InetSoft BI Webcast: Style Intelligence 10.2 Webinar - BI for ERP Applications

INTRODUCTION

Mark: Welcome everyone to InetSoft’s webinar, "What's New in InetSoft's Style Intelligence 10.2." It's our latest business intelligence software release for dashboards, reporting and mashups. My name is Mark Flaherty, and I’m head of Marketing here at InetSoft, and with me is Byron Igoe, Product Manager.

So, among the major areas you can see here we have: Monitoring and management where we’ve taken a very large step forward in terms of the kind of performance monitoring you now have at your disposal and we’ll be demoing that.

Then there’s the geographic mapping of data and this is a scenario where we really brought our capabilities up to levels where you might have only found in specialized business mapping software and we’ll be demonstrating this as well.

Third is a new term, data grid cache, which is the name for the technology that we’ve developed in 10.2 that delivers performance improvements as well as building architecture for scaling up for large amounts of data and/or large amounts of usage. And last is new access to a host of third party enterprise application data sources.

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NEW ENTERPRISE APPLICATION DATA SOURCES

So we’ll do the last one first; the list of new 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.

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InetSoft Viewpoint

"Why aren't more BI applications aren't providing a data mashup capability. There are a couple of key reasons why this not so common in BI, yet. While BI analysts are already predicting a huge market for this, why has this not happened before?

First of all, on the business end, different things have been tried before, and I think we are going towards more and more of a balance between formal and informal processes. Businesses have begun to recognize that both processes have their place, and many times there needs to be a mix and match. And people need to be given different abilities to explore those different types of data and information. The formal data side, many times was represented by the data warehouse and data mart because those are very well designed and well thought out data repositories.

Then on the informal side, obviously by definition, it is not something that will be well designed, but they happen every day in everybody's business life. How do you mix those two, it's a relatively new balance we are beginning to achieve. And before the drive was to make everything formal; jam everything into a data warehouse. More and more, people are realizing that is not going to be the case.

Second, data mashup, itself, as a standalone product, it is not very viable. You need tools on top of data mashup to be able to really explore those data assets that you are going to produce out of that process. What are the key tools we need? We need reporting. We need analysis tools. We need visualization." - Luke Liang, CEO, InetSoft

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