Product Information About Enterprise BI

This is a continuation of the table of contents of product information relating to InetSoft's enterprise BI solutions. Since 1996 InetSoft has been delivering easy, agile, and robust business intelligence software that makes it possible for organizations and solution providers of all sizes to deploy or embed full-featured business intelligence solutions.

BI Dashboard Solution for Progress DataDirect - With any business intelligence solution, it is important to have full access to all relevant data and information within a company. These data sets are stored in databases where dashboard reporting software can retrieve and compile information in order to build data visualizations and/or analytical reports. InetSoft offers users flexibility through secure connections, such as Progress DataDirect. Style Intelligence can access multiple, disparate databases, databases via a JDBC connector, as well...

 

BI Demo - InetSoft offers an agile, integrated Operational BI platform that features visualization-driven reporting, dashboards and analytics as well as user-driven data mashups and transformation. Your budget benefits from fast implementations and flexible licensing while your users receive a greater ability for self-service, exploration and collaboration. View a brief demo that gives a good overview of the interactivity that you can easily put into a monitoring or analytic dashboard, the sophistication of the report publishing software, and the power of drag and drop data modeler that make up InetSoft's business intelligence platform. View a recording of a live demonstration. Note that the recording is not studio-quality, but this demo provides an in-depth look at the kinds of dashboards and reports that can be built using the sample monitoring and analytical dashboards that come with the free evaluation software download. You will see in real-time how quickly a powerful, but easy to use interactive dashboard can be designed. This demo is similar to what can be arranged for your organization in a customized manner based on your requirements...

BI Documentation - The documentation set includes eleven different Guides covering the categories of Data, Reports, Dashboards, End-User, and Administration. The documentation roadmap below lists the available Guides, and the following sections provide an overview of their contents. Data Modeler describes the Data Modeler, a professional desktop tool for connecting to data sources and designing queries, data models, and VPMs. The Data Modeler provides the data access foundation for all Style Intelligence tools. Data objects designed in Data Modeler can be used directly in reports, or serve as atomic building blocks for Worksheet Data BlockTM technology. Data Worksheet describes Data Worksheets, the Style Intelligence user interface for dynamic Data Block technology. This technology allows IT professionals and power users assemble data objects in a Lego-like fashion in real time. Data Worksheets are available through both the desktop Asset Composer and the web-based Visual Composer. Report Designer describes the Report Designer, a desktop application designed to let professionals develop production reports and dashboard elements. Report Scripting describes the scripting environment provided by Report Designer. Scripting can be used for simple formulas or full ECMAScript/JavaScript programming...

BI Download - BI without the Bloat. Searching for business intelligence software to download and evaluate for free? Don't want to be saddled with a massive BI software deployment that hogs resources and demands a major hardware investment...

BI Enterprise Solution Examples - Searching for the good BI enterprise solution examples? InetSoft, a pioneer in business intelligence, provides samples from its highly-rated, easy to use enterprise BI platform...

BI Example for HHS - The purpose of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is to "enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services." Over 6,000 hospitals report daily medical data to HHS, which gives this agency a uniquely cyclopedic view of the overall state of American health. In addition to using business intelligence systems to track internal operation of the agency related to employee job function, training, etc., HHS also has unique responsibilities to convey health and wellness data to the public, and to try to encourage healthy behavior and lifestyle. Business Intelligence analysis and data presentation can be hugely influential in achieving this goal, as illustrated, for example, by the department's efforts to effectively communicate the state of Covid transmission and management on a national and local level. (See https://public-data-hub-dhhs.hub.arcgis.com/.)...

BI For ERP Applications - A transcript of InetSoft's webinar for the Style Intelligence 10.2 release. Discusses the addition of new third party enterprise application data sources. Obviously this might be advantageous to people have one of these applications in their organization and for a long time we’ve been focused on giving lots of access to open standards based data access, but now we’ve begun to broaden our access to third party proprietary applications data storers. The first of these was back in ’08 when we added access to salesforce.com but now with this release you can see the new big applications like Siebel, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and SAP. With that we’ll head to the next slide and talk a little about data grid cache...

BI Executive Dashboard Solution - Looking for a good BI executive dashboard solution? InetSoft is a pioneer in self-service dashboard reporting software with an easy-to-use dashboard designer. View a demo and try interactive examples...

