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Best User Interface for BI Tools - There are many business intelligence reporting tools on the market today. In order to be effective, a BI program must have a user interface which communicates past, present, and predictive views of an organization in a clear and customizable way. BI has made a shift in recent years. The BI analyses which were once a function of specialists and IT personnel are now the tasks of many employees across various departments. These new users are less technically oriented, so they require an interface that is more intuitive; one which can be mastered with a minimum of training...
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Better Business Intelligence Objects - Below you will find InetSoft's own objects of business intelligence: product information about what differentiates InetSoft from other BI solutions and why InetSoft is an easier to use, easier to deploy BI platform that is also more cost-effective. InetSoft Rated as a Leading Provider of BI Solutions - InetSoft Technology has received favorable ratings in Gleanster's customer review based research on Business Intelligence (BI). The 46-page report is based on the experiences of 238 organizations using 45 vendor solutions. The report provides insights into the challenges and best practices in applying BI...
Business Intelligence Has Spread - So all of a sudden, there is this increased need to keep a bird's eye view of your increasingly complex operations. But all of these challenges have been around for a few years and what has really emerged and what's really different that started happening over the last few years is that slowly but surely business intelligence has spread from the back offices and middle offices, such as finance and HR and operations, into the front office of enterprises where chief marketing officers and heads of sales and then CEOs...
Business Intelligence Product Briefings - Below you will find InetSoft-written white papers and product briefings that can help those looking for a business intelligence tutorial, gathering information about the business intelligence market, as well as learning about the advantages and differentiators of InetSoft's business intelligence software, such as our data mashup functionality and native Spark implementation. InetSoft Data Intelligence This white paper discusses the importance of intertwining data modeling and data viewing for delivering efficient business intelligence, which is central to InetSoft's data intelligence platform and something that is missing from other BI solutions...
Business Intelligence Success Stories Using InetSoft - Read about the benefits of business intelligence. Hear how organizations are using business intelligence solutions. Some provide their managers performance management dashboarding. Others use data mashup technology to combine disparate data sources to provide comprehensive dashboard reporting. All of them leverage InetSoft's business intelligence technology to derive intelligence from their data. Nebraska Educational Service Unit #1 selected InetSoft's business intelligence software. The state organized support agency uses InetSoft's Style Scope business intelligence application to gain advanced analytics and reporting on student performance and programs run by the special education department...
Business Intelligence System Refinery - Well, a business intelligence system is like a refinery. Its raw material is data which it gets from transaction systems or operational systems which run the business on a daily business. And IT professionals take that data. They integrate it, aggregate it and turn it into information via a data warehouse. And then analysts and managers using varying reporting tools access the information in the warehouse...
Business Intelligence Vendor to Evaluate - I thought it was very interesting, she said that BI is about content, and BPM is the context. Now you're all talking about operational BI and how you bring that to the people in real-time so as a pure play business intelligence vendor, how do you bring this information in real-time without having a BPM solution as well...
Choose the Right Software as a Service - Before you think about your SaaS options, ask yourself why you should choose an "on-demand" BI tool over the more conventional "on-premises" BI tool. A SaaS BI tool can be a great solution, especially if you are a BI beginner: No installation - on-demand BI applications require no setup, no overhead, and no wait. Web interface and mobile BI - SaaS tools are remotely accessible, meaning they're never further away than the nearest mobile phone...
Complete Business Intelligence Tool - As an industry leader, InetSoft has been enormously successful in keeping up with industry needs, offering a complete business intelligence tool. With its intuitive visualization, efficient reporting and data mashup abilities, it has provided businesses in all industries with a modern and up-to-date solution...
Decentralized Information Management - The folks of the government agency recognized this problem of centralized vs. decentralized information management, and they went about crafting a strategy that just solved this problem. And data needs this language but observing what they did, I view it as sort of a divide and conquer problem. In this large state there are so many organizations and so many subject areas and data sets, you could only really solve so much...
Definition of Self-Service BI - Self Service Business Intelligence (SSBI) allows employees to access and work with data analytics without the help of the information technology department. This approach allows users to generate custom reports and analytical queries without the help of the IT department, which will allow them to focus on other tasks at hand...
Different Management and Analytical Processes - Business performance management is a combination of different management and analytical processes with the integration of technology. Performance management is an essential application of modern BI. It involves the use of BI tools to measure employee, department, and corporate performance through the tracking of KPI's(Key Performance Indicators). The use of BI tools is growing across the globe and any established or emerging organization can take advantage of them. InetSoft delivers business intelligence software...
Dashboards for Facilities Management - InetSoft, an innovator in BI software since 1996, and AssetPoint, a leading provider of (EAM) Enterprise Asset Management and (CMMS) Computerized Maintenance Management Software solutions for over 30 years, have partnered to offer easy to use, interactive maintenance dashboard solution for tracking and managing predictive and preventive maintenance. AssetPoint's flagship product TabWare is an easy-to-use solution for managing all processes of maintaining manufacturing or industrial equipment and the operational facilities of any organization...
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Enabler of Self-Service BI - I see IT as the enabler of self-service. So you have software as a service. I think you mentioned that, Eric. You also have platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, so IT becomes an enabler of self-service. It becomes a provisioned...
Expansion and BI Potential - Another trend that I talked about before is the expansion in delivery options. Mobile BI and software as a service or SaaS based on demand BI, these are increasing in prevalence. But more and more what we are seeing and what we are going to be talking about today is this concept of embedded BI...
