InetSoft

Infobox_Company
company_name = InetSoft Technology Corp.
company_type = Privately-owned
company_
company_slogan = open standards innovation
foundation = 1996
location = Piscataway, NJ, USA
industry = Business Intelligence Software
key_people = Luke Liang, Co-Founder and CEO; Larry Liang, Co-Founder and Chief Architect
homepage = http://www.inetsoft.com |

InetSoft is a company that produces reporting, dashboard, and business intelligence software. InetSoft was founded in 1996, and has over 120 employees between their headquarters in New Jersey and offices in China.

InetSoft provides a single product, Style Intelligence, with various editions that focus on operational BI, data visualization, enterprise reporting, and an embeddable report engine. It has been winning awards from Java developers since 2000.

History

InetSoft Technology Corporation was founded in 1996 by Luke and Larry Liang. [Haines, Steven: [http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=java&seqNum=266 Interview: InetSoft Technology] , "InformIT", 2006-06-30]

Awards

InetSoft Style Report won Best Java Reporting Tool in 2000 [ [http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/36457.htm 2000 Readers Choice Awards] ] , 2002 (reference needed), 2003 [ [http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/43939.htm 'The Oscars of the Software Industry'] ] , 2005 [ [http://java.sys-con.com/read/171303_3.htm SYS-CON Announces Readers' Choice Awards for SOA, Java, Linux, .NET, MX, ColdFusion, and XML Technologies] ] and in 2007 [ [http://java.sys-con.com/read/417254_2.htm SYS-CON Media Announces the 2007 Java Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards] ]

InetSoft Style Report Analytic Edition won Best Java Business Intelligence Tool in 2007 [ [http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/431007.htm 2007 Java Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards] ] , the first year it was nominated.

Products

InetSoft's products are based on open standards [Kavanagh, Eric: [http://www.tdwi.org/News/display.aspx?ID=8538 TDWI Radio News: InetSoft Focuses on Operational BI] , "TDWI", 2007-07-25.] technology that include XML, SOAP, Java language, and JavaScript. The stated design goal is easy integration with other open standards based software. InetSoft has offered the following products ranging from developer tools, to enterprise reporting, and complete BI:

*Style Intelligence - Their flagship product for operational BI. Provides reporting, dashboards, OLAP, scorecards, and alerts. It uses patent-pending Data Block technology [Powell, Ron: [http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/4834 "InetSoft Innovates Operational Business Intelligence"] , "BeyeNETWORK", 2007-06-04.] for data source access and data mashup. It was introduced on 2004-05-20 as Style Report Analytic Edition.

*Style Report Professional - A developer tool that can be used as a report generation engine for both desktop Java applications [Eckerson, Wayne: "Best Practices in Operational BI", "TDWI", October 2007.] and web applications. Support tabular, flow, "banded" (like Crystal Reports), and mixed layouts. The embedded report scripting engine is the Mozilla Rhino engine. It was introduced on 1998-06-05.

*Style Report Enterprise - Based on the same reporting engine, it also provides multi-threaded report generation with caching. Interactivity includes drilldown, parameters, search, sort and filter within a report. The Ad_hoc#Ad_hoc_querying component of Style Report EE is a flash based web application that end users can use to modify existing reports or create new reports. It was introduced on 2000-01-01.

*Style Scope - A web-based data mashup and dashboard design product. Uses Adobe Flex to deliver a Rich Internet application. It was introduced on 2007-2-20.

Unlike most BI providers, InetSoft licenses per CPU rather than by named user. [Smith, Mark: [http://www.businessintelligence.com/biresearchdetail.asp?id=266 InetSoft Brings Operational BI Alive in iSuite 9] , "BusinessIntelligence.com", 2007-08-03]

InetSoft also offers on-demand BI. [Schwartz, Karen: [http://www.midmarket.eweek.com/c/a/News/Business-Intelligence-Thats-Easy-on-the-Wallet/ "Business Intelligence That's Easy on the Wallet"] , "eWeek", 2008-04-09.]

References

External links

*http://www.inetsoft.com
* [http://www.eswlab.com/ Engineering Software LAB, the Israeli resellers for InetSoft products]