Jump on the the BIRST wagon. It could quickly become a category killer.
March 20, 2017
Jump on the the BIRST wagon. It could quickly become a category killer.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Birst
BIRST is used as a self-service platform for business units to have their much needed full independent capability. Although BIRST has full capability, our use case was to increase bandwidth for avoiding the bottleneck of our existing data warehouse and BI platform efforts.
Business units are finding value in the capability to resolve issues and improve processes. They can see the impact of their effort in days.
Having a fully integrated data store and data warehouse is a great value. Data connectivity is also very powerful while simple. Lastly, Visualizer's interface is very intuitive and easy for adoption. The capability to carve out a topic, build it and deploy stand-alone supports great time-to-market. The Network BI capability allows you to come back and merge, enhance. Very flexible.
Business units are finding value in the capability to resolve issues and improve processes. They can see the impact of their effort in days.
Having a fully integrated data store and data warehouse is a great value. Data connectivity is also very powerful while simple. Lastly, Visualizer's interface is very intuitive and easy for adoption. The capability to carve out a topic, build it and deploy stand-alone supports great time-to-market. The Network BI capability allows you to come back and merge, enhance. Very flexible.
- Intuitive navigation. Fast and clean interactive output.
- Back-end incremental updates out of the box. This feature alone is huge.
- Role playing time dimensions are extremely easy to set up. No sweat.
- Back-end administration is very capable, but rustic, rough on the edges. Just a little improvement here (mainly UI) will make a huge difference.
- Having two reporting authoring tools is a little strange, but after all they do have different use-cases, so not terrible.
- Tableau Online and Qlik
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 worries about memory, disks, support, backups, etc. Yes, this is just 'cloud' but it is already all there, ready for you.