Pentaho was just OK as an OEM solution
June 30, 2017
Pentaho was just OK as an OEM solution
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Pentaho
We made a decision to use Pentaho to OEM into the analytics feature of our software and the developers had a much harder time getting it integrated than we were expecting. The Mondrian code was hard to learn and the number of qualified applicants who already knew how to use it was limited.
- Being able to use the OLAP Analyzer tool saved our organization a lot of time in not needing to develop an OLAP tool on our own.
- The ability to customize the tool and integrate all the internationalization we required was pretty straightforward.
- The Mondrian code was hard to learn.
- The availability of resources that had experience with Pentaho and Mondrian was limited for us.
- The dashboards were slow and we found that it ended up being easier to remove the Pentaho pieces of the dashboard.
We evaluated many typical BI software vendors including Micro-strategy, JasperSoft and Tableau. Tableau would have been a top pick if it had better support for OEM. We had to compete against Tableau in many customers to try to get them to upgrade to use our analytics and found that they were very hard to displace due to how easy it is to use.
The organization I worked for had been through other partnerships with Micro-strategy and I believe that may have had an impact on them not wanting to use them again, but I was not involved in the final decisions on that.
The organization I worked for had been through other partnerships with Micro-strategy and I believe that may have had an impact on them not wanting to use them again, but I was not involved in the final decisions on that.