# Visual Analysis

Visual Analysis is a WYSIWYG product to visualize the result of every step of your work. Simply by dragging and dropping data fields onto a layout module, you are able to visually create crosstabs and charts step by step.

Business views are the data sources used in Visual Analysis. Each time you can perform data analysis based on one business view, and later you can save the result as a Visual Analysis template into the server resource tree. However, Visual Analysis does not support the customization of parameter values, so if a business view contains parameters, the default parameter values will be applied when you perform visual analysis on the business view.

Visual Analysis can work in both remote and integration environments.

Visual Analysis is a separately licensed feature of JReport Server. It is installed together with JReport Server so only the license key needs to be updated to enable it to run. To find out how to license Visual Analysis please contact Jinfonet sales at sales@jinfonet.com or contact your Enterprise Account Manager.

This chapter covers the following topics:

- Visual Analysis window elements
- Starting Visual Analysis session
- Accessing Visual Analysis via URL
- Performing visual analysis
- Saving Visual Analysis templates

Notes:

- Visual Analysis cannot run on Internet Explorer 8.

- If Visual Analysis cannot work well on your Google Chrome, you can try disabling GPU accelerated 2D canvas as follows: access the URL `chrome://flags`, disable accelerated 2D canvas, and then relaunch Chrome.