Bringing Simplicity to Integration

Data integration is an expensive component – up to 70 percent – of a business intelligence implementation. Yet large amounts of data often remain inaccessible or not meaningful to people. With true seamless integration, WebFOCUS makes any data available regardless of its location, storage medium, or format.

WebFOCUS provides direct access to virtually any data source in your enterprise. Optional ETL tools allow you to build optimized data marts and data warehouses.

An Infrastructural Approach to Performance

WebFOCUS' unifying integration infrastructure accesses, reconciles, cleanses, and prepares data for business intelligence manipulation, analysis, and delivery.

Data adapters provide optimum performance by combining the power of the data source with the power of the WebFOCUS engine. With more than 300 data and application adapters, organizations can access data at every latency level from real-time, zero-latency transactions to staged data in the most summarized data mart. And, WebFOCUS allows you to describe any data source through a single metadata layer that can be leveraged for ETL, reporting, and analysis.

No tool simplifies complex data environments better than WebFOCUS. Pursue the data integration strategy that best fits your organization's needs and business processes:

• Create decentralized aggregate data marts throughout your organization
• Take a hybrid approach to data allowing drill-through from a central data warehouse to operational applications
• Leverage real-time transactions to trickle feed your data warehouses and alert people of critical business issues when they occur

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