# ibi WebFOCUS Reviews **Vendor:** ibi **Category:** [Analytics Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 158 ## About ibi WebFOCUS The ibi WebFOCUS® platform is an enterprise business intelligence and analytics solution equipped with data management, visual discovery, predictive analytics, and powerful visualizations. Combining these capabilities and data science in one unified platform, the WebFOCUS solution helps make data-driven decisions across the enterprise providing reports, dashboards, and customer-facing applications at scale. ## ibi WebFOCUS Reviews ### 1. WebFOCUS - Best Product for Analytics **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanford K. | Senior WebFocus Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2020 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** Connectivity to any data source with excellent outputs delivered for all to review. Ability to meet all styling requirements. Top level security Integration with all corporate display options Report caster for delivery to designated recipients Inline SQL retrieval scripts Best customer service in the industry 24/7 **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Higher costs versus competitive products **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** Identify all current and future needs with all users and tech team members **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to detect and isolate fraud; ability to identify key issues with rapid-fire KPI. Readily deliver drilldownable outputs to identify key granular concerns. Graphs with clear key legends and drilldowns to core concerns Locked-down deliverables to designated executives Transitioning competitive products, e.g. Qlikview, to WebFocus Simplicity of self-service launch pages for corporate users ### 2. MAKES DATA EASY!!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jill M. | Corporate Director of Support Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2018 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** Takes multiple platforms and merge into one that is very easy reporting, Makes a green screen ERP look magical **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** I think there needs to be more flexability when going in to generate a report **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** sales trends, purchase and inventory forcasts and histories. Sales commissions have been so much simplier with Web Focus ### 3. Very powerful and adaptable BI and Analytics tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2020 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** I enjoy the ability to create quick reports for our shareholders. The tools can adapt to your needs. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Can be a learning curve when developing reports. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have noticed more accurate reporting and better data on demand. ### 4. WebFocus review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2021 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** We use webFocus to help build reporting dashboards to better understand our performance and member base. The platform is user-friendly and very robust. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** There's a pretty steep learning curve, however, given the proper training, the platform has extreme useful capabilities to be utilized. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used Information Builder WebFocus to build out important dashboards to better understand our customer base and marketing/engagement efforts ### 5. I like WebFOCUS a lot **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2022 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** I like creating reports and dashboards/portals. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** There are a few bugs that can be pretty annoying, but that is in an older version of the tool. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am creating many financial reports for our company and dashboards for other departments. This has been very helpful for the managers that need to make decisions. ### 6. Information Builders WebFOCUS - The Best (BI) Software. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:**  Sumit D. | Visual Effects Artist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2021 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** Information Builders WebFOCUS is the best (BI) Software I've ever used in my work. I like it the most because it got the most extensive collection of data connectors. It is effortless to use, and also, they work significantly faster. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** The only thing I dislike about Information Builders WebFOCUS is they don’t provide good support that is very disappointing. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Information Builders WebFOCUS helps to manage my business, and my client works quickly with this software. ### 7. WebFocus can do it ALL , you just need to know How **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naeem S. | Senior WebFocus Developer, WF Administrator, Mentor.., Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2020 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** WebFocus is able to connect to all sorts of data be it mainframe, different DBMS , Unlike some others in the market which just handle front end tools like creating reports, and fancy charts etc.. WebFocus has all those features PLUS allows you to create virtual fields using its Define procedures, some of the data users’ needs is not always available in the tables, so WebFocus allows you to create that data, in addition to JOINS it allows you to MATCH files where JOIN will not do the trick Also IBI has very good support system and user community where you can find solutions. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Errors messages are not clear sometimes … you have to really check different areas to find out, oh this error was related to this issue. In Version 8.1.5 App Studio has issue which I hear are resolved in the 8.2 Versions **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** If you are looking for Flexibility in creating reporting and analytics Then WebFocus is the Tool to use, Companies implement ERP systems and try to use reporting out of the Box , in my experience they have to go to many hoops to create Reports that Users need , if they can create it.. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instead of manually creating Access Lists we are using Restful Service and using our own security tables to determine user locations and internal applications they should have and create the access list. So when a user access is changed or a new user is added , Access list get automatically updated via nightly report caster job ### 8. Empowered InfoAssist User **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dawn T. | Underwriting Operational Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** I only use the InfoAssist platform to develop reporting solutions for my department. The latest release allows me to provide information and visualize the information in ways I could only dream of before. I love the new tools that have been introduced and they have taken my portal to the next level. