Pentaho vs SAP Analytics Cloud

Pentaho is an open source business intelligence company that provides a wide range of tools to help their customers better manage their businesses. These tools include data integration software, mining tools, dashboard applications, online analytical processing options, and more.

Pentaho has two product categories: There is the standard enterprise version. This is the product that comes directly from Pentaho itself with all of the benefits, features, and programs that come along with a paid application such us analysis services, dashboard design, and interactive reporting.

The alternative is an open source version, which the public is permitted to add to and tweak the product. This solution has its advantages, aside from the fact that it is free, in that there are many more people working on the project to improve its quality and breadth of functionality.

SAP Analytics Cloud is an all-in-one cloud platform offered as software as a service (SaaS) for business intelligence (BI), planning and predictive analytics providing data discovery, data visualization, planning, simulation, what-if, forecasting and many other capabilities. Built natively on SAP Cloud Platform, it provides a complete, unified and secure public cloud analytics experience to maximize data-driven decision making.