The Critical Capabilities for BI and Analytics Platforms is a supplement to Gartner’s 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI and Analytics Platforms. It provides a deeper dive into a select group of vendors from the Magic Quadrant, giving each vendor a score across fifteen “critical capabilities” and four use cases.

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PRODUCT OR SERVICE SCORES FOR CENTRALIZED BI PROVISIONING

PRODUCT OR SERVICE SCORES FOR OEM/ EMBEDDED BI

Source: Gartner (May 2015)

BIRST SUMMARY

Gartner: Critical Capabilities for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms,A Summary

According to Gartner, the critical capabilities are attributes that differentiate products/services in a class in terms of their quality and performance. Gartner recommends that users consider the set of critical capabilities as some of the most important criteria for acquisition decisions.

This summary of the Gartner Critical Capabilities for BI and Analytics Platforms was prepared by Birst

Birst received the highest scores for Centralized BI and Embedded /OEM BI use cases:

And was one of the top 2vendors for:

Ease of Use Internal Platform Integration Metadata Management.

Birst also received top marks for the following critical capabilities:

Customer Services BI Platform Admin Cloud Deployment Embedded BI Traditional Styles of Analysis

WHAT DOES GARTNER SAY ABOUT BIRST?

Birst is primarily a software as a service (SaaS) BI and data warehouse solution

but also offers a virtual appliance (the same cloud software code base on a virtual

machine) for on-premises deployments. Unlike many SaaS products, Birst allows

customers to store information in the cloud or to leave it on-premises, as 70% of its

customers do. A modeling layer allows customers to import data from a variety of data

sources into a star schema model. Data can be stored in a row-based or columnar

database, depending on the analytic needs and data volume. Birst includes integrated

extraction, transformation and loading (ETL), business query, production reporting,

relational online analytical processing (OLAP), scheduling, dashboard capabilities

and, as of 2Q14, visual data discovery. Enhanced mobile capabilities with support for

interactive, offline dashboards were introduced in 1Q15.

BIRST STRENGTHS:

• Birst received the highest scores of any vendor in this report for its customer service.

• Birst offers customers a rapid implementation time for an end-to-end BI solution.

The product is well-integrated and based on an enterprise-class semantic layer

that supports multiple data sources and uses relational OLAP for multidimensional

analysis, with built-in time-period awareness.

• As a cloud BI vendor, Birst has continued to be differentiated for cloud-ERP

customers, providing deep integration with cloud-based data sources such as

Salesforce, NetSuite, Google Analytics and Marketo.

• Birst received among the highest marks for ease of use across all use cases for

vendors in this report. Its data access and management layer (enabling lightly

skilled IT users to deploy Birst) is a key reason for this result as well as for its top

scores for a centralized BI provisioning use case.

• Birst scores well in this research for OEM and embedded BI uses cases. The

vendor’s Web Services APIs allow customers and OEM partners to embed reports

and dashboards inside applications, portals, and to pass parameters and URLs

between them.

• Birst has initiated an open front-end tool strategy through it partnership with

Tableau announced in April 2015. The Birst connector for Tableau is an option

sold by Birst that gives Tableau users access to trusted data in Birst via direct

live query access to Birst’s semantic layer, dimensional model, security rules, and

aggregate tables with all calculations done in the database.

BIRST SUMMARY

Gartner: Critical Capabilities for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms

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Business intelligence market leaders are being disrupted by self-service platforms that deliver expanded access to analytics and higher business value. BI leaders should track how traditionalists translate forward-looking product investments into more user adoption and improved customer experience.

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Through 2016, less than 10% of self-service business intelligence initiatives will be governed sufficiently to prevent inconsistencies that adversely affect the business.

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This summary of the Gartner Critical Capabilities for BI and Analytics Platforms was prepared by Birst