Information Builders Unveils New Release of WebFOCUS Performance Management Framework
The new WebFOCUS Performance Management Framework 3.1 Introduces New Features Including Predictive Analysis and Forecasting, Alert Management, and Business-Process Management.As everyone – from CEO to process clerk to supplier – needs access to good information, this flexible, modular PM framework is easily tailored to enable anyone in the organization to participate in a "culture of accountability." Each person monitors, analyzes, and manages performance in line with your unique corporate objectives.
PMF combines the analytic, graphical, predictive, and discovery aspects of BI with the cause/effect, weighting, balancing, and leading-indicator analysis of performance management.
WebFOCUS Performance Management Framework 3.1 introduces a number of new features including:
- Predictive analysis and forecasting that allows any user to apply predictive analysis to any metric set, designing a view that shows historical metrics and predicts future achievement using standard patterns
- Performance correlation capabilities that gives users the ability to view any two metrics or objectives in a manner that helps determine if there is a relationship between the two; this capability can be used to help determine if there is a real cause-and-effect relationship and, when planning, the results can be used to influence how targets are set
- Boardroom quality strategy map, based on industry standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) technology that allows direct access to the cascade of scorecards in the system via hyperlinks and pop-up menus
- Business-process management support that lets users align objectives or goals to core business processes and link those processes to supporting documentation, such as an operational WebFOCUS report
- Scorecarding cascading that lets users organize scorecards in a hierarchical linkage, allowing them to drill up and down through various scorecards in the organization
- The ability to publish unlimited public views to deliver performance dashboards to all stakeholders in an organization, including executives, managers, and employees, as well as board members, partners, and citizens outside of the organization
- Alert management, which implements WebFOCUS ReportCaster alerts via an intuitive user interface model; users can directly add, change, or delete existing alerts and view any fired alert history on demand, allowing users to track the history for management or compliance reporting
- Enhanced automatic data security that automatically filters data for users by values on any single dimension; this capability can be specified for individual users or groups to set the level of their data access