Pentaho Usability, Reviews & Ratings 2023

Pentaho

Overview

What is Pentaho?

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.

Secured & Safest ETL and Reporting tool

10 out of 10

June 28, 2022

I used Pentaho as an ETL tool to extract data from different data sources and created data marts for reporting and descriptive analytics …

Trust Pentaho to deliver a smooth data mining experience

9 out of 10

June 24, 2022

We use Pentaho to store, collaborate & present data in a more modular form, which in turn helps us in making better business decisions & …

Best for Reporting and Dashboard

10 out of 10

April 12, 2022

I use Pentaho for reporting and dashboard development. We develop the reports and integrate them with different database sources. It …

Data integration made easy

8 out of 10

February 04, 2022

Pentaho is used in my organization, mainly by the IT team, creating processes and routines focused on data ingestion from many sources. We …

Using the Pentaho tools to solve ETL challenges

10 out of 10

May 07, 2021

Before working for Hitachi Vantara, I had experience using the Pentaho Tools for personal projects mainly. I had the chance to work …

Integrate and connect all data sources with Ai engineering in the cloud environment

9 out of 10

March 23, 2021

Information is our company fuel, The information and this software are used in all parts of our company, marketing, and sales, as well as …

My Experience with Pentaho data integrator

9 out of 10

March 02, 2020

I use the Pentaho Data Integration ETL tool in our enterprise business intelligence projects. I often use the Pentaho tool for data …

Robust platform that needs some refresher to compete with more modern tools

6 out of 10

October 21, 2019

Pentaho is used as our organizational-wide reporting and BI platform. It is bringing together data from multiple enterprise applications …

A great tool, but falls under the shadow of the larger players.

6 out of 10

June 28, 2018

We rolled out Pentaho within one of our business units as a way to get at trapped data from an old home-grown CRM system that had been …

Pentaho for your business

8 out of 10

March 19, 2018

Currently, Pentaho was using it for our internal IT Department. We are using Pentaho to address more specific needs to integrate and …

Pentaho can be a great solution for a company

9 out of 10

February 23, 2018

We are currently using this application for all the companies. We have managed to develop a lot of reports and dashboards and also …

Pentaho was just OK as an OEM solution

5 out of 10

June 30, 2017

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 …

Pentaho - Yay or Nay?

6 out of 10

November 04, 2016

I worked in a small-size private consulting firm that used Pentaho for analytics and reporting firm-wide. It catered to clients in a broad …

Pentaho: A great DW/BI soultion

9 out of 10

November 03, 2016

Pentaho is the primary source for the Business Intelligence in my company. We have many Pentaho users across the whole organization that …

Rookie Pentaho review from an ETL veteran

6 out of 10

November 02, 2016

In my organization, we use Pentaho as our go-to ETL tool. It is used by our engineering department in order to create our data warehouse …

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Popular Features

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Multi-User Support (named login) (21)
9.1
91%
Role-Based Security Model (20)
8.8
88%
Formatting capabilities (20)
8.4
84%
Publish to PDF (20)
7.7
77%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Easy to understand and good to solve complex data integration problems.
Transformations for handling unstructured data could be improved.

Harsh Gangwar

Assistant Engineer

Accenture (Airlines/Aviation, 10,001+ employees)

Plethora of options to transform data as per your needs
Data modeling can take too much time depending on complexities of the model.

Verified User

Analyst in Sales

Logistics & Supply Chain Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing

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What is Pentaho?

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.

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

Offerings

Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting / Integration Services

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SAP Analytics Cloud

$36

per month per user

What is SAP Analytics Cloud?

The SAP Analytics Cloud solution brings together analytics and planning with integration to SAP applications and access to heterogenous data sources. As the analytics and planning solution within SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud supports trusted insights and integrated planning…

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

8.6Avg 8.1

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

8.7Avg 8.0

7.9
Drill-down analysis
(19) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
8.4
Formatting capabilities
(20) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
8.9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
(13) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
9.5
Report sharing and collaboration
(18) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.8Avg 8.3

8.7
Publish to Web
(19) Ratings
7.7
Publish to PDF
(20) Ratings
9.1
Report Versioning
(14) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
9.3
Report Delivery Scheduling
(18) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
9
Delivery to Remote Servers
(11) Ratings
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for pattern and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

8.4Avg 8.1

8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
(17) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
8.2
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
(17) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of representation of geographical or spatial data.
8.8
Predictive Analytics
(15) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

8.8Avg 8.5

9.1
Multi-User Support (named login)
(21) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
8.8
Role-Based Security Model
(20) Ratings
Role based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
9.5
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
(19) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
8
Single Sign-On (SSO)
(11) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8.6Avg 7.9

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

8.6Avg 7.9

8.6
REST API
(11) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
9
Javascript API
(10) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
7.5
iFrames
(10) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
8.8
Java API
(10) Ratings
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
8.4
Themeable User Interface (UI)
(11) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
9.4
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
(11) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API

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Product Details

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What is Pentaho?

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.

Pentaho Integrations

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Responsive Design for Web Access highest, with a score of 9.6.

The most common users of Pentaho are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

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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.

March 23, 2021

Integrate and connect all data sources with Ai engineering in the cloud environment

Ali Kazempour

Information Technology Adviser

Information Technology Adviser (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Usability

Pentaho in terms of simplicity and extensive features, along with being user-friendly, one of the most successful options in business intelligence has been very successful. All industries and organizations are connected to various databases and information, and data import from all sources is possible via this platform. Diverse and accurate reports are possible at the user's discretion through the dashboard.

November 04, 2014

Pentaho the best BI integrator

Deepak Paramanand

Technical Lead

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

Score 7 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Usability

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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