We performed a comparison between Pentaho Business Analytics, Salesforce Einstein Analytics, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."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."
"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."
"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."
"he most valuable feature of the solution is its ease of use."
"We have found the scalability to be very good."
"The out-of-the-box features are good for companies that want to try analytics and data science interventions."
"The most valuable feature of Salesforce Einstein Analytics is the reporting tools."
"The tool is a cloud-based solution capable of integrating any kind of data in the world."
"Transparency is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The most valuable features of Salesforce Einstein Analytics are the flexibility around the deployment, overall capabilities, user-friendliness, and interactiveness with the tools that came built with it."
"The way Salesforce Einstein Analytics is structured in terms of the work assignments and the user profile is very good."
"The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation."
"It is easy to adapt visualizers to have interactive conversations among decision-makers."
"The most valuable features are the visualizations, the way they show the combination charts."
"The best part about Tableau is the visualization."
"Scheduled extract and the multiple connectors are fantastic!"
"I like the visualization component."
"I consider Tableau to be the best analytical tool available. It's really handy to use and can be used by non-technical people."
"Tableau has data relationships that can be applied to a data source which helps build out a directory which is helpful. Data blending has also been valuable to us."
"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."
"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."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"The repository should be improved."
"The product is expensive."
"The price of Salesforce Einstein Analytics is quite a bit expensive for the region of Mexico. I think the price of the product could be better."
"Better pricing would make it available to more users and we would likely use it more broadly within the organization."
"There are some offerings like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud that have very useful online learning options. There need to be more avenues for self-learning with this particular solution. That would be useful."
"Einstein Analytics could incorporate something like SFIA 8 to help users understand the underlying skill sets."
"The product must be more transparent."
"The product is natively integrated into the Salesforce ecosystem. You also need a CRM license. It should be more flexible with other platforms."
"They have a lot of opportunity to improve BI tools. With Einstein Analytics, we have a very minimal scope."
"There's no mature ETL tool in Tableau, which is quite a negative for them."
"There should be more GIS features, such as location analysis, which is quite limited. There are very few location-based functionalities."
"Overall, the only major frustration that I have had so far is with Tableau Public. I first used Tableau Public when I was building capacity, and when there was a later release to download and you wanted to upgrade, all your work would have to be manually re-entered."
"If they could add global filters in the stories, more chart types, and default colours, it would help."
"The customization in the front end is a bit difficult."
"The charts in Tableau are quite limited."
"Implementation requires a technical background."
"I would like the solution to have certain features allowing the delivery of reports to the email."
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