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WebFOCUS InfoAssist extends the power of WebFOCUS Managed Reporting, providing business users with the most advanced, yet simple to use, ad hoc reporting features needed to create intricate reports and perform insightful analysis.

InfoAssist is a flexible and powerful report generation tool enabling business users to leverage state-of-the-art ad hoc functionality to quickly and easily:

• Generate highly complex reports, charts, and documents from any enterprise information source without IT intervention.
• Complete tasks, such as building a query, with minimal clicks.
• Progress to more sophisticated activities such as publishing and sharing documents.
• Convert reports to charts or charts to reports in a single click.
• Analyze multiple reports and charts simultaneously utilizing advanced tiling options to view data from multiple perspectives.
• Output report data in a variety of formats including HTML, Active Reports, Active Flex, PDF, Excel, and PowerPoint.

InfoAssist is a Rich Internet Application that utilizes AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technology and delivers its cutting-edge functionality via a familiar “Office-like” interface. This highly intuitive environment fully shields users from the underlying technical complexities associated with ad hoc reporting features while providing unhindered access to all of the functionality needed to address mission-critical information requirements.

This powerful ad hoc reporting tool enables rapid and efficient design and deployment of reports and charts using a dynamic, interactive, and fully customizable WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) development environment. Users receive instant feedback throughout the development process to ensure that reports and charts are properly built.

InfoAssist offers ad hoc reporting in a single, thin-client environment. There is no software to install, no desktop clients to maintain, no user licenses to track; just a rich Internet application that makes powerful desktop-style ad hoc applications readily available via the Web to business users across your enterprise.