InetSoft's BI Application | The Alternative to Excel Charts

Executives are always on the hunt for a good alternative to Excel charts because Excel reporting styles are limited, the visualizations are primitive, and analysis is tedious.

With Excel, proficiency comes with memorizing, to the point of rote, specific formulas. In essence an Excel user needs to think in Excel code and language. This makes the program inaccessible to non-technical users who need to ask their data sets lots of nuanced and specific questions. Over the long term a business is hamstrung by Excel, where only a handful of employees have the know-how needed to get the most out of the program.

That's why InetSoft has developed the perfect visual alternative to Excel charts. Our flagship BI software, Style Intelligence, uses a sophisticated data reading structure and drag and drop technology to render charts and visuals, incorporating already existing Excel file types. This means visualizations can be experimented within a self-service environment by anyone, of any technical level, and complex dashboards update whenever the source file is changed.

Visualize Better Than Excel | Style Intelligence

To visualize charts, Excel demands the user enter their own, often complicated and tedious, formula instructions that fall apart if even a single cell of information is formulated out of order when the user is entering the code. To contrast, Style Intelligence automates the formula, literally reading the spreadsheet and building the charts for you, and responding correctly without user mathematic input, every time, with every available cell included.

Graphs and charts have hidden results that are unlocked with an interactive technology called "Tooltip." Hovering the cursor over any plot point on a chart will display specific data, relations, and aggregations.

And with a deep reservoir of visual options, Style Intelligence allows an incredible level of fine tuning. But the key to its strength is highly flexible interactivity. Highlighting data, zooming in on charts, excluding data sets, selection lists and drop down menus that uniformly modify visuals live during presentations, all come built into the product.

All of this together makes a business's reports much more accurate and presentable than what a simple spreadsheet software such as Excel is capable of producing.