GoodData vs. Pentaho

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoodData
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
GoodData is a cloud-based data and analytics platform, bringing data-driven decision-making to organisations and helping customers to make data analytics available to end users via real-time, self-service data insights right at the point of work. GoodData’s platform is built around four key pillars: simplicity, flexibility, productivity, and scalability. It enables companies of all sizes, from SMBs to enterprises, to: Empower users to autonomously explore data and…N/A
Pentaho
Score 5.7 out of 10
N/A
Pentaho is a suite of open source business intelligence and analytics products, now offered and supported by Hitachi Data Systems since the June 2015 acquisition.N/A
Pricing
GoodDataPentaho
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GoodDataPentaho
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
GoodDataPentaho
Considered Both Products
GoodData

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Pentaho
Chose Pentaho
We have done extensive exploration of the BI marketplace but had to eliminate many of the BI vendors due our business model and their licensing model being incompatible or cost prohibitive. We provide reporting to hundreds of clients and hundreds of thousands of end-users and …
Top Pros
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Features
GoodDataPentaho
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.2
63 Ratings
15% above category average
Pentaho
9.0
20 Ratings
10% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.347 Ratings8.618 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.863 Ratings9.918 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.652 Ratings8.718 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.1
62 Ratings
4% above category average
Pentaho
8.7
19 Ratings
8% above category average
Drill-down analysis8.160 Ratings7.618 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.362 Ratings8.319 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.058 Ratings9.717 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings9.312 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.6
59 Ratings
1% below category average
Pentaho
8.1
17 Ratings
2% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.057 Ratings7.916 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.548 Ratings8.216 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.335 Ratings8.314 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.615 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.9
63 Ratings
5% above category average
Pentaho
9.1
20 Ratings
7% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.163 Ratings9.320 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.756 Ratings9.619 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.061 Ratings9.918 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)7.939 Ratings7.610 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.5
41 Ratings
12% above category average
Pentaho
8.6
10 Ratings
10% above category average
REST API8.735 Ratings8.310 Ratings
Javascript API8.531 Ratings9.09 Ratings
iFrames8.534 Ratings7.39 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings8.79 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings8.910 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings9.610 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
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Ratings
Pentaho
9.7
20 Ratings
16% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings9.618 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.819 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings9.713 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings9.917 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.310 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
-
Ratings
Pentaho
8.3
11 Ratings
5% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings9.710 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings6.97 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.711 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Reveal
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Reveal
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
GoodDataPentaho
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(91 ratings)
9.1
(31 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(15 ratings)
8.8
(11 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(70 ratings)
9.3
(6 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(7 ratings)
9.3
(7 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.5
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.3
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
GoodDataPentaho
Likelihood to Recommend
GoodData
Honestly, I described everything in the first question. Key for us was easy to use and very fast setup and integration to our platform. I can really appreciate all support and guidance provide by GoodData team on the begining and even continuosly when we need some help or we need to resolve some issues.
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Hitachi Vantara
Pentaho is very well suited to perform data extraction & data mining from various cloud storage & transform that data using various available data models. However, the software struggles when it comes to visualizing the extracted data in an appealing manner & can be difficult for end-users to get an understanding of data tables created using those models.
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Pros
GoodData
  • GoodData provides advanced analytics for predictive modeling. This assists in identifying potential issues before they arise, and making proactive decisions.
  • GoodData prioritizes data security and compliance, providing features that help IT firms like ours adhere to regulatory requirements.
  • GoodData gives high customization dashboards, allows us professionals to create tailored view of KPI.
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Hitachi Vantara
  • Integrate and synchronize with big data easily
  • Import data from any sources and different databases
  • Managing data in on-premise, hybrid and cloud environments.
  • Compatibility and flexibility of the platform with any type of scenario and any business or industry
  • Various tools in the software suite to transformation of data
  • Simple interface appearance and creative UI graphics
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Cons
GoodData
  • Good Data is already have certain customizable options. However, having more flexibility in customizing reports and dashboards & control over the visual aspects would enhance the overall user experience.
  • To make Good Data even more powerful tool, improving the speed and responsiveness of the tool, especially during data-intensive tasks, would be a significantly helpful.
  • For new users, the interface can be made more user friendly which would promote easy navigation through features of tool.
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Hitachi Vantara
  • I think the relative obscurity of the tool is a downside, not as many developers, consultants or peers you can tap into.
  • Lack of a solid user community held us back, looking at Power BI and Qlik, they have huge user communities that help each other out. Would have liked that here.
  • Smaller company means smaller sales force, and the lack of a local presence made it hard to only interact online with the account rep. Other companies have someone local who often stops by with pre-sales developers to just pitch in free of charge when they have time.
