Pentaho 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Pentaho

4.3

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Pricing

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About Pentaho

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.

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Pentaho Features

Popular features found in Reporting
Ad hoc Query
Customizable Dashboard
Dashboard Creation
Data Import/Export
Drag & Drop
Forecasting
Multiple Data Sources
OLAP
Performance Metrics
Scheduled/Automated Reports
Search/Filter
More features of Pentaho
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Ad hoc Analysis
Ad hoc Reporting
Alerts/Notifications
API
Audit Management
Benchmarking
Charting
Customizable Branding
Customizable Reports
Dashboard
Data Analysis Tools
Database Support
Data Quality Control
Data Transformation
Data Visualization
Job Scheduling
Key Performance Indicators
Match & Merge
Performance Management
Pipeline Management
Predictive Analytics
Profitability Analysis
Real-Time Analytics
Relational Display
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Sales Reports
Single Sign On
Strategic Planning
Trend/Problem Indicators
Version Control
Visual Analytics
Visual Discovery
Workflow Management

Pentaho User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

41%

52%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.1

Value for money

4.4

Customer support

3.7

Functionality

4.4

Enrico P.

Verified reviewer

Farming

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2020

Nice surprise

The tool allows the creation of complex ETL projects in a quick way and save time to produce valuable solution for the company.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Data Integration allows the build of such a complex ETL projects in a quick way, it's very powerful. Being an open source software allows the user to always find hints over the web

Cons:

Issue log reports not really clear the error/s occurring and the troubleshooting results sometimes difficult. Scheduling

Reasons for choosing Pentaho

Pentaho is an open source software.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2022

Totally Worth it!!

I had used both pentaho report designer(PRD) and pentaho data integration(PDI) for optimizing power BI connectivity. Totally satisfied with my experience.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Excellent Data Integration, affordable price model and high user friendly.

Cons:

Slow in loading huge data, technical limitation in reporting and resolving of ticket could have been improved a bit.

Dalton S.

Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2017

Riding a Wild Horse - Community Edition

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

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.

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Reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2022

Best BI Software for Integration and Reporting

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Excellent Data Integration across all the databases , User friendly and amazing for report designing using PRD tool(Pentaho Report Designer). Loving it!!

Cons:

Takes longer time for fetching the data in report, technical limitations in report designing and bug solving are not easy.

Verified

Reviewer

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2017

The best tool for data integration

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use and abundant features to get things done. Helps a lot in filling the various gaps in data sources.

Cons:

Not so user friendly, takes sometime for new user to get around the application and figure out the various tricks and tools available

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Reviewer

Computer Software

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

One of the best Business Analytics tool out there

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This tool can be installed on any operating system. It has a simple interface, so it takes less time to learn.

Cons:

The design of the software is pretty old! Needs lot of improvement when compared to its competitors.

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Reviewer

Financial Services

51-200 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

Gives me the ability to use clicks instead of code.

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Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Penatho brings a visual interface to processes which would traditionally only be accomplished by many, many lines of code (which it can also do). Many powerful inputs from servers, software, and CRM systems. It also has very detailed error handling, which makes it easy to troubleshoot.

Cons:

Support is mostly wiki/community based, with instructions for particular steps being lacking, outdated, or missing completely. Outputs could be simplified as well, with even a basic CSV output being slightly more complex than it should be, compared to other steps.

Verified

Reviewer

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

It is definitely the solution to carry out all the projects successfully!

Everything is organized better using this software. It is quite efficient and easy to use...

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This software is wonderful, with it you can obtain performance and scalability. As well as manage and schedule reports. It is very efficient which means that you save a lot in daily reports...

Cons:

This software is potentially amazing. Has it all! Your free trial is as complete as the paid version. It's very complete.

Verified

Reviewer

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Practical, versatile and objective

Fast execution of ETL processes in the case of massive data migration with a very low margin of error

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

-Automate the steps for execution - It has a friendly graphic environment - Easy to use - Wide range of tools

Cons:

-High basic requirements for execution. - lack of detailed comments in error messages. -It does not have documentation in Spanish language.

Ummar H.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2018

Pentaho is integrated set of tools for business intelligence

I have transformed multiple databases from different sources and formats into one single format and recognizable database set. After single database operation, I need to summarize report for that purpose i used Pentaho report designer tool to summarize and design report.

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Value for money

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Pros:

Data in Pentaho can be easily import from nearly any type of source including .csv, excel etc to create single report.

Cons:

Pentaho itself is too much resource hungry as compared to other BI softwares. Configuration after installation is required that will be difficult for non-techies.

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