WebFOCUS InfoAssist

Robust and Intuitive Ad Hoc Query, Reporting, and Cube Browsing for Business Users

Traditional ad hoc reporting tools have minimized dependence on IT staff by enabling non-technical professionals to address their own business intelligence needs. However, they have limited functionality and flexibility, are difficult to use, and further strain IT resources by requiring software to be installed and maintained on each desktop.

WebFOCUS InfoAssist empowers companies to overcome the challenges associated with ad hoc reporting. This robust, yet simple to use solution provides business users with advanced and intuitive features that allow them to rapidly generate even the most sophisticated reports – without IT intervention. So any user can easily access, review, and analyze critical corporate information, whenever they need it, regardless of their level of technical-savvy.

Dashboards

Adobe Flash, PDF Integration

Multidimensional Sources

With WebFOCUS InfoAssist, users can leverage some of today's most innovative ad hoc reporting capabilities, in a familiar Microsoft Office-like environment that guides them throughout the entire process and shields them from underlying technical complexities. As a result, they can quickly and easily:

• Create simple queries, as well as highly complex reports, charts, and dashboards from multiple enterprise information sources
• Publish reports and share them with other users
• Browse data in cubes and other multidimensional sources, such as Oracle Essbase, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, and the SAP Business Information Warehouse
• Convert reports to charts or charts to reports or analyze multiple reports and charts simultaneously, tiling them to view data from multiple perspectives
• Generate reports in HTML, Adobe Flash/Flex, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Excel or PowerPoint, WebFOCUS Active Reports (for offline analysis), and other formats

And, best of all, WebFOCUS InfoAssist eliminates the time-consuming deployment and administration that are common with other ad hoc reporting solutions. There's no software to install, no desktop clients to maintain. Just a rich Internet application that makes powerful desktop-style ad hoc applications readily available via the Web to business users across your enterprise.