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About Reports and Reporting - Looking for tools to write reports? Reporting software has been InetSoft's specialty since 1996. Now its award winning reporting tools include pricing options comparable to open source vendors. Download a free eval. InetSoft's reporting-only products is Style Report Enterprise. If you also want interactive dashboarding and data mashup then look at InetSoft's flagship business intelligence software - Style Intelligence. Some newer implementations restrict the servlet's access to system resources, such as files, thread creation, etc...
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Alternative Reporting Tool for Zendesk - Looking for an alternative reporting tool for Zendesk? Go beyond Zendesk Explore with greater self-service and personalized reporting, advanced chart types, and the ability to create data mashups with other organizational data outside of Zendesk. 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...
Basics of Business Metrics Software - Business metrics can be defined as any measurement that help managers evaluate a business's efforts. These assessments allow management to track how well a business is performing and identify problems that needs to be addressed to improve efficiency. A good dashboard software application presents business metrics in a format that is simple to understand and easy to process. Dashboards offer a discernable means of rating the health of an organization. These applications are designed to be easy to read and digest...
Company KPI Scorecards - KPI Scorecards are a business planning tool that allow users to track performance, available in InetSoft's comprehensive real-time analytical reporting and dashboard software. View the example below to learn more about the Style Intelligence solution. The Style Intelligence Scorecard is a collection of objects known as 'Targets'. Each target helps monitor the performance of a metric. It specifies the metric, how and when a metric's performance is evaluated, what the goal or target is, and what action to take if the goal is not met...
Consider InetSoft's Insight Reporting Software - Looking for insight reporting software? InetSoft, a pioneer in self-service oriented reporting software, can manage your reports. Highly rated customer service holds your hand during the entire process. View a demo and try interactive examples...
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Create Real-time Report Scorecards - InetSoft's reporting software allows users to create report scorecards with the purpose of key metric monitoring in real-time. View the information below to learn more about the Style Intelligence solution. 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)...
Difference Between Data Science and Business Intelligence - Researching the difference of data science vs business intelligence? InetSoft's data science functions are built into its industry pioneering BI platform. Read articles about its capabilities and request a personalized demo. There's hope for me. I got a bachelors in economic ages ago and built some crude statistical models with the tools that were available back in the 80s. But I don't think I will be the greatest data scientist in the modern world. I think people who are 20 years younger than me are probably are more adept. I blogged recently about some of the key components of a data science curriculum...
Equipped With Balanced Scorecards - InetSoft's reporting software comes equipped with balanced scorecards for reports that can be set up to provide critical up to the minute updates as often as needed. View the information below to learn more about the Style Intelligence solution. Consider the following use of a scorecard: A company aims for a 2% increase in sales revenue every month. A sales manager wishes to closely monitor this metric to ensure a sustained increase in the revenue...
Evaluate InetSoft's Reporting Document Creation Software - Looking for good reporting document creation software? InetSoft's pioneering dashboard reporting application produces great-looking web-based reports with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop designer. View a demo and try interactive examples...
Financial Advisor Dashboard Example - The adjoining financial advisor dashboard is a mock up example of the interactive web-based applications that InetSoft offers. With InetSoft, organizations can easily build and customize their own dashboards catered to their needs with simple drag-and drop designs and a diverse library of charts and graphs. Dashboards aid users in visualizing where their business stands and how to improve. They also keep track of goals, objectives and key metrics and allows users to set alerts when a metric or goal is not met...
Financial Reporting Tool to Track - Looking for a financial reporting tool to track key metrics? Since 1996 InetSoft has been making BI software that is easy to deploy and use. Whether you need pdf reports of financial statements or interactive KPI metrics dashboards to monitor finance and other corporate KPIs, InetSoft's server-based application connects to almost any data source including ERP applications such as JDE or SAP, or even Excel spreadsheets. Reports can be distributed automatically, and dashboards can be used from any browser, whether from a PC or a mobile device...
Good Platform for Daily Reporting - Looking for a platform for daily reporting? InetSoft is a pioneer in reporting with 5,000+ customers since 1996. The web-based platform offers the most flexible pixel-perfect reporting platform for report distribution. View a demo and try interactive examples...
How-To Create Report Metrics - 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. A Metric is a numeric column in a data worksheet, which is designed using the Asset Composer. A metric can also have a detail report associated with it, to which the end user can drill down from the Report Portal...
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InetSoft's 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. 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...
Metrics Become Very Specific - When you are getting down to the departmental level, the metrics become very specific. And sometimes they need help figuring out what those performance metrics are. Some industries like government, education, and healthcare share this kind of information, what the standard metrics they are using, because they're not in hyper-competitive marketplaces. It's a little more challenging for other businesses such as in financial services. Sometimes a key metric can be a secret way for tracking the performance of their business or their marketing campaigns, so they're reluctant to share that knowledge or methodology...
Option for a Nicereply Dashboard Solution - Looking for a good solution for Nicereply dashboard reporting? InetSoft's pioneering BI application produces great-looking dashboards that mashup customer satisfaction scores data with other data sources in your organization. Maximize self-service for business users and technical staff. View a demo and try interactive examples...
