Nexthink vs Pentaho

• Ease of data gathering
• Consolidation of multiple data points into one (previously, you'd have to request one thing from SCCM, one thing from JAMF, maybe something else from your Domain Controllers)
• Support. Nexthink has always provided great levels of support when needed.

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• 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.

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• The Finder is great but to utilize the product effectively it takes some getting used to. Very 'right click' heavy.
• Learning curve. Nexthink is very boolean based in their investigations (not a knock, most products are), but since they can track things at such a siloed level it's important to know specifically how they are classifying their objects (ex, a package vs. an application vs. an .exe vs. a binary) so you can understand what findings you're getting.
• Parity on Mac and Linux products. This is improving though.

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• At first, one needs to learn the basic concept of this software before going for the implementation. Once you are an expert on this then you will rock it.
• Some of the basic features need to be enhanced such as sharing and collaboration capabilities
• Needs to support automatically generated analytic visualizations or models

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• Nexthink has been invaluable at quickly finding application roll-outs that could negatively affect our environment, in most cases before users even report them.
• Nexthink has helped us consolidate and gain visibility in our environment, further standardizing naming conventions, hierarchies, etc.
• Nexthink has integrated with our ITSM solutions, and is easy to use such that technicians no longer feel the need to request data from Engineers, they can just directly get it from Nexthink.
• There is a learning curve, so for good ROI you're going to need to invest the people and training hours to use Nexthink to it's fullest effectiveness. Note, that even a cursory use though would reveal a lot about your environment that will keep you busy.

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• It's cheap. The version we have is free, so it has an immediate positive impact on ROI in that regard. However, a lot of our developers don't like it, which eats away our ability to be effective and productive.
• It gets the job done. It may not be the most elegant tool, but for our purposes it works. There are probably better tools out there, and Pentaho has limited capabilities, but at the end of the day it works well enough.

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