‘Birst’-ing Onto the Cloud-BI Scene
July 20, 2010 Alex Woodie
Companies in the market for a full function business intelligence product they can access from the cloud may want to check out Birst. The San Francisco company, which launched a new BI interface for smartphones last week, says its customers get the equivalent of a fully integrated BI suite like Cognos, but at just 20 percent of the total cost, and a fraction of the complexity, thanks to automated tools and the software as a service (SaaS) and cloud delivery method. Birst positions its software as an end-to-end suite of BI applications designed to help people analyze their data |