Looking to DIY Your BI?

Are you trying to decide between hiring a BI consultant, building your own dashboards, or even creating a homegrown BI solution? Creating a BI program from scratch can be difficult, expensive, and time consuming, but can also be tailored to your needs in a way that a commercial solution may not be.

On the other hand, consultants can be very expensive, and often have a hard time understanding your organizations data and what it means. The middle of the road solution is to use a BI program that makes it simple enough to construct desired dashboards and reports, while at the same time providing the flexibility that a homegrown solution would offer.

InetSoft’s Style Intelligence is that solution. InetSoft offers accessible BI tools for dashboards, analysis, and reporting. These tools are simple and easy to use for all skill levels, from standard business users to tech-savvy IT professionals.

Compared to traditional BI solutions that are generally complex and difficult to administer, InetSoft guarantees ease of use for everyone while still providing powerful, flexible solutions for all of your company's informational and analytic needs.

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Is DIY BI Going to be Too Difficult?

The primary concern most business users have with creating their own dashboards and reports is that the BI program would be too difficult to use for those without the proper skills. Of course, “doing it yourself” without a technical background can make it more difficult to understand the types of data presented, and you may not completely understand the scripting that can be necessary for many BI programs.

InetSoft’s software meets any and all visualization needs by enabling the easy assembly of dashboards and reports that present information in simple and readable terms. No scripting is required for standard functions; instead, dashboards are assembled with easy-to-use drag and drop functionality. These tools can create visualizations which help to make the data exploration process more fluid, more rapid, and more embedded into every aspect of your business.

By creating your own interactive dashboards and data visualizations through any of InetSoft’s BI solutions, you will be getting effective and easy insights the way that you want them delivered. Not having to rely on the often slow process of IT development lets you get these important informational insights quickly, allowing your organization to market new products and services faster, quickly adapting to changing requirements. Business costs can be reduced, and overall business processes can be improved and run more smoothly.

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Homegrown Solutions vs InetSoft’s BI Solutions

Homegrown BI solutions developed from scratch are another option often considered. These have flexibility that most BI products do not, and if done properly,are the most cost effective way to go. By making your own BI program from scratch and having it work, you would understand that program inside-out and be able to utilize it with maximum efficiency.

But creating your own solution is also very risky. It’s time consuming; engineers can expect to commit a lot of time each day for months, and sometimes years. And without enough technical experience, the BI solution that results often doesn't present data in a meaningful way that can represent immediate solutions or anything actionable for your organization. Inability to create value from a homegrown solution can create frustration within your organization and results in a large loss of resources that were invested into development for that program. This is not uncommon; statistically, 60% of homegrown BI solutions fail to meet expectations.

InetSoft offers a way to save a massive amount of time over developing your own BI solution, and provides a system that can give you easily organized, aesthetically pleasing visualizations. InetSoft’s data visualization capabilities allow the average user to build their own analyses and dashboards based on live data from a variety of sources, where other solutions require hours of IT development and are limited in their capacity to combine data sets. Data Mashup between different sources is also an option, in fact, any number of data sources can be combined in real-time.

With flexible licensing options as well, InetSoft's solution is affordable for organizations of any size. By choosing InetSoft, you get the flexibility of a homegrown solution, but with fast report building and limitless options to fit your needs. You'll have an efficient solution which saves time, hassle, and the risk over creating your own BI solution, but avoiding the delay and expense of hiring a BI consultant.

“Flexible product with great training and support. The product has been very useful for quickly creating dashboards and data views. Support and training has always been available to us and quick to respond. - George R, Information Technology Specialist at Sonepar USA

About InetSoft

Since 1996 InetSoft has been delivering easy, agile, and robust business intelligence software that makes it possible for organizations and solution providers of all sizes to deploy or embed full-featured business intelligence solutions. Application highlights include visually-compelling and interactive dashboards that ensure greater end-user adoption plus pixel-perfect report generation, scheduling, and bursting.

InetSoft's patent pending Data Block technology enables productive reuse of queries and a unique capability for end-user defined data mashup. This capability combined with efficient information access enabled by InetSoft's visual analysis technologies allows maximum self-service that benefits the average business user, the IT administrator, and the developer. InetSoft solutions have been deployed at over 5,000 organizations worldwide, including 25% of Fortune 500 companies, spanning all types of industries.