We performed a comparison between Pentaho Business Analytics and Qlik Sense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"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."
"Self-service use of the desktop version with the ability to port applications into the server environment."
"Leveraging and reusability of already existing QlikView assets and knowledge."
"End users can adjust their analysis with a few simple clicks."
"The Qlik Sense cloud insights advisor helps our business users to get the answers to their data questions so that they do not have to rely on IT/BI resources every time they have some data request."
"This solution has improved our organization by making our analysis results available to customers."
"We have been using Qlik Sense to generate reports that have taken hours to prepare before that we are now able to update in a couple of minutes and are available to users on a centralized platform where they are able to get the required reports."
"The drag and drop UI has been the most useful to me."
"The product responds fast for data analysis."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"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."
"The repository should be improved."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"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."
"What needs improvement in Qlik Sense is the support. It could be faster. My organization had already talked to Qlik management and has escalated multiple times, so management is looking into the support."
"Moving forward I would like to see more features that are currently available in QlikView, such as being able to better customize coloring within charts. I would also like to see the ability to add calculated dimensions to the selections tool in the page."
"Reload failure alerts on the application within the Qlik Management Console without any use of extensions. QlikView is able to handle these alerts directly through the QlikView Management Console. We would appreciate a similar solution that is easy to set up and use. Simple formatting options in the pivot and straight tables such as adjusting line thickness and font selection and size."
"More pivot table options, like the ability to have the totals row at the bottom of the table, would be helpful."
"I would like for it to be more of a plug and play with all of the tools and sources. It would make it much easier to use."
"There are some tools like Alteryx, which are used for data preparation. These features can be built into Qlik to make the process smoother."
"Dates. My goodness, working with dates in set analysis can be a nightmare! Much room for improvement."
"The current visualization features feel incomplete compared to what's available with scripting tools."
Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 19th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews. Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, KNIME, SAP Crystal Reports and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Apache Superset, Microsoft Power BI and Alteryx.
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