Pentaho

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Data integration & business analytics platform

About Pentaho

Pentaho’s objective is to help organizations across multiple industries harness the value from all their data, including big data and IoT (Internet of Things), enabling them to find new revenue streams, operate more efficiently, deliver outstanding service and minimize risk.

Pentaho provides data solutions to enterprise level organizations across the healthcare, retail, financial services and government sectors. It enables business users to access, manage and combine data from multiple sources, and decision makers to then drill-down into data through interactive visual analysis. Data insights can then be used to make information-driven decisions with business analytics tools from Pentaho.

The Pentaho solution supports big data, data integration, embedded analytics, business analytics, internet of things analytics, and cloud business analytics. It also includes services such as custom dashboards, consulting services, training, certification program, enterprise support, technical support and workshops.


Key benefits of Pentaho

  • Intuitive web-based data access wizard and interactive reporting for business users.

  • Pentaho offers powerful data integration and federation for IT and developers, accessing and integrating diverse data types; from Excel to Hadoop.

  • Interactive visual analysis allows decision makers to drill into data for greater insight.

  • Pentaho offers an extensive library of interactive visualizations to find patterns and anomalies, including geo-mapping, heat grids and scatter/bubble charts.

  • Drill-down functionality into supporting reports and dashboards provides deeper analysis whilst extreme scale in-memory data caching allows for speed-of-thought analysis with large data volumes.

  • Access, manage and blend data from any source using data integration tools from Pentaho. Integrate business analytics with other applications, including Google Maps.

  • Turn data into insights and make information-driven decisions with Pentaho's business analytics tools.

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    4.3 /5
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    Value for Money
    4.4/5
    Features
    4.4/5
    Ease of Use
    4.1/5
    Customer Support
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    Enrico
    Enrico
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    • Industry: Farming
    • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    Nice surprise

    Reviewed on 9/1/2020

    The tool allows the creation of complex ETL projects in a quick way and save time to produce...

    The tool allows the creation of complex ETL projects in a quick way and save time to produce valuable solution for the company.

    Pros

    Data Integration allows the build of such a complex ETL projects in a quick way, it's very powerful. Being an open source software allows the user to always find hints over the web

    Cons

    Issue log reports not really clear the error/s occurring and the troubleshooting results sometimes difficult.
    Scheduling

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    Reasons for Switching to Pentaho

    Pentaho is an open source software.
    Verified Reviewer
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    • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
    • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Best BI Software for Integration and Reporting

    Reviewed on 28/3/2022

    Pros

    Excellent Data Integration across all the databases , User friendly and amazing for report designing using PRD tool(Pentaho Report Designer). Loving it!!

    Cons

    Takes longer time for fetching the data in report, technical limitations in report designing and bug solving are not easy.

    Dalton
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    • Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Riding a Wild Horse - Community Edition

    Reviewed on 18/4/2017

    Pros

    Many features.
    I like to use the reporting PRD, I think that it is the best.
    I use Spoon/Kettle that is a ETL tool to process data.

    Cons

    Many bugs. Maybe is because of Community Edition.
    We have many difficult to install in cloud.
    The layout of some report that run in developing, don't run in production.

    Verified Reviewer
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    • Industry: Information Technology & Services
    • Company size: 201–500 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Totally Worth it!!

    Reviewed on 31/3/2022

    I had used both pentaho report designer(PRD) and pentaho data integration(PDI) for optimizing power...

    I had used both pentaho report designer(PRD) and pentaho data integration(PDI) for optimizing power BI connectivity. Totally satisfied with my experience.

    Pros

    Excellent Data Integration, affordable price model and high user friendly.

    Cons

    Slow in loading huge data, technical limitation in reporting and resolving of ticket could have been improved a bit.

    Verified Reviewer
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    • Company size: 201–500 Employees
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

    The best tool for data integration

    Reviewed on 5/10/2017

    Pros

    Ease of use and abundant features to get things done. Helps a lot in filling the various gaps in data sources.

    Cons

    Not so user friendly, takes sometime for new user to get around the application and figure out the various tricks and tools available

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    Pentaho has the following typical customers:

    2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

    Pentaho supports the following languages:

    English, French, German

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    Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

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    Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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