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What Are Data Warehouse BI Tools?
They are tools that manage, manipulate, transform, query, or visualize data that is stored in OLAP databases. Originally a user had to be a BI expert to use such tools, but nowadays even business users can use interactive dashboards to answer questions from the data warehouse.
Is Power BI a Data Warehouse Tool?
Just like InetSoft, Power BI is not a data warehouse tool. It is a BI tool that can be used with a data warehouse. Where InetSoft differs is that it can also perform traditional data warehouse functions like aggregation, drill-down, data transformation, and data mashup.
What Is a Data Lake?
If you're looking for an easy way to store and manage large amounts of unstructured content, then a big pile of files might be just what you need. It stores all raw, unstructered (i.e., non-organized) content. A data warehouse is is similar to a storage facility; a database management tool is similar to a delivery service; and a database server is similar to a dumpster. James Dixon, who first used the phrase "data lake," described it as the natural raw form of data that, for skilled divers, serves as a frontier for exploration.One downside of a data lake is the fact that the data isn't ready for analysis yet. It's hard to read through, there might be duplicate entries, and in addition to reading through it yourself, you'll probably want to ask your dive buddy what they think. Even if they do find something, there's no guarantee that they'll be able to get it for you.
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About Affordable BI Tools - Looking for affordable BI tools? InetSoft offers applications that range from free to affordable. Even its enterprise software can be purchased cost-effectively, and a free eval copy is provided. Read articles below, view the demo from the Evaluation menu above, or download the free software from the menu button above. Delivering Agile BI Very Effectively to Our Customers - When we see the changes that are happening from an infrastructure standpoint and taking advantage of a lot of the generational changes that are happening with hardware and software and networking capabilities... Alternative Performance Management Vendors Like InetSoft /company/performance_management_trends/ - But there are alternative vendors like InetSoft. Some offer new business models as well as new technologies. That is what makes business intelligence a very vibrant space. Even though there has been a long history of consolidation of pure-play vendors by behemoth ones, it's a maturing market, not a mature one. So there remains innovation and investment...
Best BI Options Available - Looking for the best BI products? InetSoft offers business intelligence software for dashboards, reporting and mashups that can be easily deployed and used. View a demo and read customer reviews. Central BI and Analytics Team - The central BI and analytics team has a lot of visibility into the different data sets people are using and how they are building their worksheets or dashboards because they are able to see what's popular, what's not, what maybe is coming from sanctioned sources versus we call more unsanctioned sources...
Creating New Data Sources in the Web Portal - It was always like, oh, I'm not having scrolling in this dialogue. Well, now you can also resize the dialogue to maybe give yourself a little bit more workspace. That was a nice little feature enhancement that we didn't mention during the slideshow, but it is really a great thing to have in mind. I think that on a whole, for some of you, in particular, the Style Scope users, maybe not the Style Report users, you will take advantage of the advanced enhancement for creating new data sources just in the web portal...
Data Integrator Tool - Looking for a data integrator? InetSoft offers a solution in its BI software that includes a flexible powerful data mashup engine. Virtualizing Access to All Data Sources - This is the anti-silo approach. Clearly, this needs to be a unified and extensible set of applications that build on common reusable components. So often you're driving towards real time or near real time data access which is essentially a cross platform silo agnostic infrastructure for multi-latency integration, batch, near real time, and real time that can...
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Discovering Something New Among BI Tools - Through Style Intelligence, you can analyze your data from different perspectives, turning it from simple numbers to actionable information. The data mining process will help you focus on the most important information that queries and reports can sometimes miss. Data mining with InetSoft is an easy, agile, and robust process that...
Do I Need a Data Warehouse? - Do you assume you need ETL tools and a data warehouse for a BI solution? Our data dashboard tools offer Web based reporting and dashboard software that accesses disparate data sources directly. If you already have an ETL process established and running smoothly, InetSoft's Style Intelligence business intelligence platform can easily interact with the data in your data warehouse...
Discussing an Application of Hadoop for Business Intelligence - The only problem with that, and it only comes up some of the time, is that operational data sources tend to be attuned more for data entry and writing. For instance, a CRM system where information is added into the system. So they're not performance oriented as much for reporting or the reading of that data especially for analysis - interactive analysis and visualization of that data...
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Enterprise Data Management Software with Mashup - Looking for enterprise data management software? InetSoft offers Web-based BI software that includes a powerful and flexible data mashup tool with direct access to disparate data sources of almost any type. Below are articles related to InetSoft's software. Data Provides Insight into Forecasting - As far as other companies, yes, I do think that all of that historical data provides insight into forecasting. We have used the information that we are pulling in for planning and not only for your typical annual budgets or your cash flow forecasting, but we have used it to really look at the products that we are offering and determine what the best strategy...
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How the Machine Learning Approach Works - With the machine learning approach, instead of writing a program by hand for each specific task, for a particular task we collect a lot of examples that specify the correct output for giving an input. The machine learning algorithm then takes these examples and produces a program that does the job. The program produced by the learning algorithm may look very different from a typical handwritten program...
Information About a Data Mashup Platform - This is a table of contents of useful information about the data mashup platform that is included in InetSoft's business intelligence software for dashboards, reporting, and analytics, Style Intelligence. Contrast with the Traditional ETL and Data Warehouse Only Model - There is a ton of useful information stored in enterprise databases and employees spreadsheets that's really important. And speed of making that data available is key. I mean in hours, not months. This is key to agile BI. This is in contrast with the traditional ETL and data warehouse only model. We are responding to data requirements...
