WebFOCUS Embedded Business Intelligence

Embedded Business Intelligence (BI) provides the capability of incorporating WebFOCUS content and functionality (features) into an external application. There are several approaches and techniques that can be used to embed BI, including:

1. Embedding WebFOCUS BI Portal pages or other WebFOCUS content into an HTML iframe.
2. Using WebFOCUS web services to embed content into the application.
3. Launching WebFOCUS tools such as InfoAssist from the application.
4. Using WebFOCUS Open Portal Services to embed content (specifically, WebFOCUS portlets) in a JSR 286-compliant portal environment (for example, Microsoft SharePoint).

In prior WebFOCUS releases, the embedded BI demonstration (“demo”) application was branded ABC Company, which represented a fictitious business organization, and used WF RETAIL as its primary data source.

As of WebFOCUS Release 8.2 Version 03, the new embedded BI demo is called Fintoso Financial and is modeled on a typical online banking application, which most users and customers can easily relate to.

For example, logging into most personal online banking applications as a customer will usually present you with information related to your accounts, such as savings, checking, investments, and even retirement portfolio.

Providing a similar experience for users is the goal of the new Fintoso Financial embedded BI demo.

For improved performance and quicker deployment, a new financial data set has been packaged with the Fintoso Financial embedded BI demo. You are no longer required to build WF RETAIL as a data source for the embedded demo application. Instead, a set of FTM files representing sample financial data is included with the new Change Management package. As a result, simply deploying the new Change Management package will also deploy all of the required data that is used by the new embedded BI demo at the same time.

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For more information on installing and using the new Fintoso Financial embedded BI demo that is packaged with WebFOCUS, see the WebFOCUS Embedded Business Intelligence User's Guide in the Embedded Business Intelligence Technical Library.