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KNIME Business Hub vs Pentaho Business Analytics comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.6
KNIME Business Hub offers excellent ROI with low costs, ease of use, and encourages cost-effective experimentation before full-scale implementation.
Sentiment score
5.4
Pentaho Business Analytics mixed ROI perceptions highlight efficiency gains but unclear returns compared to competitors like QlikView and Tableau.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
KNIME Business Hub offers efficient support through community forums and documentation but needs more diverse language options and resources.
Sentiment score
6.5
Pentaho Business Analytics receives mixed reviews for customer support, with users relying heavily on forums and community assistance.
While they cannot always provide immediate answers, they are generally efficient and simplify tasks, especially in the initial phase of learning KNIME.
BI Analyst at a photography company with 11-50 employees
My mark for technical support for KNIME Business Hub is about a 7, as most of the support is in the community, and it is quite good because it is open source.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.7
KNIME Business Hub is scalable with server setups but faces challenges on desktops with large datasets and requires add-ons.
Sentiment score
7.0
Pentaho Business Analytics is scalable with good performance but occasionally needs professional help for complex data handling.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Users find KNIME Business Hub stable, rating it 7-10/10, though noting crashes with large data and improved stability post-version 4.
Sentiment score
6.5
Pentaho Business Analytics is stable but may face Java caching issues, impacting performance and requiring careful cache management.
For now, KNIME Business Hub is excellent for me and for our team.
Co Founder & Chief Data Officer Cdo at NTT DATA
From 1 to 10, I would rate the stability of KNIME Business Hub quite good, around an 8 or 9.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It can handle large datasets.
DBA at Federal University of Uberlândia
 

Room For Improvement

KNIME Business Hub needs enhanced performance, data visualization, integration, and user interface improvements to handle large datasets effectively.
Pentaho Business Analytics lacks an intuitive interface, robust integration, self-service features, and requires technical expertise, limiting usability.
I would like to see additional functions in KNIME Business Hub that can connect to generative AI, allowing users to describe the workflow for easier workflow generation and creation.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Computer vision is the most important because now there is a new age of large language models and visual language models.
Director, Channel And Alliances at Basefy
When I import this data set in the File Reader node, I have problems with this field because it is a date, but the problem is that it imports it as text.
Co Founder & Chief Data Officer Cdo at NTT DATA
Pentaho Business Analytics is hard to learn and not suited for initial users as it requires knowledge of operating systems, Java, and other technical skills.
DBA at Federal University of Uberlândia
 

Setup Cost

KNIME Business Hub provides a cost-effective open-source desktop version, with server pricing based on enterprise support needs.
Enterprise buyers find the free Pentaho Community Edition cost-effective, while the Enterprise Edition offers value with support and features.
Pentaho Business Analytics is priced similarly to other competitors such as QlikView and Tableau.
DBA at Federal University of Uberlândia
 

Valuable Features

KNIME Business Hub simplifies data tasks with an intuitive interface, supporting automation, seamless integrations, and extensive machine learning tools.
Pentaho Business Analytics provides easy data integration, customizable dashboards, extensive connectivity, and supports efficient data transformation and delivery.
KNIME is more intuitive and easier to use, which is the principal advantage.
Student at ISCTE - INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA
When I work through the workflow one time, I can reuse it later on, saving considerable time for many tasks.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Collection of company-wide information is one of the main benefits that KNIME Business Hub provides to the end users; all the intellectual property that has been developed in a central location is critical.
Director, Channel And Alliances at Basefy
It is a stable product, and it can handle large datasets.
DBA at Federal University of Uberlândia
 

Categories and Ranking

KNIME Business Hub
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Data Mining (1st), Data Science Platforms (3rd)
Pentaho Business Analytics
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (19th), Cloud Operations Analytics (2nd), Reporting (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Business Intelligence solutions, they serve different purposes. KNIME Business Hub is designed for Data Mining and holds a mindshare of 11.4%, down 25.1% compared to last year.
Pentaho Business Analytics, on the other hand, focuses on BI (Business Intelligence) Tools, holds 1.0% mindshare, up 0.5% since last year.
Data Mining Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
KNIME Business Hub11.4%
IBM SPSS Statistics16.8%
IBM SPSS Modeler16.5%
Other55.3%
Data Mining
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Pentaho Business Analytics1.0%
Microsoft Power BI8.1%
Tableau Enterprise6.2%
Other84.7%
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
 

