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What do you like best about Pentaho Business Analytics?

Pentaho works as advertised -- it provides a truly drag-and-drop customizable interface for your data.

The Enterprise Suite has everything you need to start working and showing results right away.

Pentaho's customer support has been responsive and timely when we've had issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pentaho Business Analytics?

The Report Designer interface can seem clunky at times when trying to perform additional calculations on previously calculated fields or pass values to subreports.

There is inconsistency within the tools in Data Integration -- it is clear the various tools were authored by different engineers at different times. It is not always obvious what goes where.

There is inconsistency between all the products within the Pentaho Suite. Each has a different look and feel and none work the same way.

Upgrading can be challenging but Pentaho customer support has been very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Do you need to integrate data from multiple sources? Pentaho is great for this. Previously, we were SSHing files around and importing with numerous cron scripts.

Are your Finance and Marketing teams constantly asking for one-off queries? Pentaho puts this power in THEIR hands so they can pull and arrange the data they want into whatever view they want.

Do you want to pay too much for a full-featured BI solution? Pentaho is very reasonably priced, and even has a free version!

It has been too long since we did the research (over three years) before choosing Pentaho so I cannot remember exactly which competing products we looked at. In the end, the problem with all the others was that they were too expensive for our small company. Pentaho was reasonably priced and was exactly what we were looking for.

Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, SAS all provide similar, but very expensive products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pentaho Business Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pentaho serves several roles in our environment.

We use the Pentaho Report Designer for report design and delivery. This tool is fairly straightforward. It feels a lot like Crystal Reports and similar tools. Once reports are complete they are immediately accessible to our end users.

We use Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) for Business Intelligence which includes totals, trends, and forecasts of sales and subscriptions of our services. The browser-based analysis tool allows our end-users to drag & drop measures and dimensions and instantly convert raw data into a variety of graphical representations.

Before we had Pentaho, each view might have required a long query or static report that was hand-exported to Excel. With Pentaho's analysis tool, our sales, finance, and marketing teams have instant insight and infinitely flexible views of our data. Are your Finance and Marketing teams constantly asking for one-off queries? Pentaho puts this power in THEIR hands so they can pull and arrange the data they want into whatever view they want.

In the IT department, we use Pentaho as a scheduling engine for data maintenance jobs as its interface allows us to manage multiple shards from a single source. Previously, we were SSHing files around and importing with numerous cron scripts.

Pentaho is very reasonably priced, and even has a free version!

Pentaho has had tremendous positive influence on how we run our business. It gave us insight into our marketing successes and failures by showing us actual trends before and after pricing sales. It provides a visual representation of subscription revenue so we can accurately plan for marketing and sales strategies.

Pentaho freed up countless man-hours by adding simplicity to our daily data maintenance routines, providing a single interface for data sharded across numerous servers.

Pentaho eliminated time-consuming one-off queries and reports, providing a browser-based user interface that sales, marketing, and finance teams can access from anywhere at any time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pentaho Business Analytics Overview

What is Pentaho Business Analytics?

Pentaho is a leading big data integration and business analytics company that helps businesses derive value from data. We provide a comprehensive platform that helps organizations solve complex diverse data challenges to deliver governed and secure data for analytic insight across the enterprise. By solving the most challenging data problems for analytics, we help organizations make better decisions, improve customer engagement and operations and monetize data – to translate data into value. Pentaho has over 15,000 product deployments and 1,500 commercial customers today including ABN-AMRO Clearing, BT, Caterpillar Marine Asset Intelligence, EMC, Moody's, NASDAQ and Sears Holdings Corporation.

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Modern, integrated, embeddable business analytics and data integration platform built for the future of analytics.

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Within a single platform, our solution provides big data tools to extract, prepare and blend your data, plus the visualizations and analytics that will change the way you run your business. From Hadoop and NoSQL to analytic databases, Pentaho allows you to turn big data into big insights.

Pentaho, a Hitachi Group company, is a leading data integration and business analytics company with an enterprise-class, open source-based platform for diverse big data deployments. Our mission is to help organizations across industries harness the value from all their data, including big data and Internet of Things (IoT), enabling them to find new revenue streams, operate more efficiently, deliver outstanding service and minimize risk.


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What do you like best about Pentaho Business Analytics?

It was so easy to build reports and dashboards on our Snowflake warehouse with Pentaho Business Analytics. We basically setup the Snowflake JDBC driver, created a data source using the Data Source Wizard and was doing ad-hoc analysis and dashboarding within an hour.

The visualizations also look very nice like the heat grid and map. Seems like there are a lot of tuning and configuration options available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pentaho Business Analytics?

