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Aligned with Business Intelligence - Now if we take one step deeper into idea of competing with business analytics, we look at what we saw in the CIO priorities survey, that the priorities are aligned with business intelligence, but within that, there is often a discrepancy between the priorities of the business versus the CIO. For example, we see that the CIO's number one...
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Articles About a Visualization Product - This is a table of contents of useful product information about, and benefits of, InetSoft's visualization capabilities built into its business intelligence software for dashboards, reporting, and analytics: Advanced Visualization - Now let's talk about advanced visualization. This one is really about time to insight. Or showing us what is beneath the tip of the iceberg. At the tip of the iceberg, that's where the BI industry does really well, answering the bread and butter questions such as what are my sales by customer or even time period analysis. What are my sales by customer this year versus last year? But where the BI industry lags in general is answering...
Automatic Report Refreshing - The createReport() method is called whenever a request to generate a report is received in the repository. If a replet needs to change the report contents within an event handling code, it needs to inform the repository to refresh the report...
BI SaaS Provider Support - InetSoft Technology (www.inetsoft.com), an innovator in dashboard, reporting and analysis solutions, today announced a new release of its business intelligence software featuring many improvements aimed at SaaS providers who embed dashboards and reports into their applications. Application providers will enjoy greater customization options while streamlining administration tasks associated with supporting large customer bases...
BI Tools in Place - 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...
Business Intelligence Company Introduction - Looking for an introduction to business intelligence? InetSoft is a BI software provider, and here you can view demos, see customer examples, and read articles explaining the basics of BI and best practices for implementing successful business intelligence. Try Our Risk Free Business Intelligence Offer: Maximum Self-Service for Business and Technical Users Real-Time Monitoring and Analytical Dashboards Powered by a Data Transformation and Mashup Engine Explore the Live BI Dashboard Gallery...
Clutter in the Business Intelligence Marketplace - We are sure you agree there's a tremendous amount of clutter in the business intelligence marketplace, dozens if not hundreds of companies offering solutions or services. Some of the more established players seek to put up barriers to democratization of information and the intelligence to be gained from it. In some cases they make their solutions so complex and expensive in order to perpetuate an aura of "to be good, it has to be expensive and complex...
Competitor to Tableau - Deciding whether or not Tableau is a suitable business intelligence product to help serve your enterprise? Consider InetSoft's easy, agile and robust BI solution, Style Intelligence. InetSoft's BI software application benefits business-end users with superior capabilities and more flexibility than what Tableau has to offer...
Customers in Business Intelligence - Hillcrest's use of Style Intelligence is quite pervasive across sales, purchasing, payroll production, operations, and accounts receivable. Dozens of dashboards and reports have been built unifying data across a myriad of systems from an AS/400 to Access DBs. In some cases Style Intelligence serves as the primary information retrieval method. From just one use case in operations, it is estimated that over 500 man hours are saved every year with this solution by automating the collection and analysis of order and shipment data...
Data Oriented Developer - Disadvantages of ETL include: you must be a data oriented developer or database analyst to use not ideal for near real-time or on-demand data access, where fast response is required takes months to put into place difficult to keep up with changing requirements...
Directions of Mobile BI - So let me just finish off this part of the presentation then by talking about some of the future directions of mobile BI. Almost all of your new BI reports and dashboards will be developed primarily for mobile devices within the next 12 months. So there will clearly be a strong commitment from those organizations to make towards Mobile BI platforms. A lot of companies will rewrite existing reports and dashboards for the optimal usage on mobile devices within the next year. So that means they will take their key BI assets that they have and tweak them so they are more effective in the mobile world...
Discuss Business Intelligence Strategy - If you look at what BI vendors focused initially with their business intelligence tools, they were primarily focused on query and reporting to understand what happened in the past. The second generation of business intelligence solutions evolved into more visual analysis capabilities and data mining to understand why things happened and make recommendations for future action...
Embedded BI Solution - One option for these providers is to embed or OEM an already marketed BI application into their own software. However, providers who do this will want to use a dashboard tool that can blend into their own product seamlessly, absorbing the look and feel of the parent application. Enter InetSoft's Style Intelligence, a white-label friendly business intelligence platform featuring an open standards, java-based API which can be embedded into on premise solutions, existing cloud software, or even company web portals...
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Equip Your Users with Mobile BI - When you hear the phrase "BI and mobility solutions," what do you think of? Is it possible? How is it done? InetSoft's operational business intelligence platform, Style Intelligence, is mobile friendly, supported on iPhones, iPads, and Android-based tablets. With InetSoft's solution, you can design a mobile-optimized dashboard that has the same data mashup, querying, and transformation layer as the desktop version. This design-one, deploy everywhere approach allows you to easily equip your users with mobile BI...
