Style Intelligence from InetSoft Technology is a business intelligence and data mashup application for large enterprises and Fortune500 organizations looking for advanced tools to connect data from disparate sources and generate valuable insights. The solution offers an interactive dashboard for visualizing data analysis and generating insightful business reports. Style Intelligence is built using a versatile analytics engine which can be scaled from a standalone server to large big data clusters based on Apache, Spark or Hadoop.
With Style Intelligence, data administrators can build new big data clusters or add existing big data sources for exploring data and gaining new insights through interactive charts and graphs. The solution offers a real-time dashboard through which users can simply drag and drop data sets, apply selections and create interactive instances. Users can view analysis using multiple charts and graphs, before exporting results in multiple file formats. Style Intelligence also supports 'what-if analysis' scenarios to evaluate the number of dynamic outcomes based on different set of inputs.
Style Intelligence is designed using the Data Block architecture which enables businesses to slice and dice data sets across variety of data sources such as relational databases, web services, ERP applications, spreadsheets, flat files and more. The solution also supports advanced reporting and publishing tools used for monitoring and scheduling batch reports and multiple outputs. Users can also run the application on their HTML5 supporting mobile device web-browsers.
Style Intelligence supports multi-deployment architecture and can be installed on-premises or hosted in the cloud by InetSoft. Other features include Java API for third-party integrations, server-side reporting, rule-based alerting and event logging.
Avantages
. Customer service is the best I've encountered among software vendors. All the technicians are extremely knowledgeable, patient and will make every effort to accommodate your schedule and resolve the issue in a timely manner.
. The ability to "mash-up" data from multiple sources without IT intervention is a wonderful thing!
. The archive of Youtube videos is also extremely helpful for the beginner and the seasoned veteran who has forgotten some of the things learned in the training.
. The software architecture is powerful and flexible enough to accommodate just about any requirement thrown at you. If you can envision the desired results, you can most likely create it with this software.
. Their concurrent licensing model allows more users to access the system, without purchasing individual licenses.
Inconvénients
JavaScript and/or SQL is required for building custom expressions and filter conditions. JavaScript can be very frustrating to use, but that's probably due to my limited experience with the language. A syntax builder would be helpful and would eliminate much of the frustration. Also, wish they had a hotline or an email box that would allow quick answers to problems encountered with expressions or other simple requests. They do provide comprehensive documentation, but the answer is not always easy to find and can take time combing through the volumes of information. I tend to rely more on Google for answers to expression building in JavaScript.
A user group portal or email box, where users could share ideas and offer solutions to problems is not available.
I initially started out looking for a Reporting System to meet our specific needs. We were a small company that used Zoho CRM and Zoho Reports. Zoho Reports has a lot of features for being so cheap, however, we wanted to design our own CRM with SuiteCRM. This meant we would need to switch to something that had a lot of capability of larger enterprise solution Reporting Systems, but with a Small Company Price Tag.
I evaluated over 50+ Reporting Solutions such as Qlikview, Report Plus, Tableau, BIME, and Yellowfin to name a few. This one beat them all, it has a complexity that reminds me of Qlikview without the 3 Months of Training Required. It has the flexibility of BIME when placing features on the Dashboard, if not better really. We had a report called our 'Downline Report', which is a unique report for each agent that accesses it. With over 300+ agents, making a unique one for each was a pain in Zoho Reports. With this one, I was able to make 1 report with 1 user account. We then used our online Portal that we built to uniquely filter this report by passing filters into the URL, which was then passed into a MySQL statement each time it was accessed. This made it so that I can make 1 change to the Report and it would change for everyone.
Excellent Reporting System, Excellent Price, and Great Customer Support.
Avantages
-Open Dashboard Design
-Highly Flexible system
-Excellent Caching System
-Predictive Analytics
-Embeddable Reports
-High Functionality
-URL Filtering, the ability to pass data from the URL into the Data source to filter the data from criteria on your end
-Several Maps Including U.S. and a World Map
-Use of Javascript and MySQL within Reports
-Ad-Hoc System that empowers your users
-Low Cost compared with other Reporting Systems
Inconvénients
-Robust Aesthetics, has lots of options for colors, and with some work, you can make it look pretty good, but I think they have room for improvement here.
-Data Source Connection Application must be installed on Windows, however, the rest of the Reporting System can be accessed via Web Browser, this all needs to be put online, this is pretty standard for most applications in 2017.
-If installing on Linux, you will need to have a Linux Administrator handy to assist.
We reviewed no less than a dozen analytics application platforms before selecting Style Intelligence. We have no regrets, the platform is solid, dependable, flexible and meets all our current and foreseeable analytic needs.
