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Birst Extends Consumer-Grade User Experience with Best-of-Breed ROLAP and ETL for Business UsersNEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Birst, an Infor company and a leader in Cloud Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics for the Enterprise, today announced its Fall 2017 software release that will extend its consumer-grade user experience with the most comprehensive set of options for preparing and analyzing data using a Cloud Analytics solution, as well as enhanced networking and greater interactivity. With the new release, Birst continues to empower business people with capabilities traditionally reserved for power users. "We continue to add next-generation capabilities to our modern, consumer-grade user interface that put great power in the hands of business people in a more elegant, user-friendly and intuitive way," said Brad Peters, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Birst. "These capabilities, previously only available to sophisticated enterprise customers, are now available to anyone and Birst is the only cloud analytics provider to deliver them." These new capabilities will provide business users with extensive, enterprise-caliber Connectivity, Data Transformation, Networking, Interactivity, and Administration. Connectivity Birst was the first cloud analytics provider to introduce the ability to query data in place with its Live Access capability released in 2010. In contrast to other cloud analytics vendors that only support simple query pass-through, Birst delivers full dynamic SQL generation on tables in the underlying database. Now, with the Fall 2017 release, business users will have access to this capability without provisioning by an administrator. Data Transformation Networking By enabling this capability more broadly, this release helps business users more quickly turn data from disparate systems into a shared analytical network that enables organizations to better align both centralized and edge teams to drive better and more consistent decisions. As a result, Birst Networked Analytics eliminates analytical and data silos, while enabling everyday business users to easily access and work with trusted data. Interactivity New features include visual highlighting, a new method for interacting with charts on dashboards and visualizations, which moves beyond what visual filtering offered in the past. With visual highlighting, business users can select a data point or multiple data points, and any related data points in other dashlets will highlight. This enables business people to focus on selected data values without losing the surrounding context. Birst's expanded interactivity features also introduce multiple drill paths. Multiple drill paths give business users the ability to simultaneously drill on a visualization by more than one attribute, providing a richer understanding of the data being analyzed. In addition, business users now can freeze column and row headers when working with cross-tab chart types – and can easily "collapse all" or "expand all" report sections, by category, at once. This delivers a spreadsheet-like experience for users who need to work with large tables of data. Administration Birst Free Trial Tweet This: About Birst, an Infor Company About Infor This announcement reflects the direction Birst and Infor (the "Company") may take with regard to the specific product(s) described herein, all of which is subject to change in the sole discretion of the Company, with or without notice. The Company is not committing to develop or deliver any specified enhancement, upgrade, product or functionality, even if such is described in this announcement and even if such description is accompanied by words such as "anticipate," "believe," "expect," "intend," "may," "plan," "project," "predict," "should," "will," and/or similar expressions. Many factors can affect the Company's product development plans and the nature, content and timing of future product releases, all of which remain in the sole discretion of the Company. Media contact: View original content with multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/birst-extends-consumer-grade-user-experience-with-best-of-breed-rolap-and-etl-for-business-users-300550843.html SOURCE Birst, an Infor company |