Birst is good, but could be better
March 09, 2018
Birst is good, but could be better
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Birst
Across the enterprise. It addresses many reporting needs across the company for different business lines.
- Quick visualizations and data insights
- Quick import of excel or csv files for ad hoc or discovery
- When data model correct, ability to connect data to other data
- Dynamic dashboards
- No source control for change control policies
- Does not follow normal Dev, QA, Production deployments meaning you have to copy spaces to promote collections/reports and in other cases have to recreate Custom Attributes, Filters etc from space to space instead of normal deployment procedures.
- Quirky things that happen with no visibility into what happened, missing security settings while swapping spaces, things working sometimes and broken other times
- Better security and roles, Admin functions or search capabilities, more windows style navigation to easily move things around as needed in collections/dashboards.
- Better metadata Admin functions for tracking production level collections and reports, security groups and users within those groups, and easily producing lists of all Measures, Attributes, variables, custom attributes, custom measures, and ways to manage and cross reference these items within reports or dashboards