Item: Infor Birst
Rating: 8
Author: Dhiraj Kumar

Overall Satisfaction with Birst

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Birst is used across the organisation and by our business partners. It is embedded into the product. It's a powerful tool which gives them the vision for their devices, how devices are getting used by their end customers, what properties and values are getting used frequently, the outliers and how to diagnose the problem, etc.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Birst is a powerful tool for BI, it has various features built in which can be used directly by inheriting it instead of writing 1000 lines of code.
It gives a way to demonstrate the numbers as various ways through its charts, which makes it easy for a non-IT person to see a trend.
The access control gives you the ability to map users as per their use case and dataset.

Cons

Some mathematical operations need real understanding of the functions like RSUM to get cumulative count.
The UI has a scope of improvement. It can be made lighter.
Product can be broken down into pieces and can be used as per the need, not all the features are useful for everyone.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would say when it comes to building a report with the data from the database and data from an Excel sheet, Birst makes it easy to blend both the data with ease to operate on the data. Birst should also focus on implementing new connectors for Spark, Scala and other streamlined APIs which can help in building a real-time dashboard.

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