How does Infor BI & Analytics score on different parts?
In our study we looked in detail at the different products of Infor BI & Analytics software. We examined no less than 710 aspects. The chart below shows the strengths and weaknesses of Infor BI, in general terms. Please note that Passionned Group is 100% independent of the suppliers in the research. We do not sell licenses, we do not make deals or have done business with the supplier. Among other things, we help and advise companies in the proper selection of BI tooling.
Figure 1: Scorecard of the BI provider Infor. A maximum of 100% can be obtained. Source: the BI & Analytics Guide 2023. Do you need additional information about the research justification? Click here to download this guide.
The Infor analysis was compiled by collecting large amounts of publicly accessible data and from there it was analyzed in detail. More than 3,706 documents were reviewed (since the inception of this research) from this vendor. In this analysis process both algorithms as the critical eye of an experienced and independent specialist played an important role in performing the validation.
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Infor and their complete BI & Analytics product portfolio
The software company Infor carries (a minimum of) 15 products in the realm of BI & Analytics. In order of popularity, we list the most important ones here:
What is Infor BI?
Other names by which this software product is known: Infor Business Intelligence
In this part, we describe Infor BI, including some of its features and any related products. This product group consists of Infor Coleman, Infor Landmark, Infor Data Lake, Birst Analytics, Infor BI Dashboards, Infor Business Vault, Infor IoT, Infor Corporate Performance Management, Infor Business Analytics and Infor Lawson Analytics. The Infor BI can be characterized by the following functionalities:
- business intelligence > reporting
- business intelligence > dashboards
- multidimensional models > OLAP
- BI infrastructure > repository
- data connectivity > Microsoft Excel
- analytics
- data discovery > analysis
- multidimensional models > cube
- BI infrastructure > operating systems > Windows
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What is Infor Coleman?
In this section, we report the (main) characteristics of Infor Coleman, including some of its features and any related products. This product group consists of Infor Coleman AI. The Infor Coleman can be best characterized by the following functionalities:
- artificial intelligence
- AI
- artificial intelligence > machine learning
- data connectivity > Microsoft Teams
- BI infrastructure > Application Programming Interface
- artificial intelligence > natural language processing > natural language
- artificial intelligence > natural language processing
- analytics
- artificial intelligence > algorithms
- business intelligence
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What is Infor Coleman AI?
We don’t reveal everything here but, in this paragraph, we describe the key elements of Infor Coleman AI, including some of its features and any related products. Infor Coleman AI can be best characterized by the following functionalities:
- artificial intelligence > machine learning
- BI infrastructure > Jupyter Notebook
- data connectivity > Microsoft Teams
- analytics > advanced analytics > predictive maintenance
- artificial intelligence > algorithms
- big data > IoT
- big data > data lakes
- artificial intelligence > natural language processing > natural language
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What is Infor Landmark?
We do not display here all the features but, in this paragraph, we describe the key elements of Infor Landmark, including some of its features and any related products. This product group consists of Infor Landmark Reporting. The Infor Landmark can be characterized by the following features:
- business intelligence > reporting
- data connectivity > Microsoft Excel
- data discovery > analysis
- BI infrastructure > operating systems > java
- analytics
- real-time analytics > real-time
- BI infrastructure > operating systems > iOS
- data discovery > notifications
- mobile business intelligence > iPhone
- business intelligence
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What is Infor Landmark Reporting?
We do not display here all the features but, in this paragraph, we provide a description of Infor Landmark Reporting, including some of its features and any related products. Infor Landmark Reporting can be best characterized by the following features:
- business intelligence > reporting
- business intelligence > report
- BI
- big data > data lakes
- performance optimization > caching
- business intelligence > reports
- analytics
- data connectivity > Microsoft Excel
- data discovery > analysis
- data connectivity > Excel
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What is Infor Data Lake?
In this paragraph, we report the (main) characteristics of Infor Data Lake, including some of its features and any related products. Infor Data Lake can be best defined by the following properties:
- big data > data lakes
- BI infrastructure > scalability > Amazon Web Services
- BI infrastructure > Application Programming Interface
- analytics
- BI infrastructure > infrastructure
- artificial intelligence
- BI infrastructure > scalability
- data integration > Extract-Transform-Load
- business intelligence
- BI infrastructure > Application Programming Interface > REST APIs
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What is Birst Analytics?
