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[/caption]Like enterprises, even small and midsize organizations can have complex BI needs. Birst 4 meets the needs of the most demanding business intelligence environments by expanding upon Birst’s automated, integrated business intelligence to help companies along three main areas:
Any Data Anywhere
- Birst Live Access
- Birst Unified Metadata Model
- Birst Cloud Connectors
Greater Control and Capability
- Advanced ETL Services
- Enhanced Administration and Catalog Management
- Birst Reporting Services
- Birst Alerts and Exception Reports
- Birst Application Templates, including Birst for Salesforce.com
Empowering the Business User
- Smart Dashboards
- Drag and Drop Pivot Tables
The key features from each of these areas are:
- Birst Live Access
The newest addition to Birst Data Services, Birst Live Access allows organizations to make direct use of pre-existing data warehouses, datamarts, or local databases, leveraging Birst’s advanced analytical capabilities without having to upload data. Data stays securely behind the firewall, but can be analyzed “in the cloud” with Birst, as well as analyzed in combination with data from other uploaded sources, such as spreadsheets or uploaded databases. Birst Live Access allows sophisticated organizations to make the most of existing data resources without having to upload information to the cloud. Learn more about Live Access.
- Birst Advanced ETL Services
Extending Birst’s automated analytical data store functionality, Birst Advanced ETL Services allows organizations to create very sophisticated and layered data transformations that traditionally have required complex and expensive on-premise ETL tools. Fully integrated into Birst’s Unified Metadata Model, complex transformations are far easier to create and faster to deploy, and it’s far easier to ensure metadata consistency. Learn more about Birst Advanced ETL Services.
- Birst Reporting Services
Birst provides a fully integrated reporting environment that includes pixel perfect reporting, operational reporting, banded reporting, alerts, and operational, real-time and exception reports. In traditional BI solutions, each of these elements is often provided separately and requires integration. Birst is the only SaaS vendor to provide fully functional report authoring and distribution services. Learn more about Birst Reporting Services.
- Smart Dashboards
The upgraded Flex dashboards now offer business users even greater capability to explore data trends and discover answers to critical business questions entirely on their own, without any reliance on IT or specialized business analysts. Advanced filtering, drill-down capability, and "drag and drop" controls put answers at business users' fingertips, without coding. Learn more about Smart Dashboards.
Customers are already excited about Birst 4.
Existing Birst customers have already thoroughly evaluated the new Birst 4 solution and are giving it strong reviews. “Children’s Choice is dedicated to providing high quality childcare, and our existing Birst deployment has already given us tremendous insight into performance improvement opportunities that uphold our tradition of excellence,” said Dan Lawler, CFO of Children’s Choice, a provider of early care and education programs to children and families. “After getting a sneak preview of Birst 4, we’re excited about the advanced functionality and improvements for business user self-service reporting. We’re looking forward to deploying it broadly throughout our organization.”
For the Birst 4 press release, click here.
For an overview of Birst 4, click here.
