Pentaho Business Analytics Reviews

Speed, performance and for me the best one is integration with any data type, including Big Data.

We wanted a tool where by using it we could integrate multiple data sets, and could get responsive reports and Pentaho helped us do this in a good way.

The presentation of data and reports. Pentaho have made a lot of improvements in the newer versions, but it's still an area of improvement when compared to other products in market.

We have been using Pentaho for over four years, starting from v3.2 we are continuously upgrading to new versions. We're also using Pentaho BI server v4.8.

Pentaho BI server comes with inbuilt Tomcat container which is easy to deploy.

No. So far so good.

No. So far so good.

Being a community user, most of the time we depend on forums and the kind of response we got for tricky questions was just amazing.

We were using Talend but simplicity of Pentaho attracts us and we settled on Pentaho.

It was very much straightforward except at some points where we did our customizations which we had to take into account during new installations or upgrades.

We implemented in-house on our own servers.

We are using the Community Edition of Pentaho.

- Correct URL integration

- Excelent Look & Feel

- Good Dashboards integration with Bootstrap

- Senior management dashboard

- Pentaho Reporting and CDF integration

- R Script

6 months

To manage the different data flows from various data sources(including both upstream and downstream) using visual representation. The usecase is to track various user activities from multiple sources within the enterprise.

Making business decision easily and efficient by simplifying the Performance Management of each business units on timely basis.

Ad-hoc reporting (available only in Enterprise Edition) GEO-referencing using Google Maps ETL (Pentaho Data Integration) Support for both JasperReport, BIRT

QueryByExample Portal support for Liferay No collaborative BI Auditing / User-Profiling is available only in Enterprise edition

7 years

Very rarely

No

Customer Service:

3 (out of 5 scale)

Technical Support:

3 (out of 5 scale)

No

It is easy

In-House

Completely using community edition along with features implemented on top.

No, but now evaluating both SpagoBI and Jasper

Study, Analyze and Compare with other platforms feature according to your requirements. Following are the nice features of Pentaho: Ad-hoc reporting Support for both JasperReport,BIRT Dashboard using JFreeChart

Easy to use components to create the job.

• Logging capability.
• Version control would be a good addition.

A lot of time jobs get stuck, causing them to lock out and fail to run, until we kill them.

I  have not needed to scale this product so far.

Open community, you can find good responses at a high level for the free edition. I have not used the commercial version which includes support.

This is first solution I have used and I like it.

Simple, easy to install.

Free and commercial versions are available.

We did not evaluate other options as this one is free.

Good for any size organization. There are other products and vendors available to better handle errors and logging, but for us, the free version of Pentaho is good enough to satisfy our needs.

• Business analytics
• CDE
• Flexible dashboard development
• Cube

I use Pentaho everyday in my company, creating new BI environments for my customers.

The ad-hoc reporting needs to be improved.

There were no deployment issues.

There have been no issues with the stability.

There have been no issues with the scalability.

I've never had to use technical support.

It was easy, and only took a few minutes.

You should always check the community version first as it may be better for you.

It's free and easy to use. You can actually explain it to any non-ETL developer.

It covers most of our ETL requirements.

There are issues with Java code and sometimes we have to fix it or apply work around.

I've been using it for two years.

There are issues with clustering, and partitioning which we have reported.

It relies heavily on Java caching and sometimes it causes issues.

7/10

7/10

I have used ODI, Talend and Informatica. Pentaho is just current ETL choice for organization.

It's very easy.

We have implemented in-house with customization.

We're only using the Community Edition.

It's very easy to use and implement.

Pentaho Data Integration.

Pentaho reports have enabled our client and their users to take calculated and informed tactical decisions. The drag and drop reporting of Pentaho is very user friendly and takes care of all reporting needs very efficiently.

1. A few steps in PDI like Database Join can be fine tuned.
2. Work could be done on roles and securities.

3 and a half years.

None so far.

Pretty stable. But database and repository cache sometimes need to be manually refreshed to make the changes effective.

Yes. A few steps like Database join and merge join steps could be finetuned.

A 3/5. The support is prompt and timely. But there have been some technical limitations sometimes.

3/5.

Used MSBI sparingly. Used Pentaho mostly for cost benefits.

Pretty straightforward. Also the support Pentaho documents are self explanatory for installation guidelines.

In-house team.

Awesome. Even for enterprise edition. Obviously much better for community version.

Currently using community edition. So zero maintenance cost.

Not thoroughly enough.

If budget is a constraint, then Pentaho is a very good option. If budget is not an issue , then paid BI tools can be easily considered. Pentaho is leader in open source technology but still may not match paid BI tools.