We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy and Pentaho Business Analytics 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."Visual Insight gives you the capability of doing self-service analytics. This has been the most powerful and valuable feature."
"We leverage it, not only for reporting but for analytics and also for geospatial reporting."
"The whole repository side of things is beneficial because you develop it once, and you can use it anywhere, in the Enterprise grade."
"It helps all the store managers and supply chain people to obtain a view of the data and plan the next week, the next month, quarters, and so on."
"We are using mobile analytics, and it is amazing."
"The drill-down functionality is also very good."
"The most valuable features are ad hoc reporting and the ability to create dashboards."
"It drives us away from Excel. For what it is for, it is good. You can't run a business on Excel."
"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."
"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 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 interface you can design in MicroStrategy is great, but I feel it needs to be refreshed, add a bit more functionality. I would like to see more capabilities on the mobile side, to bring it on par with apps that you see in the App Store."
"Native VI on mobile apps and better android support are lacking."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"The solution's licensing could be improved because its cost is heavy on the pockets."
"We have the mobile server. We have not used it. That is because the people on our team have not been trained on it yet, but that is something that we want to do."
"This solution is missing enhanced features in the dashboards."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"It needs better visualizations."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"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."
"The repository should be improved."
MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 156 reviews while Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 19th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Qlik Sense, whereas Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, SAP Crystal Reports, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and KNIME. See our MicroStrategy vs. Pentaho Business Analytics report.
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