We don’t reveal everything here but, in this paragraph, we report the (main) characteristics of Birst Analytics, including some of its features and any related products. This product group consists of Infor Birst and Birst Sales Analytics. The Birst Analytics can be characterized by the following features:
- analytics
- business intelligence > reporting
- BI
- big data > data lakes
- BI infrastructure > embedded analytics
- data connectivity > native
- data discovery > analysis
- big data > data lake
- business intelligence > dashboards
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What is Infor Birst?
Other names by which this software product is known: Birst
We don’t reveal everything here but, in this paragraph, we display the details of Infor Birst, including some of its features and any related products. This product can be characterized by the following features:
- analytics
- business intelligence > reporting
- BI infrastructure > Application Programming Interface
- artificial intelligence > R
- analytics > analytics platform
- business intelligence > dashboards
- data connectivity > connectivity
- BI infrastructure > embedded analytics
- data connectivity > native
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What is Birst Sales Analytics?
In this part, we report the (main) characteristics of Birst Sales Analytics, including some of its features and any related products. The Birst Sales Analytics can be best characterized by the following properties:
- analytics
- business intelligence > CRM
- analytics > sales analytics
- big data
- data discovery > analysis > forecasting
- business intelligence > reporting
- data discovery
- business intelligence > dashboards
- data connectivity > native
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What is Infor BI Dashboards?
Under this heading, we display the details of Infor BI Dashboards, including some of its features and any related products. The product Infor BI Dashboards can be best characterized by the following functionalities:
- business intelligence > dashboards
- business intelligence > reporting
- BI infrastructure > repository
- data discovery > analysis
- data connectivity > Microsoft Excel
- analytics
- multidimensional models > OLAP
- mobile business intelligence > iPad
- multidimensional models > cube
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What is Infor Business Vault?
In this part, we display the details of Infor Business Vault, including some of its features and any related products. The Infor Business Vault can be best characterized by the following functionalities:
- business intelligence > reporting
- analytics
- business intelligence > reports
- data integration > data warehousing
- business intelligence
- multidimensional models > cube
- decision management > performance management
- multidimensional models > OLAP
- data integration > data warehouse
- BI
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What is Infor IoT?
In this part, we report the (main) characteristics of Infor IoT, including some of its features and any related products. Infor IoT can be defined by the following functionalities:
- big data > IoT
- analytics
- artificial intelligence
- BI infrastructure > Application Programming Interface
- analytics > advanced analytics > predictive maintenance
- BI infrastructure > web services
- business intelligence
- real-time analytics > real-time
- data discovery > data visualization > tiles
- decision management > performance management > KPI
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What is Infor Corporate Performance Management?
We don’t reveal everything here but, in this paragraph, we describe the key elements of Infor Corporate Performance Management, including some of its features and any related products. This product / group of products can be best defined by the following functionalities:
- decision management > performance management
- business intelligence > reporting
- data discovery > analysis
- business intelligence
- real-time analytics > real-time
- analytics
- data discovery > analysis > forecasting
- data connectivity > Microsoft Excel
- business intelligence > reporting > IFRS
- data connectivity > CSV
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What is Infor Business Analytics?
We do not display here all the features but, in this paragraph, we report the (main) characteristics of Infor Business Analytics, including some of its features and any related products. The Infor Business Analytics can be best characterized by the following properties:
- analytics
- business intelligence > reporting
- artificial intelligence
- business intelligence > CRM
- BI infrastructure > embedded analytics
- BI infrastructure > scalability
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What is Infor Lawson Analytics?
We don’t reveal everything here but, in this paragraph, we describe Infor Lawson Analytics, including some of its features and any related products. This product can be characterized by the following properties:
- analytics > supply chain analytics
- BI
- business intelligence
- data integration > data warehousing > fact table
- data integration > ETL
- mobile business intelligence > Android
- BI infrastructure > operating systems > iOS
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Innovations of Infor BI-tools and the version history
Recently, we see a stable evolution when it comes to BI & Analytics functionality. The latest innovations are in the areas of data discovery > analysis > cluster analysis, data discovery > data visualization > stacked area chart and BI infrastructure > authentication > OKTA.
We reviewed Infor’s current releases of its complete product portfolio. Below you can see the structure of the history of the different versions of all the ones known to us BI & Analytics products of Infor:
- Infor Birst: 2023 2022.10 2022.06 7.8
- Infor Business Analytics: 10.4.0.2
- Infor Business Vault: 11.2 10.3
- Infor Lawson Analytics: 10.2 10.1 10.0 10
Behind each product are the version numbers, the most recent versions are mentioned first.
