Infor Birst vs. Tableau Desktop

Infor Birst

186 Reviews and Ratings

Tableau Desktop

2,288 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
Tableau Desktop	Score8.1 out of 10	N/A	Tableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.	$75 per month

Pricing

Infor Birst

Tableau Desktop

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Tableau: $75
per month per user
Tableau Enterprise: $115
per month per user

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

No setup fee

No setup fee

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All pricing plans are billed annually.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Infor Birst	Tableau Desktop
Considered Both Products	Infor David Pearlman Leader, Business Insight & Analytics in Sales at Dun & Bradstreet (Information Services, 5001-10,000 employees) 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 Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Marci Augustine Director, Business Intelligence & Analytics in Information Technology at XO Group Inc. (Internet, 501-1000 employees) 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 Helpful? Rohit Acharya Business Intelligence Manager in Corporate at ZALORA Group (Internet, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Infor Birst Birst lacks external modular components power bi has currently. New custom visuals, charts, statistical models created by third party vendors can be added to existing dashboard and enhanced. Birst lacks interactive dashboard functionality and external inputs. Powerbi and Tableau … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Infor Birst Tableau does not have a common semantic layer like BIRST does so we use Tableau for data discovery purposes and BIRST for enterprise BI. Within BIRST, we can increase the level of data governance. Incentivized Helpful? Norman Hussey Director, Business Intelligence in Information Technology at Zodiac Aerospace (Aviation & Aerospace, 10,001+ employees) Chose Infor Birst Both Tableau and Qlik needed back end data preparation done before they could start. BIRST has that full process integrated. Most importantly, BIRST's fully integrated stack (we chose the cloud option) allows you to focus on delivering what your organization needs, without … Incentivized Helpful? Andy Olson Global Database Administrator in Information Technology at ElectroCraft (Industrial Automation, 501-1000 employees) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Infor Birst Birst is the best all in one tool that we found, especially at a good price point and already using Infor Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Infor Birst There are a few items I evaluate when looking at different tools. Price per user License price Incentivized Helpful? Sean Keesler Business Analyst in Marketing at eCornell (E-Learning, 51-200 employees) 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 Helpful? Robin Filan Product and Marketing Analytics, Lead in Information Technology at XO Group Inc. (Internet, 501-1000 employees) 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose Infor Birst 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 Helpful? Ash Bosworth Director in Information Technology at Pulse Analytics (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Infor Birst 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose Infor Birst Visualizations between the two are comparable. Processing and data access seems to be a bit faster with MS. Building dashboards is about the same, with Birst seeming to be a bit simpler (but that might be because I use it more). Have used Tableau and Spotfire and the … Incentivized Helpful? Raj Srinivasan Director, Sales Business Applications in Information Technology at Zscaler (Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Infor Birst Birst allows direct access to an internal data store, which none of the products we evaluated provided. We also found the birst ETL layer far more powerful than the other platforms we considered. Incentivized Helpful? Roie Shavit BI Front-end Team Leader (Hands On) in Information Technology at Credorax (Financial Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Infor Birst Value for money Birst was by far less expensive than the other tools evaluated in regards the KPIs defined 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? Verified User Chose Infor Birst - Great could solution. - Modern UI for Dashboards. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Williams President in Corporate at CompuSystems (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Infor Birst We looked at Tableau and few others. Helpful? Price Hatfield Developer in Information Technology at 3coast (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Infor Birst There isn't a single tool that does everything Birst does. It's an end to end solution with unrivaled flexibility. Choice of back end databases (including Redshift, HANA, Microsoft, Oracle, Infobright, etc). Helpful? Verified User Chose Infor Birst Tableau is the leader in visualizations, from animation to ease of use, it takes the cake. But they do not (did not) have the data modeling capabilities that were offered with Birst. The step back in visualizations from Birst is more than made up for in their modeling. Qlik is … Helpful? Verified User Chose Infor Birst Birst does a great job of being able to collate the data. Helpful? Verified User Chose Infor Birst We chose birst for the cloud based collaboration feature Helpful? Verified User Chose Infor Birst Birst back end is more powerful yet complicated while Tableau's front end is more user friendly Helpful?	Tableau Verified User Chose Tableau Desktop Tableau Desktop has many more features than other competitors. Comparing Birst, the layout is much more efficient. Power BI and QlikView are as easy as Tableau Desktop. The price for Tableau is a disadvantage when compared to Birst and QlikView, but not against Power BI. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Desktop It is easier to start with Tableau. The out of the box ready feel is more with Tableau than any of the other BI products. Product scalability is at a steep cost with Tableau but it gives the possibility to begin small and then grow as it proves its capability as compared to all … Incentivized Helpful? mahesh ray Data Engineer in Engineering at Citrix (Computer Networking, 10,001+ employees) Chose Tableau Desktop Tableau is the only tool that can be exposed to end users so that they can build their reports and dashboards and can publish these without the help of a dedicated developer. Incentivized Helpful? Tom Bertolino Product Development at Cass Information Systems (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Tableau Desktop Cass evaluated Domo, QlikView and Birst prior to selecting Tableau. It came down to cost (and by a significant margin); the others have relatively high implementation, hosting and other costs. Additionally, based on a recent Gartner "Magic Quadrant", Tableau exceeds all others … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Desktop We were interested in expedience at reasonable cost and so didn't do any sort of bakeoff, but tried Tableau first as a potential solution for moving beyond Excel for large scale data analytics. We picked it because it more than met our functional needs at a very reasonable … 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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Features

