Birst product overview

Birst provides an integrated networked BI platform for data-driven analysis. Birst includes:

  • Home: Home is the entry point for BI developers, data analysts, users, and administrators to work with data in Birst. For users with a default space set or that only have one space configured, the Space Overview page for that space automatically loads upon logging in. You can also click the Infor Birst logo in the Main Menu Navigation to navigate back to your user's home page.
  • Dashboards: Dashboard authors create and view interactive dashboards that contain reports built in Designer and Visualizer. You can browse the dashboards, drill down into details, and share them via email. In addition to viewing dashboards in web browsers, end users can access them from Birst Mobile apps.
  • Visualizer: Business users and report writers access Visualizer to explore enterprise data and quickly get answers to business questions.
  • Designer: Data analysts and report writers use Designer to create pixel-perfect reports and charts that can be added to dashboards, printed, scheduled, and exported to other formats.
  • Admin: Developers, data analysts, and administrators use the Admin interface to create and manage the user data store, report catalogs, user accounts, and access permissions.
  • Application Connectors, Birst Connect, Deployment Options, and Live Access: Birst Connectivity Framework tools provide access to data residing in other systems.

Depending on who you are as a Birst user, you can perform only a subset of these activities.