Tools Consolidation

Information Builders continues to enhance its WebFOCUS product line and add new capabilities and tools in order to meet customer requirements. In recent years, this meant applying new technologies to provide a rich, modern web-based experience for users of WebFOCUS.

Effective in WebFOCUS 8, Information Builders consolidated functionality found in the Report Assistant and Graph Assistant legacy tools into InfoAssist, and has retired the legacy tools. Information Builders has a general policy of ensuring that our customers receive upgrades and new features as a standard part of their maintenance contracts. In this case, we are extending that program. Customers who have licensed Report Assistant and Graph Assistant under the Analytical Reporter or other licensing arrangements, upon upgrading to WebFOCUS 8 are entitled to trade those licenses in for no-cost InfoAssist Basic licenses. InfoAssist Basic, a subset of WebFOCUS InfoAssist, contains all of the capabilities found in Report Assistant and Graph Assistant.

Effective with WebFOCUS 8, interfaces, tools, and product components have been replaced with web-based Rich Internet Application facilities that will also eliminate the requirement to have a specific release of the Java Virtual Machine present on each end-user machine.

For more information on tools consolidation, see the Technical Support website:

https://techsupport.informationbuilders.com/


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