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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    ThoughtSpot

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AThoughtSpot is an Agentic Analytics Platform for enterprises where users ask data questions using natural language and get answers with AI. Code-first for data teams and code-free for business users, ThoughtSpot can handle large, complex cloud data at scale.

    $1,500

    per year (5 users)

    Pricing
    Infor BirstThoughtSpot
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
    $50
    per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Infor BirstThoughtSpot
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Infor BirstThoughtSpot
    Considered Both Products
    Infor
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    86%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    37 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    Features
    Infor BirstThoughtSpot
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Infor Birst and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    7.4
    77 Ratings
    10% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    89 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports7.068 Ratings6.021 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.077 Ratings8.189 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.159 Ratings7.725 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Infor Birst and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    7.0
    78 Ratings
    13% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.5
    91 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.078 Ratings8.390 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.077 Ratings7.090 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages6.127 Ratings5.949 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.068 Ratings8.888 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Infor Birst and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    8.0
    75 Ratings
    3% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Publish to Web8.052 Ratings8.155 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.067 Ratings8.478 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.28 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.066 Ratings8.364 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.935 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Infor Birst and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    6.9
    72 Ratings
    15% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    86 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.072 Ratings7.585 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.058 Ratings7.079 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics5.833 Ratings7.565 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.913 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Infor Birst and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    8.3
    72 Ratings
    2% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    86 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.070 Ratings8.282 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.068 Ratings7.974 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.069 Ratings7.678 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings7.816 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.772 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Infor Birst and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    5.0
    54 Ratings
    43% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    53 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.052 Ratings7.051 Ratings
    Mobile Application3.034 Ratings6.734 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile3.042 Ratings6.746 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Infor Birst and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Infor Birst
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    51 Ratings
    7% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings7.342 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings6.835 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings8.134 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.235 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Sisense
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    User Ratings
    Infor BirstThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (99 ratings)
    8.4
    (91 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (35 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    8.2
    (85 ratings)
    Availability
    4.1
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (19 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.3
    (6 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    6.0
    (24 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.6
    (76 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Infor BirstThoughtSpot
    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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    ThoughtSpot
    It is well suited when the same data is consumed by many different people with different analytics and visualization requirements because, if you have the data available in ThoughtSpot, every user can prepare different views. Also, it is a good reporting tool, you can get rid of slides if you have a good dashboard prepared, gaining flexibility and agility.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    • Beautiful visualizations. The visuals are distinct, clean, and easy to discern from one another.
    • Intelligent querying functionality. When looking to manipulate the data, the search function makes it easy to manipulate the features in the data, along with aggregating them in the way you'd like.
    • Embedding! It has been a smooth process thus far for our product & technical teams to work with ThoughtSpot and bring it into our product.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    • It would be great if ThoughtSpot can add the feature to filter by clicking on visualizations. i.e if I click on a particular data point in the chart if the full dashboard can filter just for that particular data point.
    • Color coding the heatmap with different colors like green to orange to red.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    I give it just waiting because passport is brilliant and it has helped our organisation In advancing to the next stage in the age of AI. It has allowed or non-tech people to better service and clients in a cost-effective way. George port has allowed us to create new products for us and for our clients increasing our revenue streams and reducing clients churn
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    The rating is because of the ease of use of the interface as it has a no code interface that makes it easy to setup data pipelines without extensive programming. Cloud native integration: It integrates seamlessly with cloud based data warehouses. Automated data loading, Scalability, Cost Effective, Transformations, Data Governance and security.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    it's available unless there is a server or system update etc. sometimes the timing of this is bad (for example during a month end close)
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    I give it this meeting because the team is not only help able to help us in the current solutions but also amazing and taking feedback and feeding it back to their development team which includes more products and features into ThoughtSpot
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    poor instructions
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    We also explored Tableau Ask Data. Tableau is our standard for BI in our organization. We want to use the smallest amount of tools in our company to have the best adaption. ThoughSpot will fill a few gaps that we have with our current set up and will also enhance out offering for our employees in the transition of being more data driven within in near future
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    Because it is very reliable, inside the situation, we need strong internet connection to access a lot of data but easily never had any downtime except during the upgrades
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    • Time to market ROI is massive vs hiring the full-time dedicated team to build and maintain a frontend multi-tenant SaaS data viz product.
    • It will be interesting to see over time how the advanced features play out in terms of usability and end value, such as Natural Search, which we are very excited about, and the machine learning tools.
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    Screenshot of the ThoughtSpot home screenScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the Spotter AI agent that surfaces insights through natural language queriesScreenshot of AI Assist producing SQL in real timeScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the integration with dbt models and metrics