What are the licensing costs of Infor Birst, Infor Coleman and Infor Landmark?
In many cases, it can be difficult to determine the licensing costs of Infor BI & Analytics because it depends on the country, the number of users (and/or the number of cores if you want to run it on a server), the connectors to data sources, and at what point in the year you request a quote. If you do this a few weeks before the end of Infor’s fiscal quarter, you may be in for a decent discount. In addition, nowadays it is recommended running the software in the cloud, for the most part, you only pay for your consumption then. The purchase cost of Infor Birst, Infor Coleman and Infor Landmark may not be the most important costs, but maintenance and support of course do limit your future investment scope.
What makes Infor BI & Analytics unique compared to other BI platforms
In our study, we see that Infor in the field of BI & Analytics software has a number of specific features which are characteristic. This makes Infor BI more or less unique: qualitative analysis, customer profitability analysis, portfolio analysis, KPI charts and SAML assertion.
The advantages and disadvantages of Infor BI
Figure 29: Tag cloud of the strengths and weaknesses of Infor BI & Analytics
Below we listed all the advantages and disadvantages of Infor BI & Analytics, Infor Birst, Infor Coleman and Infor Landmark, et cetera. There is momentum, because: Infor may be working to improving existing and developing features that meet specific customer needs at this time (such as support for analysis, Python, R, Linux, Sharepoint, Google BigQuery, Teradata, Amazon Redshift, Impala and big data analytics). Or a certain feature is not (yet) (well) documented.
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1. Infor Business Intelligence
The company has a moderate performance in our 100% vendor-independent BI & Analytics survey on the subject ‘Business Intelligence’ with a score of 47%, relative to other vendors. However, this is one of the best engineered parts of Infor. We looked at the following criteria, among others: reporting, dashboards, CRM, business intelligence platform, enterprise business intelligence and business process monitoring. In doing so, we looked at the following five products: Birst Sales Analytics, Infor Birst, Infor BI, Infor Landmark Reporting and Infor BI Dashboards. In total, we examined 73 features within this discipline. Would you like to learn more about the topic ‘Business Intelligence’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide.
2. Infor BI Infrastructure
The company has a moderate performance in our 100% vendor-independent BI & Analytics survey on the section ‘BI Infrastructure’ with a score of 36%, relative to other vendors. We looked at the following criteria, among others: infrastructure, repository, open source, web services, web server and hybrid cloud. In total, we examined 162 criteria in this category. Would you like to delve further into the topic ‘BI Infrastructure’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide.
3. Infor Self-service BI
The vendor Infor has a moderate score in our objective BI & Analytics survey on the subject ‘Self-service BI’ with a score of 31%, relative to other vendors. We considered the following factors: self-service data preparation, self-service reporting, self-service analysis, self-service data discovery and self-service data analytics. In total, we examined 14 selection criteria within this main theme. Are you planning to specialize further in the topic ‘Self-service BI’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide 2023.
4. Infor Mobile Business Intelligence
Infor has a moderate performance in our study of the theme ‘Mobile Business Intelligence’, given that they score 30% on this, relative to other vendors. We looked at the following criteria, among others: push notification, mobile server, mobile analytics, mobile dashboards and mobile push notifications. In total, we examined 10 aspects in this category. Would you like to go into more depth with the topic ‘Mobile Business Intelligence’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide 2023.
5. Infor Decision Management
The vendor Infor has a poor score in our recently updated, independent BI & Analytics study on the subject ‘Decision Management’ with a score of 28%, relative to other vendors. The following criteria were used: performance management, decision support, decision-making platform, enterprise decision management and real-time decisioning. In total, we examined 30 features within this discipline. Would you like to go into more depth with the topic ‘Decision Management’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide 2023.
6. Infor Multidimensional Models
The vendor Infor has a poor performance in our study on the section ‘Multidimensional Models’. The score amounts to 26%, relative to other vendors. We used the following selection criteria: OLAP, DAX, ROLAP, MOLAP and tabular data models. In total, we examined 14 features within this discipline. Would you like to go into more depth with the topic ‘Multidimensional Models’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide 2023.
7. Infor Data Discovery
Infor has a poor score in our objective BI & Analytics survey on the section ‘Data Discovery’. The company scores 25% on this topic, relative to other vendors. We looked at the following criteria, among others: time series, standard deviation, data storytelling and share insights. In doing so, we analyzed the following products: Birst Analytics. In total, we examined 400 features within this discipline. Would you like to learn more about the topic ‘Data Discovery’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide.