Featured Reviews

NataliaRaffo - PeerSpot reviewer
Co Founder & Chief Data Officer Cdo at NTT DATA
Workflow automation has accelerated advanced analytics and machine learning delivery
Sometimes it is a little bit difficult to use some nodes when we have many large-scale data, for example, CSV files with a large amount of data. It is sometimes difficult to try to import the data in KNIME Business Hub nodes because I think that some features that are in the CSV in text, for example, large text, is difficult for KNIME Business Hub to import these fields. I don't know why, but it is very difficult. We need to try to use different nodes for importing the data, such as File Reader and CSV Reader. However, I think that it is always the features that have much text, it is difficult for KNIME Business Hub to understand and import this information. I don't know why, or maybe I don't know if we don't know what the better option is to configure the node to import all the CSV or the data set. However, we have always had this problem. In some nodes, sometimes it is the same because sometimes, for example, I have a CSV and in my CSV, I have a feature that is, for example, a date. When I import this data set in the File Reader node, I have problems with this field because it is a date, but the problem is that it imports it as text, for example. We try to use their nodes that convert text to date, but sometimes it is difficult, and it is not immediate to transform the text into a date. So we needed to convert the text into a date in the CSV, and then import it again in the KNIME Business Hub node and try to have a good read of this field. I know that KNIME Business Hub has some nodes to convert text to date and others, but sometimes it is difficult to use these nodes. I don't know why. Maybe it needs a specific format for the date and we need to transform our feature in this option. So sometimes it is a large process to convert these features. However, sometimes we need to investigate and search for other nodes, and try with other nodes to import these cases.
JB
Founder at SJT Consult
Solution enables effective ETL processes and exhibits high satisfaction
From an integration perspective, Pentaho Business Analytics is not the best tool on the market. There are things done by Apache that are better, though I am not the one implementing them, so this is based on what I have heard about novelties in the market. I do not see the need to extend the coverage of Pentaho Business Analytics's domain. For things that it does not do, there are better solutions on the market, and it would be costly to implement them. Pentaho Business Analytics is a very great tool for very specific standardized scenarios. If you need more complex elastic solutions because the process is different, there are better tools available.
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Comparison Review

it_user6978 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at Helical IT Solution (Jaspersoft, Pentaho, Talend, Kettle, DWBI, ETL, Ctools, iReport, Jasper Report)
Jun 10, 2013
Jaspersoft vs. Pentaho – Which one to use & is there any need to purchase the commercial edition
Any company (be it technology, manfucaturing, human resource, ecommerce, SME etc) always has the need for Business Intelligence to some or the other extent. If cost is one of the consideration factor, then the 2 BI tools which are at the forefront are Pentaho and Jaspersoft. But, often the same…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
University
8%
Educational Organization
7%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Construction Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise32
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise15
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for KNIME?
I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.
What needs improvement with KNIME?
In my previous PeerSpot review from March 2024, I mentioned that KNIME was not very strong in visualization and that I wanted to see NLQ (Natural Language Query) and automated visualization capabil...
What is your primary use case for KNIME?
I mainly use KNIME for ETL and data integration projects, followed by clustering and customer segmentation, process mining, AI and machine learning preprocessing pipelines, and recently GenAI orche...
Seeking lightweight open source BI software
There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows: 1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle - look for SAP...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pentaho Business Analytics?
Pentaho Business Analytics offers the best value for money. While improvements can be made in some areas, particularly with more cloud-based solutions, it is not in their domain because they do not...
What needs improvement with Pentaho Business Analytics?
From an integration perspective, Pentaho Business Analytics is not the best tool on the market. There are things done by Apache that are better, though I am not the one implementing them, so this i...
 

Also Known As

KNIME Analytics Platform
Pentaho, Kettle, Hitachi Pentaho Business Analytics
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Infocom Corporation, Dymatrix Consulting Group, Soluzione Informatiche, MMI Agency, Estanislao Training and Solutions, Vialis AG
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