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Birst vs CA Deliver comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Birst
Ranking in Reporting
26th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Embedded BI (19th)
CA Deliver
Ranking in Reporting
31st
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.1
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Birst is 1.1%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CA Deliver is 1.0%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Reporting Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Birst1.1%
CA Deliver1.0%
Other97.9%
Reporting
 

Featured Reviews

SK
Principal Engineering Manager I at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Offers dashboards and self-service reports. The report performance is very slow.
Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain Most of our customers are interested in dashboards and self-service reports. We are able to offer them these features with this solution. Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution The report…
it_user837525 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer (Sr. level II) at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Gives us one repository for various output formats and retention periods
A common theme with all CA products is they state compatibility with new technologies when it has not yet been proven. Much like other technology companies that have fallen into this trap, let feature and compatibly releases be controlled by the technical group, instead of the marketing and/or management people. I cite the example that CA mainframe products were deemed to be compatible with Extended Address Volumes (EAV) - larger sized disk volumes - when they were not. I have been doing this for 37 years and see it all too often, sometimes to the detriment of the company itself (Storage Technology Corp. and its Iceberg array comes to mind).

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"If you are looking for a cloud-based, lightweight data mart and reporting, this tool is good."
"Users can jump to the Birst dashboard from SFDC without a repeat login."
"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."
"Everything we did in the marketing team needed to be based on data and Birst helped us to make calculated decisions based on the given data."
"It has given us the ability to join all our data sources into one place to streamline reporting and analytics."
"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."
"We have been able to scale pretty quickly and easily; it has been a great experience and I love this product."
"The fact that it is completely cloud based makes the maintenance easier since we don't have the onus of maintaining the server."
"The benefits are that it keeps their information for over 40 to 50 years, so in essence it's a digital bank for customer information."
"Flexibility of report configuration; allows for quick and simple amendments to definitions."
"Extremely stable and reliable, and easy to install."
"Having one repository for various output formats and retention periods. Provides the flexibility to establish hundreds of different retention entries, based upon business need, and then group the like retention period outputs together on the same media. It is very efficient."
 

Cons

"For complex reports with heavy calculations, performance can be improved."
"The administration module was built using flash. It is clunky and outdated."
"Performance was not that great; in-memory processing would help."
"Owing to the above reasons, we could not make use of the Birst tool productively."
"We are yet to realize the real return on the investment given the need to alter the underlying intention of the product’s use."
"I would like to see stronger in-built permissions capabilities."
"The ability to filter out massive amounts of data and load it properly on screen needs to be improved."
"Error logging is cumbersome to work through to find issues."
"Needs ability to allow export to xls/pdf, etc. (Note: this is available in add-on product CA – OM Web Viewer)."
"A common theme with all CA products is they state compatibility with new technologies when it has not yet been proven. I cite the example that CA mainframe products were deemed to be compatible with Extended Address Volumes (EAV) - larger sized disk volumes - when they were not."
"I work with the developers so I get what I want built into the project."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Please negotiate on the price and purchase the latest version."
"​Pricing is reasonable, licensing model suitable for large enterprises."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
17%
Construction Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise12
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