Pentaho Business Analytics Reviews

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.

Transformations. The wide range of transformations that are available in product suite, enable me to do data cleaning, transformation and mapping. I have used Pentaho mostly for ETL purposes.

Pentaho was used for data massaging in a system integration project. It enabled seamless data movement from one system to another. The biggest advantage of using this tool was that it support a wide range of input and output formats

Debugging and logging needs to improve. Not all the time debugging gives the accurate picture of what is going wrong with the jobs or transformations.

I've been using it for one year.

We've had no issues deploying it.

It's been stable.

Data type mismatch issues causes a lot of error in the transformations, which I believe at times make it difficult to scale. For example in many transformations you have to mention the data type of the data and if the input file changes the data type, these transformation also needs to be updated. Hence one data type change in the input file have cascading effects

I've never had to use it, but they do have a strong online community.

There was no previous solution in place.

It was straightforward, as there was not much of configuration was involved.

I was the vendor team who implemented this solution for the client.

It's difficult to predict the ROI as it was just a component of the system.

The tool is easy to implement, but it needs technical acumen to do so. In other words although it look like a simple drag and drop kind of tool, it can be fairly complex.

Here are the valuable features:

• Open source solution
• Fully integrated
• Customizable
• Extensible with a large community behind it
• Has a powerful ETL process (Pentaho Data Integration)

It helps us build decision supported systems. The use of MicroStrategy improved the decision-making process through enterprise report automation and corporate information management.

I would like to see self-service analysis and front-end tools.

The "self-service" feature of all BI tools deals with let final user (normally not tech one) do his/her work navigating data in a freely and not organized way.

Is exactly the opposite as create and manage a DW where data, metadata, are known and processed before.

Normally, traditional BI tools are more complex and complete managing traditional DW and in recent years other BI tools (like Qlik and Tableau for example) appears to fulfill this features.

We have used this solution for five years.

There have been no stability issues. There were some minor bugs that were fixed by the manufacturer in their regular patches.

There have been no scalability issues. Pentaho is based on industry standards to build scalable solutions. It’s very simple to scale up, horizontally, and vertically.

Technical support is good.

The installation had medium complexity. There is good documentation, but you have to follow certain procedures before using it.

This solution has an open source philosophy. There is a community edition without license costs, although it takes some more time to develop.

There is also an enterprise option that allows you to perform certain tasks easily and includes support.

Have a global and corporate design in mind. However, start with a particular area, small and well-defined.

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

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.

The ability to maintain historical data.

For decision purposes, it serves the information to managers to so they can make proper decisions using the data. With the help of the Data Analysis tool, decisions are very easy.

• Populating Cube
• Data Mining

Four months.

Yes we did.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

9 out of 10.

7 out of 10.

No previous solution used.

It was complex to set-up.

We implemented it through a vendor and I would rate them 9/10.

We also looked at Talend.