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21st Century Business Intelligence Industry Trends - Business Intelligence is one of the fastest growing forms of technology in the 21st century. From advanced analytic capabilities, to the promise and potential of Big Data, BI is becoming a topic of interest among businesspeople of both technical and non-technical backgrounds. The implementation of BI in companies at all levels has increased the return on business decisions, enhancing customer service and helping organizations become more efficient. As an industry leader, InetSoft has been enormously successful in keeping up with industry needs, offering a complete business intelligence tool. With its intuitive visualization, efficient reporting and data mashup abilities, it has provided businesses in all industries with a modern and up-to-date solution. Currently, the business intelligence industry is seeing climbing trends in four major aspects, all of which are an integral part of InetSoft's Style Intelligence...
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Award Winning Business Intelligence Leader - What do you get when you combine eight developers choice awards, top ivy-league staff, executive management hailing from several fortune 500 companies, and an entrepreneurial spirit that has endured for over fifteen years? InetSoft's Style Intelligence is a full-featured business intelligence solution that is 100% Java at the server level, and HTML, JavaScript, and browser-based at the client level. That, combined with its SOA architecture and open standards-based technology, makes for an ideal embedding and integration-ready application for dashboards and reporting. End-users get visually compelling, highly interactive access to data, while solution providers get a highly customizable, easy to learn and quick to deploy business intelligence toolset and information delivery platform. Style Intelligence is...
Benefits of Business Intelligence Success Stories - Read about the benefits of business intelligence. Hear how organizations are using business intelligence solutions. Some provide their managers performance management dashboarding. Others use data mashup technology to combine disparate data sources to provide comprehensive dashboard reporting. All of them leverage InetSoft's business intelligence technology to derive intelligence from their data. Nebraska Educational Service Unit #1 selected InetSoft's business intelligence software. The state organized support agency uses InetSoft's Style Scope business intelligence application to gain advanced analytics and reporting on student performance and programs run by the special education department. Style Scope is an edition of the InetSoft business intelligence software application, Style Intelligence, that allows organizations to gain better insight from their operational data stores and data warehouses using interactive, web-based analytical and monitoring dashboards and drillable, flexibly designed reports...
BI Platform Features - If you've ever felt like you need a business intelligence platform just to go about choosing the right BI platform, you're not alone. With countless options on the market and new players frequently entering the space, it can be overwhelming to compare features and pricing to nail down the best one. You'll also find that many business intelligence tools make similar product promises with different phrasing, making the process all the more confusing. You can cut through the sales lingo by focusing on the following six BI examples that are essential for choosing a great BI platform. It takes an investment of time and money to implement a business intelligence solution for your business. With the right platform, you'll only have to make that investment once. Search for a solution that will scale with your business-not only in terms of your growth, but also in terms of the size of your data and the variety of functions your users will be coming from. Cloud-based solutions, in particular, make it easier to add users and data streams as your needs grow more complex...
BI Software Companies - Looking for business intelligence software companies to evaluate? Read articles about InetSoft's BI software, why 5,000 enterprises have selected InetSoft since 1996. Business intelligence is a really hot market. I have been watching this market for close to fifteen years, and I don't think I have ever seen as much interest, as much curiosity, and as much realization that this is no longer a luxury, that business intelligence is no longer a nice-to-have environment and a set of applications, but it's a must. It’s a key for survival. And here are the reasons for it. Among other reasons, we obviously look at ever increasing data volumes that are coming from both inside the enterprises and outside of the enterprises, including the new huge data volumes of social data that just keeps growing by leaps and bounds, and whereas a few years ago, you could analyze your departmental and even some corporate data, especially in smaller enterprises, just by using spreadsheets or desktop-based applications today...
Business Intelligence as a Service - 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. There are many business intelligence reporting tools on the market today. In order to be effective, a BI program must have a user interface which communicates past, present, and predictive views of an organization in a clear and customizable way. BI has made a shift in recent years. The BI analyses which were once a function of specialists and IT personnel are now the tasks of many employees across various departments. These new users are less technically oriented, so they require an interface that is more intuitive; one which can be mastered with a minimum of training...
Business Intelligence Customers - AgKnowledge is an industry leading cloud-based agribusiness SaaS solution for medium and small fresh fruit and vegetable producers and distributors. Its business intelligence tool is a rebranded version of InetSoft's. Called AgKnowledge Harvest, it is a powerful platform for reporting all of your business data. With AgKnowledge Harvest you have access to customized reports and dashboards to display and analyze data in real-time. Download reports in multiple formats and schedule reports to have them emailed directly to users on a regular basis. Assembly is a school management system designed specifically for New Zealand schools. Its administrative and student portals offer interactive dashboards for student data exploration and precisely formatted reports for parents, school boards, and the Ministry of Education. This web-based system is currently being used by over 430 New Zealand schools. It was released to schools in 2010 and offers an integrated solution for a number of services that schools need - student data management, accounts receivable, planning and assessment, Ministry of Education requirements, pastoral care, attendance, behavioral management, powerful reporting, just to name a few....
