We performed a comparison between Pentaho Business Analytics and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' best features include the ease of developing data flows and the wide range of options to connect to databases, including those on the cloud."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"Pentaho is an analytics platform that can be used when an organization has a lot of big data storage systems already installed and needs to manage and analyze that data. It has a specific use case for unstructured data, such as documents, and needs to be able to search and analyze it."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"E-T-L, The Extract, Transform, and Loading capabilities of QlikView make it a highly sophisticated self-service business intelligence tool for developers and analysts."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"Logging capability is needed."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"Pentaho, at the general level, should greatly improve the easy construction of its dashboards and easy integration of information from different sources without technical user intervention."
"The repository should be improved."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"Deployment is not simple. It is not simple because we are dealing with a lot of data; we are dealing with a lot of storage. So, it's not a simple process."
"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"Better source data connectors."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
"The user interface is old."
Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 17th in Reporting with 42 reviews while QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews. Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0, while QlikView is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, KNIME, SAP Crystal Reports and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and TIBCO Spotfire. See our Pentaho Business Analytics vs. QlikView report.
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