BI's Impact on Utility Companies - The utility industry is in the process of enhancing their services by implementing a business intelligence solution to impact comapnies and customers. The primary way is that it gives customers more choices. I mean tradition utilities have priced their energy according to a flat rate, use so many kilowatt hours, and you pay so many cents per kilowatt. Well now with this additional information that utilities will have about the way in which energy is used by their individual customers, they are able to price it differently and match the pricing closer with their actual costs. And so, this then allows them to do things like set time-of-use rates. This is where you pay a different rate depending what time you use the energy. It also enables critical peak pricing where you may pay a higher rate on certain critical days when the peak demand is very large. Additionally, it also enables things like dynamic pricing, where the price will change over time. That's an area where I’ve been focusing a lot...

BI Implementation Analysis - The BI Implementation Analysis is an example of an interactive web-based analytical dashboard built using InetSoft's intuitive software. A leader in dashboard, reporting, and data mashup solutions, InetSoft provides users with an easy-to-use software with multiple features and tools that enhances business operations...

BI Industry - About InetSoft's mission is to enable maximum end-user self-service. InetSoft has sought to empower businesses and their staff with unfettered access to BI technology...

BI Industry Developments - So definitely there have been some shakeups in the BI environment with some big acquisitions happening. This consolidation has been pending and predicted for some time. So in some ways, I am glad to see it happen, because some enterprises were sitting on the fence waiting to see what would happen before they settled on their BI vendor evaluation list. Clearly these financial transactions highlight the value of BI and the strategic importance of BI for businesses. The backdrop of a maturing economy and the notion of competing on analytics, this is becoming a reality for enterprises. The role that business intelligence and analytics continues to grow. This bodes well for BI and data warehousing sectors, which of course, InetSoft is a part of. We’re really excited from our vantage point looking out as to what is happening in the BI market and the relevance of our product and value proposition in that backdrop. So I think these are very exciting times. I’d also point out that it’s the smaller, entrepreneurial companies like InetSoft that will continue to drive innovation, and there are many organizations who seek out this type of innovating technology...

BI Industry Info - Whether you need a complete business intelligence solution or are focused on a robust dashboard solution, InetSoft offers software with a mission of making it accessible to any organization...

 

BI Installation - 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. During this chapter we provided a description of the tools available in the different product packages. This was followed by a discussion of the object oriented design patterns used in Style Intelligence, particularly how the Model-View-Controller design pattern is implemented. We described how Style Intelligence 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 InetSoft products to provide platform and JDK version independent ways to create certain types of objects. The builder design pattern is used in Style Intelligence for importing and exporting reports to and from external formats. A singleton is a type of object that always has one instance in every Java virtual machine where the object shares the same instance across a single process. We discussed the class and package structure in Style Intelligence, briefly describing the major classes and API conventions. We described that a report is made up of a number of different types of report elements laid out in a sequence. We also discussed installation and deployment issues...

BI Layer: Visualization - We focus on integration, and we and what we’re building it along the way in this value chain methodology. We’re creating those story cards which then are the tasks that get handed out to the development team to go build, and we build story cards around the database objects, the ETL, data integration, and the data quality. Then we have stories around the BI layer, around visualization in the form of dashboards or reports and that kind of stuff. So that’s really as we begin to decompose and really think through the business wants and needs and deconstruct it and we end up with the ability and the delivery sprint thing to go actually create the work, to do the work. When we move from the business value chain to the technical value chain, we believe a best practice is once the glossary, the list of terms, has been laid out, that the business begins to get involved in a data stewardship process. This is where the terms get validated, and then once they’re validated, they become the core building blocks of everything we do at the BI layer, at the data phase layer, and ETL layer. The Balanced Insight tool brings with it a data stewardship process engine. We’re not going to spend a lot of time today, but when we couple the data stewardship process engine with the business modeling components, we get reusability. We get automation, and we allow the repository to act almost as the design repository and certainly the requirements repository without having to embed all of this in Microsoft Word or Excel, and so as things begin to change and evolve, then the repository kind of manages itself...

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BI Platform for Big Data - Let’s move ahead. This is definitely a BI platform that’s built to scale for big data and large volumes of users. It's built on the concept of using this commodity servers and scaling up with clusters and nodes. That’s in contrast to other BI solutions that require heavy duty data appliances and or even huge memory capable servers. So that’s the quick overview of the BI application. Here I just wanted to highlight some of the features that are collaboration specific, and we’re going to show them as well. But being a server based solution from the beginning, that contrast with some of the desktop applications like Tableau. When everything is saved on the server, it’s just inherently sharable. Here’s a list of other historical collaboration features, the things that people reuse. These are bunch of InetSoft terms here, but you’ll see them an action in the demo. Data blocks are queries that you create in a drag-and-drop environment. The pull together different bits of data that you want to use and a dashboard or report. Worksheets are the canvas to combine those different data blocks into full data set using data mash up. With the data mashup, you can use it to create dashboards and reports in a viewsheet. It is our terminology for a dashboard of visualization that you create in the drag-and-drop design environment...