Business Intelligence Vendors in the US - As a growth oriented industry with a sometimes overwhelming number of vendors and solutions, the BI marketplace is filled with distinct ideas and designs made to fit emerging business needs in unique ways. InetSoft delivers a powerful BI platform that surpasses expectations on multiple needs in comparison to its competitors. With a robust data mashup engine and agile tools for both reporting and dashboarding, InetSoft stands above other offerings such as Tableau, Qlikview, and MicroStrategy. Good business intelligence software is competitive in all desired characteristics, such as analytic capabilities, deployment efficiency, and pricing. This comparison of eight popular BI tools in the market shows how InetSoft achieves a good standing on all features, and in many cases goes above and beyond industry standards...
Corporate Performance Management Webinar - Welcome everyone. We are so pleased to have you here today to hear about the latest techniques to improve corporate performance management, what we are calling an intelligent pursuit, business intelligence. As you all know, the CFO is the steward of his or her companys financial data, is likely closer to it, and understands it better than anyone else. 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. And this leader, of course, is the CFO. He or she is entrusted with the duty to ensure the extensive collection, dissemination, and analysis of enterprise data for decision making purposes. This ability to provide such business intelligence quickly and accurately is a competitive advantage for the companies that efficiently attend to the task, improving overall corporate performance and shareholder & owner value...
Effective Business Intelligence Performance Management - So if you look at effective deployment of business intelligence performance management software, it has to be aligned within those business processes. That means the strategy has to be inserted into the DNA of these business processes. That's number one. Number two is organizations in the last years have increasingly focused on growth. Remember how in past recessions a lot of focus is on cost control. Now, the focus again is on growth. And growth really happens through innovations called business network transformation. Business network transformation is happening with many products, and the pace of change is ever increasing. To give you some quantifiable examples, a new acquisition is happening at every 20 minutes, and a new product is launched every 3.5 minutes. Really to be sustainable advantage there needs to be a business model or network change...
Enterprise BI Solutions - 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. 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...
How to Achieve More Agile Business Intelligence -This is obviously a hot topic today. We're hearing all about agile in the context of business and the context of BI and a whole variety of contexts. The term certainly sounds attractive, but what does it mean and how do you get it? There is old business phrase, 'who changes fastest wins,' and that encapsulates why agility is attractive. If you look at changes, it is possible to think in terms of having four layers where we should be concerned about change because changes in those layers are quite different. First, there's a whole business eco system which is the global economy. This includes things happening on an international level whether wars or earthquakes or whatever can impact a business either in a small way or in a very large way either for a small period of time or a larger period of time. Then there's the eco system of your business, the sector of the economy in which you operate, and that is subject to its own context. Possibly more than ever, your marketplace has become very competitive. Does it have entrants from adjacent sectors, and in general how is that sector doing...
InetSoft Management - Co-founder of InetSoft Technology, Larry Liang provides strategic and technical leadership that has guided InetSoft to become the innovation leader among business intelligence vendors. With a combination of leading edge research and mission critical development experience, Mr. Liang is the driving force behind the creation of InetSoft Technology's award winning software solutions. Mr. Liang brings a history of design innovation and development leadership to InetSoft, based on over 15 years of large-scale mission critical development experience in diverse technical arenas at global technology leaders. Before founding InetSoft, he served as a research scientist at Bell Communications Research (now Telcordia), and was involved in the early research of e-commerce and interactive Web technologies. In his career, Mr. Liang held various technical positions at Bell Labs, AT&T, and Lucent Technologies. Mr. Liang graduated from New York University with a Masters degree in Computer Science...
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Launching a Business Intelligence Project - Launching a business intelligence (BI) project is much like any other project in that its success relies on your ability to accurately identify requirements and provide a means of fulfilling them. In addition to following standard project management protocol, use the tips below to ensure your business intelligence projects success. Early on, you'll want to identify all stakeholders and BI requirements. Your stakeholders will have a number of concerns, opinions, and expectations that you need to be aware of. Identifying stakeholders, their concerns, and business intelligence requirements early is crucial in both obtaining stakeholder buy-in and in ultimately selecting the right business intelligence solution. Next, identify how BI can support and align with corporate strategy. If you are unclear about the company's goals and objectives, your business intelligence project will have trouble supporting them. Make sure that you are crystal clear on the strategy as a whole along with any related strategy-driven requirements...
