Pentaho vs Talend Open Studio | TrustRadius

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Score 6.8 out of 10

Based on 113 reviews and ratings

Score 7.3 out of 10

Based on 44 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Pentaho

Talend Open Studio

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Pentaho

Talend Open Studio

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Pentaho

Talend Open Studio

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

Pentaho

Talend Open Studio

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Pentaho

Talend Open Studio

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Pentaho

Talend Open Studio

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Pentaho

Talend Open Studio

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pentaho

Talend Open Studio

Connect to traditional data sources

Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL

Pentaho

Talend Open Studio

Simple transformations

Complex transformations

Pentaho

Talend Open Studio

Data model creation

Metadata management

Business rules and workflow

Collaboration

Testing and debugging

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Talend Open Studio

Integration with data quality tools

Integration with MDM tools

Pros

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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Verified User

Manager in Product Management

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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Your developers will be able to design SOA services graphically, and it is very easy to document and implement the code.
Talend Open Studio is based on Eclipse IDE, so your developers will be very comfy using it
Open is Key in Talend Open Studio = Open Source

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Jose Miguel Siu Navarro

Gerente de Desarrollo - Sector Publico

BIRD Consultores S.A. de C.V.Computer Software, 11-50 employees

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Cons

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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Senior Solution Architect

Three.Telecommunications, 501-1000 employees

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The community is not that up to date and forum is not that great in response. Probably we should make people aware of the tool more on how to use and its implementations.
Talend crashes when transforming a lot of data (millions of rows).
Proper training documentation is a must for talend which is currently lagging. This will help users to learn more about Talend and use it effectively.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Retail Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Pentaho 8.8

Based on 11 answers

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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OpenERP Software Implementation Engineer

Ursa Information Systems IncorporatedInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Talend Open Studio 10.0

Based on 1 answer

There is no licence requirement for Talend Open Studio. So, this is not relevant question. However, if you are asking whether we will use Talend in future. Yes. We will continue to use it. It's very powerful free tool which caters to all our extra, transform, load capabilities. We just love Talend for it's great functionality and ease of use.

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Employee in Corporate

Chemicals Company, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

Pentaho 5.0

Based on 1 answer

I would have liked some hands on help in trying to match what Customers were already used to. Plus having a team of Java/BI folks was difficult to assemble since what required to be done in an object oriented fashion could have easily been done via a SQL construct. This hash of technologies was difficult to manage.

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Deepak Paramanand

Technical Lead

Razorsight Software Pvt. Ltd.Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Talend Open Studio 3.0

Based on 1 answer

Talend Open Studio is based on Eclipse and is full of redundant procedures to do one thing, like when installing libraries. Sometimes I cannot manually download the libraries that it can't find.

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federico nastasi

Big Data Engineer

Data Reply ITInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

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Talend Open Studio 4.0

Based on 1 answer

Many times, Talend freezes. When you give a cancel command, it takes several minutes to stop. It also takes a great toll on our PC with 16 GB of ram and I7 CPU, even in idle status. If you are downloading Maven Jar/Libraries, you cannot do anything and have to wait until the task is finished.

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federico nastasi

Big Data Engineer

Data Reply ITInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

Pentaho 9.9

Based on 2 answers

We are an Enterprise customer. They handle problems INSTANTLY when they are critical, including initiation an immediate WebEx screen share call when needed. Smaller/less-critical problems are handled within 1-2 days -- and NEVER fall off their radar, no matter how small.As needed, we can also leverage "professional services" from them -- much of which is included in our Enterprise contract. Finally, when a problem I have discovered turns out to be a bug..they create a JIRA for the fix, and make me a watcher. I love seeing notes come in showing me status updates of bugs filed because of something I found. They really are TOP-NOTCH.

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Sandro Frattura

Database Manager

Online Buddies, Inc.Internet, 51-200 employees

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Talend Open Studio 3.9

Based on 3 answers

Talend Open Studio is free and we are not using the enterprise version which comes with licence and support. So, mostly depend on the open source community for any issues that we face. The document is good and we didn't have to use any support so far. We did evaluate the enterprise version and so far sticking to the free version.

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Employee in Corporate

Chemicals Company, 10,001+ employees

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Online Training

Pentaho 9.5

Based on 2 answers

Course Taken: DI1000 Pentaho Data Integration FundamentalsSetup 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 CourseThe 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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Stephanie Dozier

Business Data Analyst

Centex Systems Support ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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No score

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Implementation Rating

Pentaho 5.0

Based on 1 answer

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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Deepak Paramanand

Technical Lead

Razorsight Software Pvt. Ltd.Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Alternatives Considered

I was not with the company when they selected Pentaho over any other tool. As per my experience, I would recommend Pentaho. One of the reasons are that it is open source. If you know JAVA, you can create your own plugins. I have found its customer support pretty good and quick. And the most important thing is the cost. If you are not using the DI server, you can just use the community edition and it should fulfil your purpose too.

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Business Intelligence Analyst/Developer

CD-adapcoComputer Software, 201-500 employees

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Informatica has a limited number of components that you can use. This places a heavy limitation on the capabilities of Informatica. On the other hand, Talend allows you to create your own custom components using Java. For businesses that need to perform a wide variety of data operations, it can be quite useful to have the option of creating your own custom components to satisfy business needs.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Consultant in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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I delivered projects the client did not believe were possible, and I provided intermediate value by providing visibility to hidden data problems in their systems they could not detect before.
I was able to work 3 projects at a time, pausing gracefully in one while switching to the other, with minimal effort.

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Consultant

PrivateOil & Energy, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

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