# Analyst

Analyst is a Microsoft .NET client-based solution that enables business users to **visually analyze** desktop and enterprise data, **create dashboards that can be shared** with other ADVIZOR Analyst users, **publish dashboards** to ADVIZOR Desktop Navigator (client-based) and ADVIZOR Server AE (thin web-based and iPad) deployment, and **export findings** to Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF products. The Analyst contains the full suite of interactive ADVIZOR Charts with Visual Discovery™. It is ideal for performing interactive analysis on all types of business data to drive fact-based decision making, and loads data directly from Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Excel, Access, Text Files, MySQL, HP Vertica, EMC Greenplum, IBI WebFOCUS, SalesForce, Splunk, and a variety of other sources via ODBC.