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{{Infobox Company |
{{Infobox Company |
company_name = InetSoft Technology Corp. |
company_name = InetSoft Technology Corporation |
company_type = Privately-Owned |
company_type = Privately-Owned |
company_logo = |
company_logo = |
company_slogan = Easy. Agile. Robust. |
company_slogan = Easy. Agile. Robust. |
foundation = 1996 |
founded = 1996 |
location = [[Piscataway, New Jersey]], USA |
location = [[Piscataway, New Jersey]], [[USA]] |
industry = Business Intelligence Software |
industry = [[Business intelligence tools]] |
key_people = Luke Liang, Co-Founder and [[CEO]]; Larry Liang, Co-Founder and Chief Architect |
key_people = Luke Liang, Co-Founder and [[CEO]]; Larry Liang, Co-Founder and Chief [[Systems Architect]] |
homepage = http://www.inetsoft.com | }}
homepage = http://www.inetsoft.com | }}


'''InetSoft Technology Corp.''' is a privately owned computer software company that develops web-based [[business intelligence]] applications. The company was founded in 1996, and has over 120 employees between their corporate headquarters in [[Piscataway]], [[New Jersey]] and satellite offices in [[Xi'an]], [[China]].
'''InetSoft Technology Corporation''' is a privately owned [[multinational]] [[computer software]] company that develops free and commercial web-based [[business intelligence]] applications. The company was founded in 1996, and currently has over 120 employees between its corporate headquarters in [[Piscataway]], [[New Jersey]], development offices in [[Beijing]] and [[Xi'an]], [[China]], and a sales office in [[Bonn]], [[Germany]].

The company offers various applications that focus on operational BI, [[enterprise reporting]], [[data visualization]] and embeddable reporting. InetSoft’s solutions have been deployed at over 3,000 organizations worldwide, including 25% of [[Fortune 500]] companies, spanning all types of industries.<ref name="InetSoft About Us">[http://www.inetsoft.com/company/index.jsp InetSoft About Us], InetSoft.com, 2010-10-07.</ref>


InetSoft provides a single product, Style Intelligence, with various editions that focus on operational BI, data visualization, business reporting, and an embeddable report engine.


== History ==
== History ==
InetSoft Technology Corporation was founded in 1996 by Luke and Larry Liang in the early days of the[[Java (software platform)|Java]] boom. The initial product released was Style Report, which focused on reporting and data analysis and is currently offered as Style Report Pro. Because of its Java root and small footprint, Style Report has been used in both client-side and server-side Java applications.


InetSoft was co-founded in 1996 by siblings Larry and Luke Liang. Prior to founding InetSoft, Larry Liang, was involved in the early research of [[e-commerce]] and interactive Web technologies and served as a research scientist at Bell Communications Research (now [[Telcordia Technologies]]), and held various technical positions at [[Bell Labs]], [[AT&T]], and [[Lucent Technologies]].<ref name="InetSoft Management Team">[http://www.inetsoft.com/company/index.jsp InetSoft Management Team], InetSoft.com, 2010-10-07 .</ref> Luke Liang had worked for [[Goldman Sachs]] in a variety of technology and management positions and held consulting positions with both [[JP Morgan]], [[Chase]] and the [[Union Bank of Switzerland]].<ref name="InetSoft Management Team" /> Both hold Master's Degrees in [[Computer Science]].<ref name="InetSoft Management Team" />
Over the years, InetSoft's products evolved alongside Java to become server-based Web solutions. The product line has grown to include reporting, dashboard and visual analysis. In 2008, InetSoft also begin to offer Software-as-a-service products for [[salesforce.com]]. In 2009, free hosted visualization and [[AJAX]] services were added.<ref>Haines, Steven: [http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=java&seqNum=266 Interview: InetSoft Technology], ''InformIT'', 2006-06-30</ref> As of 2010, InetSoft's software supports data access to the following [[enterprise resource planning]] (ERP) applications: [[SAP AG]], [[Siebel Systems]], [[JD Edwards]], and [[PeopleSoft]].


