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Ad Hoc Reporting and Self-Service Visualization - Ad hoc reporting empowers business users with self-service information access. An effective ad hoc tool must have two key components: data and visuals. Data access components must present intuitive views of business data. Visual components should give novice users the ability to either visually analyze the data or retrieve it as documents or data files...
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Award Winning Software to Generate Reports - Are you searching for software to generate reports? Do you want to move past static paginated reports? Deliver highly graphical, visually appealing, and interactive views into your data with InetSoft's Web-based visualization-driven reporting software. As an innovator in report builder software since 1996, InetSoft has pioneered this evolution towards visualization-driven reporting, and its award-winning software has been deployed at thousands of organizations worldwide and integrated into dozens of other application providers' solutions serving vertical and horizontal markets of their own. View a 2-minute demo and download a free version...
BI Platform Clustering Options Using Docker - Leading the many feature additions and customer-driven improvements of the 2021 product release is adding support for clustering options using Docker containers and Kubernetes. The combination of these two infrastructure technologies makes managing InetSoft deployments even more efficient. As Kubernetes is a container orchestration system it provides the following benefits: 1. Automated, consistent, and repeatable deployment of containers 2. Automatic scaling of containers...
Big Data Manipulation Solution - Do you need help making sense of your company's vast and confusing Big Data? Data manipulation is a process of changing data so that it can be analyzed, aggregated, and visualized. InetSoft's software can access various Big Data sources from anywhere, making it easier to manipulate data because it's all in one place. Having a large amount of data is usually a good thing for a business; it's a good indicator of success. InetSoft's program can help manage and analyze data from spreadsheets to Hadoop. InetSoft can do it all, helping to make your data usable and understandable...
Business Intelligence Installation Process - The following is documentation for InetSoft's easy to set up, flexible data visualization and reporting product, Style Intelligence. The InetSoft JAR files must be added to the system classpath in order to run the software. The editions and their corresponding JAR files are as follows: Note: The Jar file names are suffixed with _lite for the evaluation version...
Company Report Security - Security is an important part of any enterprise application. InetSoft's security model provides security at both a component and functional level, e.g., a user is able to view a report, but is not be able to perform Ad Hoc reporting operations on it. InetSoft's security model also provides security at a very granular object level, e.g., a user who has Ad Hoc reporting permissions may not have access to all the data models or queries in the data source registry. The security model is highly adaptable and configurable, e.g., you can import your existing users/groups/roles from a database or an LDAP server without redefining them in InetSoft's software...
Controlling Report Users and Roles - InetSoft's reporting software provides powerful administrative tools that allow command over users and roles, serving to either distribute or limit access for predetermined members. View the information below to learn more about the Style Intelligence solution. Users, roles, and groups can be managed using the functions available under the Users tab. The navigation tree on the page under this tab includes two nodes: 'Users' and 'Roles'. The 'Users' node lists all of the users and groups in the system and the 'Roles' node lists all of the roles...
Create Unified Reporting and Analysis - This is where our data intelligence solution comes in. Whatever your security infrastructure looks like, even if it has to remain an assembly of point solutions, unify the reporting and analytics layer with a single BI platform like InetSoft's that can mash up data from disparate sources even if they are not inherently compatible. A unified, real-time dashboard with event-based alert triggering for both physical and cyber security activity provides a comprehensive view of potential intrusions or other abnormal incidents across all environments. A unified data environment also provides a clean audit trail for incident response...
Dashboard Single Sign-On Using HTTP Session - Single sign-on can be implemented by setting an attribute in the HTTP session. This session attribute must be set in the same web application as the reporting server. Therefore, this method is usually implemented when the Style Intelligence webapp is integrated with an existing J2EE application. If not, you need to create an intermediary application (JSP, Servlet) that runs in the same context as the reporting server. A simpler alternative in this case is the form-based implementation. (See Single Sign-On Using Forms With Hidden Fields...
Demo of Ad Hoc Design of Dashboards - Now, there are some minor features that we haven't necessarily made note of yet. The scheduler it -- when you're doing the ability to save to server in terms of an action with a scheduled task. The new scheduler options will include ability to restrict the server locations available for that action and the ability to automatically append a parameterized suffix to the file names for such actions...
