Knowage

RATING:

4.0

(16)

About Knowage

KNOWAGE is the open source analytics and business intelligence suite that enables enterprises to integrate data from various sources such as RDBMS, NoSQL, open data, big data, cloud data, private files, SolR indexes, or external data services in a centralized view. A full set of analytical features (data preparation, data visualization, self-service data and ad-hoc reporting, data/text mining embedding) in an enterprise-grade environment that provides security, profiling and high customization for both on-premise or on-cloud usage.

Knowage Pricing

The Community Edition is free. The Enterprise Edition priced on request (pricing is based on selected features and the number of cores of the installation, with unlimited users and unlimited data).

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Knowage Reviews

Overall Rating

4.0

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4

Customer Support

4

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4

Most Helpful Reviews for Knowage

1 - 5 of 17 Reviews

Miguel

Computer Software, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2021

Implementing BI for Customers

We were able to implement all the requirements that our customers needed. Once operational the system doesn't need much maitenance or support, except if you plan to add new BI elements. As they say "it just works"!

PROS

The availability of a community edition lets us implement a powerful BI solution for customers that don't have a substantial budget for this type of solution. There are many possibilites and we could meet all the requeirements.

CONS

The product is feature rich but some BI elements are difficult to configure, requiring scripting and/or configuring files in the server. Apparently this is being addressed in the new versions.

Reason for choosing Knowage

For our business it was critical for the solution to be open source, to have a community alternative and to run on any operating system. Starting from that SpagoBI (Knoeage's previous name) was the only solution that was complete and had enterprise level security mechanisms.

Reasons for switching to Knowage

Pentaho was really hard to use when we started with our BI services in 2007. SpagoBI let us implement more features in a much easier way and it had a much better security concept. We started working with SpagoBI in 2008.

Vendor Response

Thank you Miguel for your support over the years! As you already wrote, the last Knowage versions many new features have been introduced and many others are coming this year such as the already-built widget gallery, new functionalities for the data preparation and NLP.

Replied June 2021

Tommaso

Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2021

Ottimo strumento per la BI Aziendale

PROS

Il software si integra perfettamente con i database Vertica (SQL) e permette con estrema semplicità di mettere a disposizione degli utenti i dati nascosti nei database aziendali attraverso un'interfaccia intuitiva e facilmente configurabile. Gli strumenti di data visualization inoltre sono ricchi e in continua evoluzione. Una delle caratteristiche che caratterizza Knowage più positivamente è inoltre il fatto di essere una web application: ciò significa che gli utenti e gli admin non hanno necessità di raggiungere l'interfaccia del prodotto tramite un'interfaccia proprietaria da installare su singolo pc, ma utilizzando i più comuni web browser (chrome, mozilla, etc.). Ciò significa inoltre che non è necessario acquistare una licenza per ogni utente, ma che tutti gli utenti autorizzati vi possono eccedere liberamente e con profili di visualizzazione personalizzati. Ciò, in aziende di grandi dimensioni come la nostra, costituisce un grande vantaggio, sia dal punto di vista economico che manageriale.

CONS

Il software è in continuo sviluppo, ma ha una storia relativamente giovane. Ciò significa che sono ancora presenti sporadici bug che però, va detto, non influiscono significativamente sul generale utilizzo del software. E' inoltre a disposizione un sistema di ticket per la segnalazione dei bug che si possono incontrare e che il team di sviluppo è pronto a cercare di risolvere real time, ove possibile, o con rilasci di versioni successive.

Vendor Response

Grazie Tommaso per la tua dettagliata recensione. La nuova versione di Knowage, in arrivo questo mese, fornira ulteriori strumenti di data visualization che siamo sicuri troverai interessanti!

Replied September 2021

Harikrishna

Government Administration, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed February 2022

Good Tool in First step for Data Analytics

Overall it was a good product. But I'm happy to use the enter price edition but as of our company policy, we cannot use any paid software (We are basically open-source software using company). So In knowage the much interested was on Dashboard report with different types of Tables, Chart and diagrams so everyone can easily learn it from scratch.I suggest BIRT reporting tool for generating tables then we can easily publish to knowage so I suggest to look in BIRT also.

PROS

For saying Knowage for me, it was the best tool (open source) for starting for Data analytics. For me, I was using it for more than 2+ years and it was easy to use for table structuring data and also for creating dashboard analytics. With help of data visualization, users can easily identify the pattern and can able to analyze and take a good decision better than viewing a table structure format. In our company, there are different levels of users each user having different types of reports so in knowage it is easy to implement reports with drill-down. Overall it was a good product

CONS

So as comes to Cons it was basically on the technical side of the product. For me, I m having an issue related to a memory leak. Basically, I think it was on the programming section. Also sometimes these are very slow to load the report but once loaded after that it was running smoothly

Vendor Response

Dear Harikrishna, thanks for your review. As every open source product, KNOWAGE grows and evolves also through the feedback from the community of users. KNOWAGE Community Edition allows to create complete projects without significant limitations or the need to ask for the Enterprise Edition. We are pleased to know that you have been successfully using the Community Edition for over 2 years and we are sure that the evolution of the suite in this 2022 will provide even more support for your business.

Replied March 2022

Manuel

Textiles, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2022

Recensione Prodotti Knowage

PROS

I prodotti che soprattutto utilizzo sono Report Birt, Olap. Entrambi sono semplici da utilizzare e non ho trovato grosse difficoltà nel realizzare le query/estrazioni di cui avevo bisogno. L'Olap in particolare mi ha permesso di realizzare analisi dinamiche piuttosto complicate in poco tempo e l'interfaccia utente si è rivelata molto intuitiva. L'integrazione con i nostri processi aziendali si è quindi rivelata piuttosto semplice. Una cosa che mi è molto piaciuta è stata la "profilazione" Utenti, molto facile da realizzare e la conseguente comodità di abilitare o meno la visione di determinati dati agli Utenti in modo veloce e con pochi passaggi (nel prodotto precedente che utilizzavo era molto limitata)

CONS

L'unica nota negativa e che ho riscontrato nei Report Birt è l'impiego di troppa memoria del Client nella creazione della pagina html che riporta il risultato della mia query. Andando a occupare gran parte (se non la totalità) delle risorse del computer dell'utente questo risulta rallentato o addirittura inutilizzabile.

Reasons for switching to Knowage

Oracle ha deciso di dedicarsi ad altri progetti lasciando il prodotto Discoverer obsoleto

Vendor Response

Grazie Manuel per la tua recensione! Ti suggeriamo di provare la schedulazione batch dei report in pdf per non caricare eccessivamente il client. Facci sapere se questo suggerimento ti e stato d'aiuto, oppure contattaci via email (knowage@eng.it)!

Replied April 2022

Mahmoud

Food Production, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed June 2022

Busniess analysis tool

90% all issues fixed except caching issue

PROS

Midle east support and arabic language support after caching enabled , HTML widget loading very slow and i need help

CONS

More and free analysis practice and how python widget work

Vendor Response

Dear Mahmoud, thanks for your review. Often, the performance issues are due to the data architecture. In the latest KNOWAGE versions, KNOWAGE greatly boosted the possibility to embed HTML and R/Python code. The Gallery allows to exploit and re-use templates. KNOWAGE professional services are available through the website to support our users' business needing (https://www.knowage-suite.com/site/services/consultancy/)

Replied June 2022