Birst

Description

Infor Birst
Democratized analytics infused with artificial intelligence

Enable data-driven decision-making and better outcomes
Infor industry analytics deliver relevant and meaningful insights for everybody from the boardroom to the shop floor. Infor Birst® makes business intelligence and analytics easy to consume with pre-built industry and role-specific content and metrics embedded wherever business users need information. Improve decision-making with Birst.

Key capabilities
Industry analytics
Take advantage of industry and role-specfic data models and analytics

Modern data architecture
Experience a flexible and business-centric approach to managing data

Automated data integration
Reduce manual tasks with AI-powered automation

Networked BI
Support centralized and decentralized teams with governance

Adaptive user experience
Utilize all styles of business analytics from reports to data discovery

Monetize data
Share analytics with customers, partners and suppliers

Modern data architecture
Underpinning Birst’s modern native cloud BI platform is Infor’s modern data architecture. Focused on supporting any user to take their analysis in any direction, this flexible and business-centric approach to managing data is secure, scalable, and adaptable to changing business needs, while AI-powered automation reduces many manual tasks.

Easily connect live data or extract data from any source
Unify data from multiple source systems including big data
Utilize patented automated building of business-ready data store
Leverage an integrated data lake and API gateway

Networked BI
Birst’s Networked BI is a new approach to delivering data-as-a-service (DaaS) based on the idea that trusted and well-governed data is not at odds with speed and ease of use. Birst uses unique and patented capabilities that seamlessly combine the centralized and decentralized models of BI, providing the best aspects of both: agile end-user self-service without analytical silos and the overhead often associated with centralized BI.

Utilize common and reusable business rules and definitions
Blend centralized and decentralized data and analytic content
Provide users with analytic sandboxes with self-service data prep
Deliver data-as-a-service (DaaS) across the organization
Enterprise-grade governance with speed and agility

Adaptive user interface
Birst provides an adaptive user experience, supporting all styles of business intelligence and analytics. Birst’s user experience includes visual data discovery, interactive and responsive dashboards, pixel-perfect enterprise reporting, native and offline mobile, smart analytics, and self-service data preparation fully integrated with the centralized data provided by IT.

Enjoy seamless integration between dashboards, data discovery, and reporting
Support for all skill levels—from business users to data scientists
Access information anywhere—online and offline on any device
Leverage embedded analytics in Infor’s industry ERP solutions and applications
Embed analytics in your applications to monetize data with flexible APIs

Native cloud multi-tenant architecture
Birst’s native cloud architecture provides a low total cost of ownership (TCO), rapid deployment, automated zero-cost, zero-pain upgrades, programmatic life cycle management, and standards-based, completely open integration.

Economically scale on-demand—both users and data volumes
Experience a fast time to value with iterative and agile deployment
Support public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises deployments

Infor OS
A robust cloud operating platform for accelerating innovation throughout the enterprise ecosytem