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Birst a good tool for complex organisations
August 10, 2017

Birst a good tool for complex organisations

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Birst

Birst is curerntly being used by Field Marketing to create reports and analytics. Currently the data is being imported from Salesforce and another systems and weekly fed into Birst. The tool allows us to create our detailed dashbords and reports but unfortunately, due to the manual process of importing the data, the numbers are not always 100% consistent.
  • Complete tool
  • Many options available
  • Great degree of customization
  • Data is imported manually in our organisation
  • Some degree of difficulty
  • Needs at least a permanent engineer to correctly mantain the system
We have also been using power BI, and we realized that for concrete departments or small organisations, Power BI eliminates the complexity of Birst and provides an easier interface. Nevertheless, Birst provides much more detailed data with more criteria to segment on.
Birst is well suited for organisations with a need of highly segmented and detailed data.
It enables the analysis of big amounts of data based on pre-defined parameters.

Nevertheless, it is not well suited for departments or organisations which just need basic data or a little amount of different parameters. If used in these cases, it can lead to excesive complexity and confusion.

Infor Birst Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.5
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
7
8.0
Drill-down analysis
7
Formatting capabilities
8
Report sharing and collaboration
9
7.5
Publish to PDF
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
7
7.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
8.3
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated