InetSoft Style Intelligence v/s Oracle Essbase - How do they compare?

How does InetSoft compare to Oracle Essbase? Business software comparison site G2 Crowd weighed in and showed that InetSoft beat Oracle Essbase hands down by 93% of user ratings. G2 is known for its unbiased platform where real certified reviewers share their feedback. These reviews are weighed against data from web traffic including LinkedIn, Twitter and other social media platforms.

The ratings are broken up into multiple categories that cover all aspects of the software so businesses can choose a BI vendor that meets their specific needs. In General Ratings, InetSoft beat Oracle Essbase in all 7 categories: Ease of Use, Ease of Setup, Ease of Admin, Quality of Support, Ease of Doing Business With, and Product Direction. This is not surprising since InetSoft is known for its highly scalable, robust platform with sophisticated data mashup capabilities that supplement or eliminate the need for IT-intensive ETL and data warehouses. With InetSoft, you do not need to be a data scientist or programmer to utilize sophisticated, interactive dashboards and reports.



A More Flexible Alternative to Oracle Essbase

On the G2 Crowd website, reviewers raved about InetSoft's flexibility that allows end users to do almost anything they can imagine with their data, including complicated mashups and reporting that delivers valuable insights with ease. The highly visual graphics and drag-and-drop features were noted amongst consumers for saving time, resources, and increasing company efficiency.

On top of all that, InetSoft's open source web based architecture allows for faster and easier use due to its easy integration with multiple data sources. Another aspect that favored InetSoft was its quality support. End users were in agreement about the good communication received from the product managers and team.

Quality Support

Not only does InetSoft deliver excellence in business intelligence and reporting software, but they value customer satisfaction and happiness. Their team of dedicated developers and account managers all work together to ensure quality service and experience. They also provide an array of resources to help customers stay informed. InetSoft offers a developer portal that includes five categories of useful resources broken down and organized in a clear, easy to manage manner which are:

  • Documentation- Access to all InetSoft product documents
  • Tutorial Videos- Library of product training and how-to videos
  • Support Center- Easy access to InetSoft support staff where you can submit support issues and review them
  • Download- For first time users who would like to try InetSoft's free software
  • Test Drive- This free web portal is available for unlimited use so customers can make an informed decision before making a purchase. Customers can also request a personalized demo to see how InetSoft can help their specific needs within their company.

InetSoft also provides a forum to its users that includes the latest updates to Style Intelligence, tutorial videos, webinars, and everything end users would need to ensure maximum use and benefits are received. Independent users liked that the Style Iintelligence tool is so easy to use that they were able to teach it to themselves and noted that the reference videos provided clear help with troubleshooting. With the tutorial videos, documentations, forum, ease of communication between end users and InetSoft's team, low costs, and drag-and-drop features it's no wonder people are trusting InetSoft for their reporting, dashboard, and visual analysis needs.


Reports | Building Reports

Independent users were happy with InetSofts Reporting capabilities and chose InetSoft in all 9 out of 9 feature categories including WYSIWYG report design. In the computing world WYSIWYG stands for "what you see is what you get," referring to the extent to which content such as text and graphics can be edited in a manner that maintains the desired appearance when the finished product is printed or displayed. In addition to WYSIWYG, InetSoft outshined the competition in Reports Interface, Steps to Answer, Graphs and Charts, Scorecards, Dashboards, Data Transformation, Data Modeling, and Integration APIs.

Advanced Analytics

In advanced Analytics InetSoft won 67% of categories, including Data Visualization and Big Data Services. These categories are crucial because the whole purpose of business intelligence products are to provide companies with easy visual analysis. As the pioneer of data mashup capabilities it is no surprise that InetSoft excels in visual analytics. InetSofts data mashup engine integrates data in real time from a large variety of sources, giving users immediate access to fresh information. Another aspect that sets InetSoft apart from the crowd is its low footprint, ensuring that for companies that implement this software on their own systems, critical applications will be able to run smoothly and unhampered.

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Why InetSoft?

Since 1996 InetSoft has been providing easy, agile, and robust business intelligence software that allows organizations of all sizes to utilize full-featured business intelligence solutions. InetSoft was founded by former Goldman Sachs employee Luke Liang and Chief Architect Larry Liang. Larry Liang brought his fifteen plus years of experience in large-scale mission critical development from global technology leaders to Style Intelligence™ when developing this award winning, highly visual, software solution.

Inetsoft also brings the benefits of machine learning to its users in a manner that makes it easy to read and easy to use. Now non data scientists can harness the power of automated data modeling to find solutions to the business challenges they face.

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