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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ClicData

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AClicData is a cloud-based data management and business intelligence platform for connecting, preparing, storing, visualizing, and distributing organizational data. The platform combines data integration, extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes, data warehousing, dashboard creation, automation, and artificial intelligence features. Key Capabilities Data connectivity: ClicData connects to business applications and databases to support automated data…

    $290

    per month

    Infor Birst

    Score6.4 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
    Pricing
    ClicDataInfor Birst
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $290
    per month
    Team
    $520
    per month
    Enterprise
    $835
    per month
    Dedicated
    Custom Quote
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ClicDataInfor Birst
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPlans start at $290/month and include unlimited dashboards, reports, and data flows, as well as a built-in data warehouse and data lake. User licenses are included in all plans (up to 25, 50, or 200 users depending on the plan), and dashboards can be shared with external users via live links at no extra cost. Plans and pricing vary based on the data connectors needed (Files & Storage, Web Services & Apps, or Databases), the number of table updates per month, and the level of automation required. SSO and White Label options are available on the Enterprise plan. AI-powered features are included in the Team and Enterprise plans. Dedicated Plans are also available for organizations requiring stable and predictable performance, higher data volumes, and faster processing times (Standard, Performance, and Self-Hosted options). Professional Services are available as paid add-ons: Onboarding (one-time fee for personalized training and shadowing sessions), Project (fixed cost with clearly defined deliverables), and Packages (ad-hoc hours of Data Analysts' time). A discount is available for annual billing.
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    Features
    ClicDataInfor Birst
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of ClicData and Infor Birst
    Feature
    ClicData
    10.0
    3 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Infor Birst
    7.4
    77 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports10.01 Ratings7.068 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.03 Ratings8.077 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.159 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of ClicData and Infor Birst
    Feature
    ClicData
    9.0
    3 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Infor Birst
    7.0
    78 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.03 Ratings8.078 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities9.03 Ratings7.077 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration10.02 Ratings7.068 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.127 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of ClicData and Infor Birst
    Feature
    ClicData
    8.5
    3 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Infor Birst
    8.0
    75 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Publish to Web10.02 Ratings8.052 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.02 Ratings8.067 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.02 Ratings7.28 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.01 Ratings9.066 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of ClicData and Infor Birst
    Feature
    ClicData
    8.5
    3 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Infor Birst
    6.9
    72 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.03 Ratings8.072 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.02 Ratings7.058 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings5.833 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of ClicData and Infor Birst
    Feature
    ClicData
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Infor Birst
    8.3
    72 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)10.02 Ratings9.070 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.02 Ratings8.069 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.068 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of ClicData and Infor Birst
    Feature
    ClicData
    6.0
    2 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Infor Birst
    5.0
    54 Ratings
    43% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.02 Ratings7.052 Ratings
    Mobile Application1.01 Ratings3.034 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.02 Ratings3.042 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of ClicData and Infor Birst
    Feature
    ClicData
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Infor Birst
    -
    Ratings
    iFrames10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ClicDataInfor Birst
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.5
    (99 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (35 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.1
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (19 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.3
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    6.0
    (24 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.6
    (76 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ClicDataInfor Birst
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ClicData
    We used ClicData dashboards in a somewhat unorthodox way: we used "Indicators", or icons within tables to represent data, and the results looked great. The ability to integrate 3rd party HTML into dashboards was valuable (although Clic Data correctly warns that response time may suffer). The ability to start small and release dashboards incrementally suited our needs very well. We also valued the responsive account team getting us quickly pointed in the right direction.
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    Infor
    Infor Birst OEM and embedded analytics are well suited for advanced analytics and business intelligence. It has flexible deployment features and a lot of configuration ability with low code - no coding ability. Ability to ingest data from multiple live data sources. Source data from multiple sources can be segregated into multiple sections based on business criteria. Easily searchable business terms (metadata) across all enterprise analytic content.
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    Pros
    ClicData
    • Ease of use, I can put together a dashboard in about an hour that is used by daily.
    • Support, their support team is super helpful and always has detailed insight.
    • Connectors, they have a huge number of connectors that allow easy integration of your data sources.
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    Infor
    • End-to-end solution, from raw source data, ETL, warehousing and reporting, Birst is able to do everything we need in one package instead of needing to develop and maintain multiple technologies
    • Intuitive report development. The drag and drop creation of reports is simple. More complicated queries are easy to generate.
    • Very user-friendly and interactive. A lot of nice features are available both for developers and end users to streamline the process of preparing and consuming data
    • Rich API which allows us to programmatically interact with Birst
