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Vendor: Information Builders

Product: WebFOCUS

A well established production reporting tool that can not only access popular OLAP databases, but provides basic OLAP analysis on live data from a myriad of both modern and legacy sources.

Product Review:
Information Builders WebFOCUS - version 7.6
last update: 04.2008
Customer verdict:
Information Builders WebFOCUS version 7.x
last update: 02.2010
Factbase:
WebFOCUS 7.6
last update: 08.2008
KPI Dashboards:
KPI Dashboards
last update: 03.2009


Product Review
Based on our expert analyst opinion, this review offers a detailed product assessment. Beginning with a vendor overview, it goes on to describe aspects of WebFOCUS such as licensing, architecture, administration, front-ends and reporting. The conclusion section gives a general overview of the product's strengths and weaknesses, and lists other similar products.

Factbase
This gives you our analysts' feature-by-feature evaluation of WebFOCUS accompanied by additional notes and commentary. Scores are awarded for 30 core criteria, while around 150 more features and functions are described. Every factbase is based on the same Excel template, enabling you to easily compare products side-by-side.

Customer Verdict

The customer verdict is based on the results of the world's largest and most detailed annual survey of BI user experiences: The BI Survey. WebFOCUS is analyzed against 26 key criteria to determine how it compares with competing solutions from a real-world user point of view.

KPI Dashboards
WebFOCUS is included in a series of dashboards showing the product rating across 26 key metrics, based on user feedback from The BI Survey. With 23 market-leading products appearing on each dashboard, you can quickly identify the best (and worst) solutions for your specific needs.