birst business intelligence

Birst delivers the industry’s first comprehensive business analytics suite available in the Cloud or on premise, behind the corporate firewall. Birst offers a single, powerful solution which includes all the components required for advanced business intelligence (BI) and analytics so that deployment is quick, easy and affordable without compromising on functionality.

Birst is Powerful BI

Birst provides the rich feature-set customers expect from enterprise-class BI while being affordable for the midsized organization. Whether delivered in the Cloud or on site, Birst is faster to deploy, more affordable and offers greater time-to-value than traditional BI mega-vendors while still providing the rich BI functionality for which they are known.

• Unrestricted data access and integration – datawarehouse automation, access to data from multiple data sources and operational systems (SAP BW, SalesForce, CRM, operational and financial systems) and ETL tools
• Comprehensive reports and analytics in multiple BI styles - interpretive pixel-perfect and ad hoc reports, dashboards and multi-dimensional business analytics
• Mobile delivery via iPad and mobile devices
• Web services and open API’s for easy integration
• Open, standards-based in-memory analytics with an optimized columnar data store and parallel processing that achieve dramatic gains in responsiveness

Benefits for Business Users

With Birst, business users have a faster and easier way to conduct ad hoc analysis, create pixel-perfect reports and visualize their data in highly interactive dashboards. Birst’s modern, Web 2.0-style interface and automated default reports and dashboards empowers even non-technical users to create their own reports, build dashboards and get the insight they need in an intuitive easy-to-use environment .

• Easily create ad-hoc reports and dashboards in minutes
• Move seamlessly from one analytical function to another, within the same Web-based interface
• Create powerful Excel-style custom calculations without having to rely on IT
• Generate pixel-perfect reports for printing, scheduling and export to other formats
• View critical data on your mobile device
• Make fact-based decisions that can impact your company’s bottom line

Benefits for IT

Birst is the only end-to-end SaaS-based BI suite with fully integrated ETL, datawarehouse automation, enterprise reporting, ad hoc query and dashboarding. Besides Cloud deployments, Birst has the unique ability to be installed as a fully contained virtual BI appliance or even a hybrid deployment of both. With Birst, IT can deploy an end-user friendly BI solution with multi-dimensional data for analysis and reporting to end users in weeks. IT can eliminate reporting backlogs with more than 80% of the backend data integration automatically done.

• Power and security of traditional BI tools without high licensing, deployment and maintenance costs Automation of the creation of physical and logical data models
• Single metadata and data security layer. SAS 70 Type II for data stored in Birst
• Data integration from existing BI systems such as MS Analysis Services and Hyperion Essbase cubes
• Lowest Total Cost of Ownership with a pay-as-you-go model, automation of time and resource-intensive BI deployment tasks and low maintenance costs