Reliable, Robust, User Friendly, and Flexible.
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.
Feature Rich & East to Use
We are helping our clients with modern ways to look at their data to make real time business decisions that continue to propel their businesses to the next level. WebFocus has provided every thing we have needed to create what our company calls raving fans.
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.
Information Builders is truly a partner for success. They are always willing to work with you to implement successful solutions and continuously listen to specific customer needs. Many of the features in new releases are directly related to customer reque
Information Builders is an innovative company and their products continue to improve. Given the success, experience and age of the company, they have proven to be a trustworthy business partner.
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.
Best Customer Support in the Industry
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
Review of WebFocus from SLGA
Rapid development helps quick delivery to upper management. More graph library and functions would be great since I do a lot of graphs.
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.
Lots of power to make custom report
can create reports from multiple data sources, can let users create custom reports from their own dash broads
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
Ease of use and intuitive
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.
Very easy o learn and have users to adapt to it
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
IB WebFocus is the complete package
Are end users can use the tool. It is easy for them to use.
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.
Analytical User
We have been able to provide data snapshots for managers using dashboards.
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.
Overall good experience. Product allowed us to provide a rich customer experience.
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.
Non-DEV Power User Tester
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
WebFocus Infoassist product review
Pros
Easy of use to get started and deploy the changes.
Cons
Features are not easy identify without reading thru the documentation.
WebFocus Review
Pros
Easy to use, can access data from different sources
Cons
Sometimes it does not behave as it should be.
Powerful Products
Overall I am pleased with the performance and possibilities the Information Builders products provide.
Pros
Powerful products for combing, analyzing and visualizing data into useful information.
Cons
Advanced development takes considerable time to learn efficiently.
Ive used it for 6 years and still learn new tricks all the time.
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.
Data is Awesome
The overall idea is great for implementing future projects.
Pros
Webfocus is great for getting a lot of data to alot of people quickly!
Cons
It does not allow for real time updates.
Webfocus
Love it
Pros
The features and ability to create portals
Cons
The proprietary focus language for doing advanced programming
Good tool but has some issues with version control
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.
Love WebFOCUS
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.
Information Builders is a great tool and we haven't found anything that we can't do with it
We use many features of the product including IWay, portal development, and report scheduling and distribution capability.
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
WebFocus Review
While we are in the beginning stages of testing the product and working out bugs, I am satisfied that WebFocus will be able to meet our needs.
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.
Mostly use InfoAssist as a manager of an HRIS team who uses it more than me.
Fast development, large userbase on campus
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.
Great experience overall! Would like more support on using 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.
PMF is a great software but takes lot of time to load pages.
The whole organization has started identifying their key processes and started measuring their performance metrics. This software will help our organization to achieve performance excellence.
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.
Robust Reports and Charts; Business users can easily develop reports