Birst Business Analytics
Next-generation enterprise business intelligence and analytics platform
Analytics with advanced business insights
Birst® is a native cloud business intelligence (BI) and business analytics platform that helps organizations understand and optimize complex processes in less time than traditional BI solutions. Built with patented automation and machine learning technologies, Birst’s “networked BI” approach connects teams and applications across the enterprise via a trusted network of analytics and insights to inform smarter decisions. Birst has a unique approach and this helps leading companies improve profitability, reduce costs, increase revenues, and transform the way they do business—often in less than 90 days.
Birst highlights
- Networked business intelligence
- Smart analytics
- Agile semantic layer
- Blend centralized and de-centralized data
- Adaptive user experience
- Information accessible anywhere from any device
- Modern native cloud architecture
- Create revenue with data


Architecting a digital supply chain
With more than 130,000 global customers, 120 suppliers, and two days or less delivery lead times, Citrix Systems needed to rapidly aggregate data across hundreds of systems. Citrix chose Birst to digitally network this data and now has global and near real-time visibility—managed by a single IT person.
- 99% on-time delivery
- 5 time increase in inventory turns
- 35% reduction in days in supply
“Using a sound strategy for selecting and deploying an integrated data analytics approach enabled us to cut costs related to production planning, transportation, customer profitability, and more.”
SUNNYD
Shawn Roberts, VP and CIO, Sunny Delight Beverage Co.


Birst details
Birst’s Networked BI approach virtualizes the entire analytics and data ecosystem, enabling a transformational approach to BI. Built on top of a modern, multi-tenant cloud architecture, Birst creates a set of interwoven analytics and BI instances that share a common data-as-a-service fabric.
Automated data refinement
- Easily connect live data or extract data from any source
- Unify data from multiple source systems including big data
- Patented automated building of business-ready data store
Smart analytics
- Create a powerful AI-enabled user experience
- Seamless integration between dashboards, data discovery, and reporting
- Access information anywhere—online and offline on any device
Agile semantic layer
- Common and reusable business rules and definitions
- Blend centralized and decentralized data and analytic content
- Self-service data prep provides users with analytic sandboxes
Native cloud multi-tenant architecture
- Economically scale on-demand—both users and data volumes
- Fast time to value with iterative and agile deployment
- Supports public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises deployment