--- title: Infor Birst Reviews meta\_title: 'Infor Birst Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 100 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Infor Birst works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.0 review\_count: 100 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Analytics Tools & Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-tools-software --- # Infor Birst Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Infor Birst but has limited features. Are you part of the Infor Birst team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Birst is a native cloud business intelligence (BI) and business analytics platform that helps organizations understand and optimize complex processes in less time than traditional BI solutions. Built with patented automation and machine learning technologies, Birst’s Data-as-a-Service approach connects teams and applications across the enterprise via a trusted network of analytics and insights to inform smarter decisions. This unique approach helps leading organizations leverage all their siloed and diverse data sources and extract insights to improve workforce productivity, asset optimization, process efficiencies, and customer satisfaction—often in 90 days or less. * * * Seller [Infor](https://www.g2.com/sellers/infor) Discussions [Infor Birst Community](https://www.g2.com/products/infor-birst/discuss) Languages Supported Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, English, French, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Chinese (Simplified) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Kerry Nelson (Senior Director, Marketing) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 6 months ### Return on Investment 21 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/infor-birst/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Looker](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Looker") Looker 4.4/5(1,656) ](https://www.g2.com/products/looker/reviews) [ ![Domo](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Domo") Domo 4.3/5(1,075) ](https://www.g2.com/products/domo/reviews) [ ![Sisense](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sisense") Sisense 4.2/5(1,063) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sisense/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/infor-birst/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 100 real user reviews. Implementation Time 6 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) AN Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/5/2020 "Working with Birst 7.X" 4/5 What do you like best about Infor Birst? Birst is installed with many default functions, such as automated Year to Month to Week to Day calculations, trend charting and data modeling. Nice way to get things going quickly for any size project. The Visualizer built tool recently underwent a rewrite and is very flexible; more so than in the past. Building out our data model is presented in a nice visual. Easy to use and manage. Birst has added a new tool designed for power business users. It is ideal for department level data analytics. The tool allows for internal Data Lake tables ro be assigned for use to a power user in conjunction with external data sources. The UI is easy to use if the power user understands linking table and provides access to the Visualizer tool for report creation. The Visualizer tool provides is comparable to most other BI tools. It does allow for custom coding within a Dashlet (object on a Dashboard). It also allows for use of D3 objects is we are trying to deliver an exciting visual for Marketing or Sales. The Notification function is used extensively by our user base. Many times the users want a report or visual in email; and Birst has robust notification system. Standard functions for authentication are easy to integrate. Support is extremely responsive and knowledgeable. One of the best support outfits we've worked with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Infor Birst? Birst's presentation layer can be slow if you are displaying a considerable amount of data or are using multiple languages. The new version has address most of this with the redesign of the back-end. Visualizer is not a pixel perfect report writer, but has been moving in this direction for more than a year. The promise is we will have this by Q4, 2020. Another work in process is dynamic presentation regardless of display size. This has gotten better, but (again) we have been promised a responsive design by the end of the year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Infor Birst: We use the appliance version because it provides more flexibility. I'd recommend you look into this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Infor Birst solving and how is that benefiting you? We deliver internal reporting to Marketing and Sales on customer product usage for use by both Hunters and Farmers. Most importantly we provide five separate BI applications based on each of our product lines providing BI insight into product usage. Compared to the old data table information our new visuals with Drill Downs to the underlying data allow our customer to easily identify critical points which could not be seen in a data table. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") AT Verified User in Telecommunications Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/31/2020 "Birst is a good: reliable, flexible BI platform, which easily can be the single source of truth .." 4/5 What do you like best about Infor Birst? It's stable and reliable, can handle huge volumes of data with incremental data upload. It looks pretty simple and friendly for report consumers, no matter how complex the data model behind the scene. It's getting better and better with every new release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Infor Birst? I don't like the situation when something got broken because of 3rd parties tools and it takes ages to fix it. E.g. excel attachments come broken in Birst notification because Mimecast checks and 'fixes' them. It happened only with Birst attachments. For 2 months we cannot use Birst reports in Excel format. I don't see why in the situation like this Birst engineering cannot talk to Mimecast specialists to fix the issue. Fortunately, problems like this happen not very often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Infor Birst solving and how is that benefiting you? It's mostly operational reports - daily/monthly/yearly progress, KPIs monitoring; resources utilisation, the volume of work monitoring; quality of work; the cost of work; asset management; Birst helps our staff to get information much faster, especially when reports include a lot of calculations. It makes the process of communication with subcontractors and clients more transparent. It also gives managers a tool to measure staff productivity - from data stored in other business systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") CI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/27/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Good Tool for Analytical Needs" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Infor Birst? My company has been using Birst for a little over a year now and we really find their ETL, warehouse integration and reporting features very useful and compatible to a lot of the other tools we are working with. The dashboard functionalities are very helpful to not only our clients but our company as well. The import and mapping functionality has a bit of a learning curve compared to other products, but works very well once fully understood! