Birst opens up its ETL capability to provide greater control and flexibility with Advanced ETL Services.
Companies with advanced ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) needs can now take advantage of the customizable Advanced ETL Services in Birst. With the Advanced ETL, you can:
- Control your own data transformations
- Leverage a fully scalable middle tier for transformation processing
- Stage intermediate tables and perform transformations on data prior to loading
- Enable procedural scripts across records as well as one-by-one
Advanced space administration for greater control, flexibility, and security.
Birst 4 provides detailed administration for greater flexibility, control, and security.
Since Birst is often used to deliver analytics and reporting to large numbers of people in a department or company, Birst 4 increases the administrator’s ability to administer data sources, data processing, and access provisioning.
Key new administrative features include:- New top level navigation providing access to three main areas: Ad Hoc, Dashboards, and Admin
- New admin page with four main areas: Manage Space, Define Sources, Process Data and Manage Access
- New accordion-style dialog for managing data sources
- New graphical representation of dimensional model
Setting up report distribution is easy in Birst 4.
Birst 4 offers a fully integrated reporting environment , including pixel perfect reporting, banded report writing, alerts, and exception reports.
Rather than struggle with the integration of multiple reporting packages, you can get all of your reporting needs solved within Birst 4. Birst 4’s fully integrated reporting environment includes key features like:
- Pixel perfect report writing
- Banded reporting
- Operational reporting
- Report distribution via PDF, Excel spreadsheet, or embedded within an HTML email
- Scheduled report distribution
- Alerts
- Exception reports
Sales pipeline report from a Birst for Salesforce implementation.
Birst 4 provides Application Templates for popular operational applications like Salesforce CRM.
With Birst Application Template for Salesforce, you can get critical sales analysis and reports within minutes of providing your Salesforce login.
An Application Template includes a data connector, metadata, and a set of standard reports. For Salesforce CRM users, these are reports such as:
- Pipeline Reporting
- Opportunity Reporting
- Snapshots
If you're interested in creating custom reports, or reporting on custom objects, the Salesforce Template gives you a quick start by allowing you to quickly and easily access your Salesforce CRM data for analysis.
And because it's Birst, you can easily combine your Salesforce CRM data with data from other sources, such as spreadsheets, databases, or other operational applications, so that you can easily look across your business and understand things like:
- How marketing campaigns and sales efforts are working together to create pipeline
- How forecasts are turning into real revenues recorded by the accounting system
- Which teams are top performers and why – so that you can transfer their best practices to all of your sales teams
Learn more about how Birst 4 Empowers the Business User
There’s even more in Birst 4! Contact a Birst representative to learn the details about how Birst 4 can transform your organization.
