holder

DATE PAYEE AMOUNT01/01/2008 TARGET 12.34

01/01/2008 BEST BUY 1234

01/01/2008 PUBLIX 2.34

01/01/2008 TARGE 12.34

01/01/2008 TARGET 12.34

01/01/2008 TARGET 12.34

01/01/2008 TARGET 12.34

/01/2008 TARGET 12.34

NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR ANALYSIS

Case Study: Credit Card Statement Dashboard Before Scenario


CHARGES CREDIT CARD

DASHBOARDCREDIT CARD USERS

Authorized UserSON

WIFEAuthorized User

HUSBANDAccount Holder

Case Study: Credit Card Statement DashboardAfter Scenario


CREDITCARD COMPANY

INTEGRATION

BILLING COMPANY

WEBFOCUSREPORTING SERVER

WEBFOCUSREPORT CASTER

WEBFOCUSMANAGED

REPORTING

WEB SERVER

REPORT CASTER WEB SERVICEaddDestinationElement

WS

DATABSE SERVERSQL Server Express

MAIL SERVER

ArGoSoft

Case Study: Credit Card Implementation Architecture: INGREDIENTS

REPORTING/ MRE WEB SERVICEwebFocusRunFex

WS

WEBFOCUSFLEX COMPONENTS

DASHBOARD

SON

LAPTOP

WIFE

LAPTOP

HUSBAND

LAPTOP


CREDITCARD COMPANY

INTEGRATION

BILLING COMPANYSON



WEBFOCUSMANAGED

REPORTING

WEB SERVER

LAPTOP


WS



MAIL SERVER

ArGoSoft

WIFE

LAPTOP

HUSBAND

LAPTOP

Case Study: Credit Card Implementation Steps (Recipe): REGISTERING TRANSACTIONS


WS

DASHBOARD


CREDITCARD COMPANY

INTEGRATION

BILLING COMPANYSON



WEBFOCUSMANAGED

REPORTING

WEB SERVER

LAPTOP


WS



MAIL SERVER

ArGoSoft

WIFE

LAPTOP

HUSBAND

LAPTOP

Case Study: Credit Card Implementation Steps (Recipe): LOAD DASHBOARD


WS

DASHBOARD


CREDITCARD COMPANY

INTEGRATION

BILLING COMPANYSON



WEBFOCUSMANAGED

REPORTING

WEB SERVER

LAPTOP


WS



MAIL SERVER

ArGoSoft

WIFE

LAPTOP

HUSBAND

LAPTOP

Case Study: Credit Card Implementation Steps (Recipe): LOAD DATA INTO DASHBOARD


WS

DASHBOARD


CREDITCARD COMPANY

INTEGRATION

BILLING COMPANYSON



WEBFOCUSMANAGED

REPORTING

WEB SERVER

LAPTOP


WS



MAIL SERVER

ArGoSoft

WIFE

LAPTOP

HUSBAND

LAPTOP

Case Study: Credit Card Implementation Steps (Recipe): ALERT


WS

DASHBOARD


CREDITCARD COMPANY

INTEGRATION

BILLING COMPANYSON



WEBFOCUSMANAGED

REPORTING

WEB SERVER

LAPTOP


WS



MAIL SERVER

ArGoSoft

WIFE

LAPTOP

HUSBAND

LAPTOP

Case Study: Credit Card Implementation steps (Recipe): SECURITY


WS

DASHBOARD


SUMMARY


SUMMARY

Today we took a look at how to use WebFOCUS Flex components combined with WebFOCUS Web Services capabilities to build real-time interactive dashboards


THE END

Thank you!

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