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Birst pros and cons

Vendor: Infor

3.7 out of 5

20 reviews
76% willing to recommend

Birst Pros review quotes

Director of Enterprise Data Architecture at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 5, 2016

If you are looking for a cloud-based, lightweight data mart and reporting, this tool is good.

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Senior BI Specialist at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 10, 2016

Scalability is one of the core features of this product that makes Birst great.

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Manager - Presales and Solutions at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 19, 2016

Birst provides quick and helpful support on raised queries.

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Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Mar 23, 2017

Cloud based BI that can be accessed from anywhere, anytime from mobiles, iPods, tablets, and PCs.

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Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 27, 2016

The fact that it is completely cloud based makes the maintenance easier since we don't have the onus of maintaining the server.

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Sr. Business Intelligence Consultant at Avantas, LLC

Apr 6, 2017

Birst uses several connection methods to take data in from your data sources and stages it into its own data mart, and this staging from several sources makes Birst a fairly robust data warehouse solution.

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Principal Engineering Manager I at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Sep 12, 2017

Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain.

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Senior Data Engineer at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Nov 13, 2016

This tool possesses valuable features such as its ability to perform ETL, extract data from various sources (flat files, relational DBs, application connectors) and dashboard scheduling.

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Fp&A And Reporting Manager at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 27, 2016

It has given us the ability to join all our data sources into one place to streamline reporting and analytics.

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Lead, Analytics Global Enterprise & Government at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Nov 27, 2016

Its ability to create a complete, end-to-end BI solution using a single software stack product is the most valuable feature.

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Birst Cons review quotes

Director of Enterprise Data Architecture at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 5, 2016

Performance was not that great; in-memory processing would help.

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Senior BI Specialist at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 10, 2016

My own experience just made me think that this was a hidden cost that they tried to hide, but keeping that in mind, it might only be my experience as to how this surfaced for us, because I had this image of Birst that you pay this amount and get everything.

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Manager - Presales and Solutions at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 19, 2016

For complex reports with heavy calculations, performance can be improved.

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Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Mar 23, 2017

I would like to see better connection functionality. It is not very intuitive and the UI is kind of neglected.

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Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 27, 2016

There were stability issues with Birst. A dashboard/report takes a lot of time to open if there is a lot of data.

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Sr. Business Intelligence Consultant at Avantas, LLC

Apr 6, 2017

We are yet to realize the real return on the investment given the need to alter the underlying intention of the product’s use.

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SK

Principal Engineering Manager I at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Sep 12, 2017

Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution.

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Senior Data Engineer at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Nov 13, 2016

Owing to the above reasons, we could not make use of the Birst tool productively.

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Fp&A And Reporting Manager at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 27, 2016

The cost-benefit was not great.

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Lead, Analytics Global Enterprise & Government at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Nov 27, 2016

Visualization: This aspect of the product is not up to the same level as its competitors in the market.

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