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title: VAS PULSE Platform
slug: help/en-us/dairycomp/vas-pulse-platform
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createdAt: 2026-03-30T16:15:50.216Z
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## 🎓In This Guide, You Will Learn:

- What is VAS PULSE Platform and its key features
- Recommended guides to become more familiar with navigating and utilizing the key features available in VAS PULSE Platform

## VAS PULSE Platform Overview

**VAS PULSE Platform **is the cloud-based counterpart to DairyComp designed to help dairy producers, veterinarians, nutritionists, and consultants access, analyze, and share herd performance data in one place.

### Key features:

- **User permissions** and **levels** are controlled by a person with "owner" status.
- Dedicated tabs for DairyComp, ParlorBoss, FeedComp, and WeighComp customers allowing for easy setup and analysis.
- **Insights** is a dedicated tab for:
  - Animal inventory trends
  - **HealthVAL: **Provides visibility into the diseases affecting your herd and allows you to compare your herd health events to customized benchmarking categories.
  - **Reproduction Insights**: Tracks cow and heifer reproduction across your herd and allows you to evaluate the overall success of your dairy's breeding program.
  - **Income Over Feed Cost**: Displays the profit or loss per animal per day ($/head/day).
  - **HerdSights:** provides KPI (Key Production Indexes) dashboards including custom views of herd data to provide insights to help monitor animal health, milk production, reproduction, and farm performance.
- **Integrations Gallery**:  Presents all available PULSE integrations that allow you to connect data with our partners' systems.
- **DC on Mobile (mobile app)**, provides cow side access to herd information and management tools on Android and iOS devices.

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🗒️ **NOTE:** **VAS PULSE Platform** should be installed during the onboarding process by your install technician.
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## VAS PULSE Platform guides

Follow these recommended guides to become more familiar with navigating and utilizing the key features available in VAS PULSE Platform.

| <font color="#f3f4f6">Guide</font>                                  | <font color="#f3f4f6">Description</font>                                                                                                                                                              |
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| [Log In to PULSE](docId\:RQeI-JX5jzyUiAi1xGzBb)                     | How to login to PULSE and how to create an account if needed.                                                                                                                                         |
| [PULSE Overview](docId\:sqrjNsBbBP0X2gcmv259J)                      | An overview of how PULSE is bringing together the three core pillars of the dairy (herd, feed, and production) into a single interface/platform.                                                      |
| [PULSE Main Screen](docId:--5Fjts-ZjPMV3r4MVxKz)                    | This section describes how to find your way around the PULSE. Learn the layout and how understand the key features available.                                                                         |
| [Tips for Using PULSE](docId\:DRX961LCmagkfELqdEMe8)                | Tips on how to view animals, check Platform status, manage users and navigating PULSE.                                                                                                                |
| [PULSE Insights Overview](docId\:SDqzs7_nVaa2qQswrTnqm)             | PULSE Insights offers analysis tools to help make herd management decisions related to animal health, reproduction success, and feeding efficiency.                                                   |
| [HerdSights](docId\:bBB2u8B-ZVBhmnkVm4OsU)                          | HerdSights is a part of PULSE Insights designed to bring you actionable data to support your efforts to reduce feed costs and waste, keep your herd healthy, and improve milk production and quality. |
| [PULSE Partner Integrations Overview](docId:8KajwGMUkceLR5elB5ga_)  | Learn about integrating your partner products with PULSE, allowing you to easily view your third-party product data directly in PULSE.                                                                |

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💡**TIPS:**&#x20;

- To learn more about PULSE using the Help-Docs, search for PULSE, DC on Mobile, Insights, etc. under the Dairy tab or use the Search function.
- Use the help icons :inlineImage[]{src="https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/3h8pSJcGUXEi4HGCCYPTA/8MOMl4VS9ecOt3sm9KhZA_helpicon.png" alt caption width="21" height="18"} scattered throughout VAS PULSE Platform for direct links associated with your current page .
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