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Birst 7 brings centralised
and decentralised
analytics to the enterprise
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irst, an Infor company and a leader
in Cloud Business Intelligence (BI)
and Analytics for the Enterprise,
has announced Birst 7, a major new
software release that brings centralised and
decentralised analytics to the enterprise, in a
single platform.
The new release empowers enterprises to
deliver trusted, governed insights, across the
organisation, balancing freedom and control,
through a modern, consumer-grade user
interface designed for scalability and speed.
“Birst 7 provides an entirely new data
modeling experience that extends Birst’s
patented data warehouse automation
technology and a completely re-imagined
administration module for managing
centralised and decentralised deployments,
including new auditing features and more
granular user management capabilities,”
said Mark Bannerman, Managing Director at
EOH Infor Services, Infor’s Master Partner in
Africa, operating as a Gold Partner.
“This enables enterprise organisations
to democratise data modelling while
still maintaining centralised compliance
and governance. Key capabilities include
enterprise data modeling and self-service
data preparation in a unified, easy-to-use
interface, enterprise administration with
advanced data orchestration, and Birst
Smart Analytics.”
Birst Smart Analytics is a new set of
AI-enabled capabilities that elevate
organisations above traditional reports
and dashboards, using Machine Learning
algorithms to power intelligent insights not
previously available to business users.
The Birst 7 software release is generally
available now, as both a cloud-based
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offering and as an on-premise virtual
appliance. The virtual appliance offers the
exact same rich capabilities, upgrade path
and level of support as the enterprise cloud
version, so enterprises can move from one
deployment model to another to meet their
strategic and operational goals.
“With 14 different ERP and reporting instances
distributed globally, one consistent definition
of revenue was challenging to calculate,
especially when using different currency rates,”
said Marcus Williams, Business Intelligence
Developer at Carlisle Fluid Technologies, a
global company that manufactures equipment
for the supply and application of paints,
coatings and sprayed materials.
“We have been successfully using Birst
over the last three years to move users to a
central BI system across regions, while also
giving our business units the freedom and
agility to do their own analysis to better
track information across finance, sales, and
supply chain.
“We can now maintain a single version of
revenue and continually build out trusted
KPIs, based on Birst’s unique Value Based
Design methodology. We are excited about
Birst 7 because our growing deployment
will greatly benefit from productivity gains
using a new, modern interface to onboard
new developers and manage more complex
workflows for data integration and loading,
as well as granular user/role management
and auditing.”
Organisations are currently challenged to
manage governed enterprise analytics from
a centralised administration team, while still
empowering local, self-service customisation
from a globally distributed, decentralised
analytics team.
Birst 7 enables organisations to create
enterprise-wide, trusted Key Performance
Indicators (KPIs) and complex enterprise
data models, and, at the same time, it allows
decentralised teams to extend analytics with
their own data, in a way that is easy to use,
scalable and repeatable.
In addition, control of centrally managed
data assets can be shared with decentralised
teams, without the need to replicate or
duplicate data, ensuring continuity and trust.
“We’re focused on making everyone from
enterprise administrators, to data modellers,
to business users, more productive and on
driving actionable analytics out to the edge
of the enterprise,” said Bhargav Addala, Birst
Vice President of Product Management. n
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