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Likelihood to Renew
GoodData
Because gooddata really helps us in processing data to make reports or dashboards. So we are very satisfied when we use it. What we like is the flexible use of charts. We change at will the use of charts to display in reports or dashboards. Thank you Gooddata for helping companies like us who need flexibility in usage
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Hitachi Vantara
I will use Pentaho until I find a better tool with a better, easier to use report designer client. For now, Pentaho has been the most powerful reporting tool for our clients because of its ability to connect to Odoo, integrate in Odoo (reports are accessible in Odoo) and the flexibility in report design and parameter integration
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Usability
GoodData
GoodData provided us with strong overall usability and provided us a platform for various business analytics. Its user-friendly and insightful reports and also the dashboards. Me and my team really appreciate the platform's ability to streamline decision-making processes. However, there is a learning curve during initial setup as I mentioned before. Continuous improvements in the onboarding could further enhance GoodData's usability as well.
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Hitachi Vantara
The Pentaho tools are designed so you can start playing around on your own. Of course, you will need guidance at some point, but the training teams are good at guiding new users, and the online documentation is usually pretty up-to-date.
Some of the tools, such as the Pentaho Data Integration tool and the Pentaho Server, are pretty self-explanatory. The other tools maybe are not so quickly and obvious to use, but again, with some documentation and some customer support, you can find your way around them.
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Reliability and Availability
GoodData
We are approximately one month since go-live. There has been one short outage.
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Hitachi Vantara
No answers on this topic
Performance
GoodData
Performance on refreshing metrics works well.
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Hitachi Vantara
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
GoodData
Support team has been highly responsive and helpful from our first initial deployment to present day. They engage and work with us. know when to escalate for more challenging problems. They also follow up. Overall have had a very good experience with support
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Hitachi Vantara
They were responsive to our questions when we raised issues. They gave us workarounds when required. They were quite knowledgeable when it came to issue analysis and providing fixes. They were forthright in informing us if a bug was not due for release soon.
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In-Person Training
GoodData
Petr was a rock star - patient, knowledgeable, clear and easy to work with.
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Hitachi Vantara
No answers on this topic
Online Training
GoodData
GoodData implementation team was professional and courteous
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Hitachi Vantara
Course Taken: DI1000 Pentaho Data Integration Fundamentals Setup A week before your class started, the instructor will start sending out class material and lab setup instructions. This is helpful so that you understand how the environment is laid out and can start reviewing the content. Ultimately it saved about a 1/2 day trying to setup with 10 other people online which was great! The Course The 3-day course was laid out like many other technical classes with 15-30 minutes instruction and 15-60 minutes of lab exercises. The instructor was very knowledgeable with the functionality from version to version and answered questions as we went along. I was amazed at some of the functionality that was available that I was not using at the time and quickly implemented changes to many existing transformations and jobs. The novice users seemed to catch on quickly and more experienced users explained how some of the functionality was used in their home environments. Towards the end there was enough time so that we were able to ask very directed questions about our own environments. Overall, I really found the class to be informative and deliver enough information to be dangerous. My skills improved and I was able to design better and efficient transformations for the HIE. Course Description: https://training.pentaho.com/instructor-led-training/pentaho-data-integration-fundamentals-di1000
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Implementation Rating
GoodData
Thorough, professional and on time.
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Hitachi Vantara
Get the right people in before starting implementation. Start small and build as you go approach is time consuming and involves lot of rework. Evangalize within the organization the capabilities and limitations equally so that correct delivery expectations are set. Set expectations with the Customer that the tool cannot replace proprietary software in terms of stability/usability and that timelines could change given the new ness of the product.
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Alternatives Considered
GoodData
GoodData was more cost effective and did not necessitate additional spend on internal resources. The end user interface was easy to use and did not require additional set up or customization. The clients required little support from the Prometric staff to use the product
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Hitachi Vantara
Since the Pentaho platform offers a range of broad functionality across data preparation and advanced analytics, it also can be easily integrated to support many data sources and machine-learning frameworks. Based on that fact, we selected Pentaho to be used in our internal department. It also supports many of our BI use cases as required by company management or the business user. Last but not least, the Pentaho license is cheaper than their competitor.
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Return on Investment
GoodData
  • We have been able to quickly go to market with a feature-rich version of our application.
  • The licensing costs are manageable but make our offering more expensive than alternatives.
  • The possibility to horizontal scaling with Kubernetes is a bright outlook for our business.
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Hitachi Vantara
  • Pentaho has improved our overall business process.
  • Pentaho has helped the Managers and Directors to analyze the numbers going up and down from time to time.
  • We have a started a big project using Pentaho that is going to include all the business processes in the organization.
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