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ibi WebFOCUS

Score7 out of 10

33 Reviews and Ratings

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What is ibi WebFOCUS?

The ibi™ WebFOCUS® product is an enterprise business intelligence and analytics solution equipped with data management, visual discovery, predictive analytics, and visualizations. Combining these capabilities and data science in one unified containerized platform, the WebFOCUS® solution can be used to make data-driven decisions across the enterprise and provide reports, dashboards, and customer-facing applications at scale.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features ibi WebFOCUS has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 33 ratings of ibi WebFOCUS's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Formatting capabilities

    Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Report sharing and collaboration

    Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Publish to Web

    Category average: 8

Areas for Improvement

  • Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

    Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Predictive Analytics

    Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.

    Category average: 7.2

  • Mobile Application

    A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.

    Category average: 7.2

Reviews

What users are saying about ibi WebFOCUS.
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Webfocus: a gem with a vast potential

Incentivized
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Integration in suite of information builders (data migrator, info assist, webfocus etc) allows me to do all ETL and reporting without need of other solutions
  • Flexibility in reporting. If the GUI cannot offer it, FOCUS (code) allows you to get really creative
  • Increased speed of development in the last 1-2 years
  • Bi for all types of users

Cons

  • More flexibility in graphs/charts out of the box (html5 allows for a lot, but they are not all out of the box or limited in the applicability)
  • Further development of info assist (it lags behind compared to the rest of the toolset)
  • Upgradeability could be easier

Return on Investment

  • Relatively low investment
  • Helped us grow data insights in a decentralized company structure that provided new ways of support from the center
  • Limited investments locally in new BI solutions

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI, Tableau Desktop, Qlik Analytics Platform and Birst

Other Software Used

Birst, Infor M3 (formerly Lawson Intentia), Microsoft Power BI

Usability

WebFocus BI tool review - The best BI tool I have used to date!

Incentivized
David MaillieView profile
Application Development Analyst and Software Engineer in Information Technology at Europa Sports Products (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Great technical support - If you have a question or issue they will get back to you very fast and get it resolved. Never had a problem with their support.
  • I can get ANY data I want from practically any source, read it, filter it and display it quickly in a report, graph, etc...
  • I love the way LDAP is used in WebFocus 8 to grant user access. We use this through portals, folders, etc... This way if a user is in a certain LDAP group or groups they have access and can see and run certain reports. If not, they can't see anything.
  • I love the ability to completely customize reports, graphs, dashboards, portals, etc... We can finetune anything to any data and present it in anyway we see fit and do it quickly. Far quicker turn around then SAP Crystal Reports or any other comparable BI platform.
  • Very high reliability and uptime. No other BI product comes close. It's basically set it and forget it. It runs like a tank.

Cons

  • The admin console can be a little confusing for new people, but it doesn't take long to figure out where everything lives and how it works.

Alternatives Considered

SAP Crystal Reports

Other Software Used

BMC Track-It!, GoldMine, MS SharePoint, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP Crystal Reports

Usability

Focused on WebFOCUS

Incentivized
Rob FosnaughView profile
Sr. Manager - Business Intelligence in Information Technology at Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • WebFOCUS as a BI and analytics platform has all of the necessary components to successfully implement and run a competent and intelligent organization.
  • WebFOCUS has adapters into any data source that has ever been made and is being made. This allows reach into virtually any system to report and analyze the data.
  • With version 8 of WebFOCUS the usability of the BI Portal and the development environments are extremely robust, yet easy to use. Business users are able to quickly and effectively get up to speed and build powerful solutions with minimal assistance.
  • The ability to parameterize virtually anything and also access to the backend coding allows powerful, creative, and innovative solutions.

Cons

  • Bullet graphs and a few of the newer multi-variable graph types are not available that are very handy in specific situations. They are in the works, but not in the current version.

Other Software Used

Atlassian Confluence, JIRA Software, Microsoft SQL Server

WebFocus one of the Best BI analysis tools

Incentivized
Luis MiramontesView profile
Programmer in Information Technology at AutoZone (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • The software is continuously improving
  • Easy to learn programming language
  • Very fast and stable
  • Compatible with most web browsers

Cons

  • Price
  • Support
  • Training

Other Software Used

OSAS, Actian PSQL

Good reporting system.

Incentivized
Saul ArrazateView profile
Lead Developer in Information Technology at AutoZone (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Massive reporting, allows multiple users to access the same report at the same time within a fraction of a second. Its open, code wise, enough for you to assign distinct drilling levels and data view restrictions.
  • Ad-Hoc Analysis will allow you to manage millions of rows of data within seconds for you to provide with the proper analysis for your different needs/areas.
  • Data management in WebFOCUS is also very easy to understand and code, giving even the non-tech savy users a useful tool for reporting.
  • FOCmarts can make your reporting so much more faster, when you have so much data to analyze having a tool that provides you with the ability to save off a smaller table of data with only what you need, always comes handy.

Other Software Used

DB2, Hadoop, Devart ODBC Driver for Oracle

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