Real-Time Data Access and Mashup
Using a web-based dashboard application offers many advantages to the user, including the ability to access the most up-to-date data at any time. With data constantly changing, data even a few hours old can be out of date, and waiting on IT for complicated updates causes unnecessary delays in accomplishing tasks. This means that dashboard web apps must offer more self-service for users. As business demands increase, users can't wait for IT to make changes in data sources or wait for IT to adjust the dashboards to present new types of data or to use data in a different way.
With InetSoft's dashboard web app, data access takes place in real-time by default, which means lag time and delays waiting for complicated updates can be a thing in the past. Not having to rely so heavily on IT makes for maximum self-service, allowing users to ask unlimited questions of their data with no wait time.
Using this dashboard application, users can also access almost any database to seamlessly extract data from multiple sources at once. Information can be integrated from relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL via a JDBC driver, multidimensional databases, salesforce.com, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Hadoop/HIVE, Google Adwords and Analytics, SAP, and many more. The ability to combine and analyze data from previously disparate sources give users the ability to spot future trends and new correlations.