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Birst vs ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus comparison

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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
25th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Embedded BI (19th)
ManageEngine Exchange Repor...
Ranking in Reporting
35th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.2
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 ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus is 0.8%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Reporting Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Birst1.0%
ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus0.8%
Other98.2%
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…
reviewer2017023 - PeerSpot reviewer
Governance And Compliance Administrator at a agriculture with 10,001+ employees
Efficiently keeps track of how many mailboxes are created, how many are deleted, and things like that
We can keep track of how many mailboxes are created, how many are deleted, and things like that. It's a necessity for auditing to use a tool to monitor email tracking. So, it helps a lot with compliance. We can use the dashboard to see which Exchange servers are currently having issues, their health, and other details. The GUI is very good.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"Users can jump to the Birst dashboard from SFDC without a repeat login."
"The option to build and deploy analytical models quickly, within days rather than months."
"Its ability to create a complete, end-to-end BI solution using a single software stack product is the most valuable feature."
"Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"We have been able to scale pretty quickly and easily; it has been a great experience and I love this product."
"Everything we did in the marketing team needed to be based on data and Birst helped us to make calculated decisions based on the given data."
"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."
"We can use the dashboard to see which Exchange servers are currently having issues, their health, and other details. The GUI is very good."
"The email traffic analysis feature is very useful."
 

Cons

"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"The ETL, querying, and user interface did not accommodate our performance requirements."
"Error logging is cumbersome to work through to find issues."
"Release management and version control are poor or not available."
"There were stability issues with Birst. A dashboard/report takes a lot of time to open if there is a lot of data."
"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."
"We are yet to realize the real return on the investment given the need to alter the underlying intention of the product’s use."
"For complex reports with heavy calculations, performance can be improved."
"I am primarily interested in reporting and automation improvements."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting, maybe having more customizable reports would be good."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Please negotiate on the price and purchase the latest version."
"I would rate the pricing a four out of ten, where one is low price and ten is high price. It is affordable."
"The pricing of Exchange Reporter Plus is very reasonable."
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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

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

 

Sample Customers

Citrix Systems, Jive Software, SunnyD, Toshiba Medical Systems, Cisco OpenDNS, RB, Sunny D, Vertafore
Sunbelt Rentals, Inc, Life Management Center, IBTS 
Find out what your peers are saying about Birst vs. ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
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