The company began with four employees working out of a garage in Piscataway NJ and focused on developing an open standards [[Java]] based platform that would be fully compatible with [[Java]]/[[XML]], [[relational databases]], [[internet technologies]] and [[legacy systems]].<ref name="Company Background">[http://web.archive.org/web/20020210121546/www.inetsoft.com/cgi-bin/v6/index.pl?aboutus/backgrounder.html Company Background], Internet Archive, 2010-10-07.</ref> The initial product released was Style Report, which focused on reporting and [[data analysis]]. Because of its Java roots and small footprint, Style Report has been used in both client-side and server-side Java applications. Over the years, InetSoft's products evolved alongside Java to become server-based Web solutions. The product line has grown to include reporting, dashboards and visual analysis.
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== Awards ==
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InetSoft Style Report won Best Java Reporting Tool in 2000<ref>[http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/36457.htm
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2000 Readers Choice Awards]</ref>, 2002<ref>[http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:7o4vUIaUKRIJ:www.sys-con.com/node/35657+2002+jdj+readers+choice+award+inetsoft&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a 'The Oscars of the Software Industry]</ref>, 2003<ref>[http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/43939.htm 'The Oscars of the Software Industry']</ref>, 2005<ref>[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]</ref> and in 2007<ref>[http://java.sys-con.com/read/417254_2.htm SYS-CON Media Announces the 2007 Java Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards]</ref>


== Product Development History ==
Also in 2007, InetSoft's Style Report Analytic Edition won Best Java Business Intelligence Tool <ref>[http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/431007.htm 2007 Java Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards]</ref>, the first year it had been nominated.


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InetSoft’s software is based on [[open standards]]<ref>Kavanagh, Eric: [http://www.tdwi.org/News/display.aspx?ID=8538 TDWI Radio News: InetSoft Focuses on Operational BI], ''TDWI'', July 25, 2007.</ref> technology that incorporates [[XML]], [[SOAP]], [[Java language]], and [[JavaScript]]. While the primary design goal is easy integration with other open standards based software, access to third party proprietary software has been added in recent years. Additionally, the company licenses by CPU rather than by named user.<ref>Smith, Mark: [http://www.businessintelligence.com/biresearchdetail.asp?id=266 InetSoft Brings Operational BI Alive in iSuite 9], ''BusinessIntelligence.com'', 2007-08-03</ref> The history of InetSoft product development is as follows:
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== Products ==
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InetSoft's products are based on open standards<ref>Kavanagh, Eric: [http://www.tdwi.org/News/display.aspx?ID=8538 TDWI Radio News: InetSoft Focuses on Operational BI], ''TDWI'', July 25, 2007.</ref> technology that include [[XML]], [[SOAP]], [[Java language]], and [[JavaScript]]. The products' design goal is easy integration with other open standards based software. InetSoft has offered the following products ranging from developer tools, to business reporting, and complete BI:


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* In 1998 Style Report was introduced. It was a developer tool that could be used as a report generation engine for both desktop Java applications and web applications.<ref>Eckerson, Wayne: "Best Practices in Operational BI", ''TDWI'', October 2007.</ref> It provided support for tabular, flow, "banded" (like [[Crystal Reports]]), and mixed layouts. Its embedded report scripting engine was the [[Rhino (JavaScript engine)|Mozilla Rhino]] engine.
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A product for operational BI. Provides reporting, dashboards, [[OLAP]], scorecards, and alerts. It uses patent-pending Data Block technology<ref>Powell, Ron: [http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/4834 "InetSoft Innovates Operational Business Intelligence"], ''BeyeNETWORK'', 2007-06-04.</ref> for data source access and data mashup. It was introduced on May 20, 2004 as Style Report Analytic Edition.


* In 2000 Style Report EE was introduced. It was based on the same reporting engine and provided [[multi-threaded]] report generation with caching, [[drill-down]] reports, parameter reports, and search, sort and filtering features. It also featured [[ad hoc query]] for modifying or creating reports.
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A developer tool that can be used as a report generation engine for both desktop Java applications <ref>Eckerson, Wayne: "Best Practices in Operational BI", ''TDWI'', October 2007.</ref> and web applications. Support tabular, flow, "banded" (like [[Crystal Reports]]), and mixed layouts. The embedded report scripting engine is the [[Rhino (JavaScript engine)|Mozilla Rhino]] engine. It was introduced on June 5, 1998.


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* In 2004 Style Report Analytic was introduced. It was a product for operational BI that provided reports, dashboards, [[OLAP]], a [[balanced scorecard]], and alerts. It used patent-pending Data Block technology for accessing disparate data sources, a process known as data mashup.<ref>Powell, Ron: [http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/4834 "InetSoft Innovates Operational Business Intelligence"], ''BeyeNETWORK'', 2007-06-04.</ref>
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 January 1, 2000.


A web-based data mashup and dashboard design product. Uses [[Adobe Flex]] to deliver a [[Rich Internet application]]. It was introduced on February 2, 2007.
* In 2007 Style Scope and Style Intelligence were introduced. Style Scope was a web-based dashboard design product that used [[Adobe Flex]] to deliver a [[Rich Internet application]]. Style Intelligence offered dashboards, reporting, and analysis.


