When deciding which Business Intelligence (BI) software is best, the choice may be rather difficult, especially with so many options. In addition to experts and thought leaders in the field, reading reviews written by everyday users of a particular BI platform is a great way to help narrow the decision.
When recently placed head to head in ratings by research firm G2 Crowd, InetSoft outranked BI provider Periscope Data in a majority of categories. This page will provide a breakdown of the various categories in which InetSoft outranked Periscope Data.
A good BI platform will provide business users with an intuitive, easy-to-read, easy-to-use tool for monitoring their activities. When visual analytics are created properly the users are treated to highly balanced visualizations and data to enable the objectives of the organization.
The Rating section of the G2 Crowd endorses just that, where InetSoft won over Periscope Data in Meets Requirements, Ease of Use and Ease of Setup. The overall majority of the Ratings were dominated by InetSoft, which comes as no surprise as InetSoft's core objective is to implement BI software in an effortless and trouble-free way.
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To maximize competitiveness, enterprises have to adopt ways in which business users can quickly and easily get the required information. This can be made possible only when business users can get rich, right, and real information as easily as they get information from a Google search. The G2 crowd reviews rated InetSoft Style Intelligence higher than Periscope Data as it helps enterprises achieve their goals with a maximum Self-Service mission.
In the category of Self Service, InetSoft won over Periscope Data in Calculated Fields, Data Column Filtering, Data Discovery, Search and Collaboration/Workflow. InetSoft's BI product eliminates inordinate delay in decision-making and extra dependencies on IT. This has reduced the overall cost of business intelligence resulting in lower operating costs, increased productivity, higher customer satisfaction, and most importantly a better climate among employees of an organization - both in IT and in the business.
The unique data mashup feature of Style Intelligence makes it possible to combine any type of data into one visualization. Users create data mashups through InetSoft's data block, enabling fields from different data sources to be joined together in a Lego-like block fashion, with a few clicks of a mouse. Advantages like these are what brought InetSoft winning ratings in Data Transformation, Data Modeling, and WYSIWYG Report Design under the Building Reports category.
The detailed list of categories & parameters where InetSoft Style Intelligence scored over Periscope Data is presented below. Please click here or the G2 logo to go over the individual reviews.
These real G2 crowd ratingsshowcase Inetsoft's strength for delivering information and analysis. Style Intelligence software uses a visual approach to build reports and visualizations, allowing complex views to be built with a simple drag and drop user interface. Once IT has completed the initial steps of defining data sources, business users can create their own worksheets, which contain combined fields from multiple data sources.
InetSoft's software can run on Windows, Mac, Linux, and can also be accessed remotely from any workplace. InetSoft exceeded Periscope Data in Sandbox/Test Environments, and User, Role and Access Management which were measured under the Platform category.
G2 Crowd also revealed that InetSoft offered better value in Sandbox/Test Environments, User, Role and Access Management and Performance and Reliability. These parameters were studied under the Parameter category. Along with these parameters, the Customization parameter was also favored with InetSoft's extensible and open architecture that lends itself to superb customization through Java and Javascript.
Style Intelligence helps any organization to become better at fact based decision making without too much reliance on IT to access critical information. InetSoft helps eliminating costly delays in decision-making and thereby the unnecessary strain on the IT department.
Style Intelligence offers a business environment in which business users no longer need to rely on IT, but instead can access and manipulate data on their own. With InetSoft's connectors, the users have the flexibility to tie up with any new data on the run and the ability to do business user level data mashups. This solution allows users to rapidly add new sources from disparate data locations and analyze data side-by-side through both dashboards and reports.
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