BI dashboards

Top 5 Reasons Your Application Needs Dashboards

By | Analytics | No Comments
Everybody wants to see the big picture. The challenge comes from giving them the tools to do so. And in business, the big picture is often made up of a thousand little ones. Getting all that information in one place is no easy task. That’s where Business Intelligence dashboards come in.

Without delivering dashboards in your BI analytics solution, your software company’s customers likely miss the meaning of your data your application collects. In fact, your app likely pulls in more data than your business users are even aware is available. However, data has no value unless it is gathered, organized, and easily understood. Without the ability to analyze data, the numbers are pointless.

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izenda named a product leader for 2020 in reporting dashboard software

Izenda Named a Leader in Reporting Dashboard Software

By | News & Events
The good folks over at Crozdesk, a leading Business Software discovery platform, named Izenda as one of the top 20 Reporting Dashboard Software Products of 2020! For this list, Crozdesk analyzed over 300 software products. Izenda was also named a leader in Business Intelligence earlier this month. And in 2017, awarded as a Category leader in both BI and Analytics.

Check out the full list below!

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Drag and Drop Your Way to Business Intelligence

By | Product Updates
Izenda updates its dashboards and views to allow customization through a drag-and-drop interface.Dashboard design and view customization just got easier for end users with the latest update to Izenda’s self-service, embedded Business Intelligence and Analytics platform.

It just makes sense to put all of the controls for dashboard design and view customization in one place for the user – so that’s what Izenda’s team did to provide the most seamlessly embedded and user-friendly BI and analytics platform. No other embedded BI software lets end users design and view dashboards in one place. Read More

9 Questions to Ask Your Reporting Vendor When Embedding a BI Reporting Platform

By | Embedded BI
izenda supports a variety of on premise and cloud databasesThe explosion of structured and unstructured data began long before IoT made an appearance. This increase in the volume of data stored in relational database management systems, as well as NoSQL databases, has made access to it increasingly important.  Users expect the ability to create
self-service reports
on a web-based, device-independent platform.  Selecting an Embedded Reporting tool is a decision that will have consequences for years to come.  Because the reporting components will be so deeply embedded in your systems, it’s critical to pick the right one.  Here are 9 questions to ask when selecting an embedded reporting platform. Read More

The Hunger Games Interactive Website: Cutting-edge Web Technology

By | For Developers, IT and Engineering, Microsoft

Internet Explorer hits the mark for web engagement with The Hunger Games Explorer. The film adaptation of Catching Fire, the second in the Hunger Games trilogy, doesn’t come out until November. But Internet Explorer partnered with the Games web team and RED Interactive Agency to give fans an edgy, interactive online portal that gives them everything they need to whet their appetite while they wait.

Hunger games website screen shotThe team built this site on some of the very latest web technologies, and it’s especially designed for the touch-screen, tablet experience. There’s all the regular stuff, like trailers and exclusive photos, but there is also content to keep users coming back. Fans can sign up and get their own District ID, and go behind the scenes on the making of the film via this futuristic online content portal.

The team took special pains to ensure the technology lives up to the demand for excellent user experience. This comes across in the responsive grid layout designed to be just as engaging no matter whether the user is on a mobile phone or tablet. “Taking a mobile-first approach [to back-end design] allowed us to ensure we used a single code base across multiple platforms and devices,” the behind-the-scenes website reveals. The grid was built using JavaScript.

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Izenda Reports – Version 6.6 – New Features!

By | Izenda Reports, Product Updates, Visualizations

Izenda has published the release candidate version 6.6.

Some of the great new features include:

  • EAV Support
  • Izenda Forms
  • Html Printing
  • CSS In PDFs
  • Data Source Categories
  • Column Groups
  • Auto Drill Down
  • Expressions
  • VG Hierarchy
  • Field Value
  • Equals Autocomplete
  • Equals Checkboxes
  • Equals Calendar
  • Cancel Preview Right To Left Language Support
  • Animated Gauges
  • jQuery Date Calendar
  • Dashboard Filters

This video highlights some of the new features:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xLMBikUR4z0

The latest version of Izenda can be downloaded here.

Latest release notes can always be found on the Izenda wiki.

Most Report Designers are Built for Developers, Not Business Users

By | Customer Success, Izenda Reports
Many developers and professional report writers are used to Visual Studio and other similar interfaces that require years of mastery to learn.  Since most other ad-hoc tools cater toward the developer, they have built out UIs that mimic an IDE (Integrated Development Environment). These tools were built from the ground up as desktop report writers.

Izenda’s Report Designer was built with the business power user in mind. Reports and Dashboards can be built in a matter of minutes, compared to the added complexity of the heavier desktop components that require you to precisely lay out every aspect of the report and publish it to the web.

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