The BigFix product team is excited to announce the first GA release of BigFix Reports!
BigFix Reports is the new initiative aimed at modernizing the reporting experience in BigFix, bringing in new design elements, improved navigation, accessibility, easier report creation and management and access to more data sources.
The solution is available to all customers with a valid BigFix license. Content within the UI may differ based on your license.
In this first release, we are consolidating the capabilities that were already part of the experience preview program, integrating them with additional use cases to fulfill the reporting scenarios based on BigFix Enterprise data.
In particular, you can:
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Create reports based on Explore capability (Computers, Content, Actions, Operators), with support for data filtering
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Refine your views by leveraging enhanced data table functionality (additional filtering, searching, column management etc)
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Create custom reports (just like how you can make them in Web Reports) and test your session relevance
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Search for reports, add a label to them, and set them as a favorite; change visibility; filter for reports by label, find your marked favorite reports, and for reports you created
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Export reports in csv and pdf
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See and modify the reports currently present in your Web Reports server
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Access the CyberFOCUS Analytics dashboard (as long as you are licensed for it)
An Accessibility Compliance Report (ACR) will be made available to document the accessibility of this new UI and will be referenced here when available.
In the coming months, beginning in January, we will continue to enrich the capabilities of the new interface. Some examples of the improvements are:
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Enhancements to the CyberFOCUS Playlist, with improved visual representation of relevant KPIs about the cybersecurity of your environment
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The Patch Performance Playlist, with KPIs related to the effectiveness and efficiency of your patching process
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A Report Factory that will allow you to easily create and store your favorite reports based on a huge library of ready-made report templates
BigFix Reports is also a first step towards a renewed and more comprehensive UI/UX modernization and unification initiative across BigFix that will bring forward new developments in 2025!
Actions needed:
BigFix Platform 11.0.3 is a prerequisite for running BigFix Reports.
For customers who have not joined the Experience Preview Program previously:
- The BigFix Reports site can be enabled for all BigFix products in the License Overview Dashboard in the BigFix Console. Subscribing to the BigFix Reports Site, together with having the BigFix Platform at version 11.0.3, will enable a link on the Web Reports home page to navigate to the new BigFix Reports user interface.
For customers who joined the BigFix Reports Experience Preview Program launched in June:
- the new version will be provided as a site update and will be automatically gathered. If you are not on Platform 11.0.3, a popup in the UI will warn you that you need to upgrade. Unlike the preview, this new version enables saving reports.
Web Reports coexistence:
BigFix Reports is intended to eventually replace Web Reports; at this stage though, Web Reports is a prerequisite component for BigFix Reports, and can continue to run and be used in parallel to BigFix Reports
BigFix Reports shares users with Web Reports, and it inherits identities and roles from Web Reports
BigFix Reports will display existing reports in your Web Reports instance. You can modify the reports and save them in the new interface. Please note that it is not recommended to modify a report from both interfaces - once you start editing a report in BigFix Reports, you should only access that report in the BigFix Reports interface.
For more information, please refer to https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/pdf/BigFix_Reports_Users_Guide.pdf
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The BigFix product team