BI Products from the Leading BI Vendors - Yeah, that’s great. I mean we are finding that with self-service BI, the BI products from the leading BI vendors, they simplified their developing environment to the point that just about anybody can create a report, but again it’s the data behind that that becomes still more challenging so, I like what you are saying there, you are providing the data layer there, hopefully with some semantics over it, so that just about any user can make sense of it. Eric Kavanagh: Well, the IT department then can start also putting in the appropriate amount of security and governance with regards to who can access what from the standpoint that we just don’t want people spending star queries on their data sources to bring an operational system down. So the IT department can create these views, put the security in place, and put the governance in place with regards to the proper data flow to those systems, and really can deliver high value without a lot of cost in operational overhead. Philip Russom: That’s great. You know for lot of people there, for lot of users, their definition of self-service BI is that they are just going to go rogue, and they are going to use some SQL to hack their way into some systems or use Microsoft Access etc., and create something that uncontrolled, poor quality, and could even violate governance policy. So yeah, I like what you are saying that IT would involved with the IT compliance...

 

BI Query Tool - Traditional methods of database reporting invariable involve coding SQL queries manually so that the desired information can be retrieved. Luckily, with InetSoft's BI query tool, manually coding queries is no longer necessary.

BI Reporting Application - Looking for a BI reporting application? Since 1996 InetSoft has been making BI software that is easy to deploy and easy to use. Build self-service oriented interactive visual reports quickly . View a demo and read customer reviews...

BI Reporting Dashboard Company - InetSoft, a pioneering bi reporting dashboard company since 1996, offers a web-based platform for interactive dashboards and maximum self-service. Try it now...

BI RFP Template - Seeking Self-Service Reporting This BI RFP template was received from a major nonprofit looking to improve its decentralized business intelligence capabitities with modern self-service reporting. InetSoft's responses are provided. Requirements for the BI Platform Be hosted in the cloud or on-premises InetSoft's Style Intelligence Solution can be deployed as a private cloud solution or deployed internally. In either environment, ease of deployment and ease of use are chief development principles that help lower the time investment and total cost of ownership - and make the solution attractive to organizations of any size, with or without BI expertise. Have native multi-tenant cloud or multi-tenant-enable architecture InetSoft's Style Intelligence Solution provides native multi-tenant architecture with built-in granular security, multi-tenancy support, and multiple integration points. It serves both enterprises and solution providers...

BI Server - Looking for a business intelligence server that maximizes self-service and empowers end-users? InetSoft's Style Intelligence uses a visualization driven approach to address reporting, analysis and dashboard needs in its Web-based BI platform...

BI Software Examples - Looking for BI software examples? Below are well-designed, intuitive to use, interactive and personalizable examples built with InetSoft's innovative BI application. Test drive Style Intelligence online for free today and interact with more examples in these areas: Project Management, Utility Usage Analytics, What-If Scenarios, Supply Chain BI, Utility Management Company Dashboarding, Marketing BI, Sales Team Performance, Retail Management, and Marketing Channel Analytics...

BI Software Packages - InetSoft's Style Intelligence is a complete business intelligence software package, including Style Scope and Style Report Enterprise Edition. Style Scope focuses on exploring data by combining InetSoft's patent pending Data Block™ technology with customizable visualization mechanics. Data Block™ technology enables data mashup in a Lego brick-like fashion, allowing business users to create complex queries through a simple drag-and-drop interface. IT creates perfomance-tuned and secutiry-controlled data blocks that can be transformed and assembled by business users for real-time business questions. This process enables quick and informed decision making...

BI Software Tutorials - These business intelligence tutorials demonstrate real-world use cases such as report and dashboard layout, data binding, data source creation, interactivity, scripting, and design for reusability and maintainability. Whether you're new to InetSoft, or would simply like greater insight into InetSoft's capabilities, there's always something to view...

BI Solution - Style Intelligence is an open standards based information delivery and analysis solution that blends the best of enterprise reporting and business intelligence software into one light weight platform. It offers both large and small companies the ability to deliver actionable and real-time information while leveraging their existing technology and infrastructure investments...