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."Having the analytics capabilities on a single platform."
"Workstation and Desktop on the client side will speed up some development activities."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"We are embedding multimedia content in our apps... You can embed streaming video from websites, or you can host the video files on your internal media servers. The video is clear, absolutely."
"It is scalable and integration-friendly."
"The architecture is very solid."
"We prefer having the analytic capabilities in a single platform, like MicroStrategy provides, because it is easier. The customer gets used to one type of tool, then sticks with it."
"The scalability is great. It was one of the selling points for us on MicroStrategy."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
"If they can make it more stable, in terms of the connectivity, that would help."
"Our data warehouse is sort of static; negative load and that is it. It is not as real-time as we would like. We are working on building that out first to create more real-time, at which point we will work on some potential integrations with other applications, but I don't think we are there yet."
"It is performing well, but sometimes we have complex requirements and the performance decreases, and then we have to find another way to make it perform again. That is what you encounter when use the project, but that's inevitable because if we would have used another product, we would've had the same thing."
"It needs better visualizations."
"They need to do a better job In its ability to allow end users to produce their own reports, metrics, and self-service business intelligence."
"Getting our data to work with the tool is where we are having issues."
"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
"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."
"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."
"Logging capability is needed."
"The repository should be improved."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"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."
MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 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, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SAP Crystal Reports and Tableau. See our MicroStrategy vs. Pentaho Business Analytics report.
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