ibi WebFOCUS Reviews & Product Details

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Higher costs versus competitive products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Takes multiple platforms and merge into one that is very easy reporting, Makes a green screen ERP look magical Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think there needs to be more flexability when going in to generate a report Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I enjoy the ability to create quick reports for our shareholders. The tools can adapt to your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can be a learning curve when developing reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use webFocus to help build reporting dashboards to better understand our performance and member base. The platform is user-friendly and very robust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's a pretty steep learning curve, however, given the proper training, the platform has extreme useful capabilities to be utilized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like creating reports and dashboards/portals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a few bugs that can be pretty annoying, but that is in an older version of the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing I dislike about Information Builders WebFOCUS is they don’t provide good support that is very disappointing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The InfoAssist tool is consistently inconsistent at times. There are some annoyances but the product improvements have really made up for annoyances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FML could be better GUI-. There are a few caching issues that should be alleviated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.