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Infor Birst vs. Tableau Server

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Infor Birst

186 Reviews and Ratings

Tableau Server

878 Reviews and Ratings

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Tableau Server

    Score7.6 out of 10
    		N/ATableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on a public cloud.

    $12

    Per User Per Month

    Pricing
    Infor BirstTableau Server
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Viewer
    $12.00
    Per User Per Month
    Explorer
    $35.00
    Per User Per Month
    Creator
    $70.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Infor BirstTableau Server
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Infor BirstTableau Server
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Verified User
    Chose Infor Birst
    - Great could solution.
    - Modern UI for Dashboards.
    Incentivized
    Tableau
    No answer on this topic
    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
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    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
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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 BirstTableau Server
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Infor Birst and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    7.4
    77 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    9.5
    94 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports7.068 Ratings9.129 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.077 Ratings9.793 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.159 Ratings9.780 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Infor Birst and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    7.0
    78 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    9.1
    94 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis8.078 Ratings8.994 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.077 Ratings8.892 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages6.127 Ratings9.058 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.068 Ratings9.888 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Infor Birst and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    8.0
    75 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.4
    90 Ratings
    Publish to Web8.052 Ratings9.884 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.067 Ratings9.783 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.28 Ratings9.169 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.066 Ratings8.376 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings5.19 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Infor Birst and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    6.9
    72 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.7
    89 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.072 Ratings8.985 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.058 Ratings8.984 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics5.833 Ratings8.563 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Infor Birst and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    8.3
    72 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.3
    94 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.070 Ratings8.392 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.068 Ratings8.389 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.069 Ratings8.391 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.361 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Infor Birst and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    5.0
    54 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.4
    78 Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.052 Ratings8.276 Ratings
    Mobile Application3.034 Ratings8.160 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile3.042 Ratings9.067 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Infor Birst and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Server
    7.2
    45 Ratings
    REST API00 Ratings9.039 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings9.036 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings9.039 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings5.57 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.19 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings4.67 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Infor BirstTableau Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (96 ratings)
    8.1
    (110 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (35 ratings)
    10.0
    (20 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    5.2
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    4.1
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (19 ratings)
    3.0
    (18 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.3
    (6 ratings)
    9.1
    (13 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    6.0
    (24 ratings)
    5.1
    (79 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.6
    (76 ratings)
    6.6
    (82 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)