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 Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has great reporting and forecasting capabilities."
"For me, it makes the difference is in terms of our users being able to take advantage of a product which allows you to get access to data, reports, make decisions quickly, and have better insights regarding operations."
"They are introducing AI. There are good forecasting features and machine learning."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly set of tools that the customer can use to develop their own business dashboards."
"It's the connectors, the adapters. Built in connectors with different ERPs, you can plug in XL, other sources of data. It's very easy to configure. It's very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is its ease of use."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE, for me, would be the Web Catalog. From a development perspective, I do not need any client or any software to be installed on my laptop or desktop. Everything is browser-based, so I just open the browser and start development."
"It is easy to use...I rate the scalability of the solution a nine out of ten."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"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."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"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."
"n the beginning it had it's stability issues, but it became stable."
"The platform's data visualization features need improvement."
"If the data is large, the dashboard takes a really long time. So, based on the database, if you have around a million cost contacts, the load time is very low, and the dashboard fails."
"There should be more integration in the solution. For example, there should be one solution with multiple functionalities so that other solutions are not needed. Having one solution with all the needed functionality would be helpful."
"There are times we have slowness when processing the reports with Oracle OBIEE. Improving the performance would be beneficial."
"The ability to migrate from one version to another, such as doing so from version 11 to an upgraded 12 of Oracle business environment, can be difficult."
"The functionality to customize and modify reports has been removed, and it would be beneficial to reinstall it, as it allows greater customization and flexibility in creating reports."
"It crashes when many people login simultaneously."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"The repository should be improved."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"Logging capability is needed."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"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."
"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."
Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in Reporting with 154 reviews while Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 17th in Reporting 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, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, IBM Cognos, Tableau and Oracle Analytics Cloud, whereas Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SAP Crystal Reports and Board. See our Oracle OBIEE vs. Pentaho Business Analytics report.
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