Infor Birst

Tableau Desktop

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Infor Birst and Tableau Desktop
Feature	Infor Birst 7.4 77 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.3 167 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	7.068 Ratings	8.8139 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	8.077 Ratings	8.4166 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	7.159 Ratings	7.8145 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Infor Birst and Tableau Desktop
Feature	Infor Birst 7.0 78 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.7 164 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	8.078 Ratings	8.6159 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	7.077 Ratings	9.2162 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	6.127 Ratings	7.7122 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	7.068 Ratings	9.2157 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Infor Birst and Tableau Desktop
Feature	Infor Birst 8.0 75 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.1 158 Ratings
Publish to Web	8.052 Ratings	7.3149 Ratings
Publish to PDF	8.067 Ratings	7.9149 Ratings
Report Versioning	7.28 Ratings	8.2116 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	9.066 Ratings	9.2123 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	00 Ratings	8.073 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Infor Birst and Tableau Desktop
Feature	Infor Birst 6.9 72 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.4 156 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	8.072 Ratings	9.0154 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	7.058 Ratings	8.2149 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	5.833 Ratings	8.6126 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	00 Ratings	8.02 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Infor Birst and Tableau Desktop
Feature	Infor Birst 8.3 72 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.7 142 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.070 Ratings	9.0139 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	8.068 Ratings	8.0119 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	8.069 Ratings	8.8129 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	00 Ratings	9.03 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	00 Ratings	8.877 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Infor Birst and Tableau Desktop
Feature	Infor Birst 5.0 54 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.0 135 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	7.052 Ratings	8.2124 Ratings
Mobile Application	3.034 Ratings	7.097 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	3.042 Ratings	8.8117 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Infor Birst and Tableau Desktop
Feature	Infor Birst - Ratings	Tableau Desktop 9.0 64 Ratings
REST API	00 Ratings	9.256 Ratings
Javascript API	00 Ratings	9.051 Ratings
iFrames	00 Ratings	9.249 Ratings
Java API	00 Ratings	10.046 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	00 Ratings	8.453 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	00 Ratings	8.446 Ratings

User Ratings
	Infor Birst	Tableau Desktop
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (96 ratings)	8.7 (194 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (35 ratings)	8.9 (39 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (12 ratings)	8.6 (63 ratings)
Availability	4.1 (6 ratings)	8.0 (10 ratings)
Performance	7.5 (6 ratings)	6.1 (9 ratings)
Support Rating	6.0 (19 ratings)	7.0 (56 ratings)
In-Person Training	9.1 (4 ratings)	9.4 (4 ratings)
Online Training	8.0 (2 ratings)	8.0 (4 ratings)
Implementation Rating	5.3 (6 ratings)	8.0 (34 ratings)
Configurability	7.0 (2 ratings)	8.1 (2 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	6.0 (24 ratings)	8.4 (115 ratings)
Data Sources	7.6 (76 ratings)	7.9 (115 ratings)
Ease of integration	5.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	6.0 (2 ratings)	7.0 (3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	5.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	7.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)