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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
26th
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 October 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Birst is 1.1%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Reporting Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Birst1.1%
ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus0.8%
Other98.1%
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

"Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"Scalability is one of the core features of this product that makes Birst great."
"The option to build and deploy analytical models quickly, within days rather than months."
"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."
"This is the best cloud based BI platform/solution out there."
"Birst is a great tool for: Creating a simple data warehouse Uploading data for quick analysis, visualizations, and dashboards"
"In general, Birst as a cloud VI solution is a user-friendly tool that looks really nice and engages users straight away."
"It has given us the ability to join all our data sources into one place to streamline reporting and analytics."
"The email traffic analysis feature is very useful."
"We can use the dashboard to see which Exchange servers are currently having issues, their health, and other details. The GUI is very good."
 

Cons

"The initial setup was extremely complex. The Birst consultants wasted a lot of time in configuring the system."
"For complex reports with heavy calculations, performance can be improved."
"The administration module was built using flash. It is clunky and outdated."
"As the volume of data gets bigger and bigger, so does the extraction/processing of the data and the dashboard rendering."
"I would like to see better connection functionality. It is not very intuitive and the UI is kind of neglected."
"The cost-benefit was not great."
"There were stability issues with Birst. A dashboard/report takes a lot of time to open if there is a lot of data."
"The ability to filter out massive amounts of data and load it properly on screen needs to be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting, maybe having more customizable reports would be good."
"I am primarily interested in reporting and automation improvements."
 

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
14%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
No data available
 

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 
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