Using InetSoft for On-Demand Ad Hoc Reporting

Are you looking for on-demand ad hoc reporting? InetSoft offers Web-based reporting software that allows users to create ad hoc reports on demand. By maximizing self-service and giving users the ability to explore organizational data on their own, you increase user satisfaction and decrease IT support costs.

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About InetSoft

Since 1996 InetSoft has been delivering easy, agile, and robust business intelligence software that makes it possible for organizations and solution providers of all sizes to deploy or embed full-featured business intelligence solutions. Application highlights include visually-compelling and interactive dashboards that ensure greater end-user adoption plus pixel-perfect report generation, scheduling, and bursting. InetSoft's patent pending Data Block™ technology enables productive reuse of queries and a unique capability for end-user defined data mashup.

This capability combined with efficient information access enabled by InetSoft's visual analysis technologies allows maximum self-service that benefits the average business user, the IT administrator, and the developer. InetSoft was rated #1 in Butler Analytics Business Analytics Yearbook, and InetSoft's BI solutions have been deployed at over 5,000 organizations worldwide, including 25% of Fortune 500 companies, spanning all types of industries.

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What is On Demand Ad Hoc Reporting?

The definition of on demand ad hoc reporting is enabling end-users, business staff and managers, to run reports whenever they like, even altering them as desired, without the need for IT or data analysts to help them.

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Ad Hoc Query and Reporting - InetSoft's Java and HTML5-based technology brings a desktop grade web user experience to ad hoc query and reporting. Business reporting software users can produce both data-focused ad hoc queries and presentation-focused ad hoc reports...

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Ad Hoc Report Software from InetSoft - Style Report's small footprint, 100% Java, pure Web architecture delivers an embedding and integration-ready platform. This software, designed for ad hoc reports, not only integrates with any Web user interface, it also leverages the same application server platform as that of the embedding application. Style Report allows IT professionals to create sophisticated production reports that can be deployed for server based, or desktop based applications. The small footprint and 100% Java architecture makes it an ideal solution for embedded ad hoc reports. It is based upon XML, JavaScript, and other open standards technology that allows IT to fully leverage existing skills...

Ad Hoc Reporting Compatible with ASP.NET - Style Intelligence is not a native ASP.NET application, but a Java server application, that is completely compatible with an ASP.NET environment. As a 100% Web-based solution, Style Intelligence offers users rapid implementation with low upkeep investment. A powerful patent-pending technology called Data Block enables great self-service, flexibility, and overall efficiency via real-time data mashup and re-usable data access queries... Best REST API Reporting Solution - Looking for a reporting platform that connects to a REST API? InetSoft's pioneering dashboard reporting application does and enables secure interactive reports and analytics. View a demo and try interactive examples. InetSoft's solution is true Software-as-a-Service for hosted and self-hosting, not a combination of client developer tools and a web-based delivery platform...

Advantages of Expense Report Software - If you are looking to decrease the amount of money your business is spending, you might be looking to use software to develop tailor-made expense reports. A growing business is interested in many things, but the foremost concern is cutting costs. A good expense report's priority is communication. The focus should be on what are these pages saying, and how fast can action be taken? To this end InetSoft has built a fully customizable, secure and automated reporting solution that not only synchronizes information from data centers, but also allows professional and eye popping data visualization. It is time to start putting data to work. But with the vast collection of expense report software solutions available, what makes InetSoft stand out...

Airtable DB Reporting Tool - Looking for a good solution for Airtable dashboard reporting? InetSoft's pioneering BI application produces great-looking cloud-based dashboards with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop designer. View a demo and try interactive examples. Strategic planning is an important part of before the fact performance management...

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“We evaluated many reporting vendors and were most impressed at the speed with which the proof of concept could be developed. We found InetSoft to be the best option to meet our business requirements and integrate with our own technology.”
- John White, Senior Director, Information Technology at Livingston International

Articles About Data Reporting Software - Looking for data reporting software? Since 1996, InetSoft has been offering flexible, powerful and easy to use reporting software for enterprises and OEMs. Now its award winning reporting tools include pricing options comparable to open source vendors. InetSoft's reporting-only product is Style Report Enterprise. If you also want interactive dashboarding and data mashup then look at InetSoft's flagship business intelligence software - Style Intelligence. SQL Server Reporting Download - Are you looking to download a reporting application for SQL Server? Since 1996 InetSoft has been making business software that is easy to deploy and easy to use. Build self-service oriented interactive dashboards quickly. View a demo and download one of our applications for free...

Aspects of the Reporting Lifecycle - Unless you know the stakeholder's true needs, any of these other aspects of the reporting lifecycle are going to be for naught. Data mining, or digging through vast quantities of data to find the required information, you could almost say that this is somewhat intertwined with query design because to mine data you may be using the SQL language to extract that needed data. But it is a very tough task. It's complicated, and we are also dealing with several platforms so that always makes it tough, just trying to get the right data to solve the right questions...

