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Birst vs XLCubed comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

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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
25th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Embedded BI (19th)
XLCubed
Ranking in Reporting
27th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Birst is 1.0%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of XLCubed is 1.4%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Reporting Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Birst1.0%
XLCubed1.4%
Other97.6%
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…
reviewer1489434 - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Connection should be simplified, but it's priced well
For anyone who intends to implement this solution, I would recommend contacting technical support the first time it doesn't work. At this time, I cannot recommend this solution to others because I cannot connect. Because of the connection issues that we are experiencing, I would rate this solution a five out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"Users can jump to the Birst dashboard from SFDC without a repeat login."
"It has given us the ability to join all our data sources into one place to streamline reporting and analytics."
"In general, Birst as a cloud VI solution is a user-friendly tool that looks really nice and engages users straight away."
"Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"Cloud based BI that can be accessed from anywhere, anytime from mobiles, iPods, tablets, and PCs."
"The impact of Birst has been felt company-wide."
"Its ability to create a complete, end-to-end BI solution using a single software stack product is the most valuable feature."
"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."
"The solution has great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, everything, and we also have a very good relationship with the consultants and the solution is also very cost effective."
 

Cons

"There were stability issues with Birst. A dashboard/report takes a lot of time to open if there is a lot of data."
"Visualization: This aspect of the product is not up to the same level as its competitors in the market."
"I would like to see better connection functionality. It is not very intuitive and the UI is kind of neglected."
"The administration module was built using flash. It is clunky and outdated."
"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."
"The ability to filter out massive amounts of data and load it properly on screen needs to be improved."
"The ETL, querying, and user interface did not accommodate our performance requirements."
"At this time, I cannot recommend this solution to others because I cannot connect."
"It's quite a stable solution although we sometimes encounter issues internally within our IT department with regard to the structure."
"Would like the ability to be able to benchmark."
"There should be a better or an easier way to establish that connection to external sources."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Please negotiate on the price and purchase the latest version."
"I am still using the two-week trial, but at first sight, the price is reasonable."
"14,000 Pounds per year for licensing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
17%
Construction Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
7%
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Company Size

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