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** The InfoAssist tool is consistently inconsistent at times. There are some annoyances but the product improvements have really made up for annoyances. **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** I love the level of support that Information Builders provides. They don't just sell you a product and walk away. They have partnered with us throughout our journey. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefit I have realized is surfacing needed KPIs in the Underwriting Department in a way that is easily understood by managers and underwriters. The data is now leveraged in decision making. ### 9. Detailed BI solutions for serious business management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jessie R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2020 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** The training and the amount of resources it has in its forums and the diversity of help material that can be found on the web is really massive, this speaks very well of the software and the great community around it. The ability to integrate with different important platforms in the market such as software such as SAP. Customer support is amazing, quick response to it that give you a friendly and professional treatment in every step of the way. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Composers can crash when working on them and it's not easy to modify a page once it is created. In addition to this, you cannot access the code behind it and there is still old control code after they have been removed from the page, this cause browsers to get confused and pages to get slow in terms of loading times. Some products are not entirely easy to understand and therefore I prefer not to use them. **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** There are different software for generating nice looking reports, one of the ones I can point out is Microsoft BI due to I use it for a long time before switching to WebFocus. Both software present a fairly modern and easy to understand interface, can export reports in excel spreadsheets without any problem, however WebFocus is able to keep data from years prior something that is very advantageous for analysis and external auditing, it also provides support to a variety of departments within your company which highlights its wide scalability. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our team has shown an significantly increase in productivity and performance, WebFocus has provided us with all the tools we need to fulfill our work in the most professional and responsible way possible, the management of data has been like never before as well as the creation of reports which is a task that happens so smooth in our daily basis. Flexibility, the large number of technologies that can be integrated into this software is really massive. ### 10. WebFocus Get us Through **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert F. | Sr. Financial Planning Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** The portal/s will allow you tp house everything under one umbrella; even pointing non IBI products if needed (Excel etc) App studio lets you access data from a variety of sources bringing it together into interactive reports and charts. Create your own HTML pages / dashboards to guide users toward better understanding their business. FML reporting yields custom reports...any metrics anywhere. Add row 3 column 5 to row 8 column 3...whatever you need. Drill downs too. One of our favorites! Flexibility means the sky's the limit! **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** FML could be better GUI-. There are a few caching issues that should be alleviated. **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** keep improiving interfaces **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deep drill down into data. Everything in a one stop shop via portal. ### 11. Information builders is great! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lauren D. | Senior Healthcare Policy and Data Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** I love the visualizations and the ability to disconnect reports from the server through indocument analytics. I also love the customer service. The employees are very helpful and eager to learn with us and allow us to succeed. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** I dislike the limited flexibility using indocument analytics. Complicated filters are not easy to create and paramaterization is not available as well. I often have to reorganize the data in the database in ways we do not want to in order to make it work. **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** I recommend giving it a shot even if in the beginning you have difficulty. Once you learn the language and all the capabilities, it really is worth it. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We transitioned from using Excel with Macros that had security concerns and were clunky. Also, Excel is prone to errors. IB helped us become more secure, run reports more efficiently, with less error. ### 12. WebFOCUS can do anything, you just have to learn how **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John C. | Business Intelligence Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** The ease of pulling reports together, showing those reports and allowing other users to interact with the results. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Sometimes it can be a little buggy, but the interface makes it easy **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** Take the leap! It combines the best of other Platforms and makes the product feel like its your own. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We now have one place to make edits and changes we can then turn out to a myriad of users, without having to edit each user's information individually. ### 13. A solution for small and large businesses alike **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2018 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** Among the top of the list of best features is the ease of use. More often than not you do not have to dig very deep in the layers of the application or configuration in order to make changes. In the circumstance that you do have to revert to referencing a manual or user guide, they are intuitively written and designed to get you to the section to service your request as quickly as possible. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** While it is often a blessing it can also be a curse, and that is the frequency of some updates. The client, which is used by global customers, often is in constant need of attention by IBI to ensure they are meeting everyone's business needs. While that is not a bad thing, there is something frustration in waiting for a fix or feature that's coming in a prior release that is still months away. