Name: BLENT
Author: BLENT

Help Desk

Live Chat

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Mobile App Development

PHP Frameworks

Development

Learning Management

Online Proctoring Software

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Embedded Business Intelligence (BI)

Online Notary

Workflow

Enterprise

Accounting

Accounts Payable

Online Trading

Treasury Management

Finance and Accounting

ACA Compliance

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Compliance

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

3D Printing

API Management

Cloud Migration

Cloud Storage

Configuration Management

Consulting and Advisory Services

Container Management

Custom Software Development Services

Data Center Virtualization

Data Warehouse

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection

Fraud Detection

Game Engine

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

IoT Device Management

LAN Switches

Managed Private Cloud

Network Performance Monitoring

Sensitive Data Discovery

Technology Scouting Software

Unified Communications Monitoring

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Content Management

Email Marketing

Landing Page

Market Intelligence

Marketing Automation

Press Release Management

Product Intelligence

Social Media Management

Social Media Publishing

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Government Contracting

Lead Generation

Point of Sale

Sales Enablement

Sales Performance Management

Sales

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management

Security

Construction Workforce Management

Dental

Fleet Management

Geographic Information

ID Card

Vertical-Specific

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Blent is a business intelligence platform specifically designed for the hospitality industry. According to the vendor, it provides real-time insights to help hospitality businesses make data-driven decisions and improve their performance. Blent is said to be suitable for hotels, restaurants, bars, and other businesses in the hospitality industry, regardless of size. Professionals such as hotel managers, restaurant managers, revenue managers, financial controllers, and F&B directors are among the target users.

## Key Features

**Financial & operational reporting**: According to the vendor, Blent automates financial reporting, aiming to save time and improve accuracy by consolidating financial information in one place. This is intended to enable finance teams to focus on analysis and insights, providing real-time financial reports for better decision-making.

**Planning budgeting & forecasting**: Blent is said to offer a collaborative and accurate planning and budgeting process. The vendor claims that colleagues can easily collaborate to create budgets and forecasts, simplifying the process and eliminating the need for manual spreadsheets. Blent is intended to provide accurate and up-to-date financial forecasts.

**Customer behavior and journey**: According to the vendor, Blent automatically collects and analyzes data on customer behavior, tracking clicks, actions, and preferences. The goal is to provide insights into customer journeys, helping businesses identify trends and patterns. This is intended to enable personalized marketing and improved customer experiences.

**Data consolidation in groups**: Blent is designed to combine data from different sources into one centralized platform, creating a collaborative digital environment for data analysis. According to the vendor, this enables accurate and comprehensive insights for better decision-making and provides a holistic view of the business across multiple properties.

**Analysis & Scenario modeling**: According to the vendor, Blent evaluates possible events or scenarios and predicts outcomes, providing insights into the feasibility of different strategies. The vendor suggests that it helps in making informed decisions based on data analysis, enabling scenario planning and risk assessment.

**Datahub Enterprise**: Blent is claimed to offer a complete solution for open data platforms and data management. It is said to integrate with enterprise data catalogs, data lakes, and data management systems, providing a mature and fully-featured platform for data integration and management. The vendor states that Blent enables easy access and analysis of large datasets.

**Dashboard**: Blent provides customizable dashboards for real-time data visualization. According to the vendor, users can build dashboards without coding or design skills, enabling visual representation of key metrics and KPIs. The goal is to provide a user-friendly interface for data analysis.

**Reports & Tables**: According to the vendor, Blent automates the creation of professional reports, aiming to save time and effort in manual reporting processes. It is claimed to generate reports in minutes instead of hours, providing accurate and up-to-date data for reporting purposes.

**Connect all your data**: Blent is said to integrate with over 150 different systems and data sources, consolidating data from various sources into one platform. According to the vendor, this eliminates the need for manual data collection and consolidation, providing a single source of truth for data analysis.

**Drag-and-drop BI builder**: Blent offers an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface for building custom reports and dashboards. The vendor states that users can create personalized visualizations and data analysis tools without coding or technical skills. Blent is designed to provide flexibility and customization options for data analysis.

BIME, which was acquired by Zendesk, was a customer analytics platform that helped businesses measure and understand the customer experience from customer data. The product has been discontinued.

Base Plan

Big Data

BIME Analytics (discontinued)

Free

Professional

Rational BI

BLENT

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BI Platform

Administration via Windows App

Administration via MacOS App

Administration via Web Interface

Live Connection to External Data

Snapshot of External Data

In-memory data model

OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)

ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)

Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)

Data warehouse / dictionary layer

ETL Capability

ETL Scheduler

Supported Data Sources

Data sources that can be consumed by the application.

MS Excel Workbooks

Text Files (CSV, etc)

Oracle

MS SQL Server

IBM DB2

Postgres

MySQL

ODBC

Cloudera Hadoop

Hortonworks Hadoop

EMC Greenplum

IBM Netezza

HP Vertica

ParAccel

SAP Hana

Teradata

Sage 500

Salesforce

Google Analytics

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

Pixel Perfect reports

Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.

Customizable dashboards

Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.

Report Formatting Templates

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

Drill-down analysis

Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.

Formatting capabilities

Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.

Predictive modeling

Predictive modeling is the ability to build future forecasting models.

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.

Report sharing and collaboration

Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Output Raw Supporting Data

Report Versioning

Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.

Report Delivery Scheduling

Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.

Delivery to Remote Servers

Ability to deliver reports to remote servers

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.

Predictive Analytics

Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.

Support for Machine Learning models

Machine learning refers to computer programs that can learn when exposed to new data.

Pattern Recognition and Data Mining

Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

Multi-User Support (named login)

Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.

Role-Based Security Model

Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.

Report-Level Access Control

Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.

BLENT

Overview

What is BLENT?