Dan Goldstein from Decision Science News recently profiled Inference for R. You can read his full posting here:

http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/?p=759

Dan mentions some nice uses for the Inference in Excel and Word modules, particularly plotting. I enjoy plotting in Inference Studio as much as the next guy, but I think being able to output your plots in Word reports is pretty cool (I am a bit biased, of course).