More Resources and Articles about InetSoft's Informatica BI Tool
Adopted Embedded BI Solutions - It's great for third party developers and OEM providers which have adopted embedded BI solutions. As the third party developers have accumulated a particular expertise, a subject matter expertise or business process. Well there's increasing demand for those kinds of third party systems to have intelligence and insight, to be able to have the kind of use of data that's effective through dashboards, through a drag and drop visual interfaces, to provide access to different types of data than may have been in traditional embedded systems, to have more, in other words, more breadth around the data...
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Aggregation in Data Binding - Since text elements can only display information in a single node, the text 'Data Binding' dialog box has an additional tab for specifying a selection of nodes in the query output tree and optionally applying an aggregate function to the result. Conditions can be applied to a node in the selection path...
Agile Data Access Environment - Optimization and transformation, really fundamentally it's all about for all the data that's been cleansed within your agile data access environment so that everybody is working from a common set of master data and from the very best models and views and analytics available at any point in time within your extended value chain and that way you push the bar forward to seize new opportunities before your competitors get there...
BI Platform Offers Direct Access - Our BI platform offers direct access to almost and data source with the unique data mashup capabilities that other vendors sell as data virtualization. So in one solution you have the necessary data modeling tools plus multi-dimensional or OLAP analysis functions plus advanced data visualization tools plus traditional reporting plus interactive dashboarding...
Bullet Points about Data Mashup - Following on to our Top 10 Why InetSoft list, here's another list. People who are new to data mashup software often ask for a quick explanation of why they should care about them, or what are the top benefits to using them. Here are the top 3 business benefits plus a point to make about the kind of solution to consider, naturally favoring our approach. 1. Data mashups solve a fundamental information management problem that all enterprises face: how to provide business intelligence reporting across all the multitudes of different types of data sources, internal, external and user-generated ones...
Call it Business Architecture - You may call it business architecture because it answers the questions, what do we need, what should we be able to do? They may come from product management kinds of folks, strategic planning kinds of folks etc. who then drive the creation of solutions based on their knowledge of what technology should be able to do. In this scenario, IT focuses on how to deliver that BI solution based on the expertise that they have on the different BI systems available...
Create Multiple Report Versions - InetSoft's reporting software allows users to set up report parameters in order to create multiple report versions from a single template. View the example below to learn more about the Style Intelligence solution. In the Filtering section, you created a report with a parameterized condition. When you launch this report, it automatically generates a prompting screen to obtain the value of the parameter from the user. While this automatically generated prompting screen is often adequate, you can also create a custom prompting screen called a parameter sheet...
Data Integration Vendor - This is a table of contents of useful information about the data mashup platform that is included in InetSoft's business intelligence software for dashboards, reporting, and analytics, Style Intelligence. Data Mashup Information - Data Mashup, at its basic definition, means combining disparate data sources that were not previously architected to be used together. In a data warehouse environment with rigid ETL process, data mashup yields other benefits, particularly in allowing prototyping of data manipulations before committing to new, official ETL definitions and transformations...
Data Management and Reporting Software - Looking for data management software that also includes dashboards and reporting? InetSoft offers Web-based BI software that includes a flexible data access engine. No need for a data warehouse with direct access to disparate operational data sources of almost any type. Below are articles about InetSoft's software. Reasons People Find Data Mashup Interesting - Some of the reasons people find data mashup interesting is for when they want to make sure to include all these different data sources that are out there now. It really comes from the imperative to have that unified view of corporate performance in an executive monitoring dashboard or balanced scorecard. There are different ways people want to be able to see data and performance in many different functions. Another one to point out is that people are finding it...
Data Mashup Software Resources - This is a table of contents of useful information about InetSoft's data mashup software which is included in its business intelligence application for dashboards, reporting, and analytics, Style Intelligence. Example of Data Science Applied to Healthcare - Abhishek: How about an example of data science applied to healthcare? Do we have an opportunity to look to beyond the technology into an actual use case? You probably can't name them, but where and how is this being used, and what are the paybacks? Jim: So, we work in large, whether that'd be private or public...
Data Mashup Platform Performance How does the data mashup platform handle performance and mixed workloads, large datasets, query concurrency, and latency differences? This kind of Web data automation has really not only reduced the back-office waiting time and operational efficiency, but is also providing capabilities to the enterprise to offer something new to those customers. The same idea extends to SaaS applications and Web and cloud applications. Let's now answer the most common questions...
Data Monitoring Side - Caching obviously is an old trick as well, but I think one of the keys with being able to use caching effectively is to know which datasets are useful, which datasets are valuable. You got to have that whole data monitoring side of the equation to see who is using which datasets, and when I say using, I mean not just actually receiving them and opening reports and so on and so forth, but then actually making decisions based on them...