There are a lot of tools/options to consider when trying to solve the basic problem of building a report. I suppose it may take some time to figure out which tool (i.e. Analyzer, Reporting, CDE, etc.) is the best one based on needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pentaho Business Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Building marketing campaign dashboards on data in Snowflake. We need to compare campaign results for Control/AB vs. promotion variations.

We've been able to get up and running very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Pentaho Business Analytics?

Pentaho Business Analytics is a very advanced, hardware-compatible ETL system which can handle large amounts of data rapidly, while using information from a variety of sources. It's so customer-friendly that, even though you're not aware of SQL, you are going to be able to learn it quickly. Basic jobs and changes can quickly be generated with Pentaho, asi t provides advanced information access and processing capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pentaho Business Analytics?

It would be nice to have a replication template on objects, tables, bridge-tabs, maps, which would help the layout. I think many core elements, such as communication and working ability, must be improved. Also, the marketplace has a rapid JSON output stage, but I feel I'd be better if Pentaho could be able to render JSON processing even more rapidly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Pentaho Business Analytics:

Pentaho is quick, eye-catching and straightforward to use. In our particular instance, we use it to build a number of tasks and changes that our office assistant users need every day. It also has numerous bulk loaders and, in contrast to overall capability, it allows the implementation of Qlik Sense and Pentaho Sales. However, it is less flexible than broader devices like Qlik. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pentaho Business Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pentaho Business Analytics currently is used this for our external IT services. A second framework must be built to operate small and simple software for modeling information warehouses and market intelligences. Also, Pentaho allows our project managers to cut data for different departments through the Pentaho User Console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Pentaho Business Analytics?

The automated Pentaho solutions are simple to learn and can insert and convert information that you have easily. Pentaho Analyzer is a versatile and straightforward analysis tool built on the Enterprise software of Pentaho. Also, it lets you link to almost every data source as long as you have a JDBC socket, REST API and any other endpoint of the Network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pentaho Business Analytics?

Pentaho does not have a large community of users, so the feedback is very limited. We have some user groups that are helping each other out, but that's it. Also, more guidelines need to be provided in order to set analytical diagrams or create models manually. In general, Pentaho needs some improvements, as it has all the potential to become a genuinely side-to-end BI solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Pentaho Business Analytics:

Pentaho Business Analytics is well suited for companies that need assistment on the production and management of their warehouses. It can effectively be applied and follows most machine learning applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pentaho Business Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

This software is being used in the IT deparment of my organization. We use it to provide personalized information to several internal and external clients, to handle MDX requests on the consumer feedback platform behind our homepage and it also acts as a tool of evaluating employment and transitions, but the area of expertise of Pentaho is the treatment of tables. Pentaho quickly gained us access to the information and the integrated ETL tools were quick and simple to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Pentaho Business Analytics?

Pentaho is extremely fast when working with any form of RDBMS from data entry to data charging. You can also link to many information sources in a very easy way. The powerful graphical coding tool of Pentaho Data Integration is amazing too. Syncing with AD is very useful to set protection for a directory or group of customers whenever you want. Also, Pentaho does have an accessible-source version that delivers a large part of the Business Version features with no license fees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pentaho Business Analytics?

I would like to see Conceptual model Workbench's feature for the pier tables because they form part of the star scheme, and PDI reads JSON files slowly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Pentaho Business Analytics:

Pentaho is also a popular BI tool for the production of a vast number of complaints if your ERP does not provide you with a good alternative. Before implementing this solution you need to know the basics requirements for your company. While usig Pentaho, I recommend you to integrate it with Amazon RedShift because it is a server that is quantitative and almost any other database can be linked to free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pentaho Business Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

In one of the business segments, we have established Pentaho as an incentive to capture stuck information from a newly updated, house-grown CRM program. In all the company we have several Pentaho users, who make good use Pentaho Analyzer to produce the reports. Also, the author of the pixel-perfect reports to internal and external public is using Pentaho Report Designer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Pentaho Business Analytics?

Pentaho is multiplatform uses standard technology, it is easy to install and configure, it has basic environments and it is a flexible solution that allows to create functionalities or modules that adapt to the needs of any organization. It is relatively stable, robust and reliable. This is a free platform, so you can realize an incredible perspective to start using Pentaho and discover the full potential of this tool. Pentaho has many different features and an intuitive design that help create several reports and panels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pentaho Business Analytics?