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* In 2008 InetSoft began to offer BI on-demand<ref>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.</ref> and a Software-as-a-Service ([[SaaS]]) solution for [[Salesforce.com]]. The service added interactive dashboards and visual analysis features for existing Salesforce.com users.<ref>Shanbhag, Raju: [http://www.tmcnet.com/enews/e-newsletters/Customer-Interaction-Solutions/20090409/53833-inetsoft-intros-customer-service-focused-dashboard.htm "InetSoft Intros Customer Service-Focused Dashboard"], ''TMCnet'', 2009-04-08.</ref>
Unlike most BI providers, InetSoft licenses per CPU rather than by named user.<ref>Smith, Mark: [http://www.businessintelligence.com/biresearchdetail.asp?id=266 InetSoft Brings Operational BI Alive in iSuite 9], ''BusinessIntelligence.com'', 2007-08-03</ref>


* In 2009 Visualize Free and Style Chart free hosted services were introduced.<ref>Haines, Steven: [http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=java&seqNum=266 Interview: InetSoft Technology], ''InformIT'', 2006-06-30</ref> Visualize Free provided multi-dimensional visual analysis. Style Chart provided an embeddable [[AJAX]] charting engine.
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InetSoft also offers on-demand BI<ref>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.</ref>, including operational dashboards for [[Salesforce.com]]<ref>Shanbhag, Raju: [http://www.tmcnet.com/enews/e-newsletters/Customer-Interaction-Solutions/20090409/53833-inetsoft-intros-customer-service-focused-dashboard.htm "InetSoft Intros Customer Service-Focused Dashboard"], ''TMCnet'', 2009-04-08.</ref>


* In 2010 Style Intelligence 10.3 and Style Scope Free Edition were released. The updated Style Intelligence release increased [[geographic data]] binding capabilities and added data access for the following enterprise resource planning ([[ERP]]) applications: [[SAP AG]], [[Siebel Systems]], [[JD Edwards]], and [[PeopleSoft]]. Style Scope Free Edition was a free downloadable server for dashboards and visualization.
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==Product List==

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== Awards ==
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InetSoft Style Report won Best Java Reporting Tool in 1999, 2000<ref>[http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/36457.htm
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2000 Readers Choice Awards]</ref>, 2002<ref>[http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:7o4vUIaUKRIJ:www.sys-con.com/node/35657+2002+jdj+readers+choice+award+inetsoft&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a 'The Oscars of the Software Industry]</ref>, 2003<ref>[http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/43939.htm 'The Oscars of the Software Industry']</ref>, 2005<ref>[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]</ref>, 2006<ref name="test">[ http://www.inetsoft.com/company/pressr/best_java_reporting_tool.html InetSoft Wins Best Java Reporting Tool], Best Java Reporting Tool.</ref>, and in 2007.<ref>[http://java.sys-con.com/read/417254_2.htm SYS-CON Media Announces the 2007 Java Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards]</ref> Also in 2007, InetSoft's Style Report Analytic Edition won Best Java Business Intelligence Tool <ref>[http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/431007.htm 2007 Java Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards]</ref>, the first year it had been nominated and the final year of the JDJ Awards program.


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==Current Product Lines==
'''Commercial Products'''


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=====Commercial Products=====
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*Style Intelligence is InetSoft's main business intelligence platform. It provides a visualization-driven approach to reporting, dashboards, and visual analysis.


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*Style Intelligence is InetSoft's main business intelligence platform. It provides a visualization-driven approach to reporting, dashboards, and visual analysis.<ref name="InetSoft Products">[http://www.example.org InetSoft Products], InetSoft.com, 2010-10-01.</ref>
*Style Scope is an edition of Style Intelligence that includes the patent-pending Data Block technology that is focused on data visualization, plus monitoring and analytic dashboards.


