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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    GoodData

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AGoodData is an analytics platform used by organizations to deliver real-time, governed insights, embedded into products, customized for users, and integrated into any data environment. At the heart of GoodData is a universal semantic layer: a shared, code-defined model that maps raw data into consistent business concepts, metrics, and logic. Metrics are authored once and reused across every dashboard, app, or API, to ensure accuracy, governance, and trust wherever analytics are…N/A

    Infor Birst

    Score5.3 out of 10
    N/AInfor Birst offers multi-tenant cloud BI for deployment in a public or private cloud, or on-premises. It provides an in-memory columnar data store and a BI layer comprising a reporting engine, predictive analytics tools, mobile native apps, dashboards, discovery tools, and an open client interface.N/A
    Pricing
    GoodDataInfor Birst
    Editions & Modules
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    GoodDataInfor Birst
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    GoodDataInfor Birst
    Considered Both Products
    GoodData
    Chose GoodData
    We implemented multiple clients in Birst and GoodData. Birst has some powerful features that GoodData does not have, but the admin overhead associated with Birst is at least double of that in GoodData. GoodData is SO EASY after developing in Birst that our analytics team was …
    Incentivized
    Chose GoodData
    The back end design of Birst was not matching any of the classic DW approaches and we could not understand how ETL works.
    Incentivized
    Chose GoodData
    Birst Analytics
    Cloud 9
    PivotLink
    Chose GoodData
    Birst, which had comparable functionality. We chose GoodData based on ease-of-use and price.
    Infor
    Chose Infor Birst
    Cloud first strategy: Oracle did not have a cloud BI solution.
    Single end-to-end platform: Domo and GoodData relied upon third party ETL.
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    Birst was the only tool that did the following:
    • robust enough ETL for our data warehouse team
    • data would remain within our data warehouse and not within the tool's proprietary store, in case the company went out of business.
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    We preferred to have an all-in-one cloud solution that could connect to Salesforce.com and on-premise servers. I thought the combination of ETL built into a star-schema was unmatched. QlikView could do something similar, but the resulting data file was not an enterprise grade …
    Incentivized
    Chose Infor Birst
    Business Objects, Microsoft, Pentaho, JasperReports, GoodData. Birst provided the broadest set of functionality at the best cost of ownership. Ease of implementation and getting quickly up to speed provided the biggest cost savings vs the other packages. The keys to ease of …
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    64 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    61 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    64 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    49 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    84%
    Implementation went as expected
    47 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    GoodDataInfor Birst
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of GoodData and Infor Birst
    Feature
    GoodData
    7.9
    63 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Infor Birst
    7.4
    77 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports7.947 Ratings7.068 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.763 Ratings8.077 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.052 Ratings7.159 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of GoodData and Infor Birst
    Feature
    GoodData
    7.7
    62 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Infor Birst
    7.0
    78 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Drill-down analysis7.460 Ratings8.078 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.062 Ratings7.077 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.358 Ratings7.068 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.127 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of GoodData and Infor Birst
    Feature
    GoodData
    7.2
    59 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Infor Birst
    6.9
    72 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.157 Ratings8.072 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.948 Ratings7.058 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.635 Ratings5.833 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of GoodData and Infor Birst
    Feature
    GoodData
    8.0
    63 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Infor Birst
    8.3
    72 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.363 Ratings9.070 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.956 Ratings8.068 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.061 Ratings8.069 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)7.739 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of GoodData and Infor Birst
    Feature
    GoodData
    8.1
    41 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Infor Birst
    -
    Ratings
    REST API8.335 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API7.931 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames8.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of GoodData and Infor Birst
    Feature
    GoodData
    -
    Ratings
    Infor Birst
    8.0
    75 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings8.052 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.067 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings7.28 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings9.066 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of GoodData and Infor Birst
    Feature
    GoodData
    -
    Ratings
    Infor Birst
    5.0
    54 Ratings
    44% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.052 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings3.034 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings3.042 Ratings
    User Ratings
    GoodDataInfor Birst
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (91 ratings)
    8.0
    (96 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (15 ratings)
    9.0
    (35 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (70 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.1
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (7 ratings)
    6.0
    (19 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    5.3
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (13 ratings)
    6.0
    (24 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (13 ratings)
    7.6
    (76 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.2
    (3 ratings)
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GoodDataInfor Birst
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GoodData
    If you have consistently formatted data, that you want regular reports on, plus flexibility to let end users build their own reports, GoodData is perfect. Especially if your end users are less technical. If you want to be able to embed your reporting into your app, GoodData excels, though the start up process can be involved. If your data structure varies, it could be more challenging to integrate. It may also not be worth the integration if you have people who can already run their own SQL queries.
