What is Fresco BI

Fresco BI is a business intelligence service on the web. You connect your data, shape it, build reports and share them with your team. There is nothing to install, except a small Gateway Agent when your database sits inside a private network.

Your first reportFrom a data source to a shared report in 10 minutes.

Connect dataDatabases, warehouses, files, Google Sheets and REST APIs.

What is newRelease notes, newest first.

Plans and limitsFree, Pro and Enterprise.

The main ideas

Word	What it is
Organization	Your account space. When you sign up you get a personal one, My org. A company on the Enterprise plan has its own organization.
Workspace	A folder for a team or a project. Data sources, data tables, data models and reports live in a workspace.
Data source	A connection to where your data lives: a database, a cloud warehouse, Google Sheets, a REST API or an uploaded file.
Data Table	A table loaded from a data source. Fresco BI keeps a copy (Import) or reads the source on each query (Realtime).
Data model	Data tables joined together, with relationships and measures (calculations such as total sales). Reports are built on a data model.
Report	Pages of visuals (charts, tables, cards), filters and slicers on top of one data model.

Data flows in one direction:

Data source → Data Table → Data model → Report → Share

Note

Fresco BI only reads your sources. It never writes to them.

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Data

Load Data Tables, join them in a Data model, add Measures and Refresh on a schedule.

Reports

Build with Visuals, Filters and Slicers, then Share or Embed.

Organization

Members and roles, Workspaces and Gateways.

Your account

Security with two-step verification, and API keys.

Import or Realtime

When you load a table you choose how Fresco BI gets the data.

Import

Fresco BI keeps a copy and refreshes it on a schedule. Reports open fast. Use it for most reports.

Realtime

Every query reads your source. Data is always current. Realtime is on the Enterprise plan, see Plans.

See Refresh for how refresh works.

Sign up

1. Open app.frescobi.com/sign-up.
2. Enter your name and email, and choose a password.
3. Confirm your email when asked.
4. You land in My org, in My workspace, on the Free plan.

You can try Pro free for one month, once per person. When the trial ends you are back on Free and your data stays. See Plans.

Next step

Build your first report: Your first report in 10 minutes.