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.

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it_user538233

Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Mar 23, 2017

Cloud based BI that can be accessed from anywhere, anytime from mobiles, iPods, tablets, and PCs.

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it_user25359

Sr. Manager of Enterprise Applications with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 28, 2016

We found technical support to be very good and responsive.

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it_user560286

Software Engineer BI Analyst at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 27, 2016

Birst is a great tool for: Creating a simple data warehouse Uploading data for quick analysis, visualizations, and dashboards

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it_user562521

Sr. Tech Specialist/ DBA/BI Developer at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 30, 2016

Users can jump to the Birst dashboard from SFDC without a repeat login.

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Sreenivas K

Principal Engineering Manager I at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Sep 12, 2017

Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution.

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it_user566175

Director BI Services at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

May 9, 2017

Release management and version control are poor or not available.

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it_user653898

Manager Data Services at a logistics company with 201-500 employees

Apr 26, 2017

I would like to see stronger in-built permissions capabilities.

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it_user653208

Senior Software Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 25, 2017

I would want to see some improvement in the user management module.

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Rick Hutchinson

Product Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Apr 26, 2017

The administration module was built using flash. It is clunky and outdated.

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it_user547323

Sr. Business Intelligence Consultant at Avantas, LLC

Apr 6, 2017

We are yet to realize the real return on the investment given the need to alter the underlying intention of the product’s use.

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it_user538233

Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Mar 23, 2017

I would like to see better connection functionality. It is not very intuitive and the UI is kind of neglected.

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it_user25359

Sr. Manager of Enterprise Applications with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 28, 2016

Error logging is cumbersome to work through to find issues.

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it_user560286

Software Engineer BI Analyst at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 27, 2016

The ETL, querying, and user interface did not accommodate our performance requirements.

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it_user562521

Sr. Tech Specialist/ DBA/BI Developer at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 30, 2016

The initial setup was extremely complex. The Birst consultants wasted a lot of time in configuring the system.

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