A simple to use and effective business intelligence solution
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Infor Birst
Infor Birst
Infor Birst
Starting at $30,000 Per 20 Users Per Year
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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,...
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2018
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- Customizable dashboards (77)8.080%
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (72)8.080%
- Formatting capabilities (77)7.070%
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$30,000
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What is Infor Birst?
Infor Birst is a BI product that enables a single view of data and eliminate data silos. Additionally, decentralized teams and individual users can augment this shared analytic fabric with their own local data, without compromising data governance. This consistency comes from a unified semantic layer, which maintains common definitions and key metrics, no matter where users sit.
Birst achieves Networked BI through a 2-tier architecture that aligns back-end enterprise data with line-of-business or local, edge data. Birst’s Automated Data Refinement extracts data from any source (data stores, applications, warehouses, big data, and unstructured external sources) into a unified semantic layer. The result is a consistent view that enables users with self-service analytics through dashboards, reporting, visual discovery, mobile tools, and predictive analytics. Birst Open Client Interface also offers integration with Tableau, Excel and R.
Birst goes to market in two primary ways:
- Direct, for enterprises using Birst for analytics on internal data to drive improved business outcomes
- Embedded, for all size companies who offer data (analytics) products, by embedding and white-labeling Birst capabilities into their products
Birst’s product is packaged in 3 available formats:
- Platform and per-user fee
- By Department or Business Unit
- By end-customer (for embedded scenarios)
Infor Birst Features
BI Platform Features
- Supported: Administration via Windows App
- Supported: Administration via MacOS App
- Supported: Administration via Web Interface
- Supported: Live Connection to External Data
- Supported: Snapshot of External Data
- Supported: In-memory data model
- Supported: OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
- Supported: ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)
- Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
- Supported: Data warehouse / dictionary layer
- Supported: ETL Capability
- Supported: ETL Scheduler
Supported Data Sources Features
- Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
- Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
- Supported: Oracle
- Supported: MS SQL Server
- Supported: IBM DB2
- Supported: Postgres
- Supported: MySQL
- Supported: ODBC
- Supported: Cloudera Hadoop
- Supported: Hortonworks Hadoop
- Supported: EMC Greenplum
- Supported: IBM Netezza
- Supported: HP Vertica
- Supported: ParAccel
- Supported: SAP Hana
- Supported: Teradata
- Supported: Salesforce
- Supported: SAP
- Supported: Google Analytics
BI Standard Reporting Features
- Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
- Supported: Customizable dashboards
- Supported: Report Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
- Supported: Drill-down analysis
- Supported: Formatting capabilities
- Supported: Predictive modeling
- Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
- Supported: Report sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
- Supported: Publish to Web
- Supported: Publish to PDF
- Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
- Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
- Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- Supported: Predictive Analytics
- Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
- Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
Access Control and Security Features
- Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
- Supported: Role-Based Security Model
- Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- Supported: Report-Level Access Control
- Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
Mobile Capabilities Features
- Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
- Supported: Mobile Application
- Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
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Infor Birst Competitors
- Alteryx
- InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
- Datameer
- Entrinsik Informer
- GoodData
- IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson
- Mediafly Intelligence360
- TIBCO Jaspersoft
- Knowledge360 from Cipher
- Tableau Desktop
- Tableau Public
- Tableau Server
- Chartio (discontinued)
- SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform
- Zoho Analytics
Infor Birst Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
| Supported Countries | All |
| Supported Languages | Arabic, English, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, Spanish |
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Frequently Asked Questions
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.
Alteryx, InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued), and Datameer are common alternatives for Infor Birst.
Reviewers rate Report Delivery Scheduling and Multi-User Support (named login) highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of Infor Birst are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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September 28, 2021
A simple to use and effective business intelligence solution
Birst is the best all in one tool that we found, especially at a good price point and already using Infor
February 12, 2019
End to end BI solution for not complex scenarios
January 14, 2019
Birst Review
Logi Analytics are more easy to use and to make ad hoc. How ever it did not meet our criteria regarding multi tented capabilities.
January 10, 2019
Solid tool with opportunites to become even better.
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 required an investment in professional services that we could not afford. SSRS is good for data dumps, but creating user friendly visualizations is not practical.
Snowflake ended up as our EDW platform, and we integrate that with Birst to provide a complete BI stack for our end users.
Snowflake ended up as our EDW platform, and we integrate that with Birst to provide a complete BI stack for our end users.
January 09, 2019
Data Capture
Easy to import data and build relationship.
Easy to create ad hoc analysis.
January 09, 2019
Birst almost live access
- sql analysis services, Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Desktop
Birst is not as intuitive or flexible for cube design and aggregations as using SQL Analysis services - at times seems an odd mix between gui based, and required specific code.