Deploying Report WAR Files to Web Server - When not using the Enterprise Manager, it is possible to create WAR files manually. After a WAR file is created, it can be deployed in any web server which supports the servlet 2.2 specification and allows WAR files to be used for deployment. The procedures for creating and deploying a WAR file in these servers are documented in this appendix. If you have a server that supports WAR files and is not covered in this section, or if there is any discrepancy between the instructions in this document and in the application server document, please refer to the documentation of the web server to find detailed instructions for deploying WAR files...
Documentation: LDAP Report Security - InetSoft's reporting software allows users to configure LDAP report security via the enterprise manager. View the information below to learn more about the Style Intelligence solution. The LDAP security provider is useful when your users/groups/roles are already defined in an LDAP environment such as MS Active Directory, Sun One IPlanet, or any generic LDAP implementation...
Easy Self-service Dashboard Creation Software - Looking for a tool for easy dashboard creation? InetSoft is a pioneer in self-service dashboard design with a drag-and-drop designer for business users. View a demo and try interactive examples. Creating report metrics with InetSoft's reporting software allows users to make fast and well informed decisions. View the information below to learn more about the Style Intelligence solution...
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Enabling Report Auditing for Security - The audit tool tracks report and data access, as well as asset dependencies. When the audit function is enabled, all report and database access is logged in the audit database. Please note that for auditing to be turned on, a database has to be configured in the Enterprise Manager, and a security provider must be specified. Auditing can be turned on and off using the 'Enable Audit' checkbox on the 'Repository' > 'Audit' page under the Server tab. To turn on auditing...
End of Data Warehousing - One has to remember that the enterprise data warehouse and the architecture around it is very much a child of the 1980s, the technology of the '80s, the organization of the '80s and indeed, the business drivers of the '80s, and that doesn't mean it's wrong. A lot of those things are still existing, and they are still part of the culture of many, many organizations. So I don't see it as really eliminating the data warehouse. What I see this doing is positioning the warehouse in a different place...
Enterprise Report Bursting - In a large enterprise reporting deployment, it is important to handle both a large amount of data and a large number of users. Imagine a scenario where a single report such as a monthly statement needs to be delivered to thousands of users. The same queries are run multiple times, taxing the database, and the same report is regenerated for each user to ensure data security...
Example of a Medical Dashboard - Are you looking for medical dashboard examples? Try out this interactive mortality analysis dashboard from the InetSoft live dashboard gallery. This dashboard was made with InetSoft's commercial dashboard builder Style Intelligence. The ease of use and high level of interactivity in this example are proof of InetSoft's core concept of deploying advanced visualization without sacrificing computing power...
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Evaluate InetSoft's Online Analytic Dashboard Creation Solution - Looking for a good online analytic dashboard creation solution? InetSoft's pioneering dashboard reporting application produces great-looking web-based dashboards with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop designer. View a demo and try interactive examples. The ability to create a custom analytic business dashboard allows you to view data in new and insightful ways that are relevant to your industry while keeping ahead of the competition...
Expansion of the Data Ecosystem for BI - InetSoft Technology, a pioneer in data intelligence, analytics, and reporting, announced the general availability of its 2020 Release. Headlining the updates in this release is the expansion of the data ecosystem, with new connections to 73 cloud-based enterprise applications. The next notable enhancement is the addition of 6 advanced chart types for an even wider range of options for data visualization. Popular applications among the list of new data connectors include: Adobe Analytics Campaign Monitor Facebook FreshBooks Google Analytics Hubspot QuickBooks Online Salesforce Survey Monkey...
Field Report Options for the User - InetSoft sets itself apart from competitors by putting you, the user, first. We offer several different setup and deployment options to meet any business needs you may have. With a shallow learning curve, non-technical users can create dashboards in the cloud and deploy InetSoft's online reporting software using a simple point-and-click interface. With DataBlock technology, users can drag and drop blocks of data onto the interface to build interactive dashboards and reports with compelling visuals that are professional, eye-catching, and flexible for any business needs, allowing for maximum-self service...
