Birst

Birst is a cloud analytics platform now offered by Infor as Infor Birst. It combines data from many systems and presents it in dashboards, reports and workspaces, so that people from senior management to shop-floor staff can see figures relevant to their jobs.

Products and services

• Prebuilt industry analytics: content and metrics for more than eleven industries, tailored to specific roles.
• Data integration: connects live data or extracts from many sources, including big data, with automated setup of a business-ready data store.
• Self-service analysis: visual data discovery, interactive dashboards, enterprise reporting and data preparation.
• Embedded analytics: places insights inside Infor ERP applications and can be built into other software through APIs.
• Networked BI: combines centrally governed data with user-level self-service.

Clients

Organisations of many types, especially Infor customers, and users from business analysts to data scientists.

Key facts

• Vendor: Infor
• Architecture: cloud, multi-tenant
• Deployment: public cloud, private cloud or on-premises
• Access: works online and offline on mobile devices