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."I like that Oracle OBIEE comes with more options. For example, more options with data security, user security, and other security. It's more complicated than Microsoft, but it gives you more options. They also added the part for machine learning, which is good."
"Inter Process Communication."
"It is easy to create a report quickly. It does not take much time to create an ad hoc report."
"There are some great new features in the latest version."
"Oracle OBIEE is good for data visualization and analytical reporting."
"The solution has great reporting and forecasting capabilities."
"Oracle OBIEE is very easy to use. Looking at analytics, I think they have come a long way by adding new features like visualization, which is really cool."
"The centralized metadata model component is most valuable."
"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."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"We needed some technical expertise during setup."
"It needs a better security management system."
"The development effort takes longer than other BI tools currently on the market."
"Customer service/technical support gets five out of 10. Sometimes good, sometimes bad."
"The platform's data visualization features need improvement."
"The documentation in Oracle OBIEE can be more user-friendly."
"The complexity of this product means that you need to have a technical team to develop the reports, although this is also true for products like Microsoft BI and Zoho."
"It's not so flexible to do BI reporting directly from the data source without models. It is not that agile."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"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."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"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."
"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."
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 Qlik Sense. See our Oracle OBIEE vs. Pentaho Business Analytics report.
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