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Welcome to Birst!
Birst’s modern BI and analytics solution makes it easy to connect to different data sources, prepare data for analysis, discover insights using rich visualizations, create your own interactive dashboards, and share them with our pioneering networked BI technology. With no software to download and no complicated setup, you can start working with your data right away. Follow the step-by-step guides below to begin your Birst journey.
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Watch a DemoAn introduction to Birst
Go from raw data to business insights with Birst
Birst is designed to empower business people – regardless of prior experience with BI and analytics tools – to access, prepare and explore data on their own, and share their insights without support from an expert. Birst Pronto helps you effortlessly connect to different data sources, apply a variety of transformations, relate different datasets together, and add them to the Birst network of analytics. Birst Visualizer gives you a visual data discovery experience to uncover trends and outliers in your data using rich, interactive visualizations. Finally, Birst Dashboards give you a WYSIWYG interface that makes developing dashboards as easy as designing a presentation slide.
Connect
Learn how to create a new project and bring data into Birst using a variety of connectors to commonly used cloud applications like Salesforce.com, or files like Excel. Identify the tables you want to use, and even filter to get only the rows you need. Birst extracts the data for you in a few simple steps.
Watch the VideoLearn how to connect to different data sources
Prepare
Create multiple prepared sources from the “raw” or base sources extracted in the Connect step. Merge tables from multiple raw sources to efficiently manage your report data, especially when you have different uses for the same tables. Experiment with data transformations, and track or undo your changes in the transformation pipeline.
Watch the VideoLearn how to prepare the data for reporting
Relate
If you need to build a report using data from multiple sources that can’t be merged, the Relate step uses standard database joins on measures and attributes to set up relationships between the data sources you’ve imported and prepared, as well as raw data sources.
Watch the VideoLearn how to relate different data sources
Network
Network BI helps you create consistent, trusted metrics. Business users can share, connect to, and blend their data to organically build up data connections, reports and dashboards. Additionally, Birst Admins can share centrally curated data with business users who can then connect to and blend their own personal data with it. Network BI elegantly solves the data silos problem. It brings your entire organization on the same page, to confidently make business decisions on trusted insights.
Watch the VideoEliminate data silos by using Network BI
Visualize
Visualizer allows you to build reports starting with either the data or with a report type, whichever is more intuitive to you. Built in guidance helps you create meaningful visualizations with its contemporary and intuitive user interface
Watch the VideoLearn how to works with Birst Visualizer
Dashboards
Dashboards give you actionable business insight. Birst Dashboards are interactive, containing rich analytical visualizations, designed to quickly and clearly communicate important business insights. You can add key performance indicators, new reports, filters, drill-across analysis, advanced analytics like clustering and linear regression, as well as hyperlinks to seamlessly connect to your ERP or CRM transactional pages for actionable insights. Any dashboards you create are available to you in the Birst mobile app.
Watch the VideoLearn how to create a dashboard in Birst
Resources
Make the most out of your free trial with these exercises, videos, guides, and tutorials.
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Video: Consuming Dashboards
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Video: Dashboard Creation
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Video: Visualizer BQL Editor
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Video: Visualizer Column Selectors
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Video: Visualizer Geomaps
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Video: Visualizer Crosstabs
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Video: Visualizer Report Level Drilling
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Video: Visualizer Table Formatting
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Video: Visualizer Table Creation
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Video: Visualizer Chart Formatting
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Video: Network New Data
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Video: Data Prep
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