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Much of what is improved or has been solved by using WebFOCUS is automation of manual reporting processes. What used to take days or even weeks to produce, can typically be done now with a few clicks and a little understanding of your data and business logic. We have realized that the sky is the limit with these products and our processes should only improve in years to come. Information Builders is constantly evolving their products as well as developing new tools. We are always looking to be early adopters in picking up new products and technologies to better our processes and business as well as to provide valuable feedback to IBI that will continue to help them create and improve these products. ### 14. Best BI product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Huzefa B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2020 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** I love the ease of use of the product. At the point when I was first acquainted with WebFOCUS I had the option to get going creating reports with no preparation. In light of my reporting and database foundation, I had the option to begin working with the product rapidly. I have been lucky enough to have won a couple of grants for our underlying work utilizing the product and am overhauling our BI stage to WebFOCUS. Among the highest priority on the rundown of best highlights is the usability. As a rule you don't need to delve exceptionally somewhere down in the layers of the application or arrangement so as to make changes. In the condition that you do need to return to referencing a manual or client direct, they are instinctively composed and intended to get you to the area to support your solicitation as fast as could be expected under the circumstances. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Now and again their enterprise licensing is somewhat costly to add on new product required for just a couple of clients. I do see Information Builders presently moving in the direction of settling the estimating challenge on a few of their new product. **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** I highly recommend Web Focus to everyone, they have helped us to achieve the solutions that we sell to our clients. Just give it a try. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have had the option to visualize and make reports for practically all parts of our business. In deals, we have had the option to push representations to our whole deals group to keep them refreshed on their deals and targets. ### 15. BI Analysts favorite tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tomasz M. | Senior Business Intelligence Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2020 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** Highly customization of reporting, dashboard and infoapps building. WebFocus has its own language (Focus) , and usage of javascript, html and other languages in creating reporting are available. For developers, WebFOCUS offer many ways of executing and developing reports which it is not available in other BI platforms. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** To use WebFOCUS as developer, you need some time to get to know it well (few months). Other BI platforms may have a better gui than WebFocus. Although, in recent years, WebFocus changed their GUI a lot, and each year you can find new/pleasing updates so the company is very innovative each year. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a BI developer, creation of reports, dashboards and infoapps are the main purposes in WebFocus. WebFOCUS does all of it in our organization and we do not need any other tool to do similar things. ### 16. I Love using IBI Products **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erika M. | Applications Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2020 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** IBI WebFOCUS is an easy product to learn to use and once you do, the things you can do are numerous. The upside of using WebFOCUS is that it helps increase business productivity and decision making. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** There are no real downsides to using WebFOCUS. Just so much to learn; however it’s beneficial overall. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have been using WebFOCUS to solve Ad-hoc reporting needs for decision makers across campus. This has cut down on time to make these decisions and allow for better analysis. ### 17. The deeper I dig, the more I find **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saravana Kumar E. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2020 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** The flexibility to get your hands dirty with the focus code. Smooth interface and fluid visualizations. Vision at being an Enterprise solution provider **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Need to get away from bulky developer tools like app studio and get them all on web **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We just started exploring webfocus and working on conversion efforts. Like the data prep concepts and dashboarding techniques. This drastically reduces the turnaround time for quick data analysis ### 18. WebFOCUS; Highly recommended **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sports | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2020 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** The thing that I like most about WebFOCUS and the iway platform is the ability to access several types (if not all) of data sources. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** One thing that I dislike is the continual changing of the interfaces. The interface changed with Designer for 8.206 and looks like the interfaces are changing with 8.207 **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems that we currently are Solving at Europa are the problems of upgrading from one version 809 to 8.206, I an handling that..how ibi was able to offer professional services to help with the understand of what was in place with the 809 version. Additionally, the work that ibi/Europa have done with our Sales Portal is Phenomenal ### 19. its very flexible! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** the conection to sources and availibility of connectors is great!! **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** long way to step into depth due to historical behaviour! **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** quik results in analyses! ### 20. Great analytical tool with deep insight capabilities **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naga Santosh T. | Sr. BI Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2020 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** Info Assist, Page Designer, Adapter availability. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Nothing to dislike but need to improve in few places. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating dashboards for project management ### 21. My experience with Information Builders has been outstanding and professional. