We performed a comparison between Alteryx and Pentaho Business Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Alteryx, RapidMiner, SAP and others in Predictive Analytics."It is a stable and scalable solution."
"My primary focus is creating numerous data pulls, and Alteryx Server handles the automation well."
"The scheduling feature for the automation is excellent."
"All of the data science features in terms of unioning and joining data together are valuable."
"This is a drag-and-drop tool which is easy-to-use and yet can be customized by creating your own components."
"Geo features have made spatial mapping large retail universes possible."
"Alteryx is a simple and easy-to-use solution."
"The product is very stable and super fast, five-star. It's significantly more stable than it's nearest competitor."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"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."
"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 workflow and pipeline need to improve."
"They should make the solution user-friendly for nontechnical people by giving specific names to the options."
"The event handling, such that the file system watcher, is in need of improvement."
"I'd like to see more artificial intelligence business tools or features in Alteryx."
"From a commercial standpoint, more options should be available for pricing. The licensing model needs to be specific."
"The scalability worries me a lot at the moment because the cost of the solution is high and it is not growing considerably. Unfortunately, we started during early COVID times and because of the economic downturn, all the cost cuttings, and everything, it is not growing as expected."
"If there is any way to make the learning curve less steep, that would be ideal."
"The interface could be improved."
"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."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"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."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"The repository should be improved."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"Logging capability is needed."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 21st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Databricks, Dataiku Data Science Studio, RapidMiner and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SAP Crystal Reports and Oracle OBIEE.
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