# 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. 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 ### 2. 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. ### 3. 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 ### 4. 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. ### 5. 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. ### 6. 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 ### 7. 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. ### 8. 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. ### 9. 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. ### 10. 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. ## 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/ibi-webfocus-review-4278981?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-01+06%3A24%3A29+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=6cf10b32-3e5e-4c98-aa41-062965a55a44&secure%5Btoken%5D=b9ffb34a8bf05934665e70483a8ab23937a77b6744d595d6d70fec7041fd5926&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 (3,548 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 (1,576 reviews)