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    Infor Birst

    Score6.5 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
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Infor Birst
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    Infor
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    We were using Birst OEM and now moved to Looker, because it was too old-fashioned and tool capability was limited. It is a different tool - Birst OEM has some more in depth capability and customizations options while Looker is more modern and easy to use, in my opinion.
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    Infor Birst OEM and embedded analytics have low-code no-code features which are easy to deploy and with easy instances creation with a dev-quality-production environment. Good capability on data mapping features from source to intermediate to target with impressive metadata …
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    No comparison. The speed if info is next-level.
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    Birst is the best all in one tool that we found, especially at a good price point and already using Infor
    Incentivized
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    There are a few items I evaluate when looking at different tools.
    1. Price per user
    2. License price
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    • Ease of use
    • Ability to easily connect to multiple and varying data sources
    Incentivized
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    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" …
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    During the vetting process, we looked at 14 different products (one of them internal) to see if they would fit our needs and whittled it down to this one over a three month period. We did not contact sales for all of them (sales sites were enough to rule out some), but did have …
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    Easy to import data and build relationship.

    Easy to create ad hoc analysis.

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    The primary differentiator with Birst is its scalability. Every other system we have developed or reviewed is either very strong in a single focus or requires a large team to manage to deploy over multiple, diverse customers. We have been able to accomplish more successfully …
    Incentivized
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    A platform to speed up development and also to provide self-service analytics to our customers.
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    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
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    Key evaluation criteria:
    - Is how quickly the query runs
    - The code and metadata for the database
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    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.
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    Chose Infor Birst
    Cognos - this tool is also more difficult to set up, takes more time to develop dashboards, harder for the business user to navigate
    MicroStrategy - this tool is also more difficult to set up, takes more time to develop dashboards, harder for the business user to navigate
    MS …
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    Birst was the right size for our company. The other vendors were to large and scope was to much.
    Incentivized
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    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 …
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    The standard in our company is SAP Business objects. For the international part of the company we are using Birst because of its accesibility, ease of maintenance and ease of use. Compared to SAP BO dashboarding and easy to medium complex reports are easier to create and …
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    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 …
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    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
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    So much easier to be able to pull data using a query at times, which should be supported alongside drag and drop options. I can actually left join two tables when needed to provide data frequently requested by customers.
    Incentivized
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    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 …
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    We chose Birst as birst Appliance and cloud versions has same set of features available. Power BI hosted on Azure cloud has competitive pricing, but Power BI report server has very limited features available and is also very expensive. Due to PHI data regulations in different …
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    Birst's ETL is better suited to our purposes than Alooma's stream-based processing.
    Birst's designer is more mature and meets or needs better than Periscope's reporting functionality, at the time I investigated it.
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    Would buy again
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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
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Infor Birst
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    7.4
    77 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports7.068 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.077 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.159 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Infor Birst
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    7.0
    78 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.078 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.077 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages6.127 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.068 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Infor Birst
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    8.0
    75 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Publish to Web8.052 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.067 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.28 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.066 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Infor Birst
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    6.9
    72 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.072 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.058 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics5.833 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Infor Birst
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    8.3
    72 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.070 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.068 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.069 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Infor Birst
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    5.0
    54 Ratings
    43% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.052 Ratings
    Mobile Application3.034 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile3.042 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Infor Birst
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (99 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (35 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    4.1
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (19 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.3
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    6.0
    (24 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.6
    (76 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Infor Birst
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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.
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