Birst Announces Birst Solution Accelerator for NetSuite's SuiteCloud Computing Platform

SAN JOSE, CA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 3, 2013) - Birst Inc., the leader in Cloud BI, today announced the Birst Solution Accelerator for NetSuite, built using NetSuite's SuiteCloud Computing Platform. The new SuiteApp is a pre-built analytical solution that rapidly delivers advanced analytics with best practice financial reports and dashboards. The Birst Solution Accelerator for NetSuite integrates into NetSuite's enterprise resource planning (ERP) and SuiteCommerce applications to provide advanced analytic capabilities that are unavailable through standard reporting and analysis. With quick and easy access to enterprise-caliber business insight, users can now leverage data to speed decision-making and optimize business processes across their organizations.

NetSuite's SuiteCloud is a comprehensive offering of cloud-based products, development tools, and services designed to help customers and commercial software developers take advantage of the significant economic benefits of cloud computing. SuiteCloud Developer Tools provide a comprehensive cloud customization environment, whether you're extending NetSuite to fit your business needs or developing completely new applications. SuiteCloud Developer Tools include workflow management, scripting, analytics, web services and more.

"Business applications and business intelligence go hand-in-glove; the applications let us effectively execute our business processes while BI gives us the ability to manage and optimize them," said Brad Peters, CEO and Co-founder of Birst. "As more and more organizations rely on NetSuite for their ERP and ecommerce needs, our enterprise-caliber Cloud BI capabilities make Birst the obvious choice for NetSuite users looking to gain greater insight from the rich data within their transactional cloud applications."

Working with NetSuite
The Birst Solution Accelerator for NetSuite delivers best practice financial analytics via an out-of-the-box solution and fixed bid service engagement. NetSuite users benefit from tightly integrated, rapid-to-deploy advanced analytics that enable quick, easy access to information and analysis through automated report creation and delivery, eliminating the need to manually run reports. Additionally, the solution accelerator provides a foundation for integrating and combining NetSuite data with data from other applications. As organizations look outward from their ERP and ecommerce platform to other systems, Birst can bridge that gap.

The Birst Solution Accelerator for NetSuite capabilities include:

• Single Sign On: Allows users to seamlessly integrate advanced analytics embedded directly within the NetSuite application;
• A NetSuite Connector: Provides users with instant access to every single object within NetSuite, including custom objects, and the capability to make it analytic ready with data from other applications and sources;
• Pre-built Reports: Gives users more than 20 off-the-shelf reports to quickly provide insight into common and specific business processes;
• Pre-built Meta Data: Offers organizations an extensible analytics data model around the dimensions and measures best suited for NetSuite, making the need to manually create business meaning around their data a thing of the past; and
• Fixed Cost Enablement: Allows businesses to deploy at a predetermined, set cost in less than 30 days.

"Together, NetSuite and Birst deliver unmatched value -- it is as simple as that. We had a pressing need to get a deep level of detail from our data. Birst allows us to quickly tap into that data, drill down to find out what we need, create solid reporting and manage all of it from one very easy-to-use dashboard," said Jeff Baldwin, Director of Business Operations, from Jive Software. "We started using Birst for its sales analytics, but quickly realized we could leverage it for our financial analytics as well. We are now able to get the insight we need into both sales and financial analytics and ultimately across other various business processes within our organization."

The NetSuite connector, pre-built reports and meta data are available at no extra cost with the Enterprise version of Birst. Fixed cost enablement is an additional charge.

See the Birst Solution Accelerator for NetSuite at Birst's upcoming webinar entitled "Advanced Analytics for NetSuite" on Thursday, June 27, at 10:00 am PT/1:00 pm ET. Register here.

Learn more about the Birst Solution Accelerator for NetSuite and how it can help your business succeed at www.birst.com/netsuite.

About SuiteCloud
NetSuite's SuiteCloud is a comprehensive offering of cloud-based products, development tools and services designed to help customers and commercial software developers take advantage of the significant economic benefits of cloud computing. Based on NetSuite, the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, SuiteCloud enables customers to run their core business operations in the cloud, and software developers to target new markets quickly with newly-created mission-critical applications built on top of mature and proven business processes. The complete SuiteCloud offering includes NetSuite's multi-tenant, always-on SaaS infrastructure; the NetSuite Business Suite of applications (Accounting/ERP, CRM and Ecommerce); and the NS-BOS Development Platform.

The SuiteCloud Developer Network (SDN) is a comprehensive developer program for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) who build apps for SuiteCloud. All available SuiteApps are listed on SuiteApp.com, a single-source online marketplace where NetSuite customers can find applications to meet specific business process or industry-specific needs. For more information on SuiteCloud and the SDN program, please visit: http://www.netsuite.com/developers.

NetSuite, the NetSuite logo, SuiteBundler, SuiteCloud, Suitelets and SuiteScript are service-marks or trademarks of NetSuite Inc.

About Birst
Birst is the only enterprise-caliber Business Intelligence platform born in the cloud. Less costly and more agile than Legacy BI and more powerful than Data Discovery, Birst is engineered with an automated data warehouse and rich, visual analytics, to give meaning to data -- all types and sizes. Coupled with the agility of the Cloud, Birst gives business teams the ability to solve real problems. Fast. Find out why Gartner named Birst a Challenger in its most recent BI Magic Quadrant and why more than a thousand businesses rely on Birst for their analytic needs. Learn to think fast at www.birst.com and join the conversation @birstbi.