Performance Metrics Dashboard Examples - Performance metrics software is a business management tool which allows a business to keep track of all aspects of their daily activity. Software for performance metrics should allow businesses to monitor critical business processes and activities using metrics of business performance which trigger alerts when potential problems arise and when goals are met...
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Performance Scorecards Demo - InetSoft's comprehensive real-time analytical reporting and dashboard software provides user with performance scorecards that serve to monitor, measure, and manage performance by tracking metrics in real-time. View the example below to learn more about the Style Intelligence solution. Scorecarding is a proven approach for monitoring, measuring and managing performance by tracking metrics. A scorecard is a list of key performance indicators (KPIs), or metrics, that present current performance data for a business process or strategy against goals, quotas, and target trends...
Practices for Selecting KPIs - There are a few best practices I can recommend when it comes to selecting key performance indicators, or KPIs. A middle-of-the road approach between a top-down and a bottom-up approach is recommended. Some people talk about a hub-and-spoke approach to performance management, because on the one hand, you don't want to do this in silos. You don't want each department creating their own metrics which overlap or create inconsistencies with other departments...
Predictive Analytics Enterprises - Essentially it is this cross-functional use of data directed from a strategic perspective to inform decision making across the organization that makes you a truly predictive analytics enterprise. What do we mean by that? Well, for example, marketing should interact with risk and understand the profiles of potentially high risk customers. You don't necessarily want to spend money enticing high risk customers to take your product...
Process for Building a KPI Dashboard - Below is a continuation of the transcript of a Webinar hosted by InetSoft in July 2019 on the topic of Best Practices for Key Performance Indicators. The presenter is Mark Flaherty, Vice President of Marketing at InetSoft. You should start with a top-down approach, work with senior management to find out what they think the key performance indicators are. "Key" is important in order to come up with a finite number of truly important metrics. Eight to 10 is usually the right number...
Reporting Option Easily Bundled - Chris Bombei, VP of Sales & Delivery for Products at Fusion Alliance says that InetSoft's tool provided a reporting option that met their core requirements and was easily bundled within their standard software without additional cost and effort. Other deciding factors included InetSoft's 100% Java architecture, power and flexibility...
Schedule Metric Alerts - Report targets triggers allow users to schedule metric alerts at needed intervals. InetSoft's visually driven reporting software empowers executives with the tools to extract and pair information when needed. View the information below to learn more about the Style Intelligence solution...
Scorecard Metrics in Action - The foundation of a scorecard is that business does not happen in a vacuum. All aspects of a business are interconnected and all decisions permeate throughout an organization. Common scorecard metrics are chosen based on different business perspectives such as financial, customer, process, and innovation. They can measure anything from monthly turnover to the installation date of new machinery...
Simpler Management Reporting Software - Searching for an easier solution to management reporting? Managers need tools that will communicate business conditions and needs intuitively and effectively. Unlike the large BI vendors who often have a confusing array of components to choose from and configure, InetSoft's Style Intelligence offers a cost effective and easy-to-use performance management solution. With InetSoft, you'll have the necessary capabilities and flexibility, for the right price...
Steps for Creating a Scorecard - Every organization has a set of key metrics. These measurements can be used to monitor your performance, and help identify areas that warrant further investigation. These metrics can be defined at an enterprise level, and then viewed in a concise scorecard. Creating a target involves the following steps. Select a Metric. A metric can be selected from the list of available metrics, and it serves as the source of data when the condition is evaluated...
Take on a Data Analytics Problem - When preparing to take on a data analytics problem, start by asking, what is it that you are really trying to do and how do you really think you are going to answer the real problem at hand, rather than kind of a naïve interpretation of the problem. And for example, when I say I want to forecast inventory levels, anybody who does physical forecasting understands that a forecast is by definition incorrect...
Track Dashboards or Reports Created - Most BI software provides that type of metric reporting, how many people log in each day, time spent, dashboards or reports created, et cetera. And it is a useful KPI best practice for finding your power users and your laggards. You can now even ask you power users to mentor the laggards. Still the process-change approach is necessary to ensure adoption. That means making the tool the required common language at weekly departmental and monthly business review meetings...
Tracking Key Performance Indicators In Human Resources - Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are business metrics that are used to track an organization's performance. InetSoft is a business intelligence software provider who makes dashboard and reporting software that is most often used to track business performance, comparing actuals to forecast or target. In general no software application is going to provide KPI's ready-to-use, since KPI's are metrics that are often derived from formulae that are specific to an enterprise in many cases, and in all cases the data that make up the KPI need to be mapped into the software application...
Visual Report Scorecard Targets - Report scorecard targets allow users to effectively handle and discern key metrics through InetSoft's visually driven reporting software. View the information below to learn more about the Style Intelligence solution. A scorecard consists of one or more targets. 'Target' is the collective name given to a metric, its trigger, and the data condition. A Target facilitates the management and evaluation of a metric...