ibi Reviews

Pros

- As an IT professional, I find WebFOCUS to be a powerful reporting tool which meets very diversified demands within my organization.
- Allows non-developers to quickly create reports and charts without a lot of technical know how.
- The applications can handle processing large amounts of data in a short period of time. - Technical support staff is knowledgeable and turnaround time for resolving issues is excellent. - Creating ad hoc reports in InfoAssist allows business users to quickly analyze data.

Cons

Have experienced a few hiccups when upgrading from one release to another, but with the assistance of their technical support team, we were able to resolve issues promptly.

Pros

From self-service to complicated analytic reporting needs, the WebFocus platform has fulfilled every need our company has demanded. The transition of modernizing our business platform as the WebFocus platform advances has been relatively smooth process.... and they have always been right there to guide and help with any difficulties we have encountered.

Cons

I do not have any cons with my experiences with WebFocus.

Pros

The WebFOCUS product can handle most if not all reporting requests, functionality is wide spread. If the product needs to be improved then IBI will partner with you to find a solution and/or improve the offering with new features.

Cons

Depending on the user the learning curve can be a bit high; users should start with the basics and build from there. Even with that though, a user should be able to gain momentum by having success early on.

Pros

Fantastic, involved, motivated customer support team
Infographics are the best new feature to come along in quite awhile
Reporting Server is very fast - generally sub-second query time for a lot of queries, regardless of data source; server time is also minimal
Relatively easy to host multiple, separated applications with separate user groups and roles

Cons

Data adapter management
AppStudio software still needs an overhaul - unintuitive and ungainly (3GB???)
AppStudio licensing (vs Reports Developer) - reduce that to one version

Pros

New IA features and ease of use. New page designer reduced development time and create a standardized look and feel of a professional page.

Cons

Building business view and metadata can be more streamline. Changes made in one area should be cascade down to other related view without having to remember to change things in multiple places. More automated process to build a view.

Pros

flexible, data integration, support and cost, can design reports ans dashboards that fit all business units, mobile reports rock

Cons

needs some gui interface to make some task easier, can we make a better interface for setting up security. hard to understand that part

Pros

How is can mesh up data from disparate sources and produce "board-room" style reports and analytics. The customer service experience is second to none. I would highly recommend to businesses that are ready to go to the next level.

Cons

upgrades are somewhat of a pain but are working on improving the process. Finding the right answers to upgrade issues.

Pros

It is a great width and depth to its functionality. Very easy to use. End users love it and gives out power users ability to query their own reports

Cons

We use Maintain tool as our two way query . This application isn't the easiest to use and can be very hard to maintain

Pros

The ability to bring together data from different systems

Cons

We are on an older version. The graphs aren't as robust as other products. We are looking forward to upgrading.

Pros

All of the different functions and features. The ability to pull together data across various platforms.

Cons

Not always intuitive. I would like to see better error identification.

Pros

Rich customer experience with ability to customize reports with our Brand. Ease of adding new visualizations and output formats.

Cons

Learning curve to use AppStudio and dialogue manager language. Dialogue manager language is not object oriented.

Pros

Ease of use - easy to utilize existing views with minimum knowledge of the data

Cons

Products contain different features across the product line. InfoAssist vs app studio vs chart vs report

Pros

Easy of use to get started and deploy the changes.

Cons

Features are not easy identify without reading thru the documentation.

Pros

Easy to use, can access data from different sources

Cons

Sometimes it does not behave as it should be.

Pros

Powerful products for combing, analyzing and visualizing data into useful information.

Cons

Advanced development takes considerable time to learn efficiently.

Pros

I like the fact there is a true programing language behind the product so when you are faced with an odd request to do something, you can usually find a work around that will do the trick.

Cons

Sometimes the app studio interface can he hokey. When you make a change in the code it often will break the ability to open the code in particular charting. Also I have seen a lot of times where it crashes with very little information as to the why.

Pros

Webfocus is great for getting a lot of data to alot of people quickly!

Cons

It does not allow for real time updates.

Pros

The features and ability to create portals

Cons

The proprietary focus language for doing advanced programming

Pros

Quickly create an MI report and can supply different ways to show the data

Cons

Version Control is probably gated through another feature we need to buy. It should be baked into the software so everyone can roll back code or look at the history of changes.

Pros

Ability for users to do things themselves without requiring a trained developer.

Cons

Many end-users have trouble - they are able to write reports because the software is so easy to use, however they do not know the data.

Pros

The breadth of functionality the tool provides
The level of customer support both from the corporate staff and the technical group is excellent. They work very hard to be a business partner

Cons

The learning curve can be a bit steep, but the company is making great strides in this area. Previews of the road map for future releases are exciting

Pros

WebFocus seems to have the capability for reporting for our needs. As a new product, while we are still testing, I am encouraged by what we are seeing. The conference is providing added confidence in the capabilities.

Cons

Still learning the product so I cannot say at this point.

Pros

Very flexible and it made it easy for us to transition from Mainframe Focus to Webfocus. Love that we can use "hold" files in programs. Our other reporting product we use for other BI reporting does not allow that.

Cons

Would love to see its user base continue to grow larger than some competitors so that it continues to stay around for a long time; but overall, no cons I can think of about the product.

Pros

Innovation - specifically in the predictable area. I love the page designer, ability to install the product on the cloud as well as voice search capabilities.

Cons

Steep learning curve of the tool. As a manager I find it extremely hard to find the right talent and experience.

Pros

The tile on the gadgets which shows instantly where the data is coming from for the particular chart.

Cons

Loading time for each page is high. I hope the next version is fast. The time dimension always defaults to current period even when we choose other time periods. Wish it remained on the option we chose.