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Infor Birst? During our time using the tool, we have noticed that the time to process the data is rather inconsistent. Sometimes it is quick and sometimes it takes almost a full day. I also think better user guides and training documentation could be helpful for admins and end users while first getting started. There is a learning curve that for users not familiar with the functionality may have a hard time getting off the ground. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Infor Birst solving and how is that benefiting you? Data integration and analytics for our customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Consumer Goods](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Goods") AC Verified User in Consumer Goods Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/14/2020 "There is better out there" 1/5 What do you like best about Infor Birst? It is an ok tool for very simple visualizations and calculations. The opening speed of visualizations is very good. That's maybe the only one thing I liked about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Infor Birst? I worked with Birst more than two years in total. The journey was full with advanced BI development items that the Birst tool was not able to do. The back-end of the tool was very heavy, complicated and required long reloading time to get things fixed. The tool lacked dynamic and on-the-fly aggregation features. The tool often gave error messages without any guidance on how to move forward. Birst support was not helpful. Instead of fixing a bug in the software, once they offered me to live with a workaround. I could continue with this list of issues with Birst... Overall, working with Birst gives a completely opposite experience as working with a few other BI tools which can handle any advance needs essentially error-free in a simple and clean way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Infor Birst solving and how is that benefiting you? Nothing anymore since a few months ago. We solved problems by not using Birst anymore. I am completely happy with the BI tool that we selected instead of Birst though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Allen A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Allen A.") AA Allen A. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/21/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "One stop destination for data modelling and building interactive dashboards." 3.5/5 What do you like best about Infor Birst? -The Visualizer is brilliant in creating spectacular and innovative dashlets if explored properly -Embedding dashboards on a webpage with inbuilt security is a great feature. -The Think Tank Community is a great forum to share ideas and get answers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Infor Birst? -The tool is relatively slow in terms of turn around time when compared to other BI tools in the market however later versions are much better than the previous versions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Infor Birst solving and how is that benefiting you? -We were successfully able to build an advanced user interface by replicating it on dashboard 2.0 -It is really easy to come up with BQL Expressions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Brody N H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Brody N H.") BH Brody N H. Information Technology Specialist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/20/2020 "Easy to implement but the learning curve is long." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Infor Birst? Capable of configuring dashboards with strong KPIs that are really descriptive. The subscriptions are also perfect instruments to use while displaying reporting instruments. This comes as a PDF and can also be exported as csv files in individual papers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Infor Birst? At first the product is very complex, but it's natural because it has some overwhelming functions. Often the user interface is often interrupted when filters are added that also leads users to assume that it is really bad, just wait a few seconds and that's it. There is often inadequate data to create queries or to find classified answers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Infor Birst: Look at the price and if it's worth it, another product may have a much easier learning curve. It's basically a really useful tool. This can connect to a number of data sources and has options for reliable operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Infor Birst solving and how is that benefiting you? Sales numbers can be recorded and circulated to individual account managers and Sales management opinions can be received. We are pleased to be able to carry out an ad-based campaign number cost-benefit study. It is an organizationally very flexible program and we actually use it to display details through panels from our website. It's a very practical program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/3/2020 "I've really liked using Birst so far. Really Power and flexible" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Infor Birst? Birst offers its users a lot of power and flexibility. I've made 100+ reports in Birst so far. I've made many many ETL changed as well. And I occasionally discover something new. With the new UI available now and Birst shifting entirely from flash by December 2020, this just adds to the experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Infor Birst? The lack of option to import custom charts and visualisations. Like that of powerbi Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Infor Birst: Find a senior architect and go for it. It's a powerful tool which works off of cloud and doesn't need any funky installations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Infor Birst solving and how is that benefiting you? I used Birst to connect, manipulate, join and present data to the business. The main benefit is having an all in one place solution for ETL and data