*Style Report Enterprise is an edition of Style Intelligence that focuses on enterprise reporting. It delivers carefully formatted information to a wide business user community.
*Style Scope is an edition of Style Intelligence that includes the patent-pending Data Block technology that is focused on [[interactive visualization]], plus monitoring and analytic dashboards.<ref name="InetSoft Products" />


*Style Report Professional is an edition of Style Intelligence that includes only a reporting engine and authoring environment. It also embeds reporting capabilities into other applications.
*Style Report Enterprise is an edition of Style Intelligence that focuses on enterprise reporting. It delivers carefully formatted information to a wide business user community.<ref name="InetSoft Products" />


'''Free Applications'''
=====Free Applications=====


*Style Scope Free Edition is a small-footprint server that delivers Web-based interactive Flash dashboards and visualizations that can be shared within an organization. It provides support for multi-source data mashups and full admin and permission controls.
*Style Scope Free Edition is a small-footprint server that delivers Web-based interactive Flash dashboards and visualizations that can be shared within an organization. It provides support for multi-source data mashups and full admin and permission controls.<ref name="InetSoft Products" />


*Visualize Free is a visual analysis application that allows users to explore their own data visually and interactively. It requires no software installation.
*Visualize Free is a visual analysis application that allows users to explore their own data visually and interactively. It requires no software installation.<ref name="InetSoft Products" />


*Style Chart is a charting engine and JavaScript API for Web developers to embed charts and graphs in Web pages via AJAX.
*Style Chart is a charting engine and JavaScript [[API]] for Web developers to embed charts and graphs in Web pages via AJAX.<ref name="InetSoft Products" />


== References ==
== References ==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.inetsoft.com/ Company site]
*[http://www.inetsoft.com/ Official InetSoft Website]
*[http://www.eswlab.com/ Engineering Software LAB, the Israeli resellers for InetSoft products]
*[http://community.inetsoft.com/blog/ Official InetSoft Blog]
*[http://www.alignkpital.com/ Align Kpital, Spanish resellers for InetSoft products]
*[http://www.eswlab.com/ Engineering Software LAB, Israeli resellers for InetSoft products]
*[http://www.seeinfobiz.com/ SEEinfobiz, Indian resellers for InetSoft products]
*[http://www.u3imc.com/ U3imc, UK resellers for InetSoft products]
*[http://visualizefree.com/ Free Data Visualization Application]
*[http://visualizefree.com/ Free Data Visualization Application]
*[http://chart.inetsoft.com/ Free Embeddable Charting Software]
*[http://chart.inetsoft.com/ Free Embeddable Charting Software]

Revision as of 22:05, 7 October 2010

InetSoft Technology Corporation
Company typePrivately-Owned
IndustryBusiness intelligence tools
Founded1996
HeadquartersPiscataway, New Jersey, USA
Key people
Luke Liang, Co-Founder and CEO; Larry Liang, Co-Founder and Chief Systems Architect
Websitehttp://www.inetsoft.com

InetSoft Technology Corporation is a privately owned multinational computer software company that develops free and commercial web-based business intelligence applications. The company was founded in 1996, and currently has over 120 employees between its corporate headquarters in Piscataway, New Jersey, development offices in Beijing and Xi'an, China, and a sales office in Bonn, Germany.

The company offers various applications that focus on operational BI, enterprise reporting, data visualization and embeddable reporting. InetSoft’s solutions have been deployed at over 3,000 organizations worldwide, including 25% of Fortune 500 companies, spanning all types of industries.[1]


History

InetSoft was co-founded in 1996 by siblings Larry and Luke Liang. Prior to founding InetSoft, Larry Liang, was involved in the early research of e-commerce and interactive Web technologies and served as a research scientist at Bell Communications Research (now Telcordia Technologies), and held various technical positions at Bell Labs, AT&T, and Lucent Technologies.[2] Luke Liang had worked for Goldman Sachs in a variety of technology and management positions and held consulting positions with both JP Morgan, Chase and the Union Bank of Switzerland.[2] Both hold Master's Degrees in Computer Science.[2]

The company began with four employees working out of a garage in Piscataway NJ and focused on developing an open standards Java based platform that would be fully compatible with Java/XML, relational databases, internet technologies and legacy systems.[3] The initial product released was Style Report, which focused on reporting and data analysis. Because of its Java roots and small footprint, Style Report has been used in both client-side and server-side Java applications. Over the years, InetSoft's products evolved alongside Java to become server-based Web solutions. The product line has grown to include reporting, dashboards and visual analysis.

