Product Information About Analytical BI Applications

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Machine Learning Applications - Machine learning applications have the power to transform companies and elevate them to new heights. InetSoft has brought its flagship BI software to the realm of machine learning by providing an integrated visual analytics interface to help end users understand the results of a machine learning model. This makes the running of ML algorithms as easy as clicking a button. Now, non data scientists can harness the power of automated data modeling to find solutions to the business challenges they face...

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Machine Tool Companies Use BI Software - Machine tool companies leverage Business Intelligence (BI) software to enhance decision-making processes, optimize operations, and gain insights into various aspects of their business. Here's a detailed exploration of how machine tool companies can effectively utilize BI software: Performance Monitoring: Production Metrics: BI software helps monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) related to production efficiency, machine utilization, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Downtime Analysis: Identifying and analyzing downtime events can help in optimizing machine uptime and productivity. Supply Chain Management: Inventory Optimization: BI tools assist in managing inventory levels efficiently by providing insights into demand patterns, supplier performance, and material consumption. Supplier Relationship Management: Machine tool companies can use BI to evaluate and monitor the performance of their suppliers, ensuring a reliable and efficient supply chain. Sales and Marketing Analytics: Sales Performance: BI software aids in analyzing sales data, identifying trends, and evaluating the performance of different products or product lines. Customer Segmentation: Companies can use BI to segment their customer base, allowing for targeted marketing strategies and personalized customer interactions...

Manufacturing Customers Who Have Selected InetSoft's BI Solution - Now, I’d like to take a moment to step back from manufacturing and point out that we don’t focus only on manufacturing or only on a particular area within manufacturing. If you want to talk about supply chains which we will talk about a fair amount, we are a great company to talk to. If you want to look at things like business process automation, whether it’s in your supply chain or not, we can do that kind of thing as well. One of the biggest benefits we can bring is improving customer relationships that you have and do that through the better use of information technology, the better use of information. So, whatever your business goal is, whatever that low hanging fruit is, whatever that first project is that you want to get started off with, we’ve probably done something like it before and we’d be happy to talk to you about that. Okay, enough of the ‘about us’ stuff, I’d rather talk about our manufacturing customers who have benefited from selecting our business intelligence solution, because that’s where things get more interesting. One of our customers is a manufacturer that produces fasteners, nut bolts screws that sort of thing. And they provide their fasteners to one of the bog box stores like Lowe’s or other types of stores like that. One of the things that their sales people have to do then is to go out to these stores and show them why they should stock more fasteners...

MicroStrategy Cost - If you are considering Microstrategy for your BI needs, consider a more cost-effective solution: InetSoft's Style Intelligence. Style Intelligence is a web-based BI application that makes business intelligence an easy process for both IT and end-users...

Mobile BI - The last innovation to talk about is mobile BI. This is BI where you need, when you need it. It’s been around for quite a while, but there have been a lot changes with it that have come through capabilities of the smart phones. Smart phones are now location aware. They are GPS devices, so that opens up a whole new set of applications. Also imagine the idea of having bar codes on our smart phone. Also there is the growing installed base having more mobile users, and you can ask does that reach new classes of users that otherwise didn’t have a desktop. The idea of mobile BI has been around for at least a decade. But before you had to have a dedicated server to take advantage of it. Usually reports had to be developed specifically for the mobile application. What’s new is that BI vendors now support mobile BI as an extension to the BI platform. It’s just a service that runs on the BI platform, and you take those existing reports as is, so you’re not having to build specific dashboards for the iPhone or Blackberry. Instead these are reports that are just re-rendered on the mobile device. If the vendor has rich reporting, they give you interactivity. So smarter phones allow the vendors to take advantage of these capabilities...

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Mobile BI Demo - So let me start just by saying that the tablet that you saw in the demo is an HP Slate running Windows 7. Today platforms like Microsoft Slate that have Flash players, and also we fully support the iPad via HTML5. Regarding what will take off in the future that’s a big question. There are advantages and disadvantages to any type of platform and I really wouldn't speculate which ones would be more successful than the others. I definitely see an advantage, an inherent advantage to the Microsoft environment simply because of business continuity from the desktop. On the other hand, there is an advantage to the Apple environment simply because more people have iPads and iPhones, and more people are using it these days. Definitely I would not rule out the question of successful Android platform. I don’t know what will be the winner year from now. I think we will have all of them, each one with its own advantages in the marketplace...

Mobile BI Samples - View samples below of mobile BI dashboards from different departments and industries built using InetSoft's easy and flexible business intellignce application, Style Intelligence. InetSoft has been a software pioneer since 1996 delivering self-service oriented data intelligence solutions with over 3,000 happy customers worldwide...

