Advanced Analytics

Integrated with Birst™, Connections Online PRO allows organizations to monitor, measure, and control performance by leveraging easy-to-use analytics, dash-boarding, and collaboration.

Connections Online (COL) has partnered with Birst™, a leading provider of on-demand solutions for business intelligence and analytics, to enhance its Connections Online 4.0 strategy execution tool. This partnership provides Connections Online with business intelligence and advanced analytics for customers, enabling them to stay on track with their strategy with improved documentation, management, and tracking capabilities. As a result, Connections Online has released an enhanced version — Connections Online Professional with its new Advanced Analytics option.

Birst provides the Advanced Analytics option within Connections Online PRO, which allows COL customers to interact with analytic dashboards and reports that combine information from multiple data sources. Sources include core financial systems, sales data, marketing data, HR data, or any other data sources that include spreadsheets – along with Connections Online transaction data. This process allows customers to truly understand where they are performance-wise related to their strategy in ways they have never been able to accomplish before. Dave Freeman, Connections Online Vice President Sales and Marketing says, "This partnership brings unique value to the customer who wants to improve business performance – you are 'marrying' advanced analytics that help determine where you have been and where you want to go with the operations side of the business to manage how you get there."

Birst works by pulling data from the core financial source used by the customer as well as other data sources like SFDC. Dashboards will show integrated views of data not possible before.