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Pentaho Business Analytics pros and cons

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Pentaho Business Analytics Pros review quotes

Mir Gulzar Ahmed

IT Manager at Synergy Computers

Nov 6, 2023

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.

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Azhagarasan Annadorai

Founder at Unknown.University

Nov 27, 2023

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

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Senior Manager, Financial Services at KPMG

Feb 16, 2022

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

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PK

Digital Development Specialist at Vittne Digital Teknologi

Dec 6, 2024

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

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Director Tecnologia

Sep 14, 2017

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

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reviewer2031747

Administrative Assistant at a university with 10,001+ employees

Dec 2, 2022

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.

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Identity and Access Management Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Jan 8, 2018

Easy to use components to create the job.

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Muhammed Shafad

Senior Data Analyst at 6d Technologies

May 25, 2022

The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report.

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Pentaho Business Analytics Cons review quotes

Mir Gulzar Ahmed

IT Manager at Synergy Computers

Nov 6, 2023

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.

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Azhagarasan Annadorai

Founder at Unknown.University

Nov 27, 2023

We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost.

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Senior Manager, Financial Services at KPMG

Feb 16, 2022

The repository should be improved.

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PK

Digital Development Specialist at Vittne Digital Teknologi

Dec 6, 2024

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

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Director Tecnologia

Sep 14, 2017

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.

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reviewer2031747

Administrative Assistant at a university with 10,001+ employees

Dec 2, 2022

Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated.

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Identity and Access Management Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Jan 8, 2018

Logging capability is needed.

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Muhammed Shafad

Senior Data Analyst at 6d Technologies

May 25, 2022

Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive.

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