Infor Birst
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- Formatting capabilities (77)7.070%
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$30,000
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- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
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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 |
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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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A simple to use and effective business intelligence solution
- User report running time savings
- IT Support time savings
- New insights providing business value
Nerd Crush.
- 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.
Agility is the name of the game
- Previously we used a large BI vendor product. The product was costly, the IT team was large, delivery was slow and the business disengaged from the project after 18 months. Birst came in and transformed business satisfaction and engagement because they saw results quickly.
- Birst's simple UI has also meant finding and equipping business super users to own their on dashboards/reports has been very successful.
- Birst has now become an integral part of both the financial and sales cycles, due to the timeliness it can deliver trustworthy and consistent information to the business.
Cloud Analytics the Pioneer
- Increased visibility to data issues
- snapshot based analysis
- better visualizations than salesforce.com reporting
Birst: Even brightest solutions cast shadows
- Made the "self-service" report creation easier for end-users.
- Improved use and navigation through map-based reports.
Plug and Play BI Tool
- Its single suite environment helps us to merge all our business divisions into one single space and gives leverage in setting up security while pulling out data by different people for their own analysis purposes.
- It helps us in delivering reports and dashboard reviews along with insight recommendations in scheduled notifications on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.
1 year of Birst
- Now we have a better control of data availability, with a better SLA.
- The easier access to data for the user.
Long time Birst Customer - Still Happy!
- Price keeps going up - always a concern.
- More tools on the market similar to Birst
- We've seen a marked increase in sales as a result of the ad hoc modeling function. Our salespeople love it.
- Being a platinum partner with Birst has allowed our organization to build considerable expertise in the tool and to find great client companies to provide our services to.
Birst, a dashboard tool for any size company
- Better understanding of trends in sales and profitability.
- Ability to look at information by many single or combination of dimensions.
My Review
- Increased employee efficiency
Perfect tool for data visualization
- Better customer service for outside partners - reports can be made available for outside vendors/partners to view directly and updated frequently, rather than through email.
- Better employee efficiency through data visualization - employees find the reports easy to use and can get answers to their questions quickly.
- By utilizing just the basic functions of Birst, we have been able to provide critical, time-sensitive data to our leadership. This could not have come at a more important time for our company.
- The flexibility offered by Birst, through dashboards and mobile app, has allowed us to extend our offerings to other departments in our building and not just limiting our service to C-level users.
Birst 2013
- Increased visibility for external partners to view their opportunities - better funnel management
- Increased employee efficiency
- Lower commission costs
Easy to use BI tool
- Birst has allowed us to have increased employee efficiency by significantly improving the time it takes to analyze data.
- Birst has also improved our customer experience as they now have access to their performance data and can easily visualize their performance in relation the goals and metrics we have put in place for them.
Birst Review
- Increased efficiency - easy to navigate and develop ad-hoc reports
- allows customers access to limited internal data saving time and internal resources
Fantastic BI Solution
- Streamlines my analysis
- Houses all information into one repository that can be accessed by all who need it
- Shortens length of time to resolving internal inquiries
Outstanding Business Intelligence Solution
- Brought most of our analytics out of Excel spreadsheets.
- Consolidated silos into one single repository.
Two Thumbs up for Birst!
- The ability to quickly see location of our leads by area (down to zip code) on a map. We are now able to see our leads on a map which provides us greater insight into areas we should provide greater focus.
Birst
- Corporate dashboards for Management
Simple and Quick BI Implementation
- Better Customer Service.
- Increased employee efficiency.
- better informed decisions.
An OEM View
- As an OEM our ROI assesment is different... How easy is to integrate, how easy is to support, etc... So far our business case benefits are holding true.
Great Product with Great Support
- It's hard to quantify the time savings and improved decision making that occurred because of Birst, but it is substantial.