We performed a comparison between Pentaho Business Analytics and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"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."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"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."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"Gradual scalability from simple to complex situations"
"The most valuable features of the solution are the permission management and the user management."
"It has a shallow learning curve and so you can go to market very, very, very quickly."
"The solution deployment was straightforward."
"There are already connectors to almost every single major database and service that you can possibly think of."
"Tableau is an advanced specialized tool. One of the best features I've seen is the lack of an intermediate semantic layer. I think that's an advantage compared to any other tool like BusinessObjects or Power BI, which are Tableau's biggest competitors."
"Tableau has many different connectors for different databases. It's very easy to connect to MySQL, SQL Server, Amazon EMR, Presto, Redshift, BigQuery, and so on."
"Tableau is very good in the front-end visualization compared to Power BI."
"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."
"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."
"The repository should be improved."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"It will be good if the server, could be more stable, and I would like to have the technical service to be more reliable."
"The performance could be better."
"From the developer perspective, the data connection handling the target data set is what most needs to be improved."
"They need a write-back; that is what is missing. If they get the write back to the database, they will be fully automated, but for the time being, they are not."
"The charts need to be improved. The drawings and the visualization need to be more accurate."
"I take a long time to process the hundreds of thousands or millions of records that must be processed every day."
"The data preparation could integrate better with Tableau."
"The pricing is a bit higher than the competition. They'll need to lower it to stay competitive."
Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 16th in Reporting with 42 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 290 reviews. Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SAP Crystal Reports and KNIME, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Pentaho Business Analytics vs. Tableau report.
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