Birst Named Most Promising Analytics Solution at NetworkWorld Asia Information Management Awards 2015

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 4, 2015) - Birst, the global leader in Cloud BI and Analytics, has been awarded the Most Promising Analytics Solution at the NetworkWorld Asia Information Management Awards 2015. The award is presented to the company voted by the judging panel of IT leaders as providing the most potential positive impact to their organisations in the future. Defeating two other finalists, Birst was voted and named the overall winner for its innovation around delivery of analytics to users by the NetworkWorld Asia editors and more than 100 Asia Pacific CIOs and senior IT decision makers.

"This award underscores our position within the market and our approach around empowering business users with access to analytics on their terms. As the leading Cloud BI company on the market today, it is an honor to receive this award," said Jason Bissell, Managing Director of Birst APJ. "Businesses are increasingly tapping into data and analytics to help employees make more informed decisions. As a direct result of our 2-tier data architecture, Birst is leading the charge for today's global organizations to benefit from new levels of analytical agility, speed and sophistication."

Commenting on the result, Victor Ng, Enterprise Group Editorial Director at Questex Asia and Editor-in-Chief of NetworkWorld Asia, said, "Data and analytics will become crucial as organizations across all industries start seeing the impact and potential of business intelligence. Birst's ability to help businesses unify, refine and embed information without compromising security requirements makes it the up-and-coming first choice among CIOs and IT leaders in the Asia Pacific region."

The award comes as Birst expands its operations across the Asia Pacific region. Alongside establishing new operations to support business development and sales activities with partners across multiple countries, Birst has also recently developed a partnership with Amazon Web Services to host its first APAC cloud-based data center in Singapore.

About Birst
Birst is the global leader in Cloud BI and Analytics. The company helps organizations make thousands of decisions better, every day, for every person. Birst's patented 2-tier data architecture and comprehensive BI platform sits on top of all of your data, to unify, refine and embed data consistently into every individual decision -- up and down the org chart. Thousands of the most demanding international businesses trust Birst Cloud BI to make metric-driven business execution a reality. Learn more at www.birst.com and join the conversation @birstbi.