Product Development History

InetSoft’s software is based on open standards[4] technology that incorporates XML, SOAP, Java language, and JavaScript. While the primary design goal is easy integration with other open standards based software, access to third party proprietary software has been added in recent years. Additionally, the company licenses by CPU rather than by named user.[5] The history of InetSoft product development is as follows:

  • In 1998 Style Report was introduced. It was a developer tool that could be used as a report generation engine for both desktop Java applications and web applications.[6] It provided support for tabular, flow, "banded" (like Crystal Reports), and mixed layouts. Its embedded report scripting engine was the Mozilla Rhino engine.
  • In 2000 Style Report EE was introduced. It was based on the same reporting engine and provided multi-threaded report generation with caching, drill-down reports, parameter reports, and search, sort and filtering features. It also featured ad hoc query for modifying or creating reports.
  • In 2004 Style Report Analytic was introduced. It was a product for operational BI that provided reports, dashboards, OLAP, a balanced scorecard, and alerts. It used patent-pending Data Block technology for accessing disparate data sources, a process known as data mashup.[7]
  • In 2007 Style Scope and Style Intelligence were introduced. Style Scope was a web-based dashboard design product that used Adobe Flex to deliver a Rich Internet application. Style Intelligence offered dashboards, reporting, and analysis.
  • In 2008 InetSoft began to offer BI on-demand[8] and a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for Salesforce.com. The service added interactive dashboards and visual analysis features for existing Salesforce.com users.[9]
  • In 2009 Visualize Free and Style Chart free hosted services were introduced.[10] Visualize Free provided multi-dimensional visual analysis. Style Chart provided an embeddable AJAX charting engine.
  • In 2010 Style Intelligence 10.3 and Style Scope Free Edition were released. The updated Style Intelligence release increased geographic data binding capabilities and added data access for the following enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications: SAP AG, Siebel Systems, JD Edwards, and PeopleSoft. Style Scope Free Edition was a free downloadable server for dashboards and visualization.

Awards

InetSoft Style Report won Best Java Reporting Tool in 1999, 2000[11], 2002[12], 2003[13], 2005[14], 2006[15], and in 2007.[16] Also in 2007, InetSoft's Style Report Analytic Edition won Best Java Business Intelligence Tool [17], the first year it had been nominated and the final year of the JDJ Awards program.

Current Product Lines

Commercial Products
  • Style Intelligence is InetSoft's main business intelligence platform. It provides a visualization-driven approach to reporting, dashboards, and visual analysis.[18]
  • Style Scope is an edition of Style Intelligence that includes the patent-pending Data Block technology that is focused on interactive visualization, plus monitoring and analytic dashboards.[18]
  • Style Report Enterprise is an edition of Style Intelligence that focuses on enterprise reporting. It delivers carefully formatted information to a wide business user community.[18]
Free Applications
  • Style Scope Free Edition is a small-footprint server that delivers Web-based interactive Flash dashboards and visualizations that can be shared within an organization. It provides support for multi-source data mashups and full admin and permission controls.[18]
  • Visualize Free is a visual analysis application that allows users to explore their own data visually and interactively. It requires no software installation.[18]
  • Style Chart is a charting engine and JavaScript API for Web developers to embed charts and graphs in Web pages via AJAX.[18]

References

  1. ^ InetSoft About Us, InetSoft.com, 2010-10-07.
  2. ^ a b c InetSoft Management Team, InetSoft.com, 2010-10-07 .
  3. ^ Company Background, Internet Archive, 2010-10-07.
  4. ^ Kavanagh, Eric: TDWI Radio News: InetSoft Focuses on Operational BI, TDWI, July 25, 2007.
  5. ^ Smith, Mark: InetSoft Brings Operational BI Alive in iSuite 9, BusinessIntelligence.com, 2007-08-03
  6. ^ Eckerson, Wayne: "Best Practices in Operational BI", TDWI, October 2007.
  7. ^ Powell, Ron: "InetSoft Innovates Operational Business Intelligence", BeyeNETWORK, 2007-06-04.
  8. ^ Schwartz, Karen: "Business Intelligence That's Easy on the Wallet", eWeek, 2008-04-09.
  9. ^ Shanbhag, Raju: "InetSoft Intros Customer Service-Focused Dashboard", TMCnet, 2009-04-08.
  10. ^ Haines, Steven: Interview: InetSoft Technology, InformIT, 2006-06-30
  11. ^ [http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/36457.htm 2000 Readers Choice Awards]
  12. ^ 'The Oscars of the Software Industry
  13. ^ 'The Oscars of the Software Industry'
  14. ^ SYS-CON Announces Readers' Choice Awards for SOA, Java, Linux, .NET, MX, ColdFusion, and XML Technologies
  15. ^ [ http://www.inetsoft.com/company/pressr/best_java_reporting_tool.html InetSoft Wins Best Java Reporting Tool], Best Java Reporting Tool.
  16. ^ SYS-CON Media Announces the 2007 Java Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards
  17. ^ 2007 Java Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards
  18. ^ a b c d e f InetSoft Products, InetSoft.com, 2010-10-01.
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