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."We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"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."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"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."
"No issues with stability. It is a very stable solution."
"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."
"The dashboard design interface is very intuitive and allows you to quickly and easily produce professional, innovative dashboards."
"I have found the dashboard creating feature helpful."
"Ability to work with very large data sources without the limitations of Excel."
"We like that this solution allows us to use data cubes to set up specific visualizations."
"The solution's technical support team is good."
"The repository should be improved."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"I would love to have more customization capabilities for building dashboards, especially in creating custom widget sizes."
"The administrative side of Sisense is a little cumbersome and confusing."
"The solution's setup process could be easier."
"Larger datasets will sometimes give a "Accumulated logs" error when trying to make minor changes. T"
"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 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."
"I would like to see more development and growth for the support of Knowledge Base and Community forums."
"I would like Sisense to improve its performance, particularly when we are dealing with large-scale data."
Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 21st 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, SAP Crystal Reports and Tableau, whereas Sisense is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Apache Superset, Qlik Sense and Amazon QuickSight. See our Pentaho Business Analytics vs. Sisense report.
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