BIME Analytics (discontinued) vs. Rational BI

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BIME Analytics (discontinued)
Score 7.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
BIME, which was acquired by Zendesk, was a customer analytics platform that helped businesses measure and understand the customer experience from customer data. The product has been discontinued.
$490
Per Month (Billed Annually)
Rational BI
Score 7.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Rational BI provides analytics, data science and business intelligence in an analytical platform that connects to databases, data files and cloud drives including AWS and Azure data sources, enabling users to explore and visualize data. Users can build real-time notebook-style reports directly in a web browser with JavaScript and SQL with direct and live connections to data. Filter and query data with an SQL database embedded in the client, without network…
$0
single user
Pricing
BIME Analytics (discontinued)Rational BI
Editions & Modules
Base Plan
$490
Per Month (Billed Annually)
Big Data
$690
Per Month (Billed Annually)
Free
$0
single user
Professional
$129
single user
Enterprise
Varies
single user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BIME Analytics (discontinued)Rational BI
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsAdditional cost per extra user (varies by edition)
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Community Pulse
BIME Analytics (discontinued)Rational BI
Features
BIME Analytics (discontinued)Rational BI
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BIME Analytics (discontinued)
10.0
1 Ratings
20% above category average
Rational BI
8.3
4 Ratings
3% above category average
Customizable dashboards10.01 Ratings8.74 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates10.01 Ratings8.54 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.63 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BIME Analytics (discontinued)
9.3
1 Ratings
15% above category average
Rational BI
8.3
4 Ratings
6% above category average
Drill-down analysis8.01 Ratings7.73 Ratings
Formatting capabilities10.01 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration10.01 Ratings9.24 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
BIME Analytics (discontinued)
10.0
1 Ratings
20% above category average
Rational BI
9.0
4 Ratings
10% above category average
Publish to Web10.01 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Publish to PDF10.01 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling10.01 Ratings9.24 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
BIME Analytics (discontinued)
10.0
1 Ratings
22% above category average
Rational BI
8.2
4 Ratings
6% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.01 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.01 Ratings8.33 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.93 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
BIME Analytics (discontinued)
10.0
1 Ratings
16% above category average
Rational BI
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
BIME Analytics (discontinued)
10.0
1 Ratings
26% above category average
Rational BI
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
BIME Analytics (discontinued)Rational BI
Small Businesses
Yellowfin
Yellowfin
Score 8.7 out of 10
Supermetrics
Supermetrics
Score 9.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Reveal
Reveal
Score 10.0 out of 10
Supermetrics
Supermetrics
Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Kyvos Semantic Layer
Kyvos Semantic Layer
Score 9.5 out of 10
IBM Analytics Engine
IBM Analytics Engine
Score 7.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
BIME Analytics (discontinued)Rational BI
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
7.7
(4 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
BIME Analytics (discontinued)Rational BI
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
Well suited if you need to create multiple reports and send them out easily to multiple clients. It is not well suited if you need a lot of data sources. It slows the product way down and makes reports take forever to load.
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Rational BI
Definitely well suited for small companies, but again many of their competitors are also well suited in this segment. We were in general happy with the solution provided, but I'm not blown away by their solution or support. If you want to get more data-driven visual boards with data displayed in nice graphics is in my opinion a good start, and here Rational BI delivers what it should.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Easy to create reports
  • Easy to edit
  • Easy to customize
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Rational BI
  • Arrange data.
  • Dashboard.
  • Automatic reports.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • It was SLOW!
  • Some of the graphs can be confusing
  • Not really set up for a single vertical company.
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Rational BI
  • Not seeing anything at this time, comprehensive product.
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Usability
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Rational BI
Overall Rational BI is a valuable enterprise reporting tool for any data driven organization. It offers great depth and breadth of features for reporting and analytics that can lead to better business outcomes. Its easy to use and highly configurable to evolve to changing reporting needs of organizations of any scale.
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Rational BI
I haven't used the support myself, but my colleagues have been satisfied with the support. As I have understood from my colleagues the support is as you could expect. Still, the documentation could be better and that could avoid the need to contact their support, but overall we're still happy with the support as well.
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
BIME was more accurate with sending out reports than RavenTools, and had a lot more customizable options. GDS has suited us well though, because it integrates with a lot of different platforms and allows us to deliver our reporting for no additional cost.
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Rational BI
Rational BI allows a deeper data analysis with respect to the other software I experimented with. The velocity to perform the analysis is similar to the other one. The predictive analysis could be very useful, but at the moment I do not use it in my activities. Dashboards are nice and easy to understand.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Rational BI
  • Allows folks to work on other items as reporting is done in the background.
  • Scheduling and delivery of reports with one click.
  • Single pane of management.
  • Ease of use.
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