Cloud Caching Provides Superior Performance; Obviates Need for Expensive Hardware and Complex Configurations for Business Intelligence
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 7, 2011) - Birst, Inc., the leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) business intelligence (BI) and analytics, today announced the immediate availability of Birst for SAP Business Warehouse (BW). Birst for SAP BW solves a common and persistent problem SAP BW customers encounter, namely the difficulty of accessing their data across InfoCubes for reporting and analytic purposes. Poor performance along with the lack of a user interface requires SAP BW customers buy expensive hardware-based accelerators and rely on Excel plug-ins or complicated connectors that are difficult to set up and configure. Birst solves these problems by helping businesses realize the full value of their SAP BW deployments and providing a complete, fully integrated BI suite without requiring any data movement.
"Birst is addressing an issue that has long been problematic for SAP shops -- doing real business intelligence in Business Warehouse," said Rob Hienekamp, CEO at Endowance Solutions. "With cloud caching capabilities that address the dreaded performance and scale concerns, Birst also lets organizations combine non-SAP data with their SAP BW data, without having to move it into or out of SAP."
Birst for SAP BW offers the following capabilities:
"SAP BW was not designed with agile BI in mind and, as a result, is a cumbersome, slow, and difficult method of conducting even rudimentary data analysis," said Brad Peters, CEO and co-founder of Birst. "Organizations have considerable investments in BW data sets that are not just expensive to maintain, but have become isolated islands of data. Birst offers a single, logical view across BW, creating what essentially becomes an express highway that links disparate InfoCubes together and even allows for fast integration with non-SAP data sources."
Birst for SAP Business Warehouse is available now. Birst for SAP BW compliments existing Birst SAP integration, which provides direct access to R/3 data. To speak with a Birst expert, contact info@birst.com. For OEM and partnership information, contact partners@birst.com.
About Birst
Birst is the SaaS Business Intelligence leader. With its comprehensive Cloud BI Suite, Birst brings the benefits of analytics and fact-based decision-making to a much broader audience by making it affordable, fast, and easy to use. Birst is the winner of the Red Herring Global 100, TDWI Best Practices, and Software Standard of Excellence Web awards. Birst customers include Citrix, RBC, Securian, Key Technology, and other leading organizations. For more information, visit www.birst.com.
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For more information, contact:
Stacey Burbach
Point Communications Group for Birst, Inc.
602.279.1137
sburbach@pointcgroup.com