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About InetSoft's Data Block Technology
"The open standards aspect is very important to us since it allows our customers to integrate our
technology more easily and leverage assets they already have, in terms of hardware and software and IT skills.
So based on this BI platform, our software delivers a host of front-end BI tools including visualization
tools, enterprise reporting, monitoring dashboards, and analysis. Those functions were based on a very
powerful patent-pending technology we call Data Block.
This Data Block technology is really made up of a back-end data mashup engine and a caching middle layer.
There is a front-end we call the worksheet, which is a Web-based, spreadsheet-like user interface that a power
user can easily use to combine and transform data blocks. The data blocks are typically started at the atomic
data block level. That is typically created by an IT or a BI specialist. They choose these data blocks and
performance tune those data blocks.
Then the power users can use those building blocks to build more complex, but more useful structures for
answering the questions they have on hand. And all the data blocks you build, in turn become building blocks
themselves. You can build on this architecture, building very sophisticated structures which you can use to
answer a wide range of unanticipatible questions. " - Luke Liang, CEO, InetSoft
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