Business Intelligence for Web Analytics - Looking a business intelligence solution that can incorporate Web site analytics? InetSoft offers a Web-based BI platform that can mashup disparate data sources including Web site logs or data from a Web analytics API. Read articles below about InetSoft's BI and Analytics Solution. Example of Analyzing Drug Prescription Patterns - Let's continue drilling into this example of analyzing drug prescription patterns. Rather than looking at this by diagnosis or procedure, it's really useful for us to think about where those referrals are really coming from. Which physicians are sending patients to Dr. Monahan? If we look at this referral analysis over a 120-day window, we can start to search by code and understand who are the physicians that are really sending patients...

Challenge with Performance Management - Part of the challenge with performance management is that sometimes it gets hung up in the department of finance, yet it really applies more broadly in the enterprise. Most organizations haven't gotten there, yet. Some have applied it to operations. Some have gone beyond just the financial indicators of an organization. So that's a big thing being able to do that, but also being able to reconcile the information, or the way you manage the business, the way that we report things, that's another challenge." - Mark Flaherty, CMO, InetSoft...

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Comparison Table of BI Tools - There are many different tools for BI on the market today, and they each have their own strengths and weaknesses. At InetSoft, we did our own analysis in which we compared our flagship BI software, Style Intelligence, against eight other prominent BI tools across eleven different criteria. Vendors in each category were rated from one to ten, ten being the best possible score. Here's what we determined...

Consider a Tableau Business Intelligence Alternative - Are you looking for a good alternative to Tableau business intelligence? InetSoft's pioneering dashboard reporting application makes producing great-looking web-based reports and dashboards easy with a drag-and-drop designer and the ability to connect to all your data sources. Maximize self-service for all types of users. No dedicated BI developer required. For more advantages of InetSoft over Tableau, read about how our solution is cloud-flexible. If you are considering embedding BI into your solution, read our top embedded feature list. View a demo and try interactive examples...

Creating Online Visual Reports - Looking for software to create nice online visual reports? InetSoft's pioneering dashboard reporting application produces great-looking web-based dashboards with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop designer. View a demo and try interactive examples. A report template is a skeleton report. It is represented internally in XML format as an SRT file and can be generated with the Report Designer...

Customizable Report Generation Tools - InetSoft offers innovative and customizable report generation tools. They are included in InetSoft's flagship platform Style Intelligence, a complete operational business intelligence software, or as a stand alone reporting tool known as Style Report Enterprise. InetSoft's report generation tool is a sophisticated, 100% web-based Java reporting tool suitable for organizations seeking production reports, interactive reports, ad hoc reports, and more. It has been recognized by the Java Developers Journal Readers Choice Award for Best Java Reporting Tool...

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Deliver On-Demand Reports on the Web - You can deliver on-demand reports on the web. In-report exploration capabilities empower business users with the ability to reshape information in real time. Key benefits include the ability to: Gather up-to-the-minute information Reshape reports in real time Minimize performance bottlenecks...

Demands from End Users for Custom Reports - With growing demands from end users for custom reports, considerable emphasis has been placed on the need for powerful, self-service features that enable non-technical end- users to create and modify reports on their own, thereby reducing the time and cost overhead of developing custom reports and data views for these users. For an ad-hoc reporting tool to effectively reduce development efforts, it must cater to a wide range of end-users, starting with the least technical, and must provide them with an easy to use system that allows them to create any type of report within a well-defined...

Developer Reporting for New Relic - Looking for a good solution for New Relic dashboard reporting? Mashup your mobile app data with other enterprise data for a wider view of performance. InetSoft's pioneering BI application produces great-looking cloud-based dashboards with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop designer. View a demo and try interactive examples. Users of InetSoft's reporting software can create prototype reports that can serve as a preliminary test before long-term changes are induced...

Display Chart Elements as Text - GraphElement.setTextFrame(frame) Specifies the data values to be displayed on the chart elements as text, as well as the mapping between element values and displayed text. GraphElement.setTextSpec(spec) Specifies the text attributes such as color, font, format, etc...

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Electronic Health Records Key Metrics - Electronic Health Records key metrics need to be monitored in order to be successful in maximizing clinical productivity and doing this requires more robust tools. InetSoft is known for its robust business intelligence and analytics software that will help organizations gain important insights from the following KPIs: System Uptime % System Downtime % Downtime Causes...

Embeddable and OEM-Friendly Reporting Product - The InetSoft application is expressly designed to be embedded, whether inside an enterprise portal or another solution provider's cloud-based solution. OEM-friendly features include multi-tenant hosting, full white-labeling, and flexible licensing models to match the partner's. I evaluated over 50+ reporting solutions. This one beat them all, it has a complexity that reminds me of Qlikview without the 3 months of training required. Excellent reporting system, excellent price, and great customer support...

Enabling Self-Service HR Reporting - We will also show you how you can schedule your report. Then we will walk you through the standard or the sample reports that come delivered with the solution. We will walk you through both the human capital management and the financial sample reports. It's a reporting and analysis toolset, it gives you real time access to your HR and financial data...

Read what InetSoft customers and partners have said about their selection of Style Report as their production reporting tool.

