InetSoft

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InetSoft Technology Corporation
TypePrivately Owned
Industry Business intelligence tools
Founded1996;28 years ago (1996)
Headquarters Piscataway, New Jersey, United States
Key people
Luke Liang, Co-Founder and CEO; Larry Liang, Co-Founder and Chief Systems Architect; Mark Flaherty CMO; Rajiv Subramanian CSO
Website 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, and development offices in Beijing and Xi'an, China.

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The company offers applications focusing 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. [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 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, New Jersey. It 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] Its initial product was Style Report, which focused on reporting and data analysis. Style Report claims to have a small footprint, and has been used in 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 [ citation needed ] 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. [4] Here is a history of InetSoft product development.

Product awards

InetSoft Style Report won Best Java Reporting Tool in 1999, 2000, [14] 2002, [15] 2003, [16] 2005, [17] 2006, [18] and in 2007. [19] Also in 2007, InetSoft's Style Report Analytic Edition won Best Java Business Intelligence Tool, [20] 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". [21]

Current product lines

Commercial products

Free applications

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References

  1. ↑ InetSoft About Us
  2. 1 2 3 InetSoft Management Team
  3. ↑ Company Background, Internet Archive, 2010-10-07.
  4. ↑ Smith, Mark: InetSoft Brings Operational BI Alive in iSuite 9, BusinessIntelligence.com, 2007-08-03
  5. ↑ Eckerson, Wayne: "Best Practices in Operational BI", TDWI, October 2007.
  6. ↑ Powell, Ron: "InetSoft Innovates Operational Business Intelligence", BeyeNETWORK, 2007-06-04.
  7. ↑ Schwartz, Karen: "Business Intelligence That's Easy on the Wallet", eWeek, 2008-04-09.
  8. ↑ Shanbhag, Raju: "InetSoft Intros Customer Service-Focused Dashboard", TMCnet, 2009-04-08.
  9. ↑ Haines, Steven: Interview: InetSoft Technology Archived 2015-09-11 at the Wayback Machine , InformIT, 2006-06-30
  10. ↑ Version 11.3 Release Notes
  11. ↑ Version 11.4 Release Notes
  12. ↑ "InetSoft's New BI Application Release Features New Layout Option to Efficiently Serve Desktop, Mobile, and Print Sizes". www.inetsoft.com. Retrieved 2016-11-08.
  13. ↑ "Business Intelligence News | InetSoft Media Room". www.inetsoft.com. Retrieved 2016-11-08.
  14. ↑ 2000 Readers Choice Awards
  15. ↑ 'The Oscars of the Software Industry Archived 2013-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑ 'The Oscars of the Software Industry'
  17. ↑ SYS-CON Announces Readers' Choice Awards for SOA, Java, Linux, .NET, MX, ColdFusion, and XML Technologies Archived 2007-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
  18. ↑ InetSoft Wins Best Java Reporting Tool, Best Java Reporting Tool.
  19. ↑ SYS-CON Media Announces the 2007 Java Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards
  20. ↑ 2007 Java Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards
  21. ↑ 40 Vendors We're Watching in 2011 Archived 2011-10-15 at the Wayback Machine Information Management March 1, 2011
  22. 1 2 3 InetSoft Products, InetSoft.com, 2010-10-01.
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