This topic provides an overview the WebFOCUS Business User Edition (BUE).
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WebFOCUS BUE is a web-based environment, consisting
of the following components:
InfoAssist+
Perform reporting and analysis as well as data discovery, from
a single user interface. These categories of self-service analytics
include the following capabilities:
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Reporting and Analysis. Create ad hoc queries; develop
reports, charts, documents and other analytic views for personal
usage or sharing and distribution in static or interactive formats.
You can also create more advanced information assets, such as multi-page
analytic documents and multi-source dashboards.
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Data Discovery. Explore your data to find trends, patterns,
and gain new insight, by creating visualizations. Running against
a high-speed data sandbox and other data sources, you can create
interactive visualizations that can be saved, shared, published,
and delivered as PowerPoint presentations to help you build business
cases through storytelling.
Business User Edition Portal
Provides access to a single web-based environment, where you
can create, access, or manage content and groups. You can develop
new content or interact with content that has been created by other
users, as well as create personal portal pages.
ReportCaster
Provides scheduling and distribution capabilities for reports
and procedures, as well as independent files and URLs. Using ReportCaster,
reports and files are automatically distributed on a monthly, weekly,
daily, or specific basis.
xWebFOCUS Installation Overview
This section briefly explains the different WebFOCUS
installation components.
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WebFOCUS and Your Network
WebFOCUS seamlessly integrates into your existing network
by connecting web servers and application servers to your data.
Users then access WebFOCUS through a web browser.
The main requirements for installing
WebFOCUS are:
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Web Browser. To access WebFOCUS applications,
you need a web browser and a TCP/IP connection to a web server or
application server.
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Web Server and Application Server. WebFOCUS
runs in part through a web server or application server. WebFOCUS
BUE installs and configures a required application server.
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Data. WebFOCUS BUE accesses data through
a High-Speed Analytics Sandbox (Hyperstage), a hybrid in-memory
data store that stores, in a very compressed form, large amounts
of data for retrieval, aggregation, and calculation.