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it_user165921 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Analyst at a government with 51-200 employees
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Working on poverty alleviation in Indonesia, this tool has improved the ability of policy makers to make good decisions.

How has it helped my organization?

I'm working on poverty alleviation in Indonesia; this tool has improved the ability to make good decisions for policy makers.

For how long have I used the solution?

3 years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Sometimes I had problems, but the problems could be settled within a brief amount of time.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No issues.

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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No issues with scalability.

How are customer service and support?

This is an open source application and gets the full support of the community.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

No, when i joined the office I immediately began using Pentaho.

How was the initial setup?

Yes, for the initial setup we had to understand database and some script xml.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented with internal office team.

What was our ROI?

Government Project, so did not do ROI for this, just KPI.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Yes, we compared with other apps with almost the same features as this application, but I was wholeheartedly with Pentaho because its free and fulfills our needs.

What other advice do I have?

Use this product and feel how the application can change your company's decision-making policy.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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it_user173703 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
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Creating your own plugin is very easy with Pentaho

Valuable Features

I really like Pentaho Data Integration, an ETL tool that makes your Extract, Transform and Load process easy, with rich functionality and nice design tools. And, for some reason creating your own plugin is very easy.

Use of Solution

I have been use this product for about 3 years.

Deployment Issues

No, I did not encounter any issues with deployment so far, deployment process very straight forward.

Stability Issues

No, I didn't. For each release Pentaho has good stability

Scalability Issues

I haven't explored much on scalability, but they have scalabity capability.

Customer Service and Technical Support

For most of the time, I usually use Pentaho forums and the response from the Pentaho community is very good.

Initial Setup

The set-up is very easy. For full installation, Pentaho provides a binary package with an installation wizard. Or alternatively, you can just download and extract file, then just work through it.

Other Solutions Considered

If you are looking for complete tools and easy to customize for your business intelligence solution, I would reccommend this product.

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it_user164859 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Warehouse Specialist at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
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More built-in features could improve the solution, but everything related to ETL is valuable.

What is most valuable?

Everything related to ETL.

How has it helped my organization?

It has provided the ability to successfully integrate many different systems into one big data warehouse.

What needs improvement?

More built-in features, better version control integration, online tutorials.

For how long have I used the solution?

4 years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No problems.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Yes, sometimes the subprocesses keep running even though the main process is stopped.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

Good.

Technical Support:

Less than average.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

No.

How was the initial setup?

Straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

In-house.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Initial cost was $16K for licensing, not sure after that.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Yes, Informatica.

What other advice do I have?

Go for it.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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