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."The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"It is a stable product."
"You can switch views easily."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"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."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"The repository should be improved."
"Logging capability is needed."
"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."
"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."
"Error handling."
"Better source data connectors."
"The user interface is old."
"They could improve the speed."
"They could improve the update time."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 16th 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, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SAP Crystal Reports and Tableau, 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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