Version 1.92 Announced with Banding Support
Hi,
We are happy to announce the release of a new version of InsFocus BI, version 1.92. The new version will be shipped by the end of the month, and will further enhance the analytics and reporting abilities of our business intelligence solution.
Version 1.92 has two major additions. The first one, Banding, is an exciting new feature allowing a whole different style of reports, such as showing figures by agent’s loss ratios, by policies’ sums insured, by client’s year of birth, and all with fast, simple to define, dynamic bands. The second addition, Query Builder tables editor, is an advanced Javascript editor for the query definitions, and should facilitate the work of implementing InsFocus BI.
Bands (profiling)
We call “banding” the process of taking data and splitting it by dynamically created bands. This can be simple data, such as an insured’s age, or complex data, such as loss-frequency. Banding is heavily used in insurance, where reports such as risk profiling, client segmentation and so are needed on a regular basis.
- Create bands on:
- Dimension attributes (e.g. client year of birth, policy #)
- Risk parameters (e.g. engine size, year of manufacturing, floor number)
- Any item (e.g. loss-frequency, sum insured, number of policies)
- Dynamically define band ranges
- Display multiple bands in a report on X, Y or Z axes
- Drill-down into any band to further explore underlying data.
System Center has Query Builder Table Editing
The transition from our previous tool, the Admin Util, to the new System Center, is complete with the introduction of the Query Builder table editor. The editor allows editing all Query Builder XML definition tables.
- Fully HTML-Javascript editor working in all browsers
- Has special editors for columns linked to other tables and other data types
- Displays meta-data to ease editing of tables
- Allows filtering and paging
Small changes
- Ability to add additional attributes of dimensions (e.g. client phone #) even when no items axis is there or in multi-dimension reports
- Snapshot with repeat functionality at end of month/quarter
- Comparison in operation time base works correctly in partial periods also when “show future data” is checked
- Snapshot time base can be shown with auxiliary time bases (e.g. policy inception)
- Valid dates are displayed in time period headers
- Drill-down from time period headers changes valid date according to header date
For further inquiries on the new version and its new features, visit our web-site or contact us at info@insfocus.com.
Hanan Taiber
CTO, InsFocus Systems
hanan_taiber@insfocus.com
Version 1.91 Released
Hi,
Today we are happy to announce the release of InsFocus BI version 1.91.
The new version puts a great emphasis on communication infrastructures, enabling easy integration with other services, various external connectors to BI data and report scheduling, all enabling users to be closer to the BI data they require.
REST communication
InsFocus BI is now fully RESTful, providing much easier SOA and new ways to integrate BI capabilities into the different company’s applications and services;
- Fully RESTful interface (using GET, POST, PUT and DELETE)
- Most methods use GET and can be tested from any browser
- Communication is based on simple basic authentication with SSL encryption
- Response format is either XML or JSON
- Most important methods, such as running queries or getting user’s report list, support returning results in HTML
- Many methods which return large results also support returning compressed byte streams, for fast communication
New external connectors
Based on the previous Excel connector, InsFocus BI now has new ways to connect to the BI server and run queries;
- Return a query as internal InsFocus object or as HTML table
- Run a query by parameters or run a report stored in server’s libraries
- Pass query parameters either as structured XML or as part of the query URL
- Connect from any browser or from Excel
- Return HTML table with or without CSS formatting
Report scheduler
Utilizing the new communications and connectors, InsFocus BI now has a report scheduler that is able to send report results by mail and SMS;
- Schedule reports to run daily, weekly or monthly
- Schedule reports to run one or more times per day
- Schedule reports saved in library or queries not even saved
- Send results by template-based, formatted, HTML mail
- Save results to HTML files
- Send results by SMS directly to executive’s cell phones
For further inquiries on the new version and its new features, visit our web-site or contact us at info@insfocus.com.
Hanan Taiber
CTO, InsFocus Systems
hanan_taiber@insfocus.com
Version 1.9 Released
Today we are excited to announce the release of InsFocus BI version 1.9. The new version includes a lot of new features who all targeted at providing better analysis, deeper understanding of business situations and better manageability, including:
- Support for weeks, according to ISO week
- Support for day-of-week
- Flexible time periods for reporting many time periods in one analysis (e.g. last month, last month last year, last year, previous year, etc.)
- User restriction groups for items (measurements) and dimensions
- Many more smaller additions that make day-to-day analysis better.
For further inquiries on the new version and its new features, visit our web-site or contact us at info@insfocus.com.
Hanan Taiber
CTO, InsFocus Systems
hanan_taiber@insfocus.com
InsFocus BI Version 1.8
We are pleased to announce today the release of InsFocus BI version 1.8. New additions to the version include:
- Batch operations – running a report for a set of organizational members (e.g. running a profitability report for all agents and exporting the results to different PDF files)
- Dynamic filtering – item selection, dimension selection, organizational member selection – all can now be dynamically filtered for easy finding (so when looking for, say, earned premiums, just start typing ‘prem’ and don’t look in the tree anymore).
- Dynamic dimensions – dimensions that have a lot of members (e.g. client, policy) can now be filtered using a dynamic auto-complete filter that brings a list of the first 10 members found.
- Premium collection added to generic insurance model.
Hanan Taiber
CTO, InsFocus Systems
hanan_taiber@insfocus.com
Welcome to the InsFocus BI Dev Blog
Hello and welcome to InsFocus Systems blog!
We will use this blog to publish all sorts of InsFocus news. The posts will include:
- Business announcements
- New features and technologies
- Version releases
- New parnters
- Project studies and summaries
We truly hope you find those postings useful,
The InsFocus Team.