InetSoft: A Cost Efficient Alternative to MicroStrategy

If you are considering MicroStrategy for your BI needs, consider a more cost-effective solution: InetSoft's Style Intelligence. Style Intelligence is a web-based BI application that makes business intelligence an easy process for both IT and end-users.

Starting at $600 per user, InetSoft delivers a robust solution that can work within the budget of any organization. Alternatively MicroStrategy's entry point is a whopping $5000 per user.

InetSoft's BI solution offers advanced dashboarding and analysis, as well as traditional paginated reporting. Maximizing self-service, InetSoft's software allows regular users with no IT knowledge to create their own data mashups. MicroStrategy's software requires a heavy intervention from IT staff just to redefine data models.

Accessible from almost any device, InetSoft stands out as a web-based software application that can be accessed by an unlimited number of users, without increasing the price paid. MicroStrategy requires users to pay individual licenses just for mobile access. No business should overpay for services that can be acquired at an affordable price in a lightweight, all inclusive, robust solution.

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Read how InetSoft was rated #1 for user adoption in G2 Crowd's user survey-based index.

Why Choose InetSoft over MicroStrategy

InetSoft's data cache parallelization architecture delivers massive query performance boosts by relieving source data systems of the potential overload that occurs from excessive user queries. The architecture allows data in InetSoft's virtual data model to be cached and queried in parallel across servers. MicroStrategy offers no such feature.
InetSoft�s drag-and-drop viewsheet gives users the freedom to build any visual components into their dashboards that they'd like, with full customization capabilities. MicroStrategy implements strict rules on every dashboard element and severely restricts where each component can be placed.
Design with InetSoft takes place in a zero-client web-based environment. MicroStrategy requires a desktop application to be installed on the machine of every user who wishes to design a dashboard or report.
InetSoft deployments typically take between 1-2 weeks to launch, and requires minimal business intelligence expertise. MicroStrategy deployments often take 5-6 months, and require all users to be trained in using the software, due to it's less intuitive interface.

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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.

Read how InetSoft was rated as a top BI vendor in G2 Crowd's user survey-based index.