Evaluate InetSoft's BI as a Service Offering - Are you looking for an option for BI as a service? Business intelligence pioneer InetSoft's cloud-based platform offers maximum self-service, personalized dashboards, data mashups. Create great-looking web-based analyses and reports with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop designer. Get personalized mentoring services included for free. View a demo and try interactive examples...
Intelligent Geographic Information Systems - Geographic business intelligence software such as InetSoft's allows enterprises to build complete intelligent geographic information systems and deploy GIS functionality across the enterprise. The ability to link location to other critical information in the business decision-making processes is attracting customers from a wide variety of industries. These kind of BI applications provide quick access to digital maps that can contain multiple layers of information...
Key to BI Software - InetSoft offers BI software for dashboards, analysis, and reporting that is easy, agile, and robust. InetSoft's flagship product, Style Intelligence, includes highly interactive and visually compelling interfaces and a sophisticated charting engine for multi-dimensional visual analysis, scorecards, and KPI dashboards. Key benefits include: Utilize existing data directly, realize immediate return on investment Gradually introduce more self-service without disruptions Share information among operational users, power users, and executives...
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Make Sense of This Data - Now more than ever, the pressure is on to make sense of this data, to derive insight from it and define meaning in the numbers that help drive profitable business growth and avoid risky blunders. To do that well, to have the time to do it effectively, to find the answers that will help move the business forward, the Finance Department needs to be a well-oiled machine with a thoughtful leader...
Make Successful BI Initiatives - The fourth sign that you don't have a BI strategy is if your BI team, if you have a BI team, if they can't articulate what the business strategy is. It's a sure sign that you don't have a business intelligence strategy because the business intelligence strategy should be directly tied to what your organization's strategy is. And finally, there should be metrics around your BI strategy that align with your organization's strategy...
Offering One of the Best BI Options - Looking for the best BI products? InetSoft offers business intelligence software for dashboards, reporting and mashups that can be easily deployed and used. View a demo and read customer reviews. Central BI and Analytics Team - The central BI and analytics team has a lot of visibility into the different data sets people are using and how they are building their worksheets or dashboards because they are able to see what's popular, what's not, what maybe is coming from sanctioned sources versus we call more unsanctioned sources. They can keep a good eye on things. So it's enabling people to continue to explore their data...
Rapid Prototyping of BI Applications - So sometimes it's hard to develop BI applications when you don't really know what's possible and rapid prototyping is one way for the business to visualize and to give feedback on whether or not the solution is on target. Beyond that, using some agile development techniques is a help. With agile development techniques, instead of the business having to write out a long list of requirements, what happens is the team is jointly staffed by business and IT experts and instead, it's more a prototyping and collaborative development environment. And this way, it's easier for the business to give feedback and say, "Well, that's not really what I wanted" or "here is how I would change it, and then it would meet my needs...
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Spark Certification of the InetSoft Platform - "We are thrilled to announce the certification of the InetSoft platform. With the increasing demand for agile and robust business intelligence solutions, enterprises using Spark can leverage a BI platform with proven experience across verticals to deploy or embed full-featured business intelligence solutions," said John Tripier, Alliance and Ecosystem lead at Databricks. "It's a natural combination of technologies for taking advantage of Big Data opportunities," comments Mark Flaherty, Chief Marketing Officer at InetSoft. "Spark reduces the complexities around making Big Data usable, and InetSoft's Style Intelligence reduces the complexities around performing and sharing analytics...
Story About an Enterprise Risk Solution - The Protecht Group is a leader in Enterprise Risk Solutions providing advanced training, advisory and risk management software solutions to its diverse client base. As part of their push to remain a leader in technology solutions, Protecht partnered with InetSoft in 2010 to integrate the InetSoft Business Intelligence application into Protecht.ERM to enable stunning visualization of data captured in Protecht.ERM...
Strategic Key Performance Goals - Key performance goals are the important, strategic final and intermediate outcomes that management sets for either overall corporate performance, or for departmental performance. Examples could be higher sales or higher customer satisfaction. After the goals are set, then organizations track the progress of their efforts towards these goals by monitoring the key performance indicators or KPI, the numbers that measure the current level of the metric associated with the goal...
Supercharging Data Mashup Engine - AWS users get supercharging data mashup engine and easy-to-use visualization designer. Installable directly from the marketplace into an organization's Amazon environment, the application can connect to Amazon RDS, Redshift, MySQL, and other data sources. Its primary limitation is a limit of two simultaneous users. In terms of functionality, the enterprise administration...
