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 WebFOCUS Release 8.2 Version 01M and higher, a demonstration (“demo”) application is available for deployment that allows you to embed WebFOCUS BI content and functionality as an external application. The embedded BI demo application enables you to explore the iframe and web services embedding options.

The embedded BI demo application files are located in the following folder of your WebFOCUS installation:

<drive>:\ibi\WebFOCUS82\samples\embedded_demo

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