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    Infor Birst

    Score5.3 out of 10
    N/AInfor Birst offers multi-tenant cloud BI for deployment in a public or private cloud, or on-premises. It provides an in-memory columnar data store and a BI layer comprising a reporting engine, predictive analytics tools, mobile native apps, dashboards, discovery tools, and an open client interface.N/A
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    Infor Birst
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    Infor Birst
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Infor Birst
    Considered Both Products
    Infor
    Chose Infor Birst
    We were using Birst OEM and now moved to Looker, because it was too old-fashioned and tool capability was limited. It is a different tool - Birst OEM has some more in depth capability and customizations options while Looker is more modern and easy to use, in my opinion.
    Incentivized
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    Infor Birst OEM and embedded analytics have low-code no-code features which are easy to deploy and with easy instances creation with a dev-quality-production environment. Good capability on data mapping features from source to intermediate to target with impressive metadata …
    Incentivized
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    No comparison. The speed if info is next-level.
    Incentivized
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    Birst is the best all in one tool that we found, especially at a good price point and already using Infor
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    There are a few items I evaluate when looking at different tools.
    1. Price per user
    2. License price
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    • Ease of use
    • Ability to easily connect to multiple and varying data sources
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    Birst was better than Domo for our needs because we could get in and tinker with it. Our impression of Domo was that it had a lot of connectors and ready to go reports, but it made too many assumptions about applications we use. We customize too much to use a "ready to go" …
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    During the vetting process, we looked at 14 different products (one of them internal) to see if they would fit our needs and whittled it down to this one over a three month period. We did not contact sales for all of them (sales sites were enough to rule out some), but did have …
    Incentivized
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    Easy to import data and build relationship.

    Easy to create ad hoc analysis.

    Incentivized
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    The primary differentiator with Birst is its scalability. Every other system we have developed or reviewed is either very strong in a single focus or requires a large team to manage to deploy over multiple, diverse customers. We have been able to accomplish more successfully …
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    A platform to speed up development and also to provide self-service analytics to our customers.
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    We compared Birst vs Tableau and Lumirra and there's no question that Birst is the best option from a cost perspective. Additionally, the ease of use complemented with our support team has allowed us to innovate on the platform quickly
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    Key evaluation criteria:
    - Is how quickly the query runs
    - The code and metadata for the database
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    Birst was the only tool that did the following:
    • robust enough ETL for our data warehouse team
    • data would remain within our data warehouse and not within the tool's proprietary store, in case the company went out of business.
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    Cognos - this tool is also more difficult to set up, takes more time to develop dashboards, harder for the business user to navigate
    MicroStrategy - this tool is also more difficult to set up, takes more time to develop dashboards, harder for the business user to navigate
    MS …
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    Birst was the right size for our company. The other vendors were to large and scope was to much.
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    We evaluated and compared Birst, OBIEE 12c, and Tableau based on several criteria such as "Data Analysis & Discovery", "Data Integration", "Security model", "Data Visualization", "User Experience" or "Infrastructure & Architecture".
    The only point where Birst was rated higher …
    Incentivized
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    The standard in our company is SAP Business objects. For the international part of the company we are using Birst because of its accesibility, ease of maintenance and ease of use. Compared to SAP BO dashboarding and easy to medium complex reports are easier to create and …
    Incentivized
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    We originally selected Birst because they are a Partner of our ERP system provider. We re-evaluated and reconfirmed that decision after our new investment through a one week prototyping exercise that proved how quickly something that delivers real content and value can be built …
    Incentivized
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    We selected Birst over all other options due to the one-stop-shop nature of their offering - it allows us to rapidly develop and deploy a complete product quickly within a single tool.
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    So much easier to be able to pull data using a query at times, which should be supported alongside drag and drop options. I can actually left join two tables when needed to provide data frequently requested by customers.
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    Birst provide a much better web UI and end user experience and distribution mechanism than both Tableau and SSRS. Power BI simply did not have the full complement of features that we needed at the time of our selection to be competitive and Pentaho was too custom and would have …
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    We chose Birst as birst Appliance and cloud versions has same set of features available. Power BI hosted on Azure cloud has competitive pricing, but Power BI report server has very limited features available and is also very expensive. Due to PHI data regulations in different …
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    Birst's ETL is better suited to our purposes than Alooma's stream-based processing.
    Birst's designer is more mature and meets or needs better than Periscope's reporting functionality, at the time I investigated it.
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Infor Birst
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Infor Birst
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    7.4
    77 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports7.068 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.077 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.159 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Infor Birst
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    7.0
    78 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis8.078 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.077 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages6.127 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.068 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Infor Birst
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    8.0
    75 Ratings
    Publish to Web8.052 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.067 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.28 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.066 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Infor Birst
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    6.9
    72 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.072 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.058 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics5.833 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Infor Birst
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    8.3
    72 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.070 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.068 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.069 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Infor Birst
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    5.0
    54 Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.052 Ratings
    Mobile Application3.034 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile3.042 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Infor Birst
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (96 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (35 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    4.1
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (19 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.3
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    6.0
    (24 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.6
    (76 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.0
    (2 ratings)