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    Cons
    ClicData
    • More widgets.
    • Sometimes it takes a while to refresh.
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    Infor
    • Birst prices are fairly expensive. License plus cost of users can add up pretty quickly
    • Depending on the size of data, rendering of reports can take a little bit. Need faster processing of data
    • Takes a little time to understand how to build reports, not the most intuitive UI
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ClicData
    No answers on this topic
    Infor
    We have been able to overcome any of the drawbacks we've found with Birst easily and it has fulfilled almost all of our analytic needs to date. Having seen their roadmap it would be highly unlikely we would move away from this platform any time soon. You simply can't beat the functionality that Birst provides for the price and the things I see coming out of the company solidify that our decision to choose Birst was the best possible choice. We have never regretted the decision.
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    Usability
    ClicData
    Like I mentioned before, the ease of use means we not only get very quick results and beautiful dashboards in minutes, it means my team is actually using it because they aren't frustrated in the learning curve or wasting time trying to accomplish simple tasks.
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    Infor
    I would like to see additional usability put into the ETL scripting. Recently, Birst added a nice function reference inline to formula creation which has kept me from having to return to documentation so much. The same in ETL would be very beneficial. The interface problems related to the Flex framework are being addressed in a rewrite to HTML 5, but for now they are still a hindrance to a higher usability rating.
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    Reliability and Availability
    ClicData
    No answers on this topic
    Infor
    We frequently experience -103 errors due to us using the Live Connect functionality, which does not seem to handle even minor interruptions in connectivity, and treats all future connection attempts or data requests as errors, even if the issue does not exist any longer
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    Performance
    ClicData
    No answers on this topic
    Infor
    Everything runs very fast and smoothly. The only process that I wish was faster would be processing the data after uploading new data or making changes to the existing data model. It can take 15-20 minutes (roughly) to upload and process new data once you start getting into 10's of millions of rows. Given my experience with how long it takes me to pull the same data using SQL Server Management Studio, I don't think Birst is unreasonably slow - but for me to give a higher rating, I would want it to be unreasonably fast
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    Support Rating
    ClicData
    We've only needed support a couple times in the beginning as we were learning the system and how to display our data in interesting ways. Every time we reached out we got very detailed responses and were connected to someone that you could tell was very interested in making sure we were happy with how things were going.
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    Infor
    • Poor turnaround time
    • Low response rate when the problem at hand are large
    • Lack of infrastructural knowledge when it comes to scaling solutions
    • Lack of inter team work noticed
    • Most of the tickets are open for a long period of time
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    In-Person Training
    ClicData
    No answers on this topic
    Infor
    I have attended two different training sessions. The first one was my initial training on the system. It was well paced, clear and concise. If there were questions that were not able to be answered by the instructor, he took down the question and actually followed up and provided us a response quickly. The second session was specific to the dashboard and report design components. This training was very good though there were some attendants who had little or no experience and their questions slowed the class.
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    Online Training
    ClicData
    No answers on this topic
    Infor
    Although I found the online resources helpful, a lack of appropriate examples for certain tasks key to report creation and advanced modeling make the online training/documentation less than perfect. For an inexperienced BI professional, the online training would not enable a streamlined launch of the product.
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    Implementation Rating
    ClicData
    No answers on this topic
    Infor
    Have clean data! Birst flexibility allows - Start small, then introduce functionality and complexity along the way. If you try to present all the functionality [bells and whistles] and wow them, but bad data is uncovered, the end user blames the new application and turns away.
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    Alternatives Considered
    ClicData
    ClicData was the most flexible. It is cloud-based and even has WebService access. You can publish your data for access from other applications. The sheer number of data connectors is amazing. The ability to not only create dashboards, but you can schedule them to be delivered to specific recipients on a scheduled basis via PDF or a static HTML page.
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    Infor
    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" solution like that. When we looked at Tableau, we liked its visualization capabilities, but it wasn't going to help us do the extractions, ETL, and warehousing of data. It may have come some distance since then.
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    Scalability
    ClicData
    No answers on this topic
    Infor
    we can see that loading a lot of data can cause a noticable slow down in performance. Birst support indicated that they don't really consider anything less than 30 seconds to be an issue, but that is not the case for our customers, so we have had to change some of implementation to address this
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    Return on Investment
    ClicData
    • ClicData was by far the most reasonable cost-wise, and we were able to get ROI within just minutes of using it.
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    Infor
    • Being a manufacturing company we tend to lag behind technologically. But having all the data for different ERP systems in one place has been an eye opener for the executives. It has lessened the need to convert some legacy ERP systems.
    • Having such a simple reporting tool is a great asset to some of our sites that have traditionally had trouble gathering data from AS400 systems.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    ClicData Screenshots

    Product screenshotScreenshot of ClicData's data warehouse where company's data is centralized.Screenshot of Some of ClicData's connectors. 300+ data connections are available.Screenshot of Preview of a joint between datasets from two different sources. Basic or advanced data transformations can be performed with ClicData's ETL features.Screenshot of marketing metrics, from open rates to conversions.Screenshot of an Online Customer Acquisition dashboard example

    Infor Birst Screenshots

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