Pentaho Business Analytics Reviews

We use both DataStage and Pentaho, but I don't see any special features in Pentaho that is not available in DataStage, except Big Data plugins and connectors. These are default in Pentaho, and for those who have expertise in Java and Java script can write their custom code or enhance and call from Pentaho's code.

When we wanted pursue this tool, the major factor was the amount of money we could save. Other than that, there is no special use cases for using this product as it was not that matured when we started using it in 2012 when compared to other ETL tools. 

It's still not user friendly or robust enough for our needs.

There were issues with the deployment.

There have been stability issues.

We've had issues scaling it for what we need.

Since there are very few skilled people available on the market, we had to risk the project. 

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.