Oct 06, 2016
Bruce, have you made a decision about which solution is the best fit for your needs? I would love to hear your feedback.
Pentaho Business Analytics and Birst are competing in the business analytics space, both providing comprehensive data solutions. Birst holds an advantage due to its stronger cloud capabilities and advanced networking features.
Features: Pentaho Business Analytics offers robust data integration and ETL tools, user-friendly data visualization, and customizable reporting. Birst provides cloud-based data warehousing, sophisticated analytics, and powerful multi-tenancy options.
Room for Improvement: Pentaho could improve by simplifying its on-premise deployment process, enhancing cloud integration, and expanding customer support. Birst could benefit from refining its visualization capabilities, enhancing real-time data processing, and increasing the flexibility of its data modeling tools.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Pentaho's on-premise deployment can be complex and resource-intensive, while Birst offers a streamlined cloud-based deployment model that simplifies scalability and supports faster implementation. Birst's cloud infrastructure also facilitates more efficient customer support.
Pricing and ROI: Pentaho provides lower initial setup costs, appealing to smaller businesses, but may incur higher total ownership costs due to maintenance and upgrades. Birst, with higher upfront costs, achieves a stronger ROI through cloud efficiency and reduced operational overhead, offsetting initial investments compared to Pentaho's potential long-term costs.
It can handle large datasets.
Pentaho Business Analytics is hard to learn and not suited for initial users as it requires knowledge of operating systems, Java, and other technical skills.
Pentaho Business Analytics is priced similarly to other competitors such as QlikView and Tableau.
It is a stable product, and it can handle large datasets.
Birst Networked BI and Analytics eliminates information silos. Decentralized users can augment the enterprise data model virtually, as opposed to physically, without compromising data governance.
A unified semantic layer maintains common definitions and key metrics.
Birst’s two-tier architecture aligns back-end sources with line-of-business or local data. Birst’s Automated Data Refinement extracts data from any source into a unified semantic layer. Users are enabled with self-service analytics through executive dashboards, reporting, visual discovery, mobile tools, and predictive analytics. Birst Open Client Interface also offers integration with Tableau, Excel and R.
Birst goes to market in two primary ways: as a direct sale, for enterprises using Birst on internal data to manage their business; and embedded, for companies who offer analytic products, by embedding and white-labeling Birst capabilities into their products.
Birst’s is packaged in 3 available formats: Platform and per-user fee; by Department or Business Unit; by end-customer (for embedded scenarios).
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.
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.
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