InetSoft Product Information: Thin Client Reporting

The InetSoft Enterprise architecture boasts a feature-rich solution for thin client reporting:

• Highly configurable server components make integration with existing systems or third party application servers easy.

• Pure Java based server reporting API gives full power to the developer, eliminating the need to use a restrictive proprietary script language.

• Easy to use API removes the tedious report building process found in traditional reporting tools.

• Distributed object design fits easily in modern multi-tier architectures.

• Open Standards based architecture allows maximum compatibility with third party tools and future technologies.

• Building distributed event handling simplifies developing sophisticated interactive reports.

• Demand loading of pages reduces network traffic.

View a five-minute Flash demo to get an overview of what InetSoft's business intelligence software, Style Intelligence, can do and how easy it is to use.

 

 

 

 

 

Ease of Maintenance and Administration

The ease of maintenance and administration is an important requirement. To facilitate low cost maintenance of the server components, we use standard XML to store all structured configuration data and use standard property files to store simple configuration data. An Enterprise Manager servlet provides a web-based interface to the InetSoft environment. The Enterprise Manager facilitates the following typical administration tasks:

• Administration of XML configuration files and standard property files.

• Starting and stopping of server components, whether they are servlet, RMI or CORBA.

• Administration of scheduled tasks, as well as the starting and stopping of the schedule server.

• Administration of report Archiving capabilities.

• Packaging, deployment and registration of reports in the InetSoft server.

• Administration of users and groups defined in the default security provider.

Since all config files are text based, they can also be modified in regular plain text editors.

InetSoft Viewpoint

A cornerstone of InetSoft's agile BI functionality is the direct data access and enterprise data mashup engine built with InetSoft's patent-pending Data Block technology. Enterprises can more easily combine data from data warehouses, operational databases, and spreadsheet sources to be able to see a detailed, unified view of the performance of whatever business function they wish, as well as high-level view of all of the organization’s key metrics. Another level of agility is gained because no ETL process or data warehouse is necessary to aggregate operational data. But if ETL processes and data warehouse are used, InetSoft's application facilitates quick and easy experimentation with new dashboards or reports using new data models which can later be codified in ETL processes when ready. Among the dozens of other feature enhancements available in this release are: • Report table design gets more drag-and-drop and fine-tuned control capabilities • Dashboards can automatically calculate popular business formulas such as running totals, moving averages, period-over-period changes • Intelligent automatic query trap handling for more reliable ad hoc reporting • Greater control and customization for dashboards and visualizations • Automated scheduler improvements to do things such as email or archive dashboard snapshots, or to send alerts based on more complex calculations or thresholds • New offline dashboard and report viewing options • Upgraded SAP connectivity is now supported out-of-the-box • More flexible administration of nodes in clustered environments “We have been championing agile BI for several years,” points out Mark Flaherty, Chief Marketing Officer at InetSoft. “In fact, we added it to our tagline ‘Agile. Easy. Robust.’ three years ago. Now it seems to be an area of focus in BI everywhere, which is gratifying to see. It continues to guide our product development as you can see in the advances noted today

 

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