Infor Birst vs. Sisense

Infor Birst

186 Reviews and Ratings

Sisense

130 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
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
Sisense	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	Sisense is a BI software and analytics platform. With what the vendor calls their In-Chip™ and Single Stack™ technologies, users have access to a comprehensive tool to analyze and visualize large, disparate data sets without IT resources.	N/A

Pricing

Infor Birst

Sisense

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Pricing Offerings
Infor Birst	Sisense
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	Yes

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Infor Birst	Sisense
Considered Both Products	Infor John Laws Manager Data Services in Information Technology at Apex Supply Chain Technologies, LLC (Industrial Automation, 201-500 employees) Chose Infor Birst The ability to scale was the primary factor for our CIO's approval. The other products had solutions for scale, but Birst has the one we preferred. As an IoT company our CIO concentrates on products that will meet our requirements today and far into the future. The other … Incentivized Helpful? Rick Hutchinson Data Solutions Designer in Product Management at Daxko (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Infor Birst We needed multi-tenancy, embedding, scalability and preferred a cloud solution that removed the need for us to manage upgrades. Incentivized Helpful?	Sisense Ltd Jonathan Ganucheau System Architect in Information Technology at The Seed Company (Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Sisense Sisense - in POC alongside Birst and Qlik, Sisense ran circles around Birst and Qlik and made them look stupid by comparison Birst - ETL was super slow and complex AND requires you to learn a proprietary scripting language Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sisense Sisense offered very reasonable enterprise licensing and was eaiser for end users than most other tools that can interface w/ the iSeries. Incentivized Helpful? Alex Placito NetSuite Administrator in Information Technology at KegWorks (Food & Beverages, 51-200 employees) Chose Sisense Few companies worked as hard to gain our business as Sisense - they were committed to getting us a working demo using our actual data to show us it was possible. Sisense isn't the cheapest but it is not the most expensive either by far. The single stack approach [played a role … Incentivized Helpful?
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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

Sisense

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Infor Birst and Sisense
Feature	Infor Birst 7.4 77 Ratings	Sisense 9.7 47 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	7.068 Ratings	10.037 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	8.077 Ratings	10.047 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	7.159 Ratings	9.033 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Infor Birst and Sisense
Feature	Infor Birst 7.0 78 Ratings	Sisense 8.8 47 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	8.078 Ratings	10.047 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	7.077 Ratings	9.047 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	6.127 Ratings	9.027 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	7.068 Ratings	7.33 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Infor Birst and Sisense
Feature	Infor Birst 8.0 75 Ratings	Sisense 10.0 46 Ratings
Publish to Web	8.052 Ratings	10.036 Ratings
Publish to PDF	8.067 Ratings	10.046 Ratings
Report Versioning	7.28 Ratings	10.024 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	9.066 Ratings	10.039 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Infor Birst and Sisense
Feature	Infor Birst 6.9 72 Ratings	Sisense 9.5 45 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	8.072 Ratings	10.045 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	7.058 Ratings	9.042 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	5.833 Ratings	9.029 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Infor Birst and Sisense
Feature	Infor Birst 8.3 72 Ratings	Sisense 10.0 45 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.070 Ratings	10.045 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	8.068 Ratings	10.044 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	8.069 Ratings	10.045 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Infor Birst and Sisense
Feature	Infor Birst 5.0 54 Ratings	Sisense 9.7 40 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	7.052 Ratings	10.040 Ratings
Mobile Application	3.034 Ratings	10.025 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	3.042 Ratings	10.034 Ratings

User Ratings
	Infor Birst	Sisense
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (96 ratings)	10.0 (58 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (35 ratings)	8.9 (14 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (12 ratings)	10.0 (6 ratings)
Availability	4.1 (6 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Performance	7.5 (6 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	6.0 (19 ratings)	9.0 (6 ratings)
In-Person Training	9.1 (4 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)
Online Training	8.0 (2 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	5.3 (6 ratings)	7.1 (3 ratings)
Configurability	7.0 (2 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	6.0 (24 ratings)	9.1 (47 ratings)
Data Sources	7.6 (76 ratings)	9.2 (47 ratings)
Ease of integration	5.0 (2 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	6.0 (2 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	5.0 (2 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	7.0 (2 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)