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Birst vs Yellowfin 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
31st
Ranking in Embedded BI
19th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Yellowfin
Ranking in Reporting
24th
Ranking in Embedded BI
14th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (36th), Data Visualization (21st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Birst is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Yellowfin is 1.2%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Reporting Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Yellowfin1.2%
Birst0.8%
Other98.0%
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…
AC
‎IS Executive at SAINS
It is a central source of up-to-date data and information, but needs more charting capabilities
Management information Reporting Statistics Data analysis It reduces sending copies of different report/spreadsheet versions over email, which makes it difficult to access the right report. It is also able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout.  All management…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We found technical support to be very good and responsive."
"Birst has made it easier for us to provide embedded data visualization tools to our customers."
"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."
"Its ability to create a complete, end-to-end BI solution using a single software stack product is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"We have been able to scale pretty quickly and easily; it has been a great experience and I love this product."
"Birst provides quick and helpful support on raised queries."
"Dashboards and self-service reports are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."
"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."
"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."
"Yellowfin doesn’t try to do everything – it is a BI presentation and communication tool, and it does it brilliantly."
"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."
 

Cons

"The initial setup was extremely complex. The Birst consultants wasted a lot of time in configuring the system."
"The ability to filter out massive amounts of data and load it properly on screen needs to be improved."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"For complex reports with heavy calculations, performance can be improved."
"Visualization: This aspect of the product is not up to the same level as its competitors in the market."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"We are yet to realize the real return on the investment given the need to alter the underlying intention of the product’s use."
"I would want to see some improvement in the user management module."
"The first release was a bit buggy, but they seem to have gotten on top of that very quickly."
"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."
"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Please negotiate on the price and purchase the latest version."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Marketing Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Performing Arts
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Educational Organization
16%
Healthcare Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Transportation Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise12
No data available
 

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