PMF incorporates nearly every product capability across
the WebFOCUS product line. The WebFOCUS system components required
for basic operation include the following:
WebFOCUS Reporting Server and WebFOCUS Client. Provides
a standard reporting infrastructure including data access drivers,
complex business rules, exports to Excel, HTML and PDF, graphing
capabilities, and drill downs. WebFOCUS also hosts the Financial
Modeling Language (FML) that enables creation of complex financial views
that lie at the heart of any PMF application.
WebFOCUS Managed Reporting. Provides
user administration, a repository for storing components, and ad
hoc and OLAP (online analytical processing) tools if you choose
to expand the PMF application to include these.
WebFOCUS Business Intelligence Dashboard. Supports
the selectable views needed for each distinct role in the PMF user
base. Provides the customizable user interface.
WebFOCUS Maintain. Provides
JavaScript-based navigation tools (tree control) as well as a platform
for running forms that update perspectives, objectives, themes,
dimensions, and measures in the customer framework. WebFOCUS Maintain also
supports the complex business rules for updating data within the
framework.
WebFOCUS ReportCaster. Delivers
alerts and schedules metric loads. Also offers a library that allows
tracking and history.
Optional components include:
WebFOCUS Visual Discovery. Allows
graphical presentation of data and offers illumination of trends
and outcomes.
Adapters. For
data, application, or Business Activity Monitoring (BAM).
ESRI. Allows
GIS (Geographic Information System) operations to be performed in
the field on a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), on a desktop, and throughout
the enterprise.
Integrated Search (Magnify) Support. PMF
supports full integration with WebFOCUS Magnify, which enables you
to search for feedback, measure tasks, objectives, measures, and
dimension level values.
Mapping/GIS Support. PMF
allows you to place a Google Map in a dashboard gadget and integrate
Google Map capabilities directly into the PMF dashboard.