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G2 Crowd recently compared InetSoft Style Intelligence with Actuate's BIRT solution. InetSoft outranked BIRT in every category.

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Choosing Style Intelligence over Actuate's BIRT

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InetSoft won all of the general usage ratings - Meets Requirements, Ease of Use, Quality of Support, Ease of Doing Business With, and Product Direction. The speed with which dashboards and reports can be churned out has been a great reason for reviewers to recommend Style Intelligence. InetSoft also scored big under Quality of Support with its very responsive support staff and quick resolution of customer queries. The Product Direction parameter was also ranked favorably with the extensive "how to" reference videos on numerous topics and the mentoring service from InetSoft to kick-start an organization's efforts in the BI space.

Dashboards and Scorecards were the categories where Style Intelligence was lauded for its robustness and described as a complete and powerful go-to tool for visual data analysis. These categories were evaluated under the Reports section aimed to strengthen an organization's reporting by balancing the visual images and the reports in the right proportions to gain valuable insights into critical decisions making.

List of Areas Where InetSoft Ranked Higher than Actuate's BIRT

The detailed list of categories & parameters of how InetSoft Style Intelligence scored over BIRT is presented below. Please click here or the G2 logo to go over the individual reviews.

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  • Meets Requirements
  • Ease of Use
  • Quality of Support
  • Product Direction (% Positive)


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