InetSoft Top Performer News - InetSoft Named Top Performer in BI Customer Success Report - InetSoft has been named a Top Performer in the Business Intelligence Software category, awarded to vendors with significant market presence. 2020 Release Broadens Access to Cloud Sources, Adds Advanced Chart Types - InetSoft announced the general availability of its 2020 Release. Headlining the updates are new connections to 73 cloud-based enterprise applications...
InetSoft's BI Query Tool - Traditional methods of database query involve coding SQL queries manually. InetSoft's BI query tool is designed to replace coding to with visual operations so that manually coding queries is no longer necessary. With this tool, non technical users can create queries by adjusting visual elements, opening up the world of query to all who desire to use it. InetSoft's BI query tool automatically optimizes the underlying queries for the quick retrieval of data...
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Information About Analytical BI Applications - Researching analytical BI applications? InetSoft offers a small footprint BI platform that enables advanced visual analysis combined with ease of use and easy deployment. View a demo. 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...
Preach the Benefits of Self-service BI - Like some other business intelligence software providers, we preach the benefits of self-service BI and point to unique capabilities of our software such as end-user defined data mashup for its self-service benefits. However, unleashing self-service BI does need to be done carefully. Here are five tips to a successful self-service BI deployment...
Rated as a Top 5 BI Vendor - InetSoft Technology has recieved favorable ratings in Gleanster's customer review based research on Agile Business Intelligence (BI). The 38-page report provides insights into best practices in applying agile BI to improve business decision-making, based on the experiences of 367 organizations. The report introduces the concept of agile BI, outlines the reasons to implement it, and explains how organizations are maximizing the value of their investments. Challenges, best practices around performance metric tracking, and success stories are shared. The final section consists of a BI vendor landscape complete with Gleanster analyst commentary. For the four major categories of customer review -- ease of deployment, ease of use, features and functionality, and overall value -- the top 15 solution providers are ranked and organized into good, better, and best groupings...
Reporting Tool for SaaS Solution - InetSoft offers SaaS providers and Internet Service Providers (ISV) with an application that will only enhance their overall business intelligence solution that costs significantly less than purchasing licensed applications. Style Intelligence is InetSoft's award-winning BI software application that includes the Web reporting software, Style Report, and the company's dashboard and reporting software application, Style Scope...
Resources About BI Functions - Below you may find useful resources about the BI functions found in InetSoft's software: Data Grid Cache Map-Reduce for Business Intelligence - A transcript of InetSoft's Webinar for the Style Intelligence 10.2 release. Discusses the addition of high performance materialized views that allow for fast interactive analysis. Traditionally, our software has always defaulted to accessing your operational data sources directly. We really espoused the idea of traditional BI, where you're required to build a data warehouse. The only problem with that, and it only comes up some of the time...
Self-Service BI Important Advancements - First, business analysts are no longer dependent on their IT departments because the BI tools in place allow them to take advantage of the existing data infrastructure. Currently, analysts either need have sophisticated technology skills, or they have to rely on IT departments to fulfill their data requests. Using self-service BI, analysts will no longer need to wait on IT departments to fulfill their requests and won't need to have advanced technical skills to perform their job...
Successful in Operation BI - One of the key factors in successful business intelligence is a sound infrastructure. You are not going to be successful in operation BI unless you have a sound infrastructure to deliver data on time so your business can analyze that data in a timely way...
Tell Me About the BICC - Now it's also important to understand what the BICC is made up of. This is not just an IT group. From a terminology perspective I distinguish between BICC and a COE or center of excellence by the focus as far as the expansion. COE could be an IT organization that is a center of excellence that runs a shared service that different lines of business will access in order to get their reports or to get their information or to run their applications...
Understanding the Operational BI Challenges - This article details the differences between traditional business intelligence and operational intelligence platforms from an enterprise reporting perspective: • Understand why many traditional BI implementations fail • Understand the conflicting reporting requirements between business intelligence and operational business intelligence • Understand the operational BI challenges in managing strategic and tactical data • Learn how operational BI reporting based solutions provide flexibility, scalability and platform independence to ensure solution success...
Utilize Production Reporting - Style Intelligence, InetSoft's flagship BI product, is a complete business intelligence suite, with a heavy focus on end-user self-service. A large number of application software systems utilize 'production reporting.' These programs are bound by their limited access to a database through pre-programmed menus. Style Intelligence, on the other hand, allows you to create specific, customized queries without in-depth IT knowledge. With this level of self-service, you can answer very targeted business questions that production report developers may not have even considered. Ad Hoc analysis can be used to create new reports or drill deeper into created reports for additional detail...
Way to Track Business Intelligence Metrics - Searching for a way to track business intelligence metrics? InetSoft offers an easier to use, easier to deploy BI platform that is also more cost-effective. Read about using InetSoft's BI software. Soft and Hard KPIs - Are there "soft" and "hard" KPIs? Yes, it very much depends on what KPI are measuring. You can have certain soft metrics where you relying on people's experience. You need to have outside factors that you weigh in, and then you discuss it. And then there are certain very hard KPIs like warehouse metrics, which are very precise, and there can be grave consequences, if you cross a certain threshold...
Web Service Facilitates Scheduling of Reports - Style Intelligence provides a number of server side reporting functions that are accessible as Web services. These Web services enable clients which may be running on different operating systems and using different programming languages to access server side enterprise reporting tools through remote procedure calls. There are two Web services provided: SoapRepository - This Web service facilitates execution, archiving and scheduling of reports deployed in the replet registry. SoapDataService - This Web service facilitates execution of queries and worksheet assets defined in the Asset Composer...