How you can cut your reporting requirements turnaround time and simultaneously drastically improve your business intelligence output.

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WHITESPAPER
Birst Agile Business Analytics
The Fastest Way to Answer Your Most Pressing
Business Questions
Birst agile business analytics delivers accurate, actionable content in an intuitive,
self-service environment. It allows users to combine data from different source
systems to get answers to their most pressing business concerns in real time. And,
when the questions change, it adapts quickly to the new request.
Self-Service, Business Intelligence that is Fast, Easy, and Affordable
Birst is the industry’s first end-to-end BI solution that supports every BI style
Birst interactive dashboards summarize from interactive dashboards, ad-hoc analysis, and visualization to pixel-perfect
information from disparate systems such report writing. Birst delivers accurate, actionable content in a self-service
as sales, marketing, HR and finance into a
holistic view of the organization. environment. Birst is easy enough to use for the business user and powerful
enough for the most advanced analytics, so that more of your organization can
benefit from the power of better insight.
“Birst ensures Get Up and Running in Days or Weeks, not Months or Years
A customized Birst solution is deployed in weeks and subsequent features
that we’re all are released iteratively so organizations can get results faster. Birst’s solution
ensures data accuracy and automation, easy integration and aggregation and
looking at the enterprise-wide scalability.
data through 1/3 the Cost, Time and Resources of Big BI Vendors
Birst’s ease-of-use and self-service capabilities allow even the largest
the same implementations to be managed by a single administrator. When compared to
Micro Strategy, SAP Business Objects, and Oracle OBIEE, Birst typically requires
lens, so that 1/3 the cost, time and resources.
we can more Combine Data from Multiple Systems into a Single Holistic View
Birst provides data integration from on-premise databases, flat and structured
easily reach files, operational and cloud applications. Integrate data from SAP R/3 or BW,
Salesforce.com, Microsoft Analysis Services, Apache Hadoop, Hyperion Essbase
consensus cubes and more. Raw data can be extracted and uploaded or accessed in real-
time with Birst Live Access.
and make Automate Complex Data Management Tasks
better, faster Birst’s multi-dimensional data layer and automated data management
activities address the challenges of data access and integration. With Birst you
decisions.” can generate fact tables, dimension tables, join relationships, and the scripts
for loading data into a data store -- with just a few clicks.
—Nelson Santini,
Vice President of Sales Operations
Collaborate and Easily Share Analysis with Colleagues
Internap
Users can annotate dashboards with “sticky notes” to collaborate with peers
and securely share critical analysis throughout the organization. Distribute

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results via email, file servers, or on mobile devices. Every report and dashboard
can be scheduled, exported to PDF, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV and distributed via
email throughout the enterprise.
Birst features a graphical user interface for logical data modeling that allows developers to quickly define
data source relationships and visualize the auto-generated star schema mode.
Big Data Services
Bypass the huge infrastructure required to collect, manage, aggregate and
analyze Big Data. Birst Big Data Services dramatically reduces the costs of
analyzing large volumes of data and makes analysis and distribution of insight
-- on structured and unstructured information -- easy.
Distributed Business Analytics
Enable business users to augment corporate data residing in the data
warehouse with local data in personal analytic sandboxes. Birst frees IT from
providing individual data feeds to departments or individuals, while ensuring
data integrity, security, and governance of the master data.
Deploy BI the Way you Want it – in the Cloud or on Premise
Maintain control of where your data resides. Birst can be deployed either in the
Cloud or as an on-premise virtual appliance. As your BI strategy evolves, Birst
allows rapid migration to a new deployment model.
Birst is used by organizations to support critical performance-based decisions
such as:
• Sales: pipeline management, lead management, sales performance metrics
• Marketing: marketing effectiveness and ROI, marketing impact on sales,
operations, or customer service
• Finance: capital efficiency, investment effectiveness, project profitability,
cost-based analysis
• Customer Service: call center effectiveness, resolution rates and times, agent
productivity metrics
• Operations: productivity and efficiency metrics, inventory management,
completion rates

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Birst Discovery Edition is simple-to-use, quick-to-deploy, and empowers
business analysts to intuitively explore data and build reports in minutes
without the need for data modeling. Birst Discovery Edition is well suited
for projects that require flexible data-discovery and analytics without a data
warehouse or need to capture change information.
Birst Professional Edition builds on the data discovery capabilities of the
Discovery Edition with operational reporting, mobile BI and support for SAP R3
and BW. It is well suited for multi-developer projects that integrate enterprise
data sources and publish operational reports.
Birst Enterprise Edition includes data discovery, analytics, Mobile BI and
operational reports with support for all enterprise data sources. Additionally,
it includes integrated ETL and an automated multidimensional data warehouse.
Birst Enterprise Edition combines all components to develop, deploy and
maintain enterprise- class business analytics, dashboarding and data
discovery solutions.
Birst Inc. About Birst
153 Kearny Street Birst is the leader in agile business analytics. It offers a single place to manage all of a business’ analytics and agility
San Francisco, CA 94108 to answer questions that span departments, data sources, and deployments—across both public or private Clouds.
Call toll free: (866) 940-1496 Birst gives users the fastest way to answer their most pressing business questions—and then all the ones they didn’t
Email us: info@birst.com know to ask. At one-third the cost, time, and staff of traditional big BI, Birst brings the benefits of analytics and fact-
www.birst.com based decision-making to a much broader audience. For more information, visit www.birst.com.