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Enforcement | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2020 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** The best part of Information Builders is the Knowledgeable Team. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** There is absolutely nothing to dislike about Information Builders. **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** Great product - has truly helped us implement the data we needed when we needed it. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving real time Predictive Analytics issues in Law Enforcement and have found multiple benefits such as user accessibility. ### 22. WebFocus the Most Powerful and Easy to Learn BI Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2020 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** The ease at which I can have new developers coding WebFocus Procedures **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** The tool requires that you have a group of full time developers in order to keep up with the latest releases. **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** Speak to a representative. The are all very knowledgeable about the tool and can set up a demonstration **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use WebFocus for reporting everything from Hospital to Corrections reporting. All County Government departments. Using Dashboards and ReportCaster. Quick and dynamic generation of reports. ### 23. WebFocus Rocks **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2017 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** App Studio and new features that are coming in 8.2 **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** I think IBI is on the right track. Doing a great job. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** All of our reporting across the college is accomplished using WebFocus ### 24. IBI WebFocus **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2020 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** Flexibility of the product. Able to connect to multiple data adapters **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Coding and syntax is something new to learn **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visibility of data and distribution of reports to business users ### 25. Information Builders Survey **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nouvong L. | Business Intelligence Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2020 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** WebFocus' ease of use is ideal for users to create reports and graphs. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** The constant comparison to Tableau regardless of their differences. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're able to solve various problems involving data and graphs for our users. The Reportcaster tool is also a great for automated reports. ### 26. Operations & TA Leader **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2020 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** Total access cloud Collaborative Analytics Info graphics and Infosearch **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Product lags sometimes (Very rare) when trying to do complex queries **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not applicable ### 27. Awesome **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jimmy F. | Data Analytics, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2020 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** Visualizing is easy allowing us the use of extent data **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Probably working with charts giving us more freedom on drop design **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy manipulation in general with dashboards ### 28. The tool has come a long way in the 20 years I have been using it **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marita L. | Data Analytics Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** What I like most about WebFOCUS is how powerful it is no matter what data source is connected or how many different data sources you are combining data from to get your reports completed. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** The new HTML composer will not allow you to tweek the code directly any more and I have noticed that it still does not remove the code referencing old deleted controls. This will confuse browsers and slow down load times. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The current upgrades are not going as easy as we are told they should. There are visual issues with 8204 from 8202M which I am not getting support on fixing. I feel short of a complete redo of the application on the new version I will not be able to upgrade. ### 29. Great tool for those learning and those with experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** I love the support, the way the tool is easy to use and the drag and drop but the ability to customize any report that is needed to meet the needs in the customers **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** the amount of crashes, and the need to save frequently but this has aloud for good habits to be formed and the saving is now second nature **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** i have won a contest, and now have the feeling that this is where i would like to work when i graduate, I would love to find employment using these tools ### 30. It's a powerful and useful tool for BI development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** the full arrange of functionalities from ETL, report building and dashboard creating **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** a little hard to use at the beginning, and the online documentation is has not enough information. a lot of outdated contents. **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** It's a powerful tool, can fulfill almost any data needs except a little hard to use. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** visualize data for customers, so they know their performance and find way to improve. ### 31. Data is Awesome **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bryan L. | Supplier Management Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** I love how simple webfocus is for users to pick up. It is as basic as any web page. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** The information is sometimes too detailed for people to understand. Also, the data isnt up to date by the minute or hour, it has a two day delay. **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** The ease of use with WebFOCUS is something to consider. InfoAssist is a good product. Individuals do not need to be able to write code anymore to create reports **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** My company is able to get data to managers all day and night. ### 32. Sr Application Engineer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** I really like the customer support. Every time I call I get a great answer and response time is really good. