Infor Birst Data Lake -- Other Reporting Tools

Is anyone using the Infor Birst Data Lake with other third-party development tools? We use Birst for Dashboard Reporting with our ISD Report Developers, but our accountants are looking for a tool that has more of an Excel Spreadsheet look & feel where they can write ad-hoc reports.

We are an Infor Multi-Tenant client.

Thank you.

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Legacy Contributor

You can still design adhoc reports using Birst. You will need to design your reports in Designer rather than visualizer.

We create a lot of Adhoc reports using Designer and you can even create notifications that send out these reports to recipients ether in excel format or CSV or PDF.

I have to alert you that there is a limitation to the number of records being exported, I believe the max in bulk export is 500K records.

Hopefully this answers your question.

Ahmed

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Infor has recently introduced a Marketplace where you can find many complementary add on solutions. One such solution for looking at grid style (excel look and feel) financial data over a Birst data warehouse is from Agile Dragon. You can check it out from this link market.infor.com/.../dragon-grid---auto

It's not over the data lake, it is looking at the lowest granularity data from the Birst data store.

tdouglass

What would you say is the benefit of Agile Dragon when you have to do most of the work in Birst anyway. Visualizer does appear to do most of what Agile Dragon would do? This does not go after the data lake as asked by Marie, correct?

Legacy Contributor

I took Marie's question more about giving their accountants something with more excel like functionality. Not necessarily going against the data lake per se, but the question baked the assumption that leveraging Birst limited options. It did not sound like the accountants had an issue with the data just the interface. But I may be reading into that.

Dan Rosen

Dragon Grid Auto user here, can definitely confirm that this solution from Agile Dragon is an awesome option for that excel look/feel. We use it for all of our "self service" reporting

Legacy Contributor

Thanks to everyone for their input -- we are scheduling a demo of Dragon grid for our operational areas.

tdouglass

Does this allow for pivot table type reporting with slice and dice?

Dan Rosen

Yes, there is a pivot option built in

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