InetSoft Upgrades Business Mapping Software in Style Intelligence

InetSoft Technology has reportedly upgraded data visualization capabilities to combine multi-dimensional charting and geographic charting, enhancing business data mapping in the newest release of its business intelligence software application, Style Intelligence.

 

This added functionality in Style Intelligence allows interactive dashboards to display continuous measures such as population or sales volume by using color ranges across any geographically defined boundary on the local, state and national levels. This also includes custom-defined areas such as sales regions or political districts.

 

The integration of mapping and chart engines also allows for the use of multi-charts that compare multiple maps side-by-side, and plus it permits the combination of data tables alongside visual maps of data so that drilling-down into a region displays custom metrics and detailed data. The end result is a data-rich application of geospatial mapping that makes finding answers and drawing conclusions from large data sets a much more efficient task for a business user.

 

Style Intelligence, is a full-featured business intelligence solution that is 100 percent Java at the server level, and HTML, JavaScript, and Flash at the client level. That, combined with its SOA architecture and open standards-based technology, makes it an embedding and integration-ready application for dashboards and reporting. 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.

 

 “A well-designed dashboard that provides interactive controls and features like list filtering allow a person to drill through geographically structured information in just a few clicks to find answers Mark Flaherty, vice president of marketing at InetSoft, said. “With non-integrated solutions, you might have to use one application to visually identify a geographical point of interest, and another to then report the data associated with that region. Our integrated solution offers ease of use and leads to quicker decisions; benefits that any organization can appreciate.”

 

The data visualization changes are one of series of ongoing improvements to Style Intelligence. Last year InetSoft made changes aimed at SaaS (News - Alert) providers to strike a balance between manageability and flexibility by allowing base Physical Views and Logical Models to be extended. Changes can be made to the extended models that are specific to a certain user population, and updates to the standard model will only have to be made once. Users will see their custom objects as part of the base model, based on their group or role.

Other feature enhancements included were deepened support for OLAP cubes, such as those from Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Hyperion Essbase, and SAP (News - Alert) NetWeaver, to be used as data sources. While a multi-dimensional database yields high performance, the strict hierarchy of an OLAP Cube can be more of a limitation than a help when it comes to frequent ad hoc analysis needs. This restriction has been removed, so that now individual dimension attributes can be bound to aspects of a chart and areas of a crosstab or pivot table.

 

“Technology providers favor our lightweight but powerful business intelligence software over the cumbersome, integration-unfriendly solutions from BI vendors who focus primarily on pre-packaged enterprise deployments,” Flaherty said. “While we offer an out-of-the-box, ready-to-use business intelligence solution, we have years of experience listening to software OEMs to make our application as embeddable as possible and have also created a range of licensing options that match almost any business model.”