Item: Infor Birst
Rating: 7
Author: Stephane F. Tremblay

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is embedded in our main UI web app in order to provide information related to metering.

Pros and Cons

Self Services Analytics - Business users oriented tools
Design tools
Data Modeling tools
New Self-services platform called Pronto
Embedding capabilities
Dashboards and Design tools through JS API
Single-Sign-On support
Web services availability
Query dashboard catalog and permissions
Manage users
Data Import and processing for Streaming sources (used by StreamLoader App) – Cloud Friendly

Incomplete TZ management (one env is one TZ)
No TZ conversion support at BQL level (No DST support)
DB physical query generated by Birst does not always leverage the Exasol aggregation capabilities.
Incomplete I18N support.

Alternatives Considered

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A platform to speed up development and also to provide self-service analytics to our customers.

Likelihood to Recommend

Appropriate:

- To provide self-service analytics to our customers, its embedding capabilities, self-services tools and ETL capabilities.

Less appropriate:

- The platform has the disadvantage of its advantages, it does many things for you but not always to your liking so we sometimes had to bypass Birst and work with the DB directly for instance. We also faced challenges to make the platform fit in our context using streaming data sources and the delivery of a single solution into different customers environment.

Self-service analytics

Overall Satisfaction with Birst

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Alternatives Considered

Likelihood to Recommend

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