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Alteryx vs Birst comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Alteryx
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
77
Ranking in other categories
Predictive Analytics (1st), Data Science Platforms (4th), Data Preparation Tools (1st)
Birst
Average Rating
7.4
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Reporting (32nd), Embedded BI (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Business Intelligence solutions, they serve different purposes. Alteryx is designed for Predictive Analytics and holds a mindshare of 24.4%, down 25.7% compared to last year.
Birst, on the other hand, focuses on Reporting, holds 0.2% mindshare, down 0.2% since last year.
Predictive Analytics
Reporting
 

Featured Reviews

Vivek Vaibhav - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 11, 2024
Has a good UI and drag-and-drop features which makes it easy to understand
There have been some issues with licensing, particularly with the increased prices. This has led some companies, including ours, to consider reducing the number of licenses or potentially discontinuing their use of Alteryx. Since most of our team members work with Alteryx, deploying workflows to clients who may not have licenses became a hurdle. Every user needed a license to run the workflows, which could pose difficulties, especially for clients who only needed occasional access for small data analyses. Unlike other software like Microsoft Power BI, which offers free trials or user licenses for basic functionality, Alteryx doesn't provide such options, potentially limiting its accessibility for occasional users. It should improve scalability.
RH
Apr 26, 2017
The dashboards and Visualizer are valuable.
The administration module was built using flash. It is clunky and outdated. By “clunky” I mean that it sometimes becomes confused and throw an error when I’m making a change. To clear it up, I will have to log out and log back in. We knew going into our purchase that the UI for the admin was not the strongest part of Birst at the moment. Power users often depend on the web services to complete admin tasks and the web services are robust. Birst knows they need to improve this area of their system and have been working on that. They began improving usability overall with the the front-end UI that report writers utilize and did an excellent job with that so I have good reason to expect the admin module UI refresh to be solid as well. From what I understand, the planned changes are more significant than a simple UI refresh also.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Geo features have made spatial mapping large retail universes possible."
"Alteryx speeds up the time to obtain business answers/insights on data."
"Alteryx is so advanced. It's just drag and drop."
"The product is very stable and super fast, five-star. It's significantly more stable than it's nearest competitor."
"I like the solution's velocity, the speed with which it processes data, and its ease of use."
"The product's Macros probably are one of the most useful aspects."
"The product's initial setup phase is simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its performance. It is a powerful solution."
"Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
 

Cons

"The product's pricing needs improvement."
"We are hoping that the NLP features will also support Chinese characters."
"The principal problem is the pricing. They're expensive products."
"It would be nice if they can provide Alteryx with more options for In-DB connectivity. That functionality is there, but it doesn't include all software we are connecting."
"The next feature release should include easier reporting."
"The data integration component could most likely be improved to increase enterprise scalability."
"It should have Linux support. It currently supports only Windows. It does not support any other platform. Its price should also be lower. Their US partner management program is actually unresponsive. One of the reasons why we don't have a formalized partnership plan with them is because their partner management team is atrociously unresponsive. This is something that they need to change."
"Sometimes, there are performance constraints. Especially when a large file has to be ingested, the system slows down a bit. Its performance is the only thing that can be improved."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price for Alteryx Designer is reasonable but the price for Alteryx Server for universal collaborations is too expensive."
"Alteryx isn't extortionately expensive, but it's not cheap either."
"There is a license required for this solution."
"While it offers extensive features, including predictive analytics, for those who mainly use it for data preparation and blending, the cost can be prohibitive."
"The price could be better."
"A designer and scheduler for $13K/year in total is pretty much earning you the money back in time and in other resources."
"It is $4,000 a year, so it is cheap versus other solutions. It also accomplishes three times the volume on the job in the same time (as the other solutions).​"
"It is an expensive solution."
"Please negotiate on the price and purchase the latest version."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
24%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
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Questions from the Community

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