We performed a comparison between KNIME and Pentaho Business Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Knime, Weka, IBM and others in Data Mining."KNIME is easy to learn."
"It's a huge tool with machine learning features as well."
"KNIME is fast and the visualization provides a lot of clarity. It clarifies your thinking because you can see what's going on with your data."
"Stability is excellent. I would give it a nine out of ten."
"It's very convenient to write your own algorithms in KNIME. You can write it in Java script or Python transcript."
"From a user-friendliness perspective, it's a great tool."
"We have been able to appreciate the considerable reduction in prototyping time."
"I was able to apply basic algorithms through just dragging and dropping."
"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."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"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."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"The pricing needs improvement."
"It could be easier to use."
"The visualization functionalities are not good (cannot be compared to, for instance, the possibilities in R)."
"The overall user experience feels unpolished. In particular: Data field type conversion is a real hassle, and date fields are a hassle; documentation is pretty poor; user community is average at best."
"In the last update, KNIME started hiding a lot of the nodes. It doesn't mean hiding, but you need to know what you're looking for. Before that, you had just a tree that you could click, and you could get an overview of what kind of nodes do I have. Right now, it's like you need to know which node you need, and then you can start typing, but it's actually more difficult to find them."
"KNIME is not good at visualization."
"KNIME's documentation is not strong."
"There should be better documentation and the steps should be easier."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"The repository should be improved."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"Logging capability is needed."
"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."
"Pentaho, at the general level, should greatly improve the easy construction of its dashboards and easy integration of information from different sources without technical user intervention."
KNIME is ranked 1st in Data Mining with 50 reviews while Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 19th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews. KNIME is rated 8.2, while Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of KNIME writes "A low-code platform that reduces data mining time by linking script". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". KNIME is most compared with RapidMiner, Microsoft Power BI, Alteryx, Dataiku and Domino Data Science Platform, whereas Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, SAP Crystal Reports, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Tableau.
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