InetSoft Technology: Business Intelligence Evaluation Guide

InetSoft's business intelligence software is packaged for different applications with various components. The following table identifies the available components for different packages.

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Evaluation Guide Topics

This guide covers the following topics:

Configuring the Business Intelligence Software

This section explains how to configure Style Intelligence to use the sample data sources in the examples.

Data Modeling

This section introduces the Data Modeler, which you will use to connect to data sources, and to create queries and data models.

Data Manipulation & Mash-up

This section presents the Asset Composer, a graphical interface that you will use to combine data from different sources into unified Data Blocks.



Visual Exploration

This section presents the Visual Composer, a powerful tool for creating rich exploratory dashboards that provide instant feedback and unfettered exploration.

Structured Reporting

This section walks you through the basics of production-grade report design and deployment using the Report Designer and the Style Intelligence Web portal.

Monitoring Dashboards

This section discusses various aspects of data monitoring, including portlet dashboards for key performance indicators, and scorecards for event-triggered alerts.



"The trend long term for performance management, even business intelligence, for that matter, is allowing us to do more. It’s allowing users to do more for themselves. Nowadays there's a buzzword for it: self-service BI. Certainly we’re a big proponent of that. But a key is to spend less time within the solution, and get more value. That ends up being the perennial challenge.

That’s why there is so much left to be done. With other BI solutions, they still require a fair amount of training to get up to speed on them. Therefore companies using them have needed fairly skilled individuals. They have had to invest in training programs to give them the skills. So that is changing somewhat with easier-to-use solutions like ours.

Instead of forcing user to adapt to the technology, we’re trying to make it as intuitive as possible, using point-and-click controls, going heavy with visualization as a means to explore the data, et cetera." - Mark Flaherty, CMO, InetSoft

Read the top 10 reasons for selecting InetSoft as your BI partner.