To all Focal Pointers,

Happy Spring time!

More webinars are scheduled, so please register now, we look forward to seeing you online.

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Higher Education Virtual User Forum - Spring 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 @ 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
(1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Central Time; 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Mountain Time; 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time)

Whether it's for an internal decision, for IPEDS, state reporting, a grant application, or answers needed for accreditation, there is a need for a culture of evidence in higher education.

That's why Information Builders has produced a new application template - based on customer input - that will help WebFOCUS customers to track enrollment, retention, and completions.

We call it "RETA" for short. That stands for Retention/Enrollment Tracking & Analysis.

Join us on this webinar to take a look at this business intelligence application template that may help your institution with visual analytics for reporting and internal decision-making.

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Healthcare Virtual User Forum
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 @ 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
(1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Central Time; 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Mountain Time; 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time)

Customer Presentation: How Butler Health Systems is Utilizing WebFOCUS to Increase Information Flow from Meditech, presented by Ed Smith, Butler Health Systems

After defining their Business Intelligence requirements and evaluating solutions and tools from a number of vendors, Butler Health System (BHS) purchased WebFOCUS in the fall of 2011.

This session will showcase some of BHS applications and discuss their vision, plan, and experiences implementing WebFOCUS to:
- Support a culture of evidence-based decision-making
- Reduce costs and help increase labor productivity and asset management.
- Utilize Performance Management Framework (PMF) as a framework, and strategy, to achieve Strategic Goals
- Deploy Mobile (iPad and Android) Business Intelligence applications for clinicians and hospital staff
- Track meaningful use compliance metrics for providers in reports and scorecards

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SaaS Virtual User Forum - Spring 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012 @ 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
(1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Central Time; 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Mountain Time; 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time)

The market for Software as a Service (SaaS)-based solutions continues to grow. A recent report published by Gartner predicts that the total enterprise software revenue for SaaS delivery will reach more than $12 billion dollars this year - up more than 20 percent over 2010 - and hit approximately $21 billion dollars by 2015.

Join us on the webinar to discuss:
- Branding issues related to the product (e.g., BI Portal, InfoAssist)
- Supportability issues related to the product (e.g., IBI training collateral, product online help, usability issues)
- Infrastructure/administration topics, such as security, installation, user role definition, content sharing
- Web services: REST v. SOAP
- Approaches to 3rd party portal integration, including single sign-on, iFrame versus web services, Portlets, JSR-168 JSR-286

Power Systems Research - Dan Pinault, Director of Business Intelligence Services
Do you offer BI in a Software as a Service (SaaS) model? Do you have the need to setup exclusive customers that have access to the same master files and applications but must not know that other customers even exist? Come see how Power Systems Research has configured their WebFOCUS environment to deliver customer-facing applications in a way that keeps customers isolated from each other while accessing a common set of data sources and reporting applications.

Feedback and Open Discussion

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As always, if you would like to present a tip or technique via Live Meeting, please feel free to send a private message to Kathleen or myself.

Cheers,

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,

Recent Recordings Available for download:

Getting Data Ready for WebFOCUS

Building Beautiful Dashboards using Active Technologies (presentation also available)

Summit 2012 Agenda Overview

WebFOCUS Magnify: Enterprise Search

Kerry,

I get a "Page Not Found" when I click on the Building Beautiful Dashboards... link. Thanks

Luiz

Hi Luiz,

The recording that you're looking for is out of date and has been removed from the site. The current archived recordings can be found at Recorded Virtual User Groups which reflects up-to-date recordings.

Regards,

Kathryn