InetSoft Webinar: What is unified business intelligence, and how does it compare to older technologies?

Below is the trascript of a Webinar hosted by InetSoft in June 2010 on the topic of Next Generation Business Intelligence. The presenter is Mark Flaherty, Vice President of Marketing at InetSoft.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Flaherty (MF): With current BI technologies, if you look at historical analysis versus predictive analysis, for instance, they are typically totally different applications. If you look at a traditional BI solution based on data warehousing, ones using disk-based technologies versus real-time in-memory BI, where, let’s say, a trader on Wall Street, needs to make an instantaneous analysis with no time allowed whatsoever to access a database on a disk, traditionally those are a couple of examples of separate technologies where you had to install several applications and choose which tool to use, today you’re seeing more and more unification of functions in a single BI application like InetSoft's.

If you think about it, all traditional business intelligence applications, no matter how user-friendly they try to make them, no matter how powerful they try to make them, they are limited by one factor, which is the underlying database. Whatever you planned for, whatever you designed, whatever you built in the underlying database, that has been the limit of your exploration and your analysis.

Some of the new BI technologies, like InetSoft's data mashup, do not require a single rigid database structure. The software, itself, takes care of organizing disparate data sources into the necessary structure for analysis and reporting, you can truly begin to explore your data without any limitation. You can explore any relationships, any what-if scenarios, without previously having had to think about it and plan for it in your data modeling. That’s a very powerful technology.

InetSoft Viewpoint

"Style Report has been winning customers and awards for many years now. As IBRC's experience shows, we're delivering on our goal of providing very powerful business intelligence software while making it easy to deploy and use. More recently we've extended our data access and publishing technology into a complete visual analysis and dashboard solution that enterprises and ISVs are looking for in order to deploy business intelligence software that has high adoption and usage rates. The flexibility that IBRC valued in their reporting integration, we have focused on as a core differentiator, and it extends to our unique capability of end-user defined data mashup, an ability of combining disparate data sources by the business user or data analyst that delivers maximum self-service and lowers the cost of ownership for a BI solution." - Mark Flaherty, Chief Marketing Officer at InetSoft.

 

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