8. Infor Big Data
The vendor Infor has a poor score in our current BI & Analytics survey on the subject ‘Big Data’ with a score of 22%, relative to other vendors. We considered the following factors: streaming, unstructured data, sensors, Blob storage, sensor data, big data integration and big data processing. In doing so, we analyzed the following products: Infor Data Lake. In total, we examined 59 criteria in this category. Are you planning to specialize further in the topic ‘Big Data’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide. Or take a deep dive in the following content:
9. Infor Data Governance
Infor has a poor score in our study on the section ‘Data Governance’, given that they score 21% on this, relative to other vendors. We looked at the following criteria, among others: data management, data quality, data catalog, data encryption, data lineage and data acquisition layer. In total, we examined 91 criteria within this section. Are you excited about the topic ‘Data Governance’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide.
10. Infor Data Integration
The vendor Infor has a poor score in our objective BI & Analytics survey of the theme ‘Data Integration’ with a score of 20%, relative to other vendors. We looked at the following criteria, among others: data warehousing, data hub and data virtualization. In total, we examined 76 criteria within this section. Would you like to delve further into the topic ‘Data Integration’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide 2023. Or take a deep dive in the following content:
11. Infor Analytics
Infor has a poor rating in our independent BI & Analytics survey on the subject ‘Analytics’ with a score of 17%, compared to other vendors. We used the following selection criteria: analytics platform, customer analytics, retail analytics, marketing analytics and HR analytics. In doing so, we investigated the following five products: Birst Sales Analytics, Infor Birst, Infor BI, Infor Landmark Reporting and Infor Coleman. In total, we examined 130 selection criteria within this main theme. Would you like to learn more about the topic ‘Analytics’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide.
12. Infor Real-time Analytics
Infor has a poor performance in our 100% vendor-independent BI & Analytics survey on the subject ‘Real-time Analytics’. The company scores 15% on this topic, relative to other vendors. We considered the following factors: real-time, real-time data and data ingestion. In total, we examined 19 criteria in this category. Are you excited about the topic ‘Real-time Analytics’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide 2023.
13. Infor Artificial Intelligence
Infor has a poor rating in our study on the section ‘Artificial Intelligence’, given that they score 14% on this, compared to other vendors. The following criteria were used: machine learning, R, algorithms, natural language processing, linear regression, business rules and cognitive services. In doing so, we looked at the following four products: Infor Coleman, Infor Coleman AI, Infor IoT and Infor Data Lake. In total, we examined 164 criteria within this section. Would you like to go into more depth with the topic ‘Artificial Intelligence’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Study.
14. Infor Data Connectivity
Infor has a poor rating in our objective BI & Analytics survey on the section ‘Data Connectivity’. The score amounts to 13%, compared to other vendors. We looked at the following criteria, among others: Sharepoint, Salesforce, Teradata, Amazon Redshift, PostgreSQL, Google BigQuery and Microsoft Excel. In total, we examined 91 features within this discipline. Are you planning to specialize further in the topic ‘Data Connectivity’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide.
15. Infor Performance Optimization
The company has a poor score in our objective BI & Analytics survey on the section ‘Performance Optimization’ with a score of 13%, compared to other vendors. We considered the following factors: parallel processing, data pipelines, materialized views and cache settings. In total, we examined 29 criteria within this section. Would you like to delve further into the topic ‘Performance Optimization’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Study 2023.
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In which sectors is Infor BI & Analytics most active?
In our current BI & Analytics survey about, we also looked at which industries a supplier moves around. These are the industries where Infor is on the road: automotive, aviation, banking, construction, fashion, food, health care, hospitality, manufacturing, public sector, restaurants, retail and utilities.
Infor software is most used by…
The BI & Analytics software from Infor is most often mentioned in combination with the following function: marketers.
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Training and incompany training Infor BI & Analytics
The specialists of Passionned Group organize various training courses in the field of BI & Analytics but can also provide specific Infor training, for example as incompany. For example, you can think about the following software: Infor Birst, Infor Coleman and Infor Landmark. Of course, such training is framed with the ideas of the intelligent, data-driven organization.
Final assessment: Infor BI scores moderately
Infor has a compact product portfolio with which it scores moderately in our BI & Analytics survey. Infor BI & Analytics innovates (approximately) at an average rate of more than 15 features per year, is active (for now) in lots of different sectors, and growing high in the field of business intelligence.
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