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 automated smarts through tactical applications of machine learning, and extends the company's advancements in lineage tracking. Birst develops a well-regarded SQL-based analytics application that was developed from the beginning to run on multi-tenant cloud architectures. The software, which can be used on-premise or as a SaaS offering, stores data in column-oriented databases, such as Amazon Redshift, SAP HANA, or Exasol, while users interact with the data and create visualizations using Web and mobile interfaces. As a full-stack data analytics vendor, one of the analytic tasks that Birst tackles is data prep.