visualization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Monica M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Monica M.") MM Monica M. Advisor Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/25/2020 "Customer" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Infor Birst? One integrated platform for full Business intelligence needs Easy of pulling data from different sources and drag and drop capabilities to create the logical analytics layer and end user reports and dashboards are cool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Infor Birst? Platform stability and performance makes it unreliable to run the business and ongoing unresolved Architecture issues contributing to it is very frustrating Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Infor Birst solving and how is that benefiting you? Birst provides a consistent drag and drop BI solution to complex Infor applications that is very useful to run the business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mahadev B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mahadev B.") MB Mahadev B. Freelance Infor EAM techno functional Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/20/2020 "Birst - The solution to complex analytics" 5/5 What do you like best about Infor Birst? The individual space creation . different method for size files.connections to databases ,servers and many more legacy system with single tool.enabling single sign on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Infor Birst? There is different thing forsize based data upload Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Infor Birst: Use it with anew version with moduler thing with birst. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Infor Birst solving and how is that benefiting you? I generally do analytics of complex databases of ERP system like Ln ,M3 and EAM .it's help to build data model in easy way and connection to datalake with OS is good to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Outsourcing/Offshoring](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Outsourcing/Offshoring") AO Verified User in Outsourcing/Offshoring Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/24/2020 "It is a great platform in handling large datasets" 4/5 What do you like best about Infor Birst? What I like the best is that you can actually create a report by just uploading an excel document. It doesn't require you to have your own script just to have a report for the users. It also have different type of server connections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Infor Birst? What I dislike is that it has a limited size in uploading excel documents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Infor Birst: If you're looking a software that can handle large amount of datasets then this is the right BI Tool for your company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Infor Birst solving and how is that benefiting you? Actually I don't have any problems with Infor Birst for now. It made me realized that this platform is that best compare to the other BI Tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Infor Birst? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Infor Birst ](https://www.g2.com/products/infor-birst/discussions/new) GU Guest User What is your experience with Infor Birst for business intelligence, and what features do you rely on? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-your-experience-with-infor-birst-for-business-intelligence-and-what-features-do-you-rely-on) GU Guest User What is Infor Birst used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-infor-birst-used-for) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/infor-birst/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 6 months ### Return on Investment 21 months ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/infor-birst/pricing) Infor Birst Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_3b24e394394d1ee05f48b4eb19686309/gooddata-ai.png "Product Avatar Image") GoodData.AI 4.3/5(619) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/gooddata-ai-vs-infor-birst) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_8ef2fed795a3ce0717d8b4925583871c/domo.jpg "Product Avatar Image") Domo 4.3/5(1,075) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/domo-vs-infor-birst) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_99b6c3290adbb4f06b886ae6d4a91c45/pentaho.png "Product Avatar Image") Pentaho Business Analytics 4.1/5(50) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/infor-birst-vs-pentaho) ##### ##### Infor Birst Features Reports Reports Interface Steps to Answer Graphs and Charts Self Service Calculated Fields Data Column Filtering Data Discovery Advanced Analytics Data Visualization Big Data Services Building Reports Data Transformation Data Modeling [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/infor-birst/features) ## Consulting Services for Infor Birst [ ![Surety Systems](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Surety Systems") Surety Systems 4.9/5(34) ](https://www.g2.com/products/surety-systems/reviews) [See all Infor Birst Providers](https://www.g2.com/products/infor-birst/implementation) ##### Categories on G2 [Analytics Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-platforms) ##### Explore More [Which digital wayfinding tools integrate accessibility features for visitors with visual constraints while meeting compliance requirements?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-digital-wayfinding-tools-integrate-accessibility-features-for-visitors-with-visual-constraints-while-meeting-compliance-requirements)[How can I ensure the security of sensitive documents during M&A?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-can-i-ensure-the-security-of-sensitive-documents-during-m-a)[Which vendor offers the most customizable lease tracking features?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-vendor-offers-the-most-customizable-lease-tracking-features) [Which contractor payment platforms have struggled with scheduled recurring payments for small team payroll runs and which ones have actually fixed it?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-contractor-payment-platforms-have-struggled-with-scheduled-recurring-payments-for-small-team-payroll-runs-and-which-ones-have-actually-fixed-it)[What platform integrates social suites with CRM and marketing tools?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-platform-integrates-social-suites-with-crm-and-marketing-tools)[What are the highest rated digital mortgage closing platforms for lenders reducing closing time from signature to funding?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-highest-rated-digital-mortgage-closing-platforms-for-lenders-reducing-closing-time-from-signature-to-funding) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)