    Incentivized
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    Infor
    Infor Birst OEM and embedded analytics are well suited for advanced analytics and business intelligence. It has flexible deployment features and a lot of configuration ability with low code - no coding ability. Ability to ingest data from multiple live data sources. Source data from multiple sources can be segregated into multiple sections based on business criteria. Easily searchable business terms (metadata) across all enterprise analytic content.
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    Pros
    GoodData
    • GoodData provides advanced analytics for predictive modeling. This assists in identifying potential issues before they arise, and making proactive decisions.
    • GoodData prioritizes data security and compliance, providing features that help IT firms like ours adhere to regulatory requirements.
    • GoodData gives high customization dashboards, allows us professionals to create tailored view of KPI.
    Incentivized
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    Infor
    • End-to-end solution, from raw source data, ETL, warehousing and reporting, Birst is able to do everything we need in one package instead of needing to develop and maintain multiple technologies
    • Intuitive report development. The drag and drop creation of reports is simple. More complicated queries are easy to generate.
    • Very user-friendly and interactive. A lot of nice features are available both for developers and end users to streamline the process of preparing and consuming data
    • Rich API which allows us to programmatically interact with Birst
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    GoodData
    • Good Data is already have certain customizable options. However, having more flexibility in customizing reports and dashboards & control over the visual aspects would enhance the overall user experience.
    • To make Good Data even more powerful tool, improving the speed and responsiveness of the tool, especially during data-intensive tasks, would be a significantly helpful.
    • For new users, the interface can be made more user friendly which would promote easy navigation through features of tool.
    Incentivized
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    Infor
    • Birst prices are fairly expensive. License plus cost of users can add up pretty quickly
    • Depending on the size of data, rendering of reports can take a little bit. Need faster processing of data
    • Takes a little time to understand how to build reports, not the most intuitive UI
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    GoodData
    Because gooddata really helps us in processing data to make reports or dashboards. So we are very satisfied when we use it. What we like is the flexible use of charts. We change at will the use of charts to display in reports or dashboards. Thank you Gooddata for helping companies like us who need flexibility in usage
    Incentivized
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    Infor
    We have been able to overcome any of the drawbacks we've found with Birst easily and it has fulfilled almost all of our analytic needs to date. Having seen their roadmap it would be highly unlikely we would move away from this platform any time soon. You simply can't beat the functionality that Birst provides for the price and the things I see coming out of the company solidify that our decision to choose Birst was the best possible choice. We have never regretted the decision.
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    Usability
    GoodData
    From my experience, overall usability of GoodData platform is great very easy to use, but there is still few features as GoodData platform and interface continuosly evolves, which are not yet available within user interface, but only available via API. For regular users all main and key features and tools are perfect, well defined and very easy to use.
    Incentivized
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    Infor
    I would like to see additional usability put into the ETL scripting. Recently, Birst added a nice function reference inline to formula creation which has kept me from having to return to documentation so much. The same in ETL would be very beneficial. The interface problems related to the Flex framework are being addressed in a rewrite to HTML 5, but for now they are still a hindrance to a higher usability rating.