Avantages
- Easy to understand user interface
- Data aggregation from various data sources and types is relatively easy
- Materialized view provides fast access to large aggregated data
- Easy to control user permissions
- Great support
Inconvénients
- Learning curve can be high for creation of advanced worksheets and dashboards
- Replacement of root level blocks on the worksheet is not as easy as it could be. Requires too many steps.
-Similarly, altering data source for the worksheet blocks is difficult.
I use Inetsoft Style Studio almost daily at my job.
If you understand SQL this program can be extremely beneficial to your organization. Writing simple queries to complex ones, this program has a lot of great features.
PROS:
- Easy to use for most coders
- Great layout and helpful help menus
- Great WebEx sessions when they are being shown (can also YouTube them!)
- Can use Java as expressions
- Many tables to choose from
- Can highlight, annotate, calculate and group any row/column based on any metric!
- Great logging in console which shows you any errors in your code
- Can use a worksheet if you cannot do SQL
WISH LIST:
- Wish the SQL editor was color coded, would make it easier to read/write/troubleshoot
- More classes on the Style Studio program
Greta overall, highly recommend!
InetSofts Style Intelligence is robust and flexible business analytics software that scales to enterprise level. The platform, which has a remarkably small footprint, is built to serve the needs of OEM and enterprise developers, an agile, self-service development tool that simplifies advanced data mashups, interactive dashboards, scorecards, exception alerts, and enterprise reporting.
Hope more is yet to come to extend it's added value - Thanks.
Avantages
Connects to many commonly used databases, relational and multidimensional, as well as column-based data warehouses.
Multi-dimensional charting and brushing for maximum data exploration.
Inconvénients
Less flexible for customization report.
InetSoft offers perpetual licenses and annual subscriptions for on-premise or InetSoft-hosted deployment.
The lowest entry point for the InetSoft product line is US$2,800 per year for a multi-user package.
A maintenance and support charge of 20% is added to perpetual license sales and is included in the annual subscription price.
• Style Intelligence is a web-based solution and requires only a web-browser to set up and begin data analysis, reducing overall deployment time.
• The solution offers a unified interface for advanced data manipulation and reporting and tracking KPIs via a central dashboard.
• Style Intelligence supports modern data mashup capabilities, allowing data analysts to combine different datasets ranging from big data sets to excel spreadsheets.
• Users can create unlimited multi-dimensional charts and use a wide range of sophisticated chart types for reporting.
• The solution enables users to access dashboard and data analytics reports on their Android-based tablets, iPads, and iPhones.
• Administrators can configure alert settings for ad hoc situations and exceptions, allowing the system to send auto-generated alerts to respective stakeholders during critical situations.
Voici quelques-unes des questions fréquentes sur Style Intelligence.
Types de licences disponibles pour Style Intelligence :
À partir de: $2800/année
Type de licence: Licence unique, Abonnement
version d'essai gratuite: Disponible
InetSoft offers perpetual licenses and annual subscriptions for on-premise or InetSoft-hosted deployment.
The lowest entry point for the InetSoft product line is US$2,800 per year for a multi-user package.
A maintenance and support charge of 20% is added to perpetual license sales and is included in the annual subscription price.
Fonctionnalités du logiciel Style Intelligence :
Utilisateurs habituels du logiciel Style Intelligence :
Grandes entreprises, Entreprises de taille moyenne
Langues dans lesquelles Style Intelligence est disponible :
anglais
Types de licences disponibles pour Style Intelligence:
Licence unique, Abonnement
Nous n'avons pas d'informations sur les appareils pris en charge par Style Intelligence.
Applications s'intégrant à Style Intelligence :
SharePoint
Ressources d'aide disponibles pour Style Intelligence :
FAQ, Base de connaissances, Support en ligne, Support téléphonique, Tutoriels vidéo
I love this product! I was tasked with finding a BI tool to support our growing need for a web based interactive reporting and dash boarding tool. A colleague and I agreed that InetSoft's Style Intelligence was our number one pick after reviewing 8 or 9 other top names in the business. Creating dashboards is very intuitive and easy to use with its drag and drop functionality, and the variety of visualization components at your disposal is impressive.
The real power behind the tool is in the "Worksheet" where the query design happens. The tool allows you to connect to multiple data sources including various types of databases, spreadsheets and text delimited files. The ability to "mash-up" data from many different sources including my own customized datasets (in spreadsheet or csv format) is an extremely powerful feature. The interface for building the query is very intuitive, just drag and drop data fields from the selected data source to create a data block. Join multiple data blocks, add custom expressions and create summary queries using any of the categorical fields in the data block. The completed Worksheet is the foundation for building the visual components of the dashboard and/or reports.
The filtering capabilities at the dashboard level allow you to interactively visualize any subset of data, using any field in the database. With the selection tree component, we can allow a hierarchical view of the data; allowing a manager, for example, to drill into any level of their reporting hierarchy.