Enterprise Data Mashup - InetSoft’s Style Intelligence is built upon an enterprise data mashup platform. Enterprise data mashup refers to the ability to pull source data from any location and in almost any format and mash it up on the fly for dynamic information requests.
The result is a structured virtual data model that consists of reusable data blocks that can be queried in real-time for presentation in Style Intelligence dashboards and reports, or used by 3rd-party applications.
Spotfire’s simple tabular data model expects the heavy lifting of data manipulation to be done somewhere else. InetSoft’s solution has embedded these abilities in the heart of a high performance analytic platform.
Full Spectrum Analytics & Reporting - Like Spotfire, InetSoft's Style Intelligence features visualization technologies as the foundation for interactive exploration and discovery.
But unlike Spotfire, InetSoft Style Intelligence doesn’t stop at interactive visualization but includes very sophisticated traditional reporting capabilities. Information publishing and dissemination often require reports with codified, sophisticated business logic and/or pixel perfect formatting.
In addition, scheduling abilities and high throughput batch processing in the supporting infrastructure are required. Advanced features include archiving, versioning and auditing. InetSoft’s Style Intelligence integrates visualization into all modes of information delivery which unifies analysis, reporting and dashboards into one seamless environment.
A Single Unified User Experience - InetSoft’s Style Intelligence offers one user experience through one Web interface. On the other hand, Spotfire requires the user to choose from three separate applications: one fat client for analysts, another fat client for power users, and finally a Web interface for casual users.
Since the advent of business intelligence 20 years ago, the model of offering different tools for differently skilled users has proven to be artificially restrictive. Even though some users conveniently fall into a few predefined classes, most of them do not.
Instead of a few discrete classes, users’ needs and skills are distributed across the full spectrum. Moreover, users dynamically move along the spectrum as their needs and expertise develop.
InetSoft Style Intelligence’s single experience Web interface matches the full spectrum reality. As needs change, users can gradually and dynamically move along the skill curve by simply building upon what they have already learned. There is no new interface or tool to learn.
Self-Service - InetSoft's data mashup functionality is available to both business and IT users which helps maximize self-service. Through a drag-and-drop design interface, business users can create interactive visual analyses, dashboards, and reports to answer unanticipated questions without IT's help.