The WebFOCUS Business User Edition (BUE) is intended for business users and analysts that want to generate and share reports, charts, documents, and visualizations. It is also intended for those who want to conduct data discovery to explore trends, patterns, and opportunities. It is a WebFOCUS business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform that enables reporting and analytic capabilities, which can be delivered to users inside and outside of your organization.

WebFOCUS Business User Edition is a self-service analytics solution for groups of business users and analysts. It is not only a web-based environment, but also a multi-user, server-based product designed with a user interface that is oriented toward non-technical users.

This release includes the following features, which represent the strengths and advantages that the WebFOCUS Business User Edition offers users:

• Personal Analytics 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. For more information, see Navigating the WebFOCUS Business User Edition Portal.
• InfoAssist+ Self-Service Analytics Tool. Perform reporting and analysis, as well as data discovery, from a single user interface. These categories of self-service analytics include the following capabilities:
  • Reporting and Analysis. Create ad hoc queries. For example, 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. For more information, see Creating Content.
  • 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. For more information, see Building Visualizations.
• Self-Service Data Preparation. Connect to an existing data source or upload data spreadsheets using the simplified data preparation and management features in the WebFOCUS Business User Edition.
  • Connect to Data wizard. Establish a connection to your existing data using the Connect to Data wizard. You can also join existing data with new data. For more information, see Connecting to Data and Editing Data.
  • Upload wizard. Upload new spreadsheets of data quickly and share that data with others in your enterprise using the Upload wizard. You can also append the spreadsheets that you uploaded previously. For more information, see Uploading and Appending Spreadsheets.
• Automatic Content Generation. Generate sample analytics from which you can gain insight. You can use the sample data that is packaged with the product, or use data of your own to explore trends, patterns and opportunities. You can also open and edit these sample analytics in InfoAssist+. For more information, see Generating Sample Content.
• In-Document Analysis. Using WebFOCUS Active Technologies, you can create and deliver in-document analytics as self-contained HTML5 documents that include data, an analytical engine, and interactive user interface. These documents can be sent to other users who can interact with them disconnected from the web. For more information, see Using Active Technologies.
• Automated Content Distribution and Intelligent Bursting. Schedule secure, critical information to targeted recipients, or burst a single report into sections, each to be sent to a different recipient. For more information, see Creating Distribution Lists and Creating Schedules.
• High-Performance Columnar Storage. WebFOCUS Hyperstage provides high-performance query response times during data discovery, in an embedded data store.
• Enhanced Charting and Geographic Visualizations. Provides access to tools that you can use to create an extensive inventory of your own chart types, such as D3 charts, as well as ESRI integration, with data layers that can be merged onto a single map.
  • Creating Your Own Chart Types. Create your own chart extensions using JavaScript, to expand your library of new and custom charts. For more information, see Creating Your Own Chart Types.
  • Geographic Charts and Visualizations. Create chart-based or visualization-based maps with layers, to illustrate trends. ESRI integration through InfoAssist+ expands the information that is available to you. For more information, Creating Maps to Illustrate Trends.
• Advanced Exploration. Use the Auto-Drill and Auto Link features to expand and enhance the exploration of information that is available in the reports and charts across your enterprise.
  • Auto-Drill. Create reports and charts that provide navigation up and down a dimensional hierarchy, using InfoAssist+. For more information, see Using Auto Drill.
  • Auto-Linking. Link multiple reports and charts easily based on a common parameter, so you can analyze related reports and charts, discovering trends or patterns that may not have been identified previously. For more information, see Using the Auto Linking Feature to Link Content.

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