So far it is a great tool to use, all its features are excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Pentaho Business Analytics:

Pentaho does an excellent job if you want to generate and maintain a data warehouse, it is an excellent tool for new companies, data integration is fantastic. A novice user can catch up quickly and the GUI is intuitive and very reliable. It has a platform that has a very intelligent architecture, which provides ease of use to the user when necessary. The platform has a very intelligent architecture and is believed to be extensible and offers the ease of use that the user needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pentaho Business Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pentaho is used as a BI tool to improve the analysis and decision-making capacity, since it offers solutions that are mainly composed of an infrastructure of analysis and reporting tools. It is excellent for creating PDF reports, as well as interactive analysis reports where users can write their complement reports. Pentaho is used to allow our internal and external customers to compare the performance of our products and services and gain visibility into customer behavior and activity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Pentaho Business Analytics?

Pentaho is a very advanced, hardware-compatible ETL system which can handle large amounts of data rapidly, while using information from a variety of sources. It's so customer-friendly that, even though you're not aware of SQL, you are going to be able to learn it quickly. Basic jobs and changes can quickly be generated with Pentaho, asi t provides advanced information access and processing capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pentaho Business Analytics?

It would be nice to have a replication template on objects, tables, bridge-tabs, maps, which would help the layout. I think many core elements, such as communication and working ability, must be improved. Also, the marketplace has a rapid JSON output stage, but I feel I'd be better if Pentaho could be able to render JSON processing even more rapidly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Pentaho Business Analytics:

Pentaho Business Analytics is quick, eye-catching and straightforward to use. In our particular instance, we use it to build a number of tasks and changes that our office assistant users need every day. It also has numerous bulk loaders and, in contrast to overall capability, it allows the implementation of Qlik Sense and Pentaho Sales. However, it is less flexible than broader devices like Qlik. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pentaho Business Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pentaho currently is used this for our external IT services. A second framework must be built to operate small and simple software for modeling information warehouses and market intelligences. Also, Pentaho allows our project managers to cut data for different departments through the Pentaho User Console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Pentaho Business Analytics?

The delivery process was super fast. We just downloaded the program and within seconds we started creating analytics. Then, we discovered that Pentaho could be built into all kind of tech and framework, and have incorporated it readily and effectively with various RDBMSs when there is too much layout. Also, the model and CSS layout allow us to build something unique, although it may sometimes become a challenge, but it can still be done quite fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pentaho Business Analytics?

One of Pentaho's main problems was its company licence because some of us, as customers that understood what is given in the large community edition, felt that its corporate features were far too big. Also, we have stopped switching to Tableau licenses for much of our inner dashboarding and investigating because we must go to the XML folder to add the new items to do this, which was a very long process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Pentaho Business Analytics:

Pentaho is suitable for advanced scientific uses or operational claims with major listings of POs, DOs and COs. However, if you need to work with pivot tables, I would suggest you to use another tool, although in Pentaho it can still be done but you will need to do some extra work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pentaho Business Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pentaho is the business analytics main source for the IT department. To incorporate and evaluate the corporate data on all structures, Pentaho is always capable to resolve more special needs. It has also been able to fulfill the many regulations for the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Pentaho Business Analytics?

Pentaho Business Analytics allows us to sort the data the user needs to enter and to create a further layer of safety to send reports or e-mails through security, classes or the list of users. Even non-technical consumers may easily produce reporting and graphs if presented with a well-specified web application schema by using Pentaho. It is also user-friendly and it helps several of our programmer users to learn PUC's user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pentaho Business Analytics?

There are team tables, but it becomes very difficult for programmers to modify this system when Schema Workbench is used to model a cube. Also, because of licensing issues, the modeling software of Pentaho has a very high price of technology. It also has relatively poor resources, maybe lower than designers and advisers may need. I wish Pentaho could seek to integrate quantitative material with all the functionalities of artificial intelligence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Pentaho Business Analytics:

Pentaho is an outstanding platform for evaluation and visibility into your results. If you constantly need to work in crucible tabs and measured columns, you can use Pentaho to read complicated linear regressions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pentaho Business Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

In the IT department, we mostly use the Pentaho Analyzer and Schema Workbench on BI side to collect data from various sources and to conduct ETL in our data storage factories for organizational intelligence. There are many accounts and Dashboards and bursting reports that we have managed to produce. In short, Pentaho lets our domestic and foreign partners evaluate our goods and services' quality and gain exposure in the activities and industries of their consumers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Pentaho Business Analytics?

Visualizations, Dashboards and flexible analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pentaho Business Analytics?

I haven't come across anything that turns me off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Pentaho Business Analytics:

Take a good look at Pentaho Business Analytics. It simplifies the process of analyzing, visualizing and reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pentaho Business Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Taking security related organizational data and extracting value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Pentaho Business Analytics?

The routing , looping , calling child jobs in the package is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pentaho Business Analytics?

The data loading from source to target is bit annoying . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Will recommend to use . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pentaho Business Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are solving BI related things . Doing ETL and loading transformed data and then building reports on top of it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.