Birst

Birst is one of the premier cloud based BI platforms, with an exceptionally well developed data architecture. This latter is what really distinguishes the product. In the new version 6 release it is leveraging this advantage and providing users with self-service data prep – the task that is typically time…

BI Platforms with Advanced Analytics Business Intelligence has traditionally delivered a look in the rear view mirror, providing a description of what has happened or is happening. Advanced analytics are more concerned with the future, allowing businesses to predict how customers, suppliers and other aspects of business will behave. Right…

Most BI platforms support the creation of charts, graphs, tables, maps and other artifacts, which can usually be aggregated into a dashboard. As the BI market matures so users will want to do more than visualize data – which is a highly subjective type of data analysis. Advanced analytics is…

Birst vs Domo Summary Birst and Domo serve two quite different needs. Birst is a general purpose BI and data visualization platform that will address the needs of the enterprise. Domo is a management and executive information system, and its strong social and collaboration features mean information can be shared…

Domo Review Summary: Domo is a cloud BI solution that is targeted at larger businesses, and majors on ease-of-use, social sharing of information and transparent access to diverse data sources. The actual analytic capability is on a par with most other offerings of this genre, but since the platform is…

Birst vs Tableau Summary Birst and Tableau should not really be considered as competing products – if anything they are complementary technologies. Birst is a cloud (private or public) based business intelligence platform that addresses both enterprise needs and individual and workgroup needs. Its sophisticated data management technology means everyone…

Birst Review Summary Birst is a cloud (public or private) based BI platform that addresses the needs of both production oriented BI and end-user data visualization and querying. The company calls this a 2-Tier approach, and it is possible because of the excellent data management architecture of the platform. Many…

Business Intelligence Software Vendors 2015 The essence of a Fat Free Guide is brevity, and so there will be no feature-by-feature comparisons, which are fairly meaningless anyway. Each product is positioned for its particular strengths, and it is then up to the user to decide on the capability they actually…

Business Intelligence Trends 2015 This data on business intelligence trends 2015 is taken from Google Trends and shows some interesting facts. Many of the established BI platforms – Cognos, Microstrategy, Oracle BI and so on show either flat or diminishing search trends. Many of the open source platforms are also diminishing,…