Pentaho Business Analytics Reviews

My company embeds the following features into our product -

• BI server
• Analyzer report
• Interactive report
• Dashboard

We can demonstrate a better report UI and vivid experience for our customers.

The OEM license pricing is quite expensive. Enhance the authentication and authorization part.

We've been using the BA Server Enterprise Edition for three years.

Most of our customers have a complex authentication environment. Our customers found it difficult to configure flexibly.

There were no issues with the stability.

We have had no issues scaling it.

7/10

7/10

It's kind of complex if user wants to implement LDAP authentication, such as defining the scope and filters.

We implement it ourselves and then embedded it into our product. It’s not easy to separate the different components one needs.

I don't know much, but I have heard that the price is too high.

We are looking for a different solution but have not determined one yet.

It’s a comprehensive BA tool including ETL and reporting. It’s easy to use with a small dataset, but you will need to dig deep to optimize the performance when the data set is huge.

• 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.

• Spoon
• Schema work bench
• CDE dashboards
• Client budget

• License cost has come down
• Easy maintenance

It's not flexible for an enterprise database.

I've used it for four and a half years.

Deployment is easy but upgrading is an issue.

There are no issues with the stability.

There have been no issues with scaling it.

7/10

7/10

Pentaho Business Analytics tool provides ETL. Easy creation of Analyser, interactive & attractive dashboards.

Pentaho BA server is supported by CDE (Common Dashboard Editor) to create responsive Dashboard which can used in Mobile.

Organizing the data & representing data with Graphical view gives an insight on the data.

Mobile Responsiveness of BA server should be improved.

Analyser and interactive Dashboard should be accessible via Dashboard.

We've had no issues with deployment.

It's been stable for us.

It scales without issues.

• OLAP analysis (in CE edition JPivot)
• Dashboards (CDF + CDE)

With the launch of Pentaho the organization has aggregated information about the various functional areas and the ability to generate real-time analysis (OLAP) without the need of IT.

It's in production since 2010

None encountered.

It's fairly stable.

I use the CE without support.

I use the CE without support.

Yes. I changed because of costs.

The initial setup of the tool is very simple. In the last version we have a marketplace for installing new features in the product.

In-House.

The cost of initial setup was only for the hours and technical expertise (internal development).

A very important aspect of performance is the choice of the database to house the data warehouse. I recommend investing time in deciding the engine and architecture. We recommend using oriented columns engines.

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. 

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.

I have been use this product for about 3 years.

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

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

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

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

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.

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