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** When I use InfoAssist and I need to modify something outside of InfoAssist, I am unable to get back in **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am building reports using WebFOCUS. I have to go against a very large database and extract many raws of data. ### 33. student point of view **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** The best thing is it allows my creativity to be used and help showcase the data that is actionable. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** The application can be frustrating when things are hard to find or after customer support, I'm not able to do what i wanted. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working with public health to look at well safety ### 34. Starting Implementation! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** We are in the early phases of implementing WebFOCUS. The most appealing things we've found is the support from the team. While they offer a good tool, is it their desire to see us succeed that makes it a great experience! **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Some of the back end tools have appeared to be less intuitive and have a less modern interface. They are working on addressing this in future releases, but was a consideration when deciding on the tool. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** As we are in the early stages of implementing, I can't comment on benefits that have been realized yet, but we are attempting to make information more visible, easily accessible, and ultimately more manageable for decision makers. ### 35. Director of Finance and Administrative Services **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alessandra L. | Data Governance Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** As WebFocus is a new product for us and we are in the testing phase, I am learning a lot, in just one day about InfoAssist and reporting. Looking forward to doing more testing back at work. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** The labs are very fast paced. As a new user, I find myself falling behind on some of the exercises. **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** Check it out and ask questions **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our reporting structure is going away, so WebFocus is a huge benefit to us. ### 36. Information Builders Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** Great training courses/sessions and fairly easy to customize **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Some functionalities could be more user friendly; some bugs in system **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** -Making data accessible to stakeholders and making evidenced based decisions to improve hospital operations -Benefits realized: customized information and snapshot of current performance ### 37. Review InfoAssist **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Loc H. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** InfoAssist we thought very helpful: data elements can be dragged and dropped , toolbars that let us join tables and create calculated fields and format data displays, the use of workbench to store video and documents. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** It is not certainly not the most attractive layout with a tons of gray . We would love a little more color **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** daily production WIP reports to help managements complete their daily tasks ### 38. Great solutions and excellent service! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Enforcement | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** Your people really make it easy for us to leverage our data to its fullest **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** We would appreciate more contact fromt the services team on the status of our projects. **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** NA **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Community safety ### 39. Innovative and Interactive WebFocus designer tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric F. | Customer Success Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** The charts and some cool visualizations, interactive maps with tooltips was amazing **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** So far it is good. I havent experienced any hard stops yet. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am new to WebFocus and BI world so it helps me in moving towards my goal of becoming a good developer. I am using WebFocus designer and AppStudio ### 40. Best reporting tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** I have been working with different tools for reporting and WebFOCUS is one of the greatest ones. I have everything I need with it. One of the best things is that there is a lot of opportunities to customize what you are doing. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** There are a lot of "extra" stuff that you need to pay for to have it on your current versions and not always is an option for the company that I work for. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** All the reporting needs for the stores in AutoZone. ### 41. BI enterprise developer/user **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tom H. | BI, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** I like their constant push to improve self, offerings and partnerships. Their local team has always been most informational, helpful and hospitable **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Unique language, creates some difficulty in finding resolutions to issues when not able to find out in focal point. But many resources are offered beyong to improve knowledge via0 summit and classes. **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** Great product, great sales and support team to assist in deciding if this product is for you and your business **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many, currently working toward self service. Better success with development because of more coordination with business Dashboard development is helping us to move streamlined reporing and follow what business users are more activlely seeking in their day to day ### 42. Daimler WebFocus **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sandra r. | IT Supervisor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** Ease of use with Webfocus with DB2 and SQL tables **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Sometimes slow on response. Still use mainframe Focus instead of using Webfocus which is the platform that I learned in early 1990s. