Pentaho Software
Pentaho is a business intelligence system designed to help companies make data-driven decisions, with a platform for data integration and analytics. The platform includes extract, transform, and load (ETL), big data analytics, visualizations, dashboards, reporting, data mining, and predictive analytics.
Pentaho’s data integration functionality allows users to find, manage, and combine data from multiple sources, including native support for analytic databases, Hadoop, and NoSQL. The system can integrate with partners like Melissa Data and Human Inference.
Pentaho is also suitable for embedding or white labeling visual analytics as part of third-party Software as a Service (SaaS)/software applications as it is data agnostic. The application can be rebranded and customized based on open standards and architecture.
The software offers interactive business analytics tools like visual analysis and dashboards, as well as flexible reporting solutions. Predictive analytics offered by the system includes machine learning algorithms, tools for processing data and the capability to import third-party models with PMML.
Pentaho helps users translate big data into insights within a singular platform. Users have access to a complete spectrum of data from different sources with the system’s adaptive big data layer, which takes the source of the data into account. The software is built on an open architecture and can be integrated with multiple systems. Pentaho is available for a limited period free trial.
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Mac OS, Web browser (OS agnostic), Windows 8, Windows 10
14 Reviews of Pentaho
Kavan from NA
Specialty: Software / Technology
Employees number: 1,001-5,000 employees
June 2017
June 2017
Pentaho, a great open source BI suit with strong community support
One of the best opensource BI tool, also well integrated with existing platforms. It will be interesting to see how will it get integrated with fast evolving Big data technologies. Pentaho 7.1 is step in right direction.
Pros
- We mature DI (Data integration) module
- Easy to learn design console (Spoon)
- wide community support
- Very well integrated with different platforms
- Innovating fast in Big data world specially Pentaho 7.1
Cons
- Not very well documented for latest releases one of the reasons is many innovation are happening very fast
Dalton from Rentcars.com
Specialty: Travel, Transportation & Logistics
Employees number: 51-200 employees
April 2017
April 2017
Riding a Wild Horse - Community Edition
Pros
Many features.
I like to use the reporting PRD, I think that it is the best.
I use Spoon/Kettle that is a ETL tool to process data.
Cons
Many bugs. Maybe is because of Community Edition.
We have many difficult to install in cloud.
The layout of some report that run in developing, don't run in production.
James from Legal Server
Specialty: Legal
Employees number: 11-50 employees
February 2017
February 2017
Saves me not only hours, but DAYS
Pros
Pentaho has nice schema browsing features whereby one not need know anything about the underlying schema in order to design a transformation. Automatic multi-threading by default.
Cons
When outputting to a table, Talend has an option to Drop if exists, and create. Pentaho has a Truncate [prior to load], but no option create the table as part of the data flow nor an option to drop an existing table.
Gaurav from University of Illinois at Chicago
Specialty: Software / Technology
Employees number: 51-200 employees
December 2016
December 2016
Pentaho review
Pentaho features pixel-perfect reporting, subreports, parameterized reports, and OLAP. The OLAP tools let you perform ad-hoc views, reports, and views through MDX queries. Pentaho puts more effort into data integration, ETL, and workflow automation.
Pros
· Very powerful integrated tools
· Better user interface
· Best report design wizard
· Fastest growth and improvement
· Better dashboard capabilities
Cons
· Doesn’t seem to have a wizard for creating charts
· Weaker support community
Ashutosh from SJSU
Specialty: Software / Technology
November 2015
November 2015
Very ergonomic ETL tool
Likes Best
Really helps to solve complex business solutions with its cool features and like their contribution to open source.
Likes Least
Its a great tool to use, nothing to dislike about the product.
Recommendations
It is very easy to learn and has good support service.
Tushar from SJSU
Specialty: Education
November 2015
November 2015
Its a great Experience.
Likes Best
This product has good features including data mining, integration. This product also has features for data reporting. Learning curve for the product is less.
Likes Least
Not Really. I don't think there is anything I dislike. This product has all good features.
Recommendations
I would definitely recommend this product to other students specially if they are working on big data related projects. Really useful features in product and easy to use for new user.
Sudhakar from VMware
Specialty: Software / Technology
November 2015
November 2015
Sudhakar from VMware
Likes Best
Features like data reporting, integration, data mining and ETL capabilities
Likes Least
Nothing, Everything looks good to me. All features meet expectations.
Recommendations
Use it for real-time business analytics. All your data can be analyzed properly.
Sumant from San jose State University
Specialty: Education
November 2015
November 2015
Great business product. Easy to use
Likes Best
Great analytics and results are very useful. Provides good insight of the business.
Likes Least
Nothing much to dislike, in fact haven't seen so many applications supported by a single software
Recommendations
Services they provide and the results are astonishing !
Gaurav from SJSU
Specialty: Education
October 2015
October 2015
Good business analytics tool
Likes Best
Fetures like data reporting, integration, data mining and ETL capabilities
Likes Least
nothing to dislike, everything is good. All the features are really good.
Recommendations
Must use for business analytics related operations. Good and very helpful tool for analytics related to operations.
Rohit from Intuit
Specialty: Software / Technology
October 2015
October 2015
Requires training before actual use
Likes Best
Pentaho Data Integration has lot of functions to fulfill the requirements. Functions dealing with running shell script to creating and reading from Excel spreadsheets were quite useful for creating an ETL flow.
Likes Least
Requires the training to actually understand the product. It is hard to figure out several aspects like declaring variables (global) within the product.
Recommendations
Very useful for enterprises, since Pentaho provides active support in case of software issues.
Yinghua from Card.com
Specialty: Banking & Financial Services
December 2014
December 2014
Pentaho is a user-friendly open source ETL tool
Likes Best
I like its ease of use; it is very easy to build an ETL pipeline after the initial learning curve. I also like the variety of modules. There are a lot of powerful modules, and you will mostly find the module you want. User-defined code is very flexible; it's possible and very easy to plug in user-defined Java code. When there is no module implemented for desired function, this feature comes handy. Multithreading is also easy. The transformation can be set to run multiple copies in parallel.
Likes Least
Occasionally, Pentaho Spoon (GUI) crashes, and a restart is required.
Recommendations
It is easier to learn from examples. Pentaho has examples with the installation.
Jason from MemberPlanet, LLC
February 2017
February 2017
customization is key
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Provides much-appreciated flexibility for us to customize KPI reports as well as client reports that we don't offer on platform.
naresh from saint elizabeth healthcare
Employees number: 5,001-10,000 employees
December 2016
December 2016
cool tool for your web app
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I was impressed with the ability to integrate this into an existing web app. It allowed our users to start looking at operational data and learning from it.
Pros
It provided an intuitive interface for most advanced users.
Henrik from pr3tium
November 2016
November 2016