Positive Results From Successful Business Intelligence Projects - This article continues with a discussion of the positive results from a successful business intelligence project. Executives and management consultants agree that effective business process management involves pushing day-to-day decisions down to the line-of-business operations managers. This level of BI supports that by giving them access to information and tools that help them make decisions that improve the performance of their business. The chief benefit of moving operating decisions to this level is that it improves the quality and speed of the decisions. Making that move through new business intelligence can lead to several business benefits. For example, you can increase revenue by using BI to create a more effective product mix, optimize distribution techniques or find better marketing partners. Business intelligence(BI) can enable you to manage target marketing programs better by being able to measure the responsiveness of various segments and recalibrating more quickly and precisely as you react to changes in demand...
Problems with Traditional BI Solutions - What are some of the problems with traditional BI solutions? Everyone knows the rewards from good business intelligence is that the quicker you are able to find problems or opportunities by analyzing your data, then the more chances you have to stand out and outmaneuver your competition? Since time is a factor, then the agility of your BI application comes into play. In other words, how do you use the time to find the insight as a competitive advantage, and how do you enable your business users to act faster? Traditional BI solutions have been inflexible to changing data needs and changing user requirements. Another area is self-service. If we look at traditional BI applications, they still haven't delivered on the promise of BI for the masses. According to analyst research reports, the number of people that are using BI in their organization on average is around 3% to 8%. So analytics is still the domain of analysts and not business users. Business users have found those traditional BI tools too complicated to use...
Risk Management Reporting Case Study - 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. Protecht.ERM is Protecht's flagship enterprise risk management software and has been provided as Software as a Service (SaaS) since inception in 2002. Used by government agencies, regulators, financial service providers, fund managers, entertainment and retail companies, Protecht.ERM allows organizations to seamlessly integrate risk management into their day to day activities and obtain operating efficiencies through its flexible forms and workflow engine. Organizations can rapidly deploy and collaborate anywhere on risk and control assessments, compliance, key risk indicators, incident capture, compliance breaches, audits and more...
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Robust Business Intelligence Leader - 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. Application highlights include visually-compelling and interactive dashboards that ensure greater end-user adoption plus pixel-perfect report generation, scheduling, and bursting. InetSofts patent pending Data Block technology enables productive reuse of queries and a unique capability for end-user defined data mashup. This capability, combined with efficient information access enabled by InetSoft's visual analysis technologies, allows maximum self-service that benefits the average business user, the IT administrator, and the developer. InetSoft solutions have been deployed at over 5,000 organizations worldwide, including 25% of Fortune 500 companies, spanning all types of industries...
Self Service Case Study - INCN is the national leader in cost management for out-ofnetwork claims and network enhancement. NCN uses cost-based data and transparent reporting to maximize savings on healthcare claims. NCN's technology solutions are powerful, data-driven tools, which achieve rational, cost-based reimbursements and their services aid in controlling costs on more than $2 billion of healthcare claims each year. Last year, NCN initiated a search for a more efficient internal reporting solution, and researched several business intelligence vendors before selecting InetSoft's Style Intelligence. Among the deciding factors in NCN's selection were simplified query creation, ease of use, drag-and-drop interface, automated reporting, and visualization dashboards. Over the course of a decade, NCN accumulated over 1.5 million rows of data for internal reporting on a relational database, and used a relational database management system (RDBMS) to access their data. In order to create internal reports from the database, the Business Intelligence (BI) Manager had to spend approximately three to four hours daily researching, writing, and executing SQL queries. After extracting the appropriate data, the BI Manager was then tasked with several more hours of analysis and ultimately placing the data into a suitable format for presentation and distribution...
Visualizing Business Intelligence Needs - Now the way I visualize the needs for a business intelligence solution is illustrated by this little chart here. What I'm trying to impart with this is that a team lead would probably have fewer BI needs than the person managing several team leads. The person managing several team leads has fewer requirements than the person managing several people who manage team leads, right. The executives would have the most business intelligence needs. Now if we flip it though, and we then take a look at the level of detail needed by position, it is flipped. A team leader that has five people reporting to him, that team leader needs to be able to look at detailed records about those five people. He needs to be able to identify trends and patterns. He needs to see particular things about an individual employee. A lower manager may be looking at the performance of each team. Up at the top right here we are looking at details. So this is the highest level of detail, and as we go down, we are looking at lower levels of detail. At the executive level you think the executive has time to read to every single detail report from a defect report...