Item: Infor Birst
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We embed Birst into our own web based SAAS product, as well as using it for internal and customer facing reporting. The biggest gain is allowing us to store our data which allows for easy visualization and analysis.

Pros and Cons

Data blending
Embedding

Ease of creating the schemas
UI and flexibility for creating visualization
Does not support traditional (paper based) reporting anywhere near as well as promised or advertised
Access to the data in the warehouse is much needed. This can be achieved though API or ODBC

Alternatives Considered

Tabelau,IB,Cognos,custom development,Pentaho,

Birst does a great job of being able to collate the data.

Likelihood to Renew

Likelihood to Recommend

If the recommendation was for dashboarding and reporting only, and they already had warehouse solution, Birst would not be a good choice. I would stear towards Tableau or custom development for charting (e.g. D3). If they had scattered data or only transactional databases then Birst is a good choice for being able to rein in that data.

Needs improvement, but getting better, moving in the right direction

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with Birst

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Alternatives Considered

Likelihood to Renew

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