Power BI is the tool of choice internally, but is limited by security settings that we need to enable to suport client access.
Tableau is unfortunately beyond our budget to provide the solution we would like to deliver.
Power BI is the tool of choice internally, but is limited by security settings that we need to enable to suport client access.
Tableau is unfortunately beyond our budget to provide the solution we would like to deliver.
January 08, 2019
Birst Review from Advertising Point of View
Key evaluation criteria:
- Is how quickly the query runs
- The code and metadata for the database
- How user-friendly the output is
- Ability for the dashboard or output to be shared amongst the business
- The visualization tools
- Stability of the database
Birst is a good data storage system which also allows for us to create different dashboards, therefore is a good choice for holding our past buying and selling information.
- Is how quickly the query runs
- The code and metadata for the database
- How user-friendly the output is
- Ability for the dashboard or output to be shared amongst the business
- The visualization tools
- Stability of the database
Birst is a good data storage system which also allows for us to create different dashboards, therefore is a good choice for holding our past buying and selling information.
January 08, 2019
Birst - 9 years after we met
The key evaluation criteria: agility, ROI, short implementation time
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.
- allow us to distribute reports within the company within their tool
- embed reporting as iframes
- relatively easily to build reporting
- connect to many different kinds of data.
July 13, 2018
Birst, a data visualization tool
There are a few items I evaluate when looking at different tools.
- Price per user
- License price
- scalability
- Customization
- Embedded
- How data is processed
March 30, 2018
Birst review
- Ease of use
- Ability to easily connect to multiple and varying data sources
- Cost
March 23, 2018
Birst in eLearning Sales and Ops
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.
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.
- TIBCO Jaspersoft, Windward Reporting and Document Generation Solution, Yellowfin, Looker, Yurbi, Izenda, Microsoft Power BI, Sisense, OpenText Actuate Information Hub, Information Builders WebFOCUS, ClearStory Data, Pentaho, GoodData and Tableau Online
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 a lot of demos with a significant portion of them and reviewed several of the major industry studies as well. We had representatives of both user interests/design and the technical backend on the evaluation process.
The major features we were looking for a product that we could embed inside our own SaaS application, connect to a sharded Postgres database, had multitenancy and allowed for customer generated reports/ self-reporting. Some of the minor "nice to have" features we were looking at was scheduled reports, especially if we could plug it into our own scheduling system (for CAN-SPAM compliance), internationalization, and support.
In the evaluation, Birst hit all of the must-haves and enough of the nice to haves that they made it down to our final two and the trial was the clincher to make it our final choice.
March 19, 2018
HarvestBI - Leveraging Birst to Improve an Industry
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 and more quickly with a single developer and 2 BA's than what has historically taken multiple developers years to accomplish.
March 19, 2018
Self-service analytics
- Logi
A platform to speed up development and also to provide self-service analytics to our customers.
March 16, 2018
Birstarific
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
March 16, 2018
Multi-tenant review
March 13, 2018
Birst - Not what we had hoped it would be.
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 Power BI - easier to model data, quickly develop dashboards, easy for business user to navigate
Qlik - easier to model data, quickly develop dashboards, easy 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 Power BI - easier to model data, quickly develop dashboards, easy for business user to navigate
Qlik - easier to model data, quickly develop dashboards, easy for the business user to navigate
March 13, 2018
Birst helps us close sales
- IBM Cognos and QlikView
Birst was the right size for our company. The other vendors were to large and scope was to much.
- Oracle Business Intelligence, Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server
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 was on the "Infrastructure & Architecture" side due to being a cloud solution.
When compared to Tableau, we can see that Birst has some reusable semantic layer and ELT data processing which is not available in Tableau (although Tableau Maestro project might change this).
The only point where Birst was rated higher was on the "Infrastructure & Architecture" side due to being a cloud solution.
When compared to Tableau, we can see that Birst has some reusable semantic layer and ELT data processing which is not available in Tableau (although Tableau Maestro project might change this).
March 09, 2018
Birst: a whole in one reporting platform.
- SAP Business Objects
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 handle.
The administrator of a Birst platform doesn't has to be as technical as for other platforms. Of course, the more BI knowledge the better.
The administrator of a Birst platform doesn't has to be as technical as for other platforms. Of course, the more BI knowledge the better.
March 09, 2018
A very powerful BI tool
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 in Birst. from the prototype we have moved on to develop dozens of different dashboards
March 09, 2018
Pulse Analytics use of Birst - Review March 2018
- BOE, Qlik, Tableau and Microsoft BI
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.
March 08, 2018
Birst for all
- Business Objects and IBM Cognos TM1
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.
March 07, 2018
Birst Review
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.