Pentaho Business Analytics vs QlikView comparison

Hitachi Vantara and Qlik are both solutions in the Reporting category. Hitachi Vantara is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.3, while Qlik is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.3. Hitachi Vantara holds a 1.1% mindshare in RT, compared to Qlik’s 3.3% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Hitachi Vantara users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Qlik users who would recommend it.

Pentaho Business Analytics

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89% willing to recommend

QlikView

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92% willing to recommend

Pentaho Business Analytics

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Pentaho Business Analytics and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Pentaho Business Analytics

Ranking in Reporting

14th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (20th), Cloud Operations Analytics (4th)

QlikView

Ranking in Reporting

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

161

Ranking in other categories

Embedded BI (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Pentaho Business Analytics is 1.1%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of QlikView is 3.3%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting

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Sayan König

Senior Manager, Financial Services at KPMG

Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up

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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Arjun Meda

Assistant Vice President at HSBC India

Useful for data visualization and business intelligence

Many of the features in Qlik Sense need to be available and reintroduced in QlikView. I believe many of the features have been added to QlikView after the layout containers were introduced. QlikView used to be a way more customizable tool than Qlik Sense is in the present time. Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times. Hiding off the apps in the app overview tab based on the access was a really good feature that needs to be introduced back in the product since I see that, at the moment, there are multiple groups on the tool, owing to which multiple changes on the QMC part is required to handle the solution. Only the person with access to the dashboard in QlikView could have a link to the dashboard through QlikView's hub or access points. With Qlik Sense, one can see whatever is available in the stream. If a user wants to control everything in the product, then there is no need to make multiple changes in the QMC at the individual app level. The aforementioned area can be considered to improve Qlik Sense.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Easy to use components to create the job."

"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."

"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."

"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."

"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."

"It is robust, offers market intelligence, and utilizes modules effectively."

"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."

"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."

"The platform's most valuable feature is its associative data model. It allows me to discover hidden data and gain insights that are not immediately visible."

"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."

"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."

"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."

"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."

"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."

"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."

"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."

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Cons

"The repository should be improved."

"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, 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 tool is very good, and yet it has some problems as it relies heavily on Java."

"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."

"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."

"Version control would be a good addition."

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"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."

"They could improve the update time."

"The solution is quite costly."

"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."

"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."

"QlikView lacks self-service capabilities, which means users depend on the IT team to make changes."

"The user interface is old."

"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Free and commercial versions are available."

"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."

"Pentaho is expensive ."

"QlikView is a reasonably priced solution."

"My firm got the product at a cheap price, but in general, I believe that the product is a bit costly."

"The pricing is too high compared to the other solutions on the market."

"It is quite expensive, rating at around nine out of ten on a cost scale."

"Qlik is fairly high in terms of pricing."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one being low price and ten being high price, I rate pricing a four."

"It's reasonably priced and falls on the more affordable side."

"The pricing is moderate, in the medium price range."

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Comparison Review

it_user79932

Senior Manager - BI Head at NVidia

Feb 4, 2015

Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho

1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

26%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Seeking lightweight open source BI software

There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows: 1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle - look for SAP...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pentaho Business Analytics?

For those starting to use this tool, there is a free version available which is beneficial. The company also finds the pricing to be good.

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What needs improvement with Pentaho Business Analytics?

The tool is very good, and yet it has some problems as it relies heavily on Java. The platform works with Java, and it has brought some issues to the company.

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What do you like most about QlikView?

If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for QlikView?

Qlik Sense's licensing metrics are flexible. They provide packages based on needs, like named licenses, developer licenses, or shared pool licenses. There is also a core-based license option for or...

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What needs improvement with QlikView?

QlikView lacks self-service capabilities, which means users depend on the IT team to make changes. Qlik Sense offers a more modern approach with self-service features, allowing users to build dashb...

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Pentaho, Kettle, Hitachi Pentaho Business Analytics

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Overview

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.

QlikView is a Business Intelligence tool that allows you to keep tabs on all of your business-related information in a clean, clear, and easy to access database that is intuitive to build and simple to navigate. It is ideal for business owners who wish to improve overall output by creating the most productive system possible.

Sample Customers

Cargo 2000 Lufthansa, Marketo, ModCloth, Cardiac Science, Telefonica, ExactTarget, Active Broadband Networks, and Brussels Airport.

Canon, Gatorade, Amcor, Panasonic, Fila, Cambridge University Hospitals, Global Retail Bank, North Yorkshire Police department, Lanoo Group Publishers, and AonGroep Nederland.

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