Freshsales Manager Dashboarding Tool - Looking for a good solution for Freshsales dashboard reporting? InetSoft's pioneering BI application produces great-looking cloud-based dashboards with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop designer. Mashup your sales and other enterprise data for a wider view of performance. View a demo and try interactive examples. Below are examples of dashboards built with InetSoft's Web dashboard software, some of which you can try out with the free downloadable 5-day evaluation copy of Style Intelligence...
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Fundamental Business Intelligence Concepts - We will begin with an introduction to the tools available in InetSoft. Later in this chapter we discuss the object oriented design patterns used in Style Intelligence. To allow easy construction of reports, the InetSoft package includes a number of adapters which are used to wrap an object so that it conforms to the predefined API. The decorator design pattern is a powerful way to add or modify the attributes of an object. The factory design pattern is used by Style Intelligence to provide platform- and JDK version-independent ways to create certain types of objects...
How To Create a Data Model - Once a data source is defined, you can proceed to creating a data model. Data models are logical abstractions of database schemas, similar to Entity-Relation Models. The full Style Intelligence data model includes the following four components: Physical view, comprising database tables, fields, and joins Logical model, a logical mapping to meaningful business units Virtual private models, data-level security for controlled access OLAP overlay hierarchical model, a mapping to dimensions/measures...
InetSoft's Report Generator Software - Using a robust, reliable report generator software allows for the clean and consistent availability of information, without the headache of having to manually produce reports. InetSoft Technology provides an excellent interactive report generator software, which enables the flexible transformation of data of all types into client-customizable reports and interactive dashboards...
Kissmetrics Marketing Dashboard Solution - Looking for a good solution for Kissmetrics dashboard reporting? InetSoft's pioneering BI application produces great-looking cloud-based dashboards with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop designer. Mash up your marketing campaign data with other enterprise sources for a unified view of marketing performance. View a demo and try interactive examples. The award-winning InetSoft dashboard software application offers embeddable dashboard solutions that lead to high end user adoption and significant increases in productivity...
List of Business Intelligence 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...
Modify Report Parameters and Security - InetSoft's reporting software offers powerful utilities that allow users to modify report parameters and security in order to meet evolving needs. View the information below to learn more about the Style Intelligence solution. Click the Parameter tab at the bottom of the screen to manage report initialization and creation parameters. The initialization parameters are the parameters used when the report is initialized, whereas the creation parameters are the parameters used by the 'createReport' method, which is executed before the engine begins generating the report. Report creation parameters can also be set from the Scheduler tab...
Modularize Your Reporting Security - Custom security integration is used under the following circumstances: Your users/roles/groups have already been defined in your existing systems, which you wish to directly import into InetSoft, and InetSoft has no built-in mechanism of directly accessing this information, e.g., DB, Web Service (SOAP). You wish to modularize your security into authentication and authorization and use different providers for each, e.g., read users/roles from LDAP (LDAP Security Provider) but write InetSoft-related permissions to disk (Default File Security Provider). This could be a requirement when your LDAP server has write restrictions...
New Features for Map Chart Design - So here I'll just launch my visual composer. The map charts are exposed both in viewsheets and reports, but I'm going to show for the purposes of the demo, within a viewsheet. So here in my visual composer I'm simply going to start off with a new viewsheet and I'm going to base it on a data step that I already have that has information about United States, States from the last census. So to create a map, I no longer have a map component on the left hand side. I simply have a chart, and then there's a special map type. So if I select chart style I can choose map...
Option for Online Reporting System - Are you looking for a way to create reports and track business performance? InetSoft's online reporting system is the ideal tool for users wanting to track their KPI's remotely without having to rely on specialized IT professionals and endless hours of setup. Whether it's installed on your local desktop, in the cloud, or at a server at your company's local intranet, this web-based reporting software allows users to access their reports through a web browser...
Pre-calculations for a Visual Analysis - We can find the minimum transaction and the maximum transaction. We could do calculations in the transaction table if there are different codes in transactions that you want to code out. You can do if-rules and create a new column. If it's raw data, there's a lot we can do in the memory pool to create these calculations. We can do things with tables to create summaries, and then it's saved in our project definition...