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New Data Visualization Functionality - Let's see, we will just go in the order of the guests that we had them in. Mark Flaherty of InetSoft, what's coming down the pike for you guys in terms of data visualization functionality? Sure. I mean I think that the big thing in the near term is going to be a more seamless experience, transitioning between visual representation and other ways of viewing the data. Because, as everybody has been saying, there are different outputs for different purposes for different contexts to answer different questions. So I think unifying and making the experience easier for the analysts is going to be very important going forward...
One of Many Business Intelligence Companies - Looking for business intelligence software companies to evaluate? Read articles about InetSoft's BI software, why 5,000 enterprises have selected InetSoft since 1996. View a BI software demo and read BI testimonials. Business intelligence is a really hot market. I have been watching this market for close to fifteen years, and I don't think I have ever seen as much interest, as much curiosity...
Pioneering Advanced BI Solution - Looking for advanced BI solutions? InetSoft is a pioneer in self-service analytics whose platform also has built-in machine learning functions. View a demo and try interactive examples. Once data relationships are defined through InetSoft's Data Block, analysis and queries can be performed on Big Data sources at high speeds, thanks to InetSoft's state-of-the-art data grid caching technology...
Planning a BI Platform Roadmap - From the executive perspective what we are trying to really get at is a high level estimate with a low degree of variability plus or minus 5% plus or minus 10% as opposed to that plus or minus 40 or 50 or 60%. We are also trying to get to a release roadmap as we understand. It may take us 1, 3, or 6 months to deliver the full set of features and functions, but we certainly do not want the business to have to wait to the very end...
Pragmatic Approach to Big Data - What they found is that organizations are taking a very pragmatic approach to Big Data. They're bringing in an infrastructure that can handle the volume of data, as I said that's much more accessible to folks now and the variety of data types. In the past it was very structured data, but they have data like e-mails from clients or logs from a call center that for many of them, they haven't been able to process in the past because of the constraints in technology and processing...
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Reporting Solution Features for Data Warehouse Analysts - InetSoft reporting solution is very mature and offers features such as: Data model, query and data blocks Data mashup across multi-source data objects Security control at the data cell level for users, roles and groups Powerful WYSIWYG report designer Word processor-like and HTML-like layout Rich presentation element library Dynamic expanding table, formula table, and super crosstab Free positioning field based section (band)...
Researching BI Solution Options - Researching options for a BI solution? InetSoft has been a pioneering BI provider for over 15 years and has over 5,000 customers worldwide. Last year InetSoft was ranked number 1 in two categories. Gap Between Business Intelligence Requirements and Traditional BI Solutions - From what I have seen in the last 25 to 30 years is that now there is this really interesting...
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Shopping for BI Dashboard Tools - When you are shopping for BI dashboard tools there are some automatic concerns you have. Flexibility, power, speed, compatibility all come to the forefront of your mind. A great dashboard generator will have a marriage of tools that address every area of business IT and BI needs. That is what makes InetSoft's BI software so attractive to so many users. Since 1996 InetSoft has been crafting the perfect BI tool that fits the power needs of businesses of any size, with the IT friendliness for beginners...
Simpler Agile Analytic Tools - Business users require simpler agile analytic tools to find insight and interact with the data. When the business user needs a report, for example, a sales manager wants to look at his top 10 performing products, he has to go to IT or an analyst. As a result, IT is swamped with requests to change reports, and business users, those sales managers, are frustrated because they have to wait for days to get their insights and make informed decisions. They wish they had the tools to easily find those insights by themselves, so they can avoid this crucial delay and act faster...
Solution for B2B Dashboard Reporting - Looking for a good B2B dashboard reporting application? InetSoft is a pioneer in self-service dashboarding and offers an easy tool for B2B marketers. View a demo and try interactive examples. We support some of the big things that's BI is all about, which is really everything that you would see in a complete BI application such as dashboards, scorecards, reports, and analytic applications...
Support for Authentication Mechanisms in BI Platform - Native support for SSO and LDAP integration in the solution and token-based/multi-steps authentication mechanism is supported through extensible modules We support standard query languages., DBMS types and many mechanisms, A few examples are SQL, JSON, REST and SOAP...
Using a Web Service as a Data Source for a Dashboard - Looking for reporting tools for accessing a data sources as a Web service? InetSoft offers Web-based BI software that can access almost any data source including Web and XML feeds or API-based data sources. Data Warehousing BI Roadmap - You know I've heard this so long before, and it scares me a little bit that we are leaving out this discussion the reason of why the business is asking for this. It's amazing how MDM is following the data warehousing BI roadmap. I am old enough but I remember the days when IT said, we build the data warehouse, and the business users will come and use our data...
What is Data Grid Cache? - Data Grid Cache is InetSoft's proprietary data querying technology. It is a columnar data store that uses in-memory technology to enable highly scalable big data analytics on a real time map-reduce (Hadoop-like) architecture. In other words, it is a data accelerator that stores data in columnar format and use in-memory technologies to speed up the processing of data, and the map-reduce data cluster enables unlimited scalability...
Which Is the Best Data Visualization Tool for This Year? - What do business decision makers look for when choosing the best data visualization tool for their company? Factors to consider are the ability to mashup different types of data sources, the ability to import data, integration with data warehousing, options for prototyping new data, accessibility, and user-friendly features that speed up decision making. InetSoft's Style Intelligence BI suite ranks a strong first in all these categories...