Birst is a cloud BI platform now owned by Infor and sold as Infor Birst. See its history, features, pricing model, and place in Infor's product suite.
Birst is a cloud business intelligence and analytics platform that was founded in 2004 in San Francisco, California, and became known as one of the early pioneers of cloud-native, multi-tenant BI, with an architecture the company called Networked BI that blended centralized and decentralized analytics on one platform.
In 2017, Infor, a large enterprise software company, acquired Birst for 75 million dollars. Since that acquisition, Birst has not operated as an independent company; it is sold and marketed exclusively as Infor Birst, a product within Infor's Data and Insights category inside the broader Infor Industry Cloud Platform.
Infor continues to actively maintain and update the product, publishing documentation for current release versions, so while Birst is no longer a standalone brand, Infor Birst remains a live, supported analytics product rather than a discontinued one.
Infor Birst emphasizes automated data preparation and modeling, using patented automation and machine learning techniques originally developed by Birst to reduce the manual effort typically required to build and maintain BI data models across multiple source systems.
The platform provides self-service dashboards and reporting so business users can explore data and build their own visualizations without deep technical training, on top of a unified semantic layer that consolidates data from many different systems into consistent, governed definitions.
Infor Birst is particularly deeply integrated with Infor's own CloudSuite and other Infor ERP products, making it a natural default analytics layer for organizations already running Infor systems, while still supporting a broad range of external data source connections for organizations that use it as a more general BI tool.
Infor does not publish public list pricing for Infor Birst; the product is sold on a custom, quote-based basis tailored to the number of users, data volume, and modules an organization needs.
Infor does offer a free trial of Infor Birst that does not require credit card information, giving prospective customers a way to evaluate the platform before committing to a paid contract.
Third-party pricing research and cost-estimate sites report figures that can start in the low thousands of dollars per month and scale up significantly with user count and complexity, but these are third-party estimates rather than figures officially confirmed by Infor, so organizations should request a direct quote for accurate pricing.
No. Birst was acquired by Infor in 2017 for 75 million dollars and now operates as Infor Birst, a product within Infor's Data and Insights suite rather than a separate company.
Birst was founded in 2004 and was originally headquartered in San Francisco, California.
It is a cloud business intelligence and analytics platform used for data modeling, dashboards, self-service reporting, and AI-assisted analytics.
Infor does not publish public pricing for Birst; it is sold on a custom quote basis, and third-party estimates suggest enterprise costs can run from roughly two thousand dollars per month upward depending on user count.
Yes, Infor offers a free trial that does not require credit card details.
No, it can be used as a standalone BI platform, but it has particularly deep integration with Infor CloudSuite and other Infor ERP products.
Yes, Infor continues to develop and document the product, with release documentation available for current product versions.
It was known as a pioneer of cloud-native, multi-tenant business intelligence with a Networked BI architecture supporting both centralized and decentralized analytics.