Deliver That Real Time Data - Where it's flexible. Where you can make things iterative and self service, a little bit like I was talking about earlier and still deliver that real time data. To give the best example of a customer that was very similar to what Ian had brought up was they were always getting new data requests, and they were always building out another database or another materialized view or data model...
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Enterprise Architectures Need Agility - Today, enterprise architectures need agility to support business initiatives, and data virtualization can play a key role in this. In this webinar we will provide insights on how data virtualization provides information agility to your enterprise architecture project to deliver business value and significant competitive event. The focus of this webinar is on how to think about different information delivery strategies to help enterprise architecture as a whole be very business focused. So while we will get somewhat technical to address some of the key challenges...
Enterprise Data Management Application Information - Looking for an enterprise data management application that also includes dashboards and reporting? InetSoft offers Web-based BI software that includes a flexible data access engine. No need for a data warehouse with direct access to disparate operational data sources of almost any type. Below are articles about InetSoft's software. Structured and Free-form Queries - Queries are written for specific data access purposes and contain logic beyond the generic data model. Queries typically utilize advanced or proprietary database features. The idea is similar to relational database views, except that queries are normally not generic enough to be created as permanent database objects or views. In the Data Modeler...
Highest Level of Data Visualization - Page Regions can be fully customized to give you the highest level of data visualization; another feature embedded in InetSoft's reporting software. View the example below to learn more about custom data visualization with the Style Intelligence solution...
How to Enable Agile Data Access - So it's all about agile BI and enabling agile data access. In much of that, which we will discuss in a moment, is oriented around virtualization and service-oriented architecture and similar approaches which enable maximum reuse of data assets. So really, in the yin and yang here of agile business technologies, you have agile BI, agile data access and really agile application infrastructure is the way to look at that lower ellipse. And that application infrastructure, of course, is a bit of a SOA, it's Business Process Management, it's business rules engines, it's a broad range of enabling platform technologies...
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InetSoft's Enterprise Data Management Software - Looking for enterprise data management software? InetSoft offers Web-based BI software that includes a powerful and flexible data mashup tool with direct access to disparate data sources of almost any type. Below are articles related to InetSoft's software. Data Provides Insight into Forecasting - As far as other companies, yes, I do think that all of that historical data provides insight into forecasting. We have used the information that we are pulling in for planning and not only for your typical annual budgets or your cash flow forecasting...
Instructions for Staged Flows in Interactive Reports - It is possible to have a parallel flow of multiple stages in a staged parameter sheet. This is desirable when the multiple stages are independent of each other. For example, one stage may have levels Country and State; while another stage may have levels Product Category and Product Name. These two stages are mutually exclusive, and it wouldn't be logical to place them in a single flow. To add a parallel stage simply drag an element to the region titled 'Drag here to add a flow' on the right of the Staged Parameter dialog box. Elements in the 'Default Level' are always enabled...
Investing in Business Intelligence - Other benefits of BI tools include Time savings - In the past, data collection was a time-consuming, cumbersome process that often involved getting IT involved to help you both gather the data and format it properly. Today, BI platforms allow you to find the information you need quickly and easily. With just a few mouse clicks, you can generate detailed reports complete with beautiful data visualizations...
Learn About Data Virtualization - You simply need to invoke it through visual tools, visual orchestration capabilities and in this way then you can essentially leverage the work of really smart people without you yourself without having to rebuild the wheel which that's the old silo approach having to rebuild everything yourself. No, in an agile data access world, you reuse it all, and that way you can build very sophisticated new applications very quickly for a very low cost...
Mash Data Sources Together - Second is the notion that you don't have to build the data model first. You don't have to define things as dimensions and measures and hierarchies first. It's just columns. We can just point at different data sources, mash them together and create an analytical v iew, and that's how a lot of people are using our BI platform. This is probably the primary use case of data discovery, the rapid prototyping. Now once you mash those data sets together, don't get...
Object-oriented Reporting Design - Reporting design patterns are an important part of the object-oriented design of InetSoft Enterprise products. The use of design patterns not only facilitates ease of use; it also helps programmers understand the high-level framework behind the object design. This chapter documents the design patterns used in the InetSoft enterprise-specific classes. The proxy design pattern is used extensively in the design of InetSoft Enterprise products. This pattern is applied to allow the server components to support multiple communication protocols and is used in the clustering of servers for better scalability...
Offshoot of a Performance Dashboard - We can put monitoring analysis and reporting into a single solution, and we call it performance dashboarding. This is not just a flat display of what's performing well and what's not. It's a multi layered delivery system that really is the new face of BI. An offshoot of a performance dashboard is predictive analytics. These are the more advanced analytical models and visualization techniques that provide exceptional value...
