Infor Birst vs Toucan

• Scalability on Demand: Prevents data bottlenecks caused by data loads that exceed capacity as business grows by scaling as needed through a multi-tenant architecture across a multi-node environment.
• Faster Results: Delivers faster analytics across the entire organization by utilizing automated data analysis technology, cloud architecture and reusable metadata.
• Data Clarity: Promote data clarity and reduce ambiguity by offering unique views into data to help everyone, regardless of technical expertise. Better understand the meaning of individual KPIs via the semantic layer, a set of shared business definitions.
• Self-Service: Gives employees at all levels of technical skill self-service tools, such as drag-and-drop, to explore, analyze and visualize data through the user-oriented UX.
• Informed Decisions: Make more data-driven business decisions by better understanding operations. Identify trends in business data by collecting, organizing, exploring and visualizing data.
• Predict Future Outcomes: Generate actionable insights by leveraging AI to analyze historical data and improve business moving forward.
• Intuitive Visualizations: Easily interpret trends by cleaning data and building understandable visualizations through machine learning.
• Networked BI: Builds collective intelligence. Combines IT-managed enterprise data with user-generated data and eliminates data silos, unifying data from every part of an organization.
• Certified Security: Secures data at every degree of detail, down to the row and column level. Employs strict data security protocols and procedures to protect data in  processes and data centers, which are certified for ISO27001 and SOC II, TYPE II standards and compliant with EU Safe Harbor laws.
• Free Trial: Try it hands-on via a free trial.

Platform

• Centralize Business Data: Helps teams get on the same page by creating a single source of truth. Connects to the cloud, on-premise databases, spreadsheets and more to collect all of an organization’s data into one centralized hub.
• Speed Up Queries: Optimize data processing by minimizing queries through cache engines and custom indexes that accelerate webpage performance.
• Automated Reporting: Takes the heavy-duty work of development, design and maintenance out of data analytics with automatically updated data and scheduled reports. 
• Ease of Use: Explore and understand business insights through an intuitive UI – without requiring training, tutorials or coding experience. Caters to people who may not have the technical knowledge or programming skills to handle a more complicated BI tool.
• Accelerate Adoption: Educates and guides teams on how to create compelling data stories. Encourage autonomous, skilled data analysis with self-learning tools such as a glossary and contextual tips that help in data comprehension.
• Improve Data Literacy: Makes information accessible by displaying it visually, enabling transparency across departments and empowering all stakeholders to take BI into their own hands.
• Made for Collaboration: Interact with other teams and share power in decision-making through workspaces. Improve communication between departments and help them align with each other by annotating, discussing, exporting and sharing dashboards. 
• Never Say “So What?”: Support decision-making through data-driven strategies with built-in calls to action and adaptable recommendations. 
• Fast Implementation: Save more time and resources for analysis and data storytelling by accessing on any device through the web – nothing to install.
• Security: Protect data through no-code row-level security, custom user filters and granular permissions management for apps, dashboards, stories and datasets. The solution is hosted in a private cloud with SSL Grade A+ security certification and an infrastructure compliant with all RSSI expectations and RGPD standards. 

Embedded Analytics

• Build Once, Deploy Anywhere: Design one app for all devices and deploy anywhere to anyone in minutes, whether on the standard platform or as an embedded analytics product.
• Preserve Brand Identity: Maintain business branding through full customization and white labeling options, while offering the power of data storytelling and analytics to clients. 
• Multi-Tenancy: Handle who can see what by managing access to each embedding with granular control.
• Focus On What Matters: Saves the company time and money by helping teams focus dedicated efforts on products, alleviating the burden of developing analytics from scratch.
• Empower Non-Technical Teams: Build and deploy apps with a guided framework, even without coding experience.
• No On-Boarding Necessary: Boost adoption and customer retention through a client experience that feels familiar, with access to actionable insights from day one.
• Accelerate Time to Value: Empowers businesses to roll out robust solutions to clients in just two weeks.