Modern In-Memory BI Tools - You are not really limited at this point and constrained by the data limitations and restrictions of the data source now that data is sitting in memory as in your spreadsheet. So all of the modern in-memory BI tools allow you to do exactly that. As long as data is loaded in memory you can create any join. You can issue any query. You can create any kind of a pivot table that you want on demand. That’s the real advantage of having an in memory architecture, and that’s why it’s such a key portion, key component of self service and agile BI. One of the ways that InetSoft's analytics product works is being able to do those types of joins from a business analyst viewpoint. They are not really concerned with structure and how things are organized in multiple disparate data sources. They just want it pulled together in the way that they are going to be able to use it to answer the questions. Now a part of self-service BI is interactive business analytics. What you can do is you can have that business analyst or the business user talk with that business analyst who then works out how the data should be pulled together, joined, segmented, analyzed and then make that available to the business user for him to construct his operational dashboards or analytic dashboards so that they can get the information and answers to the questions that they have...

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MongoDB BI Tool - Are you looking for good MongoDB BI tools? InetSoft's pioneering dashboard reporting application produces great-looking web-based dashboards with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop designer. Maximize self-service for casual users and data scientists. View a demo and try interactive examples. The accelerated growth in the use and ease-of-use of BI tools has created the need for a way to make BI more accessible to users across an organization. InetSoft has answered that need perfectly with Style Intelligence, a secure, web-based shared dashboard platform which can be accessed by anyone with a web browser...

Microsoft BI Suite Alternative - Are you looking for a good alternative to Microsoft's BI suite? InetSoft's pioneering dashboard reporting application produces great-looking cloud-based dashboards with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop designer. Maximize self-service for business and technical staff. View a demo and try interactive examples...

Negotiating Pricing with BI Software Vendors - And when you’re negotiating pricing with BI software vendors, are there any things to know as your negotiating pricing or looking at licensing structures? Are there any changes or trends in the way that BI software is sold? There are definitely a lot of changes in the pricing structure. All of the users of business intelligence and actually all enterprise applications and enterprise software are demanding simplification. Traditional pricing structures and options have been extremely complex, starting from multiple SKUs that one had to choose from and options that one had to go through. So there is definitely a trend for enterprise software vendors to consolidate multiple SKUs into at best one or two product offerings. That’s one trend that users should look for and ask for from the vendors. There’s also a trend of moving away from inflexible pricing structures such as named users or server based pricing structures. Enterprises are very agile, and they’re always on the move so a person within an enterprise constantly moves from one role to another...

New BI Software Feature - Database Write Back - Hello everyone, thank you for coming to attend the Webinar today. My name is Mark Flaherty, and I head up marketing here at InetSoft, and with me is Jay Dastur, Senior Technologist. So, today we are going to be focusing on one particular aspect of our most recent release of BI software, and that’s a brand new capability for database write-back. We feel it’s going to help break the paradigm of BI software being read only and open up a new set of applications people can build unified analyses and business processes. As a reminder we are recording this webinar, and we will email everyone the link to the recording when it’s ready next week. We have a pretty simple agenda today as you can see. I am just going to flash one slide as an overview of InetSoft for those of you who are not customers yet. Then I will provide little bit of an introduction to the new feature. Then we will spend most of the time on the demo and have time for Q&A and so of course you can enter questions any time on the right hand side of your panel, and we will get to them at the end...

Next Generation Agile BI Technologies - Now these best practices and agile development methodologies are all great, but it's very difficult to implement them in the practice unless you also have all sorts of agile technologies. Next generation agile BI technologies can be summarized into four categories: automation, unification, pervasiveness and BI without limitations. First and foremost, we do need to automate business intelligence because lots of steps in BI, such as discovering the data in the first place, or making BI contextually aware are not often automated. The next one, and it's paradoxical that for many years we talked about ending data silos or information silos in BI. But BI itself is very much siloed because technologies that handle data and content are often different. BI technologies that handle batch and streaming real time data often are different technologies from those that handle historical and predictive analysis. Complex data structures really don’t work with nice traditional relational or multi-dimensional databases, and therefore we are forced to build multiple data marts or build multiple cubes to make that happen...

Next-generation BI Technologies - The big question is how do you really align those very often different and opposite requirements. Well, it's not all bad news, and there are lots of next-generation BI technologies in addition to some of the best practices that can help. There are definitely these next-generation technologies that can indeed bring business and IT closer together and can align them. The two key ones that we are spending time talking about today are the next-generation technologies that make business intelligence and analytics environment much more agile and that do indeed enable end-user self-service. And among some of these specific technologies, I can name lots of them, but very relevant to today’s discussion are databases that are built from the ground up for analytics, not for transaction processing. When we look at traditional databases, they were all invented thirty or forty years ago for transaction processing, and sometime optimizing them for analytics is almost like trying to have a square peg into a round hole. So we definitely need analytical platforms that are designed from the ground up for business intelligence, not for transaction processing...