Birst 4 offers a complete business intelligence solution covering all of the major elements you need from business intelligence — from advanced data transforma¬tion and loading (ETL) to fully integrated reporting and presentation capabilities. Since Birst leverages automation across its integrated solution, it’s fast to deploy, powerful, and offers the ease of having everything in one place, from one vendor.
And as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS, or on-demand) offering, Birst can be implemented at a fraction of the cost and within a fraction of the time of traditional BI solutions...without skimping on capabilities or flexibility. With Birst 4, it’s possible to achieve powerful, easy-to-use analytics and reporting across your department or organization, so that you can better meet your business goals.
Key themes of Birst 4: Data Breadth, More Control, and Business User EmpowermentRepresenting a major upgrade of the Birst solution, there are a broad range of new and updated features in Birst 4. These features fall into three main areas of customer value:
- Birst Live Access – A revolutionary step in on-demand BI! Analyze data from your existing data warehouse without having to upload to the cloud. Make the most of your existing data warehouse investment, while analyzing that data with other data sources in Birst.
- Unified Metadata Model – Comprehensive metadata management throughout the entire BI process, ETL to reporting.
- Birst Cloud Connectors – Easily connect to cloud data sources like Salesforce.com and Google Analytics.
- Learn more about Any Data Anywhere
Smart Dashboard showing Operational Reporting.
Greater Control and Capability
- Advanced ETL Services – Birst opens up its ETL capability to provide greater control and flexibility. Control your own data transformations and stage intermediate tables.
- Advanced Space Administration – Greater flexibility, control, and security for Birst administrators.
- Birst Reporting Services – A fully integrated reporting environment including pixel perfect reporting, operational reporting, banded reporting, alerts, and exception reports. All fully integrated!
- Birst Alerts and Exception Reports – Automate report distribution based on critical data trends or triggers.
- Birst Application Templates – Get a quick start with Birst’s templates for popular operational systems, such as Salesforce CRM.
- Learn more about Greater Control and Capability
Drag and Drop Pivot Table creation.
- Smart Dashboards – Business users can explore their data in detail, directly from their Birst dashboards.
- "Drag and Drop" Pivot Tables – Intuitive "drag and drop" capability means fast pivot table creation.
- Learn more about Empowering the Business User
Birst 4 enables Pervasive BI at your organization.
With Birst 4, companies can achieve fast, easy, and affordable business intelligence – with all of the power necessary for advanced analysis. Since Birst 4 can be implemented quickly and broadly, more front line employees, department managers, and executives can enjoy the benefits of faster, smarter decision-making. Pervasive BI is profitable BI with Birst.
There's even more in Birst 4! Contact a Birst representative to learn the details about how Birst 4 can transform your organization.
