We performed a comparison between Oracle OBIEE and Pentaho Business Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The main features of this solution are that it is easy to use, intuitive, and user-friendly. When I retrieve the data from the database it is in a very raw form, then when I use the Oracle Report Builder it has advanced intelligence features to allow me to view and make changes to the data easily."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to set up the automated delivery of reports."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is its ability to handle large volumes of data and provide traditional BI functionalities that developers can easily understand."
"The most valuable features of Oracle OBIEE are ease of use, the graphical user interface is simple to understand, and the reports can be done without problems. There are many tutorials and training materials available if needed."
"They are introducing AI. There are good forecasting features and machine learning."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the various scenarios the product offers and its stability."
"I like the architecture of this solution. RPV is a powerful feature in Oracle OBIEE. It lets us design as per the needs of the organization. I can have multiple presentation folders and presentation layers. I can have customization in a single node in VMware, which is a very good feature of Oracle OBIEE. It helps customers in designing as per their requirements."
"Can utilize SQL queries to generate reports directly."
"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."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"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."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"From the point of view of strategic management, I would like to have a feature, perhaps a form after we get to the KPI dashboard, to be used to note if something unusual happens in the operations. That way we could record extreme KPI situations, and track why a number is very low or too high."
"There are times we have slowness when processing the reports with Oracle OBIEE. Improving the performance would be beneficial."
"Retail, Finance, Wholesale"
"It is complex for designing RPD, and it can be simpler. Their support can also be improved in terms of response time."
"They should make the dashboard more intuitive."
"It is not a good product for data visualization."
"OBIEE doesn't have audit logs."
"Particularly on the Cloud, a lot of functionality has yet to be ported."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"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."
"Logging capability is needed."
"The repository should be improved."
"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."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 154 reviews while Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 19th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews. Oracle OBIEE is rated 7.8, while Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle OBIEE writes "A solution that is easily accessible, scalable and requires a straightforward initial setup process to get started". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". Oracle OBIEE is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau and Oracle Analytics Cloud, whereas Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, KNIME, SAP Crystal Reports and Alteryx. See our Oracle OBIEE vs. Pentaho Business Analytics report.
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