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Alteryx Designer vs Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.7
Alteryx Designer enhances efficiency with automation, though recent pricing changes affect its cost-effectiveness despite noted process improvements.
Sentiment score
7.9
Pentaho Data Integration cuts ETL time and costs significantly, offering substantial savings and competitive advantages through open-source efficiency.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
Alteryx Designer customer service is well-rated, with strong community support and generally prompt, helpful technical assistance.
No sentiment score available
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Alteryx Designer is highly stable, with minimal bugs, rare crashes, and robust performance across varying client sizes.
No sentiment score available
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers find Alteryx costly, with high annual fees and extra charges, making it harder to justify than alternatives.
Pentaho offers a free Community Edition, while the Enterprise Edition has more features but increased costs post-Hitachi acquisition.
 

Valuable Features

Alteryx Designer is valued for its ease of use, automation, versatility, scalability, and integration capabilities, appealing to non-technical users.
 

Categories and Ranking

Alteryx Designer
Ranking in Data Integration
11th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Pentaho Data Integration an...
Ranking in Data Integration
24th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Alteryx Designer is 3.2%, down from 4.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is 1.5%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

Ajay Nayak - PeerSpot reviewer
An easy-to-use automation solution with satisfying customer support
Sometimes, while getting data from a third-party product, like data sources that are not present in your system, Alteryx works a bit slowly. Even if you have a good configuration and you are pulling data from an SQL server like SAP, then the solution also has a slow work process. It shouldn't be that much slow if you are pulling ten thousand records, it should not take thirty minutes.
Ryan Ferdon - PeerSpot reviewer
Low-code makes development faster than with Python, but there were caching issues
If you're working with a larger data set, I'm not so sure it would be the best solution. The larger things got the slower it was. It was kind of buggy sometimes. And when we ran the flow, it didn't go from a perceived start to end, node by node. Everything kicked off at once. That meant there were times when it would get ahead of itself and a job would fail. That was not because the job was wrong, but because Pentaho decided to go at everything at once, and something would process before it was supposed to. There were nodes you could add to make sure that, before this node kicks off, all these others have processed, but it was a bit tedious. There were also caching issues, and we had to write code to clear the cache every time we opened the program, because the cache would fill up and it wouldn't run. I don't know how hard that would be for them to fix, or if it was fixed in version 10. Also, the UI is a bit outdated, but I'm more of a fan of function over how something looks. One other thing that would have helped with Pentaho was documentation and support on the internet: how to do things, how to set up. I think there are some sites on how to install it, and Pentaho does have a help repository, but it wasn't always the most useful.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
24%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
8%
Comms Service Provider
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Alteryx Designer?
When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alteryx Designer?
The solution is expensive. It has license fees, which are renewable every year.
What needs improvement with Alteryx Designer?
Alteryx Designer is not as fast as SSIS and is not good for large datasets. It also needs to improve database procedures. Though it is easy to use, it is limited in terms of technical aspects.
Which ETL tool would you recommend to populate data from OLTP to OLAP?
Hi Rajneesh, yes here is the feature comparison between the community and enterprise edition : https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/pdf/brochure/leverage-open-source-benefits-with-assurance-of-hita...
What do you think can be improved with Hitachi Lumada Data Integrations?
In my opinion, the reporting side of this tool needs serious improvements. In my previous company, we worked with Hitachi Lumada Data Integration and while it does a good job for what it’s worth, ...
What do you use Hitachi Lumada Data Integrations for most frequently?
My company has used this product to transform data from databases, CSV files, and flat files. It really does a good job. We were most satisfied with the results in terms of how many people could us...
 

Also Known As

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Hitachi Lumada Data Integration, Kettle, Pentaho Data Integration
 

Overview

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Sample Customers

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66Controls, Providential Revenue Agency of Ro Negro, NOAA Information Systems, Swiss Real Estate Institute
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