October 2008 - March 2009,Three Months 2008 - 2009

Consulting for Information Builders

 

Environment: WebFOCUS 714/765, Unix/Windows, Teradata

 

• Provided technical mentoring to WebFOCUS applications development staff.

 

♦ Created WebFOCUS Proof of Concepts for various applications, including Employer Analytics, which included advanced graphics and integration of WebFOCUS results in Microsoft Word templates using embedded linking.

 

• Created templates for development of the Employer Analytics project.

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• The use of these templates ensure proper use of common modules and corporate standards.

 

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• They also provide more consistent and maintainable code.

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  OCUS to go forward with a major project, to show the capabilities of WebFOCUS to a user community who under estimates the capabilities of WebFOCUS which:, one of which was used in the decision of using WebFDeveloped Proofs of Concept♦

  • Alleviated some of the negative opinions held by some personnel at HPHC regarding WebFOCUS.
  • Provide a fully functional and easily maintainable GUI using the WebFOCUS GUI and the text editor.
  • Create multi-page PDF documents, including multiple tables and graphs, from a single WebFOCUS GUI.
  • Produce better graphs then the user community thought were possible using WebFOCUS.
  • Create objects which can be easily embedded into Microsoft Word documents which are easily created and maintained by a novice Microsoft Word user with no knowledge of WebFOCUS.

 

♦ Completed application that:
  • Tracks all reporting statistics for 600+ users in 60+ domains and an easy to use GUI.
  • Provides detailed and summarized views of data captured from the IBI Report Analyzer tool in multi-graph / multi-table displays.
  • Captures all associated data relating to the reporting collected in another system.
  • Provides an easy to use launch page for users multi-selectable requests.
  • Provides detail and summary of report inventory, and associated report information.

 

♦ Created Standardized Development Templates for WebFOCUS applications which:
  • Are the framework for a more consistent structure of future code.
  • Are designed to integrate any of the common modules already in production use.
  • Significantly reduces the turnaround time in WebFOCUS report development.
  • Simplify the development of 80% +/- of subsequent WebFOCUS requests.
  • Result in more easily maintainable program code.

 

♦ Provided mentoring to on-shore & off-shore Application Reporting Team, including:
  • Best practices and why they are important.
  • Advanced functionality and capabilities of WebFOCUS.
  • Implementation of and adherence to corporate standards and importance of doing so.