Birst is a comprehensive Business Intelligence (BI) suite – this means that all of the required components for advanced business intelligence are included and fully integrated, so deployment is quick and easy, without compromising on functionality.
Birst is real business intelligence – it's not "BI light" or "BI limited" or just "visualization" or "reporting" or “pivot tables on the Web”. Birst provides all of the functionality that you expect from an enterprise class Business Intelligence (BI) solution, but it's affordable enough for small to medium businesses and enterprise departments. As a cloud service, Birst allows you to upload raw data directly, avoiding the need to build a local database instance. However, Birst also does not require you to upload any data and can be connected to any existing database on-premise in the same way on-premise Business Intelligence (BI) products do.
Birst is offered as a subscription service delivered over the internet instead of as an on-premise software installation. As the premier Cloud Business Intelligence (BI) solution, Birst is faster to deploy, affordable, and demonstrates a far greater time-to-value than any on-premise solution.
Birst is the only enterprise-class Business Intelligence (BI) suite to combine the economic benefits of the cloud with the option to host and control your data at your site within your own firewall.
- Increased IT Productivity
- Complete, fully integrated Business Intelligence (BI) suite
- Single metadata and data security layer
- Business Intelligence (BI) lifecycle automation
- Unprecedented Self-Service for End Users
- Highly intuitive Web 2.0 interface for all functions
- Ad-hoc capabilities in the Dashboards
- Automated exploration dashboards
- Lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Software-as-a-service (SaaS)
- Single, fully integrated product
- Automation of time and resource-intensive BI deployment tasks
- IT Security & Control
- Secure access to on-premise data
- SAS 70 Type II for data stored in Birst
Benefits for IT
Imagine a world in which every user across your organization has multi-dimensional data for analysis and reporting at their fingertips, and the ability to create data visualization dashboards in minutes – all from within a Web browser. In this world you are able to deploy an end-user friendly Business Intelligence (BI) solution in just a few days, with 80% of the backend data integration automatically done for you, eliminating your reporting backlog.
Birst is the only end-to-end Business Intelligence (BI) suite built for the cloud with fully integrated ETL, Enterprise Reporting, Ad-hoc Query and Analysis and Dashboarding. Birst is delivered as an on-demand model but also has the unique ability to report both on data that stays on premise as well as data that is loaded into the cloud.
- Take advantage of the power and security of traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools without high licensing, deployment and maintenance costs
- Automate the creation of physical and logical data models
- Deliver true end-user self service while maintaining IT control
- Reap the benefits of a pay-as-you-go model and only pay for what you need
- Avoid additional infrastructure set up and maintenance costs
Benefits for Business Users
Birst provides business users with a faster and easier way to conduct ad-hoc analysis, create pixel-perfect reports and visualize their data in highly interactive dashboards. With Birst’s modern, Web 2.0-style interface and automated default reports and dashboards, even the most casual users are immediately empowered to generate reports and build queries on their own.
- Easily create ad-hoc reports and dashboards in minutes
- Move seamlessly from one analytical function to another, within the same Web-based interface
- Create custom calculations
- Generate pixel-perfect reports for printing, scheduling and export to other formats
- Make fact-based decisions that can impact your company’s bottom line
