Birst Announces Birst 4, The Comprehensive Cloud BI Suite
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ORLANDO, FL -- 11/03/09 --
Today at the TDWI World Conference 2009 in
Orlando, Florida, Birst announced Birst 4, The Comprehensive Cloud BI
Suite. Birst 4 is the first and only full-featured, fully integrated
business intelligence solution, including advanced ETL services, data
warehouses created on the fly, and integrated reporting services, such as
Smart Dashboards, pixel perfect reporting, and alerts. Since Birst is a
SaaS BI solution, customers can typically start enjoying the benefits of
full-featured BI in a matter of days or weeks.
"Birst 4 is an affordable, fast, and comprehensive solution for companies
who want to deliver the benefits of BI to more people in their
organization," said Brad Peters, CEO of Birst. "With Birst 4, companies can
quickly and easily achieve a comprehensive BI solution at a cost that is
reasonable for deploying to entire executive, sales, marketing, finance,
and operations teams. With Birst 4, the goal of Pervasive BI is easily
within reach for far more organizations."
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.
-- 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.
-- 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.
-- 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.
"Birst 4 is a major breakthrough for Birst and its customers," said Kevin
Farrell, President of Fillmore Technologies, a Birst partner. "Just last
year, Birst launched the first automated, integrated BI solution. Now,
Birst revolutionizes BI yet again by providing a Comprehensive Cloud BI
Suite at a price that is affordable across the business spectrum. The
interest that we see in Birst has never been higher, and existing customers
can't wait for the upgrade."
Birst 4 will be available in mid-November. Existing Birst customers will
be upgraded automatically. Interested companies can contact Birst for a
free trial by contacting sales@birst.com. More information on Birst 4 can
be found by going to www.birst.com/birst4.
About Birst
Birst(TM) is the leading provider of on-demand business intelligence
solutions. Through its Comprehensive Cloud BI Suite, Birst brings the
benefits of fact-based decision-making to a much broader audience by making
it affordable, fast, and easy to use. Birst is the winner of the Red
Herring 100 Award 2009, the TDWI Best Practices Award 2009, and the Web
Award for Software Standard of Excellence.
For more information, please visit www.birst.com.
For more information, contact:
Kimberly Weber
Atomic PR
birst(at)atomicpr.com
(415) 402-0230
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