Pentaho Data Integration vs WhereScape RED

Pentaho Data Integration is ranked 2nd in Other Data Integration and Access Tools with 3 reviews vs WhereScape RED which is ranked 4th in Data Integration Tools with 11 reviews. The top reviewer of Pentaho Data Integration writes "Simple to install and simple to use and helps us mine, clean, and arrange terabytes of data". The top reviewer of WhereScape RED writes "Significant architectural issues". Pentaho Data Integration is most compared with IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Informatica PowerCenter and StreamSets. WhereScape RED is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS and IBM InfoSphere DataStage. See our Pentaho Data Integration vs WhereScape RED report.

Pentaho Data Integration

WhereScape RED

17936

Pentaho Data Integration

Based on 3 reviews.

18140

WhereScape RED

Based on 11 reviews.

Most Helpful Review

Juan Vidal Gil

Project Manager - Business Intelligence at www.datademy.es

It has improved our data integration capabilities

Developed ETL processes to load a data warehouse. Has improved our data integration capabilities.

Jeff Christen

Manager Data Warehousing at a university

The architecture is based on metadata and documentation is automated.

The biggest win for my organization are the great improvements we have seen in load / refresh processing time over our legacy ETL tool. I was... Read more »

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Pros
It has improved our data integration capabilities.Provides a good open source option.It's very simple compared to other products out there.Data transformation within Pentaho is a nice feature that they have and that I value. Read more »	WhereScape's deployment package is a fantastic feature. The application allows for selecting specific objects that you would like to deploy from one environment to another rather than deploying the entire database.WhereScape RED has improved our business's ability to generate needed reporting without requiring a large team of developers to manually code all of the necessary plumbing.Their support staff are very knowledgeable, courteous, and professional. I feel their support staff go above and beyond to assure their customers are satisfied.RED has provided us the ability to integrate, stage, and transform data from diverse sources into an enterprise-grade data warehouse which meets the needs of my organization, but it also enables us to easily and quickly make ETL or DW changes.RED generates comprehensive documentation and regenerates it as quickly as things changes, but it also provides impact documentation.Data transformations and rollups are easy to accomplish.Quickly develops a data warehouse for our organization with documentation and can track back/forward features.This is a fantastically robust DW tool that will make you at least 10 times faster in producing a DW. Read more »
Cons
There is not a data quality or MDM solution in the Pentaho DI suite.I could not connect to our Hadoop environment in an easy and flexible way, and it was important to scale our data warehouse.I work with the Community Edition, therefore I do not have support. There was an issue that I could not resolve with community support.One thing that I don't like, just a little, is the backward compatibility.I would like to see more improvements with AS400 DB2. Read more »	The scheduled jobs which are run by the WhereScape scheduler seem to be a strangely separate animal. Unlike all other WhereScape objects, jobs cannot be added to WhereScape projects. Also, unlike all other objects, jobs also cannot be deleted using a WhereScape deployment application.Jobs cannot be deleted via the deployment package. When deploying from dev to QA or production, a job has to be retired. The job has to be manually removed from the target environment.The ability to execute SSIS projects within WhereScape would be nice because we have a lot of packages that are too cumbersome to recreate.They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box.It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully.Improve the object renaming ability (it works, but it could be more automated).No support for change data capture or delta detection - that must be custom coded . Read more »

Pricing and Cost Advice
There is a good open source option (Community Edition). Read more »	Speed to market of a warehouse solution at a relatively inexpensive price point.ROI is at least 10 times.Factor in the price of specialized consulting who know this product. They're hard to find and expensive. Read more »

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Ranking
RANKING	2nd out of 58 In Other Data Integration and Access Tools Views 14,181 Comparisons 5,865 Reviews 4 Followers 359 Avg. Rating 7.8	4th out of 64 In Data Integration Tools Views 12,570 Comparisons 2,562 Reviews 11 Followers 315 Avg. Rating 8.3
Top Comparisons
Top Comparisons	IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Pentaho Data Integration Compared 21% of the time. Informatica PowerCenter vs. Pentaho Data Integration Compared 11% of the time. StreamSets vs. Pentaho Data Integration Compared 8% of the time. See more Pentaho Data Integration competitors »	Informatica PowerCenter vs. WhereScape RED Compared 14% of the time. SSIS vs. WhereScape RED Compared 13% of the time. IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. WhereScape RED Compared 13% of the time. See more WhereScape RED competitors »

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Also Known As	Kettle
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Overview
Overview	Pentaho data integration prepares and blends data to create a complete picture of your business that drives actionable insights. The complete data integration platform delivers accurate, "analytics ready" data to end users from any source. With visual tools to eliminate coding and complexity, Pentaho puts big data and all data sources at the fingertips of business and IT users alike.	WhereScape RED is data warehouse software to help build data warehouses faster. But it is more than that. It also helps you to build data warehouses that are easy to support, change and extend. It is an integrated development environment, or IDE, especially designed to build great data warehouses faster in SQL Server, Teradata, DB2 and Oracle.
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Sample Customers
Sample Customers	66Controls, Providential Revenue Agency of Ro Negro, NOAA Information Systems, Swiss Real Estate Institute	Jersey Electricity, Man Group Plc, Learning Care Group, First Data, Hunter Douglas, The City of Shoreline, ASB
Top Industries
Top Industries	REVIEWERS Healthcare Company 20% Financial Services Firm 20% Comms Service Provider 20% Government 10% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Financial Services Firm 19% University 14% Media Company 11% Manufacturing Company 8%	REVIEWERS University 43% Healthcare Company 43% Non Profit 14% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Financial Services Firm 14% Non Profit 13% University 13% Healthcare Company 12%
Company Size
Company Size	REVIEWERS Small Business 23% Midsize Enterprise 27% Large Enterprise 50% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Small Business 11% Midsize Enterprise 16% Large Enterprise 73%	REVIEWERS Small Business 25% Midsize Enterprise 17% Large Enterprise 58% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Small Business 10% Midsize Enterprise 26% Large Enterprise 65%

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