Data is what computer technology is all about but it’s frequently stored like gold in the depths of a network, waiting for an IT professional to turn it into usable information. Reports are important for many companies, giving them the ability to see and better understand that accumulated data. Windward Studios’ newest offering, the Windward Arrow, is a reporting product which, by operating through a portal interface, allows for report production and information sharing directly from a browser. Unlike traditional reporting engines, Windward says this turnkey product can be installed in less than five minutes and operated completely independent of programmers from start to finish. The Arrow portal is a complete reporting package : a website that provides simple report design, generation, and scheduling, as well as straightforward report management and distribution. It is also enables business users to design reports and access their data without taxing IT resources. In fact, capabilities of this product may free IT groups entirely from involvement in report generating tasks. This direct access allows users to independently manage reports on their own timelines, thus preventing the waste of substantial, expensive IT labor normally needed for installation and data tagging. The Windward portal leads users through a step-by-step set up process of data connection, report creation, management, and scheduling. The Arrow uses Microsoft Word as a design tool. With this interface, documents can be generated in a wide array of outputs making multi-form documents, charts and graphs available now at your finger-tips. The Arrow is priced at starting at $9,995.