Pentaho Business Analytics Reviews

Name: Pentaho Business Analytics
Brand: Hitachi Vantara
Rating: 4.0 (42 reviews)

4.0 out of 5

42 reviews
89% willing to recommend

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What is Pentaho Business Analytics?

Pentaho is an open source business intelligence company that provides a wide range of tools to help their customers better manage their businesses. These tools include data integration software, mining tools, dashboard applications, online analytical processing options, and more.

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Pentaho Business Analytics is the #4 ranked solution in top Cloud Operations Analytics solutions, #15 ranked solution in top Reporting Tools, and #21 ranked solution in top Business Intelligence Tools. PeerSpot users give Pentaho Business Analytics an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 42 most recent Pentaho Business Analytics reviews, the overall sentiment is , with a sentiment score of 5.8. (Among the lowest in the category). Pentaho Business Analytics is most commonly compared to Microsoft Power BI: Pentaho Business Analytics vs Microsoft Power BI. Pentaho Business Analytics is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 54% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 24% of all views.

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Sayan König

Senior Manager, Financial Services at KPMG

The repository should be improved. There should be the possibility to have versioning, to make it combinable with some Git repositories or something like that, to check out the processes and make sure it has a traceable history. The solution could really be improved. There are too many bugs in our version.

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Azhagarasan Annadorai

Founder at Unknown.University

The fuzzy logic match component came in handy to identify AML suspects (anti-money laundering). The SHA key generation component helped in generating a unique identifier for our customers, without revealing personal data; especially when we send data to the AWS cloud. Regularly, we had to send the new policy data files to medical centers over email. Using Pentaho, we were able to compress the files in zip format with a password and email them to unlimited partners. We could confidently use Pentaho for sharing data with internal and external customers in mediums such as FTP servers, LAN folders (Local Area Network), email, etc. Connectivity to platforms such as snowflake is great.

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Mir Gulzar Ahmed

IT Manager at Synergy Computers

Pentaho can help organizations by providing them an insight of their unstructured data using one platform(Pentaho Business Analytics). The features are almost identical to other BIS platforms but to me, customers can benefit as it has a community version with most of its Enterprise features. It also has a free limited-period trial version. The other feature that I would like to share here is, that users have access to a complete spectrum of data from different sources with the system’s adaptive big data layer, which takes the source of the data into account. The software is built on an open architecture and can be integrated with multiple systems. However, Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics has been acquired by HDS which offers an Enterprise edition for organizations that also need to meet product compliance.

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Pentaho Business Analytics mindshare

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As of November 2024, the mindshare of Pentaho Business Analytics in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category stands at 0.6%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Nov 21, 2024

Valuable Features

"Pentaho is an analytics platform that can be used when an organization has a lot of big data storage systems already installed and needs to manage and analyze that data. It has a specific use case for unstructured data, such as documents, and needs to be able to search and analyze it."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' best features include the ease of developing data flows and the wide range of options to connect to databases, including those on the cloud."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."

Room for Improvement

"Deployment is not simple. It is not simple because we are dealing with a lot of data; we are dealing with a lot of storage. So, it's not a simple process."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."

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Pricing

"Pentaho is expensive ."
"We were lucky enough to find a Pentaho OEM partner who offered a data warehouse model and the ETL software for about 60K SGD per year."
"Free and commercial versions are available."

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Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

Educational Organization

University

Retailer

Real Estate/Law Firm

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Comms Service Provider

Construction Company

Hospitality Company

Media Company

Wholesaler/Distributor

Healthcare Company

Outsourcing Company

Legal Firm

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Non Profit

Logistics Company

Consumer Goods Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Performing Arts

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Learn more about Pentaho Business Analytics

Pentaho has two product categories: There is the standard enterprise version. This is the product that comes directly from Pentaho itself with all of the benefits, features, and programs that come along with a paid application such us analysis services, dashboard design, and interactive reporting.

The alternative is an open source version, which the public is permitted to add to and tweak the product. This solution has its advantages, aside from the fact that it is free, in that there are many more people working on the project to improve its quality and breadth of functionality.

Pentaho Business Analytics was previously known as Pentaho, Kettle, Hitachi Pentaho Business Analytics.