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.
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" …
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 …
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
We use other BI tools within the organization. These tools have been there before we got BIRST and while comparing, BIRST did score well against these tools but the migration cost to convert existing reports/data prevented us from replacing those tools with BIRST.
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.
We have realized over the years that our core competency is not in the area of building, updating and maintaining a BI suite. While the insights we provided with our homegrown solution worked for our clients, we have come to the realization that our customers were expecting …
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 …
QlikView - on the face, similar system design, agnostic data sources, Cognos - previous experience MS Reporting Services - fit with internal systems/tools/environment.
Five years ago when we were researching our BI options, we considered Pentaho and Jaspersoft. No comparison, as they were more programmatic centered and also involved independent modules, so would require multiple components for a total solution. In the first hour of testing …
We selected Birst due to the amount of time it takes to go from implementation to live usage. Most BI tools take a lot of time to create the data warehouse prior to creating useful reports. Birst, however, does not take much time at all. Also, Birst does not take a large BI …
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 …
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Birst provided the broadest set of functionality at the best cost of ownership. Ease of implementation and getting quickly up to speed provided the biggest cost savings vs the other packages. The keys to ease of …