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visualization of parts moving through manufacturing plant. Ease of emailing reports ### 43. WebFOCUS AppStudio **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neha C. | Insights Reporting Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** Portal designing, page designer separated made it easy to design complicated portals and lots of GUI capabilities makes designing easy **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Looping is tough to do through GUI dialogue Manager **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reporting for higher leadership and complex dashboard designs with multiple visualizations/charts ### 44. Great information and hands on opportunity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lori B. | Implementation Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** Learning about all the features of webfocus and info assist **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Labs are a bit too short, many of the speakers are running out of time. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building infographic reports ### 45. Using Webfocus for the last 11+ years **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** Its Easy to use and I like customer support group, training material to learn new features. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** WebFocus APP studio shuts off or freezes on you when using HTML canvas. No way to scan the content folder or scan repository for table and columns usage search. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** IT helps out business daily work ### 46. Powerful BI toold **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** I like that the tool allows for quick building of portals and dashboards without regard for platform or platforms. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Their customer service is deteriorating. Their paid premium customers do not get any more service than the basic service now. They are not standing by their commitment on this end. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trends with data analytics. Developers can be limited to even a single developer and can still get plenty done ### 47. WebFocus Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** Webfocus is able to give users and clients the information they need efficiently and effectively **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** There is nothing within this product that i dislike **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Within this program we are able to track payments, and customers. The benefits are having a high overview of all data. ### 48. TomEDitcommReview **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** The ability to deliver reports to clients in a matter of 2 or 3 hours **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Our ability to stay current with the new releases **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** Be sure of your BI goals **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dashboards to bring real time information to our users. Report delivery using ReportCaster ### 49. DOTCommIB_Webfocua/review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** The ease of generating reports and quick delivery to my clients **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** Our inability to keep up with the current versions **Recommendations to others considering ibi WebFOCUS:** Be sure of what your BI goals are **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dashboard and Report Caster delivery of reports in different formats ### 50. WebFOCUS daily **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about ibi WebFOCUS?** WebFOCUS is flexible with many functionalities. Information Builders provide great support. **What do you dislike about ibi WebFOCUS?** The html builder can be slow in the version I use. **What problems is ibi WebFOCUS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work with WebFOCUS every day to write reports and build scorecards to support quality initiatives. ## ibi WebFOCUS Discussions - [What s involved in migrating from WebFocus 8.1.5M to Webfocus 8.2](https://www.g2.com/discussions/33259-what-s-involved-in-migrating-from-webfocus-8-1-5m-to-webfocus-8-2) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [how do i obtain extra information about upcoming events and opportunities as a student](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-obtain-extra-information-about-upcoming-events-and-opportunities-as-a-student) - 3 comments, 1 upvote - [Can we have migration utility to make migration automated from domain?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/can-we-have-migration-utility-to-make-migration-automated-from-domain) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Can you provide analytics use-cases for WebFOCUS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/webfocus-afd7b43f-72c6-4e1b-936e-d59118632b28) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View ibi WebFOCUS pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ibi-webfocus/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+12%3A34%3A53+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=23babcd2-e9dd-4bb1-b92c-7df34dcc557e&secure%5Btoken%5D=7ed1c26a52a4826037019ff0c4e771d361819b89abfeed78be21e782540ad513&format=llm_user) ## ibi WebFOCUS Features **Reports** - Reports Interface - Steps to Answer - Graphs and Charts - Score Cards - Dashboards **Data Preparation** - Connectors - Data Governance **Statistical Tool** - Scripting - Data Mining - Algorithms **Data Modeling and Blending** - Data Querying - Data Filtering - Data Blending **Data Analysis** - Analysis - Data Interaction **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Decision Making** - Modeling - Data Visualizations - Report Generation - Data Unification **Agentic AI - Analytics Platforms** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Self Service ** - Calculated Fields - Data Column Filtering - Data Discovery - Search - Collaboration / Workflow - Automodeling **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Deployment & Integration - Analytics Platforms** - No-code Dashboard Builder - Report Scheduling and Automation - Embedded Analytics and White-labeling - Data Source Connectivity **Advanced Analytics** - Predictive Analytics - Data Visualization - Big Data Services **Performance & Scalability - Analytics Platforms** - Large data handling and Query Speed - Concurrent User Support **Advanced Analytics & Modeling - Analytics Platforms** - Data Modeling and Governance - Notebook and Script Integration - Built-in Predictive and Statistical Models **Agentic AI Capabilities - Analytics Platforms** - Auto-generated Insights and Narratives - Natural Language Queries - Proactive KPI Monitoring and Alerts - AI Agents for Analytical Follow-ups **Personalized Intelligence - Analytics Platforms** - Behavioral Learning for Contextual Query Refinement - Role-based Insight Personalization - Conversational and Prompt-based Analytics **Building Reports** - Data Transformation - Data Modeling - WYSIWYG Report Design - Integration APIs ## Top ibi WebFOCUS Alternatives - [Tableau](https://www.g2.com/products/tableau/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (3,534 reviews) - [Spotfire Analytics](https://www.g2.com/products/spotfire-analytics/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (328 reviews) - [Microsoft Power BI](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-microsoft-power-bi/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,563 reviews)