Evaluate InetSoft's Organization Report Tool - Looking for good organization report tools? InetSoft's pioneering dashboard reporting application produces great-looking web-based and pdf reports with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop designer. Maximize self-service for all types of users. No dedicated BI developer required. View a demo and try interactive examples. With the innumerable amount of interactive data visualization tools available it's great to see that we were selected...

How Financial Managers Can Improve Their Budget Reporting Process - Financial managers create those Excel files for the different department heads, different business types, and all the budget holders. They create templates that do not always look alike, but they are creating them and populating them with the previous year information and specific planning assumptions. Once they have compiled all the templates, then the next task is to specifically distribute those templates to all the budget holders, the people who are going to actually fill those in. Sometimes in a simple scenario we have one template filled in by one person or multiple people within the department. In a more complex scenario we have be a hotel that has a casino so all of my casino activity goes to one budget holder. My hotel activity or revenue goes to another budget holder and may be my expenses...

Information Publishing Application - Style Report is the information publishing application included in Style Intelligence, InetSoft's business intelligence software designed for enterprises and ISVs who are seeking to easily and quickly deploy an agile and robust solution for their end-users or customers. Style Report provides production reports, interactive reports and ad hoc reports in a zero client, Web environment. This application meets the needs for anyone searching for ad hoc reporting, J2EE reporting and Web based reporting. Style Report's small footprint, 100% Java, pure Web architecture delivers an embedding and integration-ready platform. As a J2EE drop-in Web application, Style Report not only integrates with the Web user interface, it also leverages the same application server platform as that of the embedding application...

Modifying the Ad Hoc Report Layout - InetSoft's enterprise cloud-based report software provides report developers with tools to modify the layout of an ad hoc report. Once saved, end-users will be able to run the report with their preferred view of the data. This ensures a high level of satisfaction thanks to greater self-service. All new clients and partners get free one-on-one business intelligence expert help to accelerate deployment...

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New Reporting Software for Your Business - Are you looking for new reporting software for your business? Style Intelligence by InetSoft is just the thing your business needs to get those reports out the door. Style Intelligence allows you to present information to your clients and coworkers through reports and dashboards. These tools are flexible and offer creation tools suitable for all levels of your business. Behind both the reporting and dashboarding interface is a powerful scripting and engine that empowers your IT department to customize the program to you exact specifications...

Single Source of Web Based BI Information - InetSoft's robust data mashup engine enables data from many different sources to be combined in a single solution, for the creation of efficient, automated reports, and intuitive, interactive dashboards. InetSoft's advanced capabilities in both visualization and reporting make it stand out from other BI vendors, whose software is usually only capable of one of those two functions. Access is not limited to users with desktop or laptop browsers, however. InetSoft's web-based interface enables all dashboards and reports to be viewed and manipulated on a variety of mobile devices, including iPads, iPhones, Android devices, as well as any smartphone. InetSoft has also released native apps for iPhones and Androids, for faster speeds and additional functionality...

Tell Me What is an Ad Hoc Report - An ad hoc report is a report that is created on demand for unanticipated business questions. In contrast to a production report that is pre-designed for known business questions, ad hoc report requirements exhibit noticeably different characteristics...

Visual Exploration is a Gateway - Your visual analysis might lead you to a report on the returns that you've gotten for those particular items. So visual exploration is a gateway or a portal into all of the other information that we were just talking, about all the other ways to access the information and understand what's going on. Again we are talking about stuff that ordinary people can use and ordinary people can get results from and therefore they can get a lot of people making better decisions by having those capabilities...

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Web Based Ad Hoc Reporting Software - InetSoft offers Web-based Ad Hoc Reporting Tools that are easy, agile and robust. Based on a product that has won 8 JDJ Readers Choice Awards in a row, the current version offers: Style Report Enterprise provides a zero-client, Web-based application for: production reports interactive reports ad hoc reports An engine for reporting An API An authoring environment Style Report Enterprise's small footprint, 100% Java, pure Web architecture delivers an embedding and integration-ready platform. This software, designed for ad hoc reporting, not only integrates with any Web user interface, it also leverages the same application server platform as that of the embedding application...

What is On Demand Ad Hoc Reporting? - The definition of on demand ad hoc reporting is enabling end-users, business staff and managers, to run reports whenever they like, even altering them as desired, without the need for IT or data analysts to help them...

Which Are the Best Business Reporting Tools for This Year? To be considered the best, what key qualities do you look for in reporting tools? Is it the cost? Maybe the functionality? Perhaps the available options? InetSoft specializes in providing businesses and organizations with reporting tools that cater to the needs of the users whether it be through the vast tools, friendly user-experience, and/or competitive pricing. At InetSoft, we offer multiple reporting solutions that service users' wants and needs with added flexibility to create the perfect report deliverables...

Read what InetSoft customers and partners have said about their selection of Style Scope for their solution for dashboard reporting.

Your SaaS Solution for Reporting - InetSoft offers SaaS providers and Internet Service Providers (ISV) with an application that will only enhance their overall business intelligence solution that costs significantly less than purchasing licensed applications. Style Intelligence is InetSoft's award-winning BI software application that includes the Web reporting software, Style Report, and the company's dashboard and reporting software application, Style Scope...