AST ESM boosts end-user productivity

AST Enterprise Solutions Management (ESM), a business unit of the AST Group, has announced the Brio.Report Component of the Brio ONE suite. Brio.Report supports the full spectrum of users, from end users who gather data, to power users who create reports, to IT developers who create the reports others use, to IT administrators who maintain a distributed system.

Brio.Report offers a new level of interactive reporting that combines the analytical capabilities of OLAP tools with the power of enterprise reporting. "This capability significantly boosts end user productivity by delivering both the information and the tools necessary for analysing that information in real time, resulting in faster and more effective decision making," explains Andrew Cook of AST ESM.

Brio.Report has native support and optimisation for over 60 combinations of databases and operating environments ensures the best possible performance whenever and wherever data access and reporting is required in your information supply chain. In fact, the open, thin-client architecture runs on any enterprise host server-ensuring the most efficient use of processing and bandwidth resources-and can be used to report against any amount of operational or warehoused data.

"Brio.Report provides all the power and scalability required to meet even the toughest enterprise and B2B report processing demands," adds Cook . "In fact, only Brio.Report supports every major enterprise information source (including XML, WML, RDBMS, multidimensional, object-based, and others) to ensure the ability to write and deploy reports anywhere, run them anywhere, and print them anywhere-inside and outside the firewall."

This allows organisations to leverage and protect existing client/server and Web-based IT investments.