BIME Analytics [EOL] vs Birst comparison

BIME simplifies business intelligence (BI) for data analysts and makes it easier for all types of businesses to both access and analyze big data. It focuses on creating user-friendly products for business intelligence that are based on new innovations in cloud-computing and the most advanced data visualization. With the BIME platform, businesses can take control of managing, analyzing, and sharing data. A scalable solution, BIME allows you to access all of your data at once, connecting all sources of data in your customizable dashboard. It offers an intuitive interface that is very user-friendly. Another feature of BIME is that it works in real-time as well as remotely, allowing you to access constantly updated data in the cloud at anytime and from anywhere. This software also offers a calculation engine that allows you to write your own functions for data analysis, interactive data visualizations, and advanced tools for comparing various data elements. You can use QueryBlender to mix and match all types of information. BIME also allows you to examine data from many different perspectives at the same time. SpicyLemon, a Dutch company that distributes security and anti-virus software, used BIME to maintain a high level of growth despite heavy competition in their industry. With BIME, this company was able to more easily analyze data from their online marketing campaigns, allowing them to decrease costs and increase awareness of their brand online. BIME's solution is one of many data analytics applications reviewed in our SmartAdvisor; click the link to see more companies' reviews.  

Birst Networked BI and Analytics eliminates information silos. Decentralized users can augment the enterprise data model virtually, as opposed to physically, without compromising data governance.

A unified semantic layer maintains common definitions and key metrics.
Birst’s two-tier architecture aligns back-end sources with line-of-business or local data. Birst’s Automated Data Refinement extracts data from any source into a unified semantic layer. Users are enabled with self-service analytics through executive dashboards, reporting, visual discovery, mobile tools, and predictive analytics. Birst Open Client Interface also offers integration with Tableau, Excel and R.

Birst goes to market in two primary ways: as a direct sale, for enterprises using Birst on internal data to manage their business; and embedded, for companies who offer analytic products, by embedding and white-labeling Birst capabilities into their products.

Birst’s is packaged in 3 available formats: Platform and per-user fee; by Department or Business Unit; by end-customer (for embedded scenarios).