Flight Data Services Enhances Safety Reporting with InetSoft's Business Intelligence Software

Flight Data Services (FDS) is a provider of comprehensive flight data monitoring services to commercial and private aircraft operators. FDS focuses on the advancement of aviation safety through the innovative use of flight data. The company helps aircraft operators comply with stringent international civil aviation regulations and certification guidelines, maximize operational efficiency, and minimize environmental impact. By combining expert knowledge of flight data, aviation safety, and information technology, FDS contributes to making air travel safer.

Flight Data Services (FDS), a leading provider of flight data monitoring services, was faced with the challenge of translating raw black box flight data into operational business intelligence. This process is crucial for an aircraft operator’s safety program as it allows for the identification of trends and thorough investigation of minor incidents. These insights enable safety managers to improve operational procedures and training, raise awareness of safety issues within the operation, and assist management in making informed business decisions. FDS needed a solution that would allow them to provide their customers with a secure report portal from which they could instantly and interactively generate their own reports and drill down into data.

FDS selected InetSoft’s Style Intelligence to provide its customers with custom interactive reporting derived from black box flight data. The decision was made after a careful selection process, during which FDS evaluated about a dozen similar products. InetSoft’s product was chosen because it integrated well with FDS's applications and business processes. Unique among similar solutions, InetSoft’s product provided both static and dynamic reporting, enabling FDS's customers to investigate their data against pre-determined measurables. This functionality provides FDS's customers with a powerful benchmarking tool to determine how many similar events have occurred over an established period, and whether they are increasing or decreasing in regularity, effectively measuring their safety program against past performance.

• The implementation of InetSoft’s Style Intelligence has allowed FDS to provide its customers with a secure report portal from which they can instantly and interactively generate their own reports and drill down into data. This has enhanced the ability of FDS's customers to investigate their data against pre-determined measurables, providing them with a powerful benchmarking tool. As a result, FDS's customers can now determine how many similar events have occurred over an established period, and whether they are increasing or decreasing in regularity. This has effectively enabled them to measure their safety program against past performance, leading to improved operational procedures and training, and increased awareness of safety issues within their operations.

• InetSoft’s product was selected after evaluating about a dozen similar products, indicating a high level of competitiveness.

• InetSoft’s solutions have been deployed at over 5,000 organizations worldwide, including 25% of Fortune 500 companies.

• Style Intelligence is designed to meet high performance demands using real-time data sources for hundreds or even thousands of simultaneous users.