Birst Dishes Up Data Prep, ML Automation, and More

Groups of data scientists and regular users will be able to collaboratively prepare and share their data for analysis with the latest release of Birst's analytics platform. Version 6 of the company's suite also adds more Read more…

Birst Knows Best for Data Visualization

Regular business folk who have trouble operating today's high-powered data visualization tools are the targets for a new offering unveiled today by Birst. Called Birst Visualizer, the product employs a guided approach to data discovery that picks a visualization for the user based on basic search terms, and then automatically populates it with the pertinent business data. Read more…

Birst Kicks Data Scientists to the Curb

If you ask business intelligence vendor Birst’s CEO, Brad Peters, about the role of data scientists in many enterprise contexts, there are just a few of them out there. Seven, to be exact, he says facetiously. It is his contention that data scientists are only a small fraction of the users that.... Read more…

This Week’s Big Data Big Ten

This week's big data big ten for week ending May 4 includes data-intensive system news out of Australia, big genomics investments at key U.S. research centers, some multi-million sum investments in analytics platforms, and a few other items of interest, including HPCC Systems' move into Asia. Read more…

Another Brick in the Hadoop Wall

Announcements, especially from the business intelligence camp, about Hadoop support have rolled in steadily since mid-last year from vendors like Pentaho, Actuate, Tableau, Jaspersoft, SAS, and a host of others—all of whom... Read more…

Partnership Targets BI Scalability

This week analytics platform vendor, ParAccel and Birst, a provider of SaaS and on-premise business intelligence, formed an alliance. Birst will take advantage of the scalable database offerings of ParAccel, while on the flip side, ParAccel will use Birst's BI offering in house. Read more…