GeoAge FAST Now FASTER With Extended Reporting

June 30, 2008 — GeoAge, a leading supplier of mobile automation solutions, has added advanced Extended Reporting capabilities to FAST™ (Field Adapted Survey Toolkit), its software program that rapidly creates mobile forms and collects field data. FAST 4.0 with Extended Reporting, known as FASTER, is designed to provide users with much greater flexibility viewing collected data.

“For FAST users, it’s all about the data,” said Jeff Arnold, president of GeoAge. “FASTER’s dynamic report-building capability means that field data is more quickly visualized and more effectively managed.”

Prior to FASTER, users exported data and manually built basic reports. Today with FASTER’s “wizard”, users can configure more detailed custom-designed reports than ever before. FASTER comprises many types of reports, both ad hoc and predetermined, with a wide range of rapid customization possible.

FASTER also enables automated report emailing – in PDF, Excel, Word, CSV or XML formats.

“Considering the time saved creating reports and all the new ways to view and share data in real time, it’s a significant addition to FAST as well as a powerful tool for individual, project team and enterprise users,” noted Mr. Arnold.

Main FASTER features:

• Advanced query building with grouping, filtering, etc.
• Schedule auto-run reports
• Export and email data from reports or export entire reports
• Searchable reports

FASTER (FAST with Extended Reporting) is available from GeoAge as a monthly subscription or server license.

Since its introduction in 2005, FAST has enabled unparalleled capability for mobile data collection. FAST software was designed for rapid deployment of “mobile digital forms” using Windows PDAs, BlackBerry smartphones, laptop or tablet mobile computers. FAST also allows easy integration of GPS locations, photographs, videos and digital signatures with data records. Users can implement large-scale FAST data collection solutions over a nationwide area and be productive on the same day.