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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; Mark Flaherty CMO; Rajiv Subramanian CSO
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 2011 Style Intelligence 11.0 was released. New features include the Style Studio which unifies the developer and administration tools for data mashups, report and dashboard design.

Product 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.

In 2011, InetSoft was named to Information Management's list of top "40 Vendors We're Watching in 2011" for its Style Intelligence 11.0 release and patent pending Data Block technology.[18]

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.[19]
  • 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.[19]
  • 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.[19]
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.[19]
  • Visualize Free is a visual analysis application that allows users to explore their own data visually and interactively. It requires no software installation.[19]
  • Style Chart is a charting engine and JavaScript API for Web developers to embed charts and graphs in Web pages via AJAX.[19]

Third Party Articles

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. ^ 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. ^ 40 Vendors We're Watching in 2011 Information Management March 1, 2011
  19. ^ a b c d e f InetSoft Products, InetSoft.com, 2010-10-01.
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