Superior Business Performance - So what drives these business performance benefits? As I said, one of the factors that we see consistently is its superior business performance is closely living to the use of BI. That is, all of the things being equal, we often find the company that use BI motives basically to have better business performance. Those top performance companies that have experienced the most dramatic gains and profitability in sales performance and in customer service are twice as likely to have dashboards deployed to the frontline employees. These are the people that we expect to find in function such as sales, in customer service and in marketing, for example...
Take Advantage of Information Management - So today's event I think is really an important way to help you understand how to take advantage of information management and business intelligence tools, and we're going to have a great event where we're actually going to demo some of these capabilities. Also just a couple things before we get started, I want to urge you to take advantage of a couple of features on your console that are very important...
Teach Performance Measures - When we teach performance measures, and we have classes on that as well, we go through this kind of a logic model framework to tie those measures to the strategic objectives but in a logical way. Take technology. The process measure is procurement. Output is how many requisitions did I process? The intermediate outcome is how many hours did I spend? How many fewer hours? But what I am really interested in is did I increase work efficiency. So if you apply this kind of logical thinking to your performance measures, you will get much richer measures...
Terrific Tool for Developing Reports - This is a table of contents of useful reporting dashboard information related to InetSoft's Style Report Enterprise. Its features are included in InetSoft's flagship business intelligence software for dashboards, reporting, and analytics - Style Intelligence...
Toggl Time Tracking Dashboarding Application - Looking for a good solution for Toggl dashboarding? InetSoft's pioneering BI application produces great-looking dashboards that mashup time tracking data with other enterprise data sources. View a demo and try interactive examples. InetSoft's technology is very well-suited for deployment in a cloud environment, whether it be an OEM scenario or an internal enterprise deployment...
Tool for Creating a Scorecard - A scorecard is a business intelligence tool used to record an organization's strategic business model and implement it into the daily agenda. The scorecard sets the stage for future business goals and lays out a plan of attack to reach them. When creating a scorecard, a business and its employees are evaluated to identify opportunities for improvement. Balanced scorecards provide a framework for how a business should be run and enable stakeholders to monitor their expectations...
User-friendly CRM Reporting Tools - Searching for the best reporting tool for your Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software? CRM software is crucial to the decision-making processes of businesses, as it allows a business to manage company interactions with past, present, and future customers. In order to increase revenue, a company must foster effective marketing strategies based on the CRM reports and ensure end initiatives that are performing poorly. However, in order to do that it is critical to have an application implemented that allows for the easy understanding and interpretation of the CRM data...
Various Benefits of Business Intelligence - Below you will find articles having to do with the benefits of business intelligence. Read about how people are using InetSoft's BI software to increase their speed of decision-making and access to information. Understanding Corporate Business Intelligence Applications - Looking for a good corporate business intelligence application? InetSoft is a pioneer in dashboard reporting, and our platform includes a powerful, flexible data mashup engine for generating complete views of corporate performance. View a demo and try interactive examples...
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Visibly Tracking 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...
Visual Distribution Channel Dashboard - As you can see, dashboards are powerful tools for doing just that. The sample dashboard provided tracks many key performance indicators in a highly visual and digestible manner. The heat map on the top left emphasizes at a glance the important information of where in-stock levels are better and where they are worse. Continuing on, the heat map on the right illustrates weeks of supply which further isolates the most important markets to address...
Way to Visualize Common KPMs - To visualize how some common KPM's can be charted and analyzed in InetSoft's application look at the example screenshot to the right...
Web-based Solution for KPI Tracking - Searching for a solution for tracking KPIs in a balanced scorecard? InetSoft's dashboarding software is easy to deploy and easy to use. View a demo and download a free evaluation. Custom Analytic Dashboard - The power to chart your course is in your hands with InetSoft's Custom Analytic Dashboard. Get down to the essence of your data, view the connections you missed before, or create your own. Custom analytic dashboards make your job a whole lot easier. In the 'Separate Graph...
Webinar on the Usage of Mobile BI - This allows for new scenarios for usage of mobile BI to grow. Users no longer need to be connected to a specific solution as they did before. For example, now retail floor personnel customizing an order for a specific car can go stay on the floor while working on this job. The same goes for some a sales consultant who needs to look into some new designs and specifically alter it on the go...
Which Weekly Business Reporting Tools - Weekly reports are vital for the regular monitoring and control of business conditions. But in many cases, the production of weekly reports puts additional demands on administrators and employees. And with so much business travel and work done out in the field, report accessibly and deliverability can also be an issue. Our solution, Style Intelligence, makes the setting up and delivery of weekly reports easy and efficient...
Zero Client White-Label Dashboards - Are you looking to enhance your existing software offering with customizable dashboards and reports? Many enterprise software providers, while being experts in their specific industry areas, do not have the time or expertise to include truly robust visual analytics in their applications...