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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