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    Reliability and Availability
    GoodData
    We are approximately one month since go-live. There has been one short outage.
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    Infor
    We frequently experience -103 errors due to us using the Live Connect functionality, which does not seem to handle even minor interruptions in connectivity, and treats all future connection attempts or data requests as errors, even if the issue does not exist any longer
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    Performance
    GoodData
    Performance on refreshing metrics works well.
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    Infor
    Everything runs very fast and smoothly. The only process that I wish was faster would be processing the data after uploading new data or making changes to the existing data model. It can take 15-20 minutes (roughly) to upload and process new data once you start getting into 10's of millions of rows. Given my experience with how long it takes me to pull the same data using SQL Server Management Studio, I don't think Birst is unreasonably slow - but for me to give a higher rating, I would want it to be unreasonably fast
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    Support Rating
    GoodData
    Support team has been highly responsive and helpful from our first initial deployment to present day. They engage and work with us. know when to escalate for more challenging problems. They also follow up. Overall have had a very good experience with support
    Incentivized
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    Infor
    • Poor turnaround time
    • Low response rate when the problem at hand are large
    • Lack of infrastructural knowledge when it comes to scaling solutions
    • Lack of inter team work noticed
    • Most of the tickets are open for a long period of time
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    GoodData
    Petr was a rock star - patient, knowledgeable, clear and easy to work with.
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    Infor
    I have attended two different training sessions. The first one was my initial training on the system. It was well paced, clear and concise. If there were questions that were not able to be answered by the instructor, he took down the question and actually followed up and provided us a response quickly. The second session was specific to the dashboard and report design components. This training was very good though there were some attendants who had little or no experience and their questions slowed the class.
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    Online Training
    GoodData
    GoodData implementation team was professional and courteous
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    Infor
    Although I found the online resources helpful, a lack of appropriate examples for certain tasks key to report creation and advanced modeling make the online training/documentation less than perfect. For an inexperienced BI professional, the online training would not enable a streamlined launch of the product.
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    Implementation Rating
    GoodData
    Thorough, professional and on time.
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    Infor
    Have clean data! Birst flexibility allows - Start small, then introduce functionality and complexity along the way. If you try to present all the functionality [bells and whistles] and wow them, but bad data is uncovered, the end user blames the new application and turns away.
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    Alternatives Considered
    GoodData
    GoodData is best among every other platform I used because it's a cloud based platform and way to easy to use. Its robust predictive analytics and unified data view set it way apart. While Power BI and Tableau excel in visualization, GoodData's focus on comprehensive business intelligence, user engagement analytics, and revenue optimization which made it a strong choice for our organization seeking a holistic analytics solution.
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    Infor
    Birst was better than Domo for our needs because we could get in and tinker with it. Our impression of Domo was that it had a lot of connectors and ready to go reports, but it made too many assumptions about applications we use. We customize too much to use a "ready to go" solution like that. When we looked at Tableau, we liked its visualization capabilities, but it wasn't going to help us do the extractions, ETL, and warehousing of data. It may have come some distance since then.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    GoodData
    No answers on this topic
    Infor
    we can see that loading a lot of data can cause a noticable slow down in performance. Birst support indicated that they don't really consider anything less than 30 seconds to be an issue, but that is not the case for our customers, so we have had to change some of implementation to address this
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    Return on Investment
    GoodData
    • We have been able to quickly go to market with a feature-rich version of our application.
    • The licensing costs are manageable but make our offering more expensive than alternatives.
    • The possibility to horizontal scaling with Kubernetes is a bright outlook for our business.
    Incentivized
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    Infor
    • Being a manufacturing company we tend to lag behind technologically. But having all the data for different ERP systems in one place has been an eye opener for the executives. It has lessened the need to convert some legacy ERP systems.
    • Having such a simple reporting tool is a great asset to some of our sites that have traditionally had trouble gathering data from AS400 systems.
    Incentivized
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