Birst Review
March 06, 2018

Birst Review

Jaya Bhardwaj | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with Birst

We use birst as platform for our analytics product and sell our analytics product to our customer which is a cancer hospital. We use Birst to perform clinical data dta analysis on patient treatment data collected by hospitals. We distribute our analytics product hosted on our cloud environment which is developed on the Birst platform.
  • Birst has a very good UI dashboard module.
  • Visualizer module to explore explore data is very to learn and use, especially for less tech savvy people.
  • Birst connect to upload data which provides push mechanism from source system.
  • Birst has lot of bugs, need to improve on quality.
  • Birst Modeling layer is difficulty to pick up
  • ETL functionality is very limited and difficult to work with
We chose Birst as birst Appliance and cloud versions has same set of features available. Power BI hosted on Azure cloud has competitive pricing, but Power BI report server has very limited features available and is also very expensive. Due to PHI data regulations in different countries, we needed both flavors to sell our product.
This tool is good for internal use but I will not recommend for ERP type of use.

Infor Birst Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
10
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
8
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
5
Report sharing and collaboration
7
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
7
Predictive Analytics
5
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8