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Birst vs CA Deliver comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

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
28th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Embedded BI (20th)
CA Deliver
Ranking in Reporting
33rd
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 August 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Birst is 1.0%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CA Deliver is 0.9%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Reporting Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Birst1.0%
CA Deliver0.9%
Other98.1%
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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

"Birst has made it easier for us to provide embedded data visualization tools to our customers."
"Scalability is one of the core features of this product that makes Birst great."
"Users can jump to the Birst dashboard from SFDC without a repeat login."
"Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"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."
"In general, Birst as a cloud VI solution is a user-friendly tool that looks really nice and engages users straight away."
"Cloud based BI that can be accessed from anywhere, anytime from mobiles, iPods, tablets, and PCs."
"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."
"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."
"Extremely stable and reliable, and easy to install."
"Flexibility of report configuration; allows for quick and simple amendments to definitions."
"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."
 

Cons

"As the volume of data gets bigger and bigger, so does the extraction/processing of the data and the dashboard rendering."
"Error logging is cumbersome to work through to find issues."
"I would like to see better connection functionality. It is not very intuitive and the UI is kind of neglected."
"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."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"Performance was not that great; in-memory processing would help."
"I would like to see stronger in-built permissions capabilities."
"For complex reports with heavy calculations, performance can be improved."
"I work with the developers so I get what I want built into the project."
"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."
"Needs ability to allow export to xls/pdf, etc. (Note: this is available in add-on product CA – OM Web Viewer)."
 

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
Construction Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
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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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Comparisons

 

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Sample Customers

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