InetSoft Rated as a Top BI Vendor
InetSoft Technology has recieved favorable ratings in Gleanster's customer review based research on Agile Business Intelligence (BI). The 38-page report provides insights into best practices in applying agile BI to improve business decision-making, based on the experiences of 367 organizations.
The report introduces the concept of agile BI, outlines the reasons to implement it, and explains how organizations are maximizing the value of their investments. Challenges, best practices around performance metric tracking, and success stories are shared. The final section consists of a BI vendor landscape complete with Gleanster analyst commentary. For the four major categories of customer review -- ease of deployment, ease of use, features and functionality, and overall value -- the top 15 solution providers are ranked and organized into good, better, and best groupings.
InetSoft rated among the five best BI providers for the ease of use dimension, in the top ten for the ease of deployment dimension, and in the top ten across all four categories, earning the distinction as a leading agile BI provider, according to Gleanster survey respondents.
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"InetSoft has distinguished itself as a leading provider of agile BI capabilities," says Jeff Zabin, research director at Gleanster who co-authored the report. "Highly favorable feedback from InetSoft clients attest to the benefits its solution delivers to the marketplace."
"Gleanster"s report is a terrific resource for organizations evaluating BI solutions with an eye towards improving agility and self-service," offered Mark Flaherty, CMO at InetSoft Technology. "These are two areas that have seen vast improvements thanks to the new breed of BI vendors that InetSoft is among. It is particularly gratifying to score so high in the customer review driven rankings across the board and especially in terms of ease-of-use, which is a primary product design goal for us and is so key to successful BI application deployments."
Customer Voices from inetsoft.com
Quick to Deploy
"We were able to stand up dashboards and basic reports in a matter of weeks, not months, which accelerated our project timelines significantly." - S. Walker. This rapid deployment meant our business users started making data-driven decisions much earlier in the program lifecycle, shortening the time to measurable value.
Robust Data Mashup
"The mashup capabilities let us join disparate sources without building heavy ETL pipelines, making many ad hoc scenarios possible." - L. Moreno. By reducing ETL reliance we could iterate faster on data models and support more business questions with the same team.
Responsive Support
"InetSoft's support and professional services were responsive and practical during our rollout, helping us avoid common pitfalls." - R. Patel. That practical guidance shortened troubleshooting cycles and kept the rollout on schedule without repeated escalations.
Stable at Scale
"Even as our user count and data volumes grew, the platform remained stable and predictable under load." - H. Liang. Predictable performance let operations plan capacity and reduced the need for constant tuning or emergency fixes.
Empowers Business Users
"Non-technical users were able to customize dashboards and run ad hoc reports without heavy IT assistance." - M. Gomez. Empowering users reduced the backlog for IT and improved responsiveness to evolving analytical needs.
Cost-Effective Choice
"Compared to competitors we evaluated, StyleBI delivered comparable capabilities at a lower total cost of ownership." - T. Nguyen. The cost savings allowed us to fund additional analytic work and expand scope without increasing budget.
Easy to Embed and Integrate
"Embedding dashboards into our internal portals was straightforward, and the APIs made integration with our apps easy." - K. O'Neal. The smooth embedding reduced friction for end-users who prefer a single sign-on experience inside existing applications.
Flexible Visualization Options
"The visualization toolkit allowed us to craft expressive, interactive views that matched stakeholder needs across departments." - A. Rivera. Those tailored visualizations improved stakeholder engagement and made insights more actionable during reviews.
StyleBI is InetSoft's full-featured business intelligence solution for dashboard reporting that includes a powerful data mashup engine. End-users get visually compelling, highly interactive access to data, and IT gets a highly customizable, easy to learn and quick to deploy business intelligence toolset and information delivery platform. Data mashup capabilities allow for the integration of disparate data sources, enabling agile development and providing maximum self-service, while the application's SOA architecture and open standards-based technology make for an ideal embedding and integration-ready application for dashboards, production reporting, and visualization.