We performed a comparison between Pentaho Business Analytics and Tableau 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."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."
"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."
"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."
"Compared to other products, visualization features are really good."
"The solution is configurable and flexible. We can customize the dashboards and configure the interface the way that we want. The data can be manipulated and arranged in different ways, such as columns."
"The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation."
"Tableau is easy to use."
"Tableau is very flexible and easy to learn. It has drag-and-drop function analytics, and its design is very good. It is a very good tool, and it basically brings life into data with good design. We have been creating a lot of interactive visualizations and dashboards. It has a public version. There are public communities from where you can get a lot of examples for practice."
"It’s good for quick visualization and being able to quickly consume unstructured data to play around with."
"The solution deployment was straightforward."
"It's a very good, flexible product, and it's easy to learn."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"The repository should be improved."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"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."
"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."
"The data entered into Tableau must be clean. Otherwise, it won't work properly."
"In the next release, I would like to be able to have the option to see more raw data that I'm converting on the dashboard."
"Improvements can be made in template support. The workbook file structure is really hard to version control. If there was some sort of version control support offered particularly for workbooks, that would help big time."
"The use of this service in the desktop version is annoying due to the constant updates which lead to reinstalling the application. If they could give support with updates on the same downloaded version, it would be great."
"The architecture should be improved to better handle the data."
"There could be improvements on the mobile application, it is lacking features."
"We would like a report model, because currently there is no schema that we can create in the tool."
"The charts need to be improved. The drawings and the visualization need to be more accurate."
Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 17th in Reporting with 42 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 292 reviews. Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0, while Tableau is rated 8.4. 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 Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SAP Crystal Reports and KNIME, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Pentaho Business Analytics vs. Tableau report.
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