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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

Anastasia P.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2020

Data integrator for successful projct implementation

Pentaho is well organized for combining data together from different sources. You can make different kind of analyses and reports based on that.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Very good tools for visualisation of data. Dashboards are very easy to develop. Easy to integrate with third-party tools.

Cons:

Takes some time to understand how it works. Interface is not intuitive. If you want to solve the problem by yourself there is no much information how to do that even with a very small problems.

Kaela S.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2022

Pentaho a Flexible System

Pentaho has been a great product for our agency. We have generated hundreds of customized reports. End users are able to pull reports directly out of our E.H.R.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Pentaho allows for great flexibility in report writing. It provides access to data tables with limited restrictions. It is highly customizable.

Cons:

While the system does offer Wizard tools this is not a product for beginner level report writers. It is best used by someone with at least basic SQL training.

Jonah E.

Verified reviewer

Mental Health Care

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

Limited flexibility and subpar UI

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of install I suppose; that and its ease of uploading reports into our EHR.

Cons:

Flexibility is limited. Other report designers will offer time saving features that are missing here. Having to manually create queries instead of having a UI do it for you ( a la Crystal Reports) is a huge time sink. Using the Report Designer locks you into appearance constraints and removing them is a pain.

Karthick V.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Excellent tool for integration and reporting

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Excellent data integration across various data nodes, high user friendly which means easy to learn and cheaper cost compared to current market standards.

Cons:

Limitation in integration with JDBC connector, reporting designer features needs to be enhanced a bit and slow in fetching huge data.

Felix F.

Management Consulting

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2018

Once you understand the basics of this program it is very, but very easy to use

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

"higher visual interface to processes, has a good number of functions (and very easy to understand) for data reporting, integration, data mining and ETL.. very simple but effective Big data transform You can build many dimensional model and load the results of the transformation into a database to develop any report whit low margin of error through a dimensional model and load the results of the transformation into a database to develop specialized reports , low margin of error-Automate the steps for execution"

Cons:

Its a great tool to use, nothing to dislike about the product. Nothing to dislike, everything is good. All the features are really good.

Kavan D.

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed 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.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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

senando b.

Verified reviewer

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

Great partner of IT business analyst

Using this kind of software brings ease and accurate data reports that helps the company on decision making

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use, compatible in many database such as mysql, ms sql server, different type of output to choose such as excel, html, richtext, etc.

Cons:

Some version are slow on initializing and fetching data such as Pentaho report designer version 5 and above. Unlike version 3 which has smooth process, that was base on my experience.

James W.

Verified reviewer

Legal Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2017

Saves me not only hours, but DAYS

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

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.

riyaadh k.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

51-200 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2018

ETL on the fly

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Drag and drop functionality makes it easy to create transformations. Able to analyse data from multiple sources quickly and efficiently. Jobs can be scheduled in order to run specific tasks and transformations at a certain time.

Cons:

Can take some time to figure out how to use it as there are lots of components involved. Can be a bit slow or run into out of memory issues for bigger queries but upping the virtual memory in the configuration can fix this issue.

Michelle W.

Verified reviewer

Civic & Social Organization

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

Pentaho Review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Once you understand the basics of this program it is easy to use. The bonus with this program is that if someone write a report, they can share the script with you. The updated 6.1 version is definitely an improvement.

Cons:

If you are not at all familiar with writing script, this program can be very challenging. No real user manuals are included.

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