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We performed a comparison between Pentaho Business Analytics and Sisense 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Pentaho Business Analytics vs. Sisense Report (Updated: March 2024).
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward.""I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced.""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.""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.""Easy to use components to create the job.""The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."

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"The solution's technical support team is good.""The best part about this solution is how easy it is to mash up the data from many sources. Sisense is fast compared to other solutions.""Whenever we have an issue or are unsure how to proceed, they manage to simplify the issue and help us execute it in a graceful and scalable way.""Visually displaying data.""Allows us to execute heavy, complex computations on the fly so customers can slice and dice the data based on their business needs.""It has allowed me to move my data to the cloud.""Support is very responsive and clearly one of the strengths of Sisense. I have always received a fast response and the staff is very helpful.""There are many built-in connectors, which allow us to easily add new sources of data, often in minutes."

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Cons
"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.""Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive.""The repository should be improved.""Version control would be a good addition.""Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated.""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.""Logging capability is needed."

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"They should improve the filters to create downloaded data by moving them to the top of the dashboard.""The initial version we purchased only ran on Windows servers, which was less than ideal for our DevOps team. I believe that has been remedied in the latest release.""This solution does not have tabs. In order to have tabs, you have to download an add-on to mimic the tabs. They should be integrated to improve the solution.""I would love to have more customization capabilities for building dashboards, especially in creating custom widget sizes.""I would like to see more development and growth for the support of Knowledge Base and Community forums.""At present there are additional costs involved if we wish to share our data queues within this solution, which we would like to see removed.""The solution's setup process could be easier.""I would like Sisense to improve its performance, particularly when we are dealing with large-scale data."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Free and commercial versions are available."
  • "Pentaho is expensive ."
  • "We were lucky enough to find a Pentaho OEM partner who offered a data warehouse model and the ETL software for about 60K SGD per year."
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  • "This solution is more expensive than Tableau, Qlik and Dundas. It is an expensive tool. They charge $75,000 while Tableau is $45,000."
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    Any company (be it technology, manfucaturing, human resource, ecommerce, SME etc) always has the need for Business Intelligence to some or the other extent. If cost is one of the consideration factor, then the 2 BI tools which are at the forefront are Pentaho and Jaspersoft. But, often the same companies are caught up in an imbrogilo as to which tool to use, what are the technology/and end business user wise differences/ do i actually need to purchase commercial edition, is there any work around etc. Differences :- In the below mentioned points, I have tried to cover functionality wise the differences a. Reports :- Jaspersoft is known for its picture pixel perfect reporting. Jasper uses ireport for designing the reports. Hence, for having reports, Jaspersoft is the most ideal candidate. Pentaho uses Pentaho Report Designer. b. Dashboards :- Pentaho provides much more capabililties, interactivity in terms of dashboards. Dashboards designed in Pentaho are far more superior in functionality, aesthetically as compared to Jaspersoft. Pentaho CE uses CDE/CDF, Pentaho EE uses PDD . Dashboard functionality is present only in the Enterprise edition of Jaspersoft. c. Pentaho is having an intermediate layer known as Xactions & hence providing much more flexibility in terms of plugin designing, integration with applications, having out of box experience etc. Xactions supports scripting and scheduling of scripts execution. Jaspersoft dosent provide that much of flexibility in terms of… Read more →
    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows:  1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle  - look for SAP… more »
    Top Answer:The organization has both options based on their needs and budget constraints. The Enterprise Edition is expensive with references to an added number of features.
    Top Answer:The product to me is not as user-friendly as other players in the market. It also still needs improvement in the reporting module. You will need to search for deployment examples or need to have a… more »
    Top Answer:The solution's technical support team is good.
    Top Answer:Sisense is good in terms of visualization, but it has some drawbacks. For example, it doesn't have any way to sort or filter tables directly on the server side. Also, you can't have multiple tabs; it… more »
    Top Answer:We use the solution to centralize all processes.
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    Also Known As
    Pentaho, Kettle, Hitachi Pentaho Business Analytics
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    Overview

    Pentaho is an open source business intelligence company that provides a wide range of tools to help their customers better manage their businesses. These tools include data integration software, mining tools, dashboard applications, online analytical processing options, and more.

    Pentaho has two product categories: There is the standard enterprise version. This is the product that comes directly from Pentaho itself with all of the benefits, features, and programs that come along with a paid application such us analysis services, dashboard design, and interactive reporting.

    The alternative is an open source version, which the public is permitted to add to and tweak the product. This solution has its advantages, aside from the fact that it is free, in that there are many more people working on the project to improve its quality and breadth of functionality.

    Sisense is an end-to-end business analytics software that enables users to easily prepare and analyze large, complex datasets. Sisense’s Single-Stack BI software includes data preparation, data management, analysis, visualization and reporting capabilities.

    Sample Customers
    Cargo 2000 Lufthansa, Marketo, ModCloth, Cardiac Science, Telefonica, ExactTarget, Active Broadband Networks, and Brussels Airport.
    Ebay, WIX, Wave Accounting, ESPN.com, Magellan Luxury Hotel, Paylogic, Sony, Merck, EDA, One Hour Translation, NASA, Plastic Jungle, Philips, Yahoo
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company19%
    University13%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Educational Organization6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Government12%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Educational Organization9%
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    University17%
    Media Company13%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Retailer8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm24%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Healthcare Company6%
    University5%
    Company Size
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    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise33%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise60%
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    Small Business57%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise26%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise60%
    Buyer's Guide
    Pentaho Business Analytics vs. Sisense
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Pentaho Business Analytics vs. Sisense and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 20th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews while Sisense is ranked 17th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 39 reviews. Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0, while Sisense is rated 8.8. 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 Sisense writes "Business intelligence solution that has improved automation and provided meaningful insights". Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, Tableau and SAP Crystal Reports, whereas Sisense is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Apache Superset, Amazon QuickSight and Qlik Sense. See our Pentaho Business Analytics vs. Sisense report.

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