Robust platform that needs some refresher to compete with more modern tools
October 21, 2019

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

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Pentaho

Pentaho is used as our organizational-wide reporting and BI platform. It is bringing together data from multiple enterprise applications including ERPs, HRM, EAM and PLMs. We are using it to create both prepackaged PDF reports as well as interactive analysis reports where users can compose their on add-how reports.
  • It is relatively stable, robust and reliable.
  • Interactive analysis reports are very useful and relatively easy to use.
  • Relatively simple to integrate with other systems
  • The type of graphs and layouts proposed for diagrams and charts are a little bit limited and partly outdated.
  • For certain reports you can feel that it is not using the latest web technologies.
  • The tools for creating new report template designs could be improved.
The basic functionality of Pentaho is well matching the capabilities of some of the main competitors. We also selected Pentaho since part of the platform is open source and can be used without commercial licenses. Currently we use a mix of the open source components and the commercial components.
Pentaho is well suited for bringing together data from multiple data sources in order to perform analyses and to create reports.

If you want to create very nicely looking interactive graphs using the latest web technologies, there might be other tools that are more suited. We have also seen performance problems with large amounts of data, but it is not certain if this only was the fault of Pentaho but could also be the infrastructure around.

Pentaho Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
4
Customizable dashboards
7
Report Formatting Templates
2
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
6
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
6
Publish to Web
7
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
2
Delivery to Remote Servers
3
Multi-User Support (named login)
6
Role-Based Security Model
6
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
5
Single Sign-On (SSO)
6
REST API
5
Javascript API
6
iFrames
6
Themeable User Interface (UI)
2
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
10