Enterprise Data Mashups

Taming your data jungle with the ease of drag and drop from the browser.

InetSoft offers a business intelligence platform for dashboard and reporting that includes powerful enterprise data mashup capabilities. With data mashup, disparate data sources of almost any type can be combined to produce reports and dashboards that provide new insights and create internal information management efficiencies.

Data Mashup for Combing Disparate Data Sources

InetSoft is a pioneer in data mashup and offers a unique capability of end-user defined data mashup, which means even business users can combine fields from different data sources that were not previously modeled, and even import external data sources such as spreadsheets, to create a new dashboard or report to be shared in the BI environment. The end result is maximum self-service.

Data mashup also provides technical benefits including building complex queries via a drag-and-drop query building tool. Futhermore, it enables the concept of 'agile business intelligence' whereby new data sources can quickly be added to a BI enviroment via direct connections to the operational data sources, bypassing the need for adding them to a data warehouse, or allowing experimentation before doing so.

Looking for more in-depth information on data mashups, what they are and why they help both the business and IT? Read our white paper "End-User Defined Data Mashup" for more information.

Data Mashup Applications

cross-functional dashboards
competitive analysis
compliance and risk-assessment
disaster monitoring and disaster response
external vendor reports
interdepartmental operations review
situational awareness solutions

Data Mashup Benefits

better ROI from SOA, legacy data sources and future mashups
easier sharing of information to all common user interfaces (portals, dashboards, spreadsheets, etc.)
faster access to internal and external data sources, regardless of format
increased end-user adoption and satisfaction
lowered internal reporting resource demands
reduced application development costs and risks

Data Mashup Features

mashups can be 'plugged in' to existing security infrastructure
mashups can access data sources while conforming to native security mechanisms
interactive dashboards and drillable reports can be rapidly built based on mashed up data
connectivity to Relational databases (JDBC), Multidimensional databases, XML, SOAP, Java beans (POJO), EJB beans, flat files, CORBA objects, and OLAP cubes

“There were a host of reasons for selecting InetSoft’s reporting functionality. From a functionally standpoint powerful data mashup capabilities were a pre-requisite given the unification of disparate data sources that our application performs. Beyond other technical reasons including the platform being Java-based and permitting rapid integration, InetSoft’s reporting solution stood out from others we evaluated in the area of ease-of-use.

- Thomas Hough, President of TNC

More Resources:

		Flash Demo
		Download a Free Trial
		Whitepaper: Business Case for Mashups
		Whitepaper: Mashup, Under the Hood - (registration required)