Query Builder Wizard - When it comes to data analytics, InetSoft's Style Intelligence is the optimal business intelligence software for both programmers and end-users. With its intuitive and robust interface, Style Intelligence's web based query builder allows users to create queries conveniently and efficiently despite the lack of any prior coding experience or knowledge...
Regionalize Report PDF Options - InetSoft's reporting software has extensive customization options that allow users to regionalize their report pdf options to suit diverse needs and uphold data security. View the information below to learn more about the Style Intelligence solution. To support CJK characters: . The location (folder path) of the CJK font files must be specified under the heading TrueType/CID Font Path. . The font mapping from the CJK-TrueType font to a CJK-CID font needs to be defined in the font mapping table. It is recommended that you select 'true' for embedding the font and the cmap in the PDF file...
Report Privilege Groups - InetSoft's reporting software allows administrators to easily create report groups that govern the privileges that are allowed to specified users. View the information below to learn more about the Style Intelligence solution. A group is a collection of users, such as a project team, a department, or a geographical location. You can create and edit groups in Enterprise Manager only when using the 'Default Security Provider'...
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Report Writer Software Product Information - Looking for report writer software? InetSoft offers Web-based reporting software that includes an easy drag and drop designer and powerful production reporting features. Free evaluation download. View a demo. Read customer reviews. Creating Report Scorecards - InetSoft's reporting software allows users to create report scorecards with the purpose of monitoring key metrics in real-time. A scorecard is used to keep track of certain parameters (e.g., Sales Revenue). Multiple users can monitor these parameters from the Report Portal. These parameters (metrics) can also be measured at regular intervals (triggers)...
Reports Inherit Security Permissions - Click the Security tab at the bottom of the screen to manage Viewsheet permissions. By default, a Viewsheet is set to inherit security permissions from its parent, which is the folder it resides in. This default behavior can be modified and a Viewsheet may have its own security information setup, independent of its parent. Once set up, the security permissions for the Viewsheet override those of the Viewsheet's parent. Setting up security for a Viewsheet is very similar to setting up security for any other component...
Security Improvements to BI Platform - We have also made the following security enhancements: VPMs allow for global ID filtering Toolbar button permissions are individually exposed Single Sign-On (SSO) has been improved to allow for custom attributes...
Sub Pieces of Business Intelligence Model - So now let's look at the sub pieces of this business intelligence model. The first is in-memory data management. I'm going to quickly get to an example here. The idea here is to support the concept of the end users' analysis by enabling very fast interaction, slicing and dicing and calculation. No predetermined data structures are required. The analysis can be completely ad hoc against any combination of any elements of any table in the memory pool...
Tool to Build a Real Time Dashboard - Are you looking for a good tool to build real time dashboards? InetSoft's pioneering BI application produces great-looking web-based dashboards with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop designer. Get cloud-flexibility for your deployment. Minimize costs with a small-footprint solution. Maximize self-service for all types of users. No dedicated BI developer required. View a demo and try interactive examples. Style Intelligence is a complete business intelligence platform thanks to its interactive interface that functions in all browsers...
Try InetSoft's Manufacturing Dashboard Solution - Are you looking for the best manufacturing dashboard solutions? Since 1996 InetSoft has been making dashboard software that is easy to deploy and easy to use. Build self-service oriented dashboards quickly. View a demo and read customer reviews from some of the 5,000+ happy customers. The best kind of an agile dashboard is where the data also reflects the state of affairs as close to real-time as possible. For example, the data could show what were our POS actuals as of last night summarized by regions, zones and country. I would add that you need the ability to slice through the data, to explore it, and to do ad hoc analysis to it...
Wistia Video Performance Reporting Tool - Looking for a good solution for Wistia reporting? InetSoft's pioneering BI application produces great-looking dashboards that mashup video view data with other marketing data in your organization. View a demo and try interactive examples. InetSoft's flagship product, Style Intelligence, goes beyond traditional BI tools by providing a complete BI software platform which includes fine-grained security and administration for accessing diverse data sources...