We performed a comparison between KNIME and Pentaho Business Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Knime, Weka, IBM and others in Data Mining."Valuable features include visual workflow creation, workflow variables (parameterisation), automatic caching of all intermediate data sets in the workflow, scheduling with the server."
"Automation is most valuable. It allows me to automatically download information from different sources, and once I create a workflow, I can apply it anytime I want. So, there is efficiency at the same time."
"Easy to connect with every database: We use queries from SQL, Redshift, Oracle."
"This solution is easy to use and it can be used to create any kind of model."
"Clear view of the data at every step of ETL process enables changing the flow as needed."
"Since KNIME is a no-code platform, it is easy to work with."
"We can deploy the solution in a cluster as well."
"This solution is easy to use and especially good at data preparation and wrapping."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"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 initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"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."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"The predefined workflows could use a bit of improvement."
"KNIME needs to provide more documentation and training materials, including webinars or online seminars."
"They could add more detailed examples of the functionality of every node, how it works and how we can use it, to make things easier at the beginning."
"There should be better documentation and the steps should be easier."
"The most difficult part of the solution revolves around its areas concerning machine learning and deep learning."
"KNIME's licensing and data management aren't as straightforward relative to Alteryx. Alteryx's tools are more sophisticated, so you need fewer to use it compared to KNIME. I think tab implementation could be easier, too."
"From the point of view of the interface, they can do a little bit better."
"The ability to handle large amounts of data and performance in processing need to be improved."
"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."
"The repository should be improved."
"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."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"Logging capability is needed."
KNIME is ranked 1st in Data Mining with 50 reviews while Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 19th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews. KNIME is rated 8.2, while Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of KNIME writes "A low-code platform that reduces data mining time by linking script". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". KNIME is most compared with RapidMiner, Microsoft Power BI, Alteryx, Dataiku and Domino Data Science Platform, whereas Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, SAP Crystal Reports, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Tableau.
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