Scripting Dashboard Charts Via API - InetSoft's dashboard software allows users to script charts that represent complex data so the most subtle changes to be easily recognized. View the example below to learn more about the Style Intelligence solution. Charts offer the same expression property scripting as other Viewsheet components. In addition, a comprehensive charting API gives scripting access to all aspects of a chart, including data binding, chart type, dimensions, measures, and aesthetics...
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Scripting Scorecard Measures in a Chart - InetSoft's reporting solution can be controlled programmatically. The JavaScript-like API permits developers to embed reporting instructions into whatever application they wish. In this example of representing multiple measures on a single chart, simply define a GraphElement object for each measure, and add the GraphElement to the Chart. Consider the following script (Note: Report script that modifies 'graph' should be placed at the element level. See Adding Element-Level Script)...
Show Me a Business Intelligence RFP Template - Provide IT-enabled and business user self-service capabilities. Capabilities such as cascading parameters and nested prompts, data virtualization and drill anywhere/ Data virtualization is one of the design principles underlying our Data Block technology and data mashup engine. User do not need to know where data blocks are sourced or reside. They just assemble them into a way that is needed. Because of this flexibility in the data layer, end users can drill in any path they define...
Technology for Tracking Business Performance Indicators - Do you need to track business performance indicators? InetSoft offers BI software for performance monitoring dashboards and balanced scorecards that can be easily deployed and used. View a demo and read reviews. Sales Management Application - Have you entertained thoughts of how you can further scale your business using your CRM if you began integrating an easy to use BI Tool? Then look no further, because it's possible with InetSoft's agile and robust software... Scorecard Measures - See how to create scorecard measures that you can embed into your Web application. InetSoft specializes in OEM'ing its scorecard technology to other developers. View a demo and download a free eval copy. Consider the following script. Note: Report script that modifies 'graph' should be placed at the element level. See Adding Element-Level Script. This creates a basic bar chart displaying the dimensions 'State' and 'Quantity 1'. To add the measure 'Quantity 2' to the chart as line element, follow the steps below: 1. Create a new LineElement to represent the graph of 'Quantity 2' vs. 'State'. A legend is created automatically. To modify the legend, make changes to the VisualFrame's LegendSpec property. See Changing Legend Properties...
View of the Report with Rendered Data - The 'Live Edit' option provides a view of the report with rendered data, and allows further design manipulation. Select the 'Live Edit' button to switch between regular mode and live edit mode. Since a large dataset may slow down editing, the result set size is limited to 500 rows by default. Selecting the 'Preview' button opens up a new tab inside the Designer and shows the completed report including all data and scripting. A number of options related to previewing are available in the Preferences dialog box. Go to Tools → Preferences...
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Virtual Relational Database - That's the first step in a data virtualization process, to create this normalized or base model disparate data. The second step is to transform it, improve its quality and integrate it into new data models. The third step is to expose this information through as a virtual relational database or as a Web service, such as an XML feed, or something that can be accessed as a Java Object or as a Java Portlet or as a SharePoint Web Part. The reason you want to do that is so you have reusability of these data models to serve multiple applications...
Virtualization Usage Data - A lot of times you just can't consume it, can't analyze all that data that's available. Virtualization usage data represents a new realm of data that needs analysis. Virtualization is a very interesting technology, but it's also a product that requires performance management and requires constant analysis. And again analysis can be outside or inside data, internal data between departments and more frequently machine to machine analysis. And that machine to machine communication...
Which SQL Server Dashboard Tool - InetSoft offers visualization driven dashboard tools compatible with SQL Server housed data and many other data sources. InetSoft's Web-based dashboard application is 100% Java and enables quick development and easy deployment. As more businesses look for answers in the cloud and explore database virtualization, the location of data sources may change. However, the need to display data in visually appealing and easy-to-interpret reports will not change. In fact, today's business users and consumers demand highly graphical and interactive views into their data. InetSoft has been making sophisticated SQL reporting tools for business users since 1996. Product features include: Unlimited multi-dimensional charting...
Why Manage Report Table Elements - InetSoft's reporting software allows users to manage report table elements by filtering through complex data to deliver the desired results every time. View the example below to learn more about the Style Intelligence solution. You can switch between tables and crosstabs (pivot tables) depending on your needs. Right-click on a Table element, and select 'To Crosstab'. Note that the 'Data Query' interface now permits crosstab grouping. A crosstab or pivot table has row and column grouping, and displays a lot of information in a concise aggregated form. Right-click on a table, and select 'To Crosstab' to change the grouping type and expose the crosstab options. All other functions, like formatting and properties, are just like a Table element. Right-click on a Crosstab element, and choose 'To Table'. Note the 'Data Query' interface now permits table grouping...