Birst Launches New In-Memory Cloud Analytics Service
23.05.12
"What Birst is doing is bringing the business intelligence stack into the cloud," Peters said. "The previous generation of business intelligence analytics was all well and good, but often had to be cobbled together with various parts. SAP has their stuff, IBM has Cognos, Oracle has Seibel analytics, and so on. They were designed for a previous generation [of IT system]. You had to bring together all the parts to make meaningful decisions based on facts and data.
"The hurdle for building a BI implementation is really high. What we set out to do is build a virtual appliance for BI, such that the barriers for adopting BI are dramatically lower."
The Birst in-memory analytics database uses the company's own home-developed data warehouse automation IT, which provides for data integration across numerous data sources. These include such oft-used data streams as SAP, Salesforce, and from various operational and financial systems and incorporates
Source: eWeek