| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Infor Birst | Score5.3 out of 10 | N/A | Infor 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 |
 Microsoft Power BI | Score8.6 out of 10 | N/A | Microsoft Power BI is a visualization and data discovery tool from Microsoft. It allows users to convert data into visuals and graphics, visually explore and analyze data, collaborate on interactive dashboards and reports, and scale across their organization with built-in governance and security. | $10 per month per user |
| Infor Birst | Microsoft Power BI | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Editions & Modules | No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | ||||||||||||||
| Offerings |
| |||||||||||||||
| Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
| Additional Details | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| More Pricing Information | ||||||||||||||||
| Infor Birst | Microsoft Power BI | |
|---|---|---|
| Considered Both Products | Chose Infor Birst Birst was the only tool that did the following:
Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info 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 … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info Chose Infor Birst
Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info Chose Infor Birst The presentation that BIRST provided gave us a 3 way tie between logi analytics and information builders. The promise of deployment path, cloud-ready, simplified report building tools, accessibility capabilities and compatibility with technology we had already chosen were all … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info Chose Infor Birst We needed multi-tenancy, embedding, scalability and preferred a cloud solution that removed the need for us to manage upgrades. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info Chose Infor Birst We preferred to have an all-in-one cloud solution that could connect to Salesforce.com and on-premise servers. I thought the combination of ETL built into a star-schema was unmatched. QlikView could do something similar, but the resulting data file was not an enterprise grade … Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info Chose Infor Birst Birst is not as intuitive or flexible for cube design and aggregations as using SQL Analysis services - at times seems an odd mix between gui based, and required specific code. Power BI is the tool of choice internally, but is limited by security settings that we need to enable … | Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI is easier to use than other BI tools. It can be connected to several sources and it can import your own local sources. The data manipulation is very simple and to build a dashboard is even easier. The language used is DAX, but you can import file from R or Python. Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Microsoft Power BI Incentivized Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Microsoft Power BI Incentivized Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Microsoft Power BI From a user perspective, Power BI appears to be more intuitive than Birst. You don't need a training class to learn or use Power BI. Power BI Desktop is free, other vendors are charging for desktop licenses. Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info |
| Key User Insights | ||
| Would buy again | ||
No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | |
| Delivers good value for the price | ||
No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | |
| Happy with the feature set | ||
No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | |
| Lived up to sales and marketing promises | ||
No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | |
| Implementation went as expected | ||
No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | |
| Infor Birst | Microsoft Power BI | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BI Standard Reporting |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ad-hoc Reporting |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Report Output and Scheduling |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data Discovery and Visualization |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Access Control and Security |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mobile Capabilities |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Infor Birst | Microsoft Power BI | |
|---|---|---|
| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.0 | 8.5 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| Usability | 9.0 | 7.9 |
| Availability | 4.1 | - |
| Performance | 7.5 | - |
| Support Rating | 6.0 | 10.0 |
| In-Person Training | 9.1 | - |
| Online Training | 8.0 | - |
| Implementation Rating | 5.3 | 9.0 |
| Configurability | 7.0 | - |
| Data Sharing and Collaboration | 6.0 | 8.5 |
| Data Sources | 7.6 | 9.0 |
| Ease of integration | 5.0 | - |
| Product Scalability | 6.0 | - |
| Vendor post-sale | 5.0 | - |
| Vendor pre-sale | 7.0 | - |
