Consolidation Statement

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

WebFOCUS Web Applet-based Interfaces and Tools

The above Applet-based interfaces and tools required a specific release of the Java Virtual Machine to be present on each end-user machine.

HTML Interfaces and Tools

Developer Studio Tools

This aligns with the on-going strategy of Information Builders to consolidate toolsets and to standardize on a common look-and-feel across all report development products. Since the release of WebFOCUS InfoAssist, Information Builders strategic initiative is to deliver new and improved Rich Internet Applications that are robust and intuitive without having to install or administrator software on user desktops. In WebFOCUS 8, this strategic initiative will include the new Business Intelligence Portal interface for Managed Reporting.

Discontinued Product